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Alan Averill was a longtime Nintendo Power writer and Nintendo of America employee. He started out in the business writing for Nintendo Power, where he was represented as a Slime from Dragon Quest due to being camera shy. In 2004 he left the magazine and headed to Nintendo of America to localize video games, starting with Mario Party 7 for the GameCube. He eventually made his triumphant return to Nintendo Power once more as a contributing writer in the November issue (Nintendo Power V234). In Nintendo Power V235 he managed to write the cover story, which was based on Animal Crossing: City Folk, where he even got to interview some of the people he worked with while at Nintendo of America, where they described the grueling process of localizing a video game, especially one like City Folk which contains thousands of pages of Japanese text.
After City Folk, Alan left Nintendo and proceeded to work on his own things like writing a book. He still works in the localization business with the company 8-4, Ltd.
Game Works[]
The following are a list of video games Alan is credited for. Most of them are localization.
- Mario Party 7 - 2005
- Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - 2005
- Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure! - 2005
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! - 2005
- Big Brain Academy - 2005
- Advance Wars: Dual Strike - 2005
- Animal Crossing: Wild World - 2005
- Tenchu: Dark Secret - 2006
- Star Fox Command - 2006
- Baten Kaitos Origins - 2006
- Magnetica - 2006
- WarioWare: Smooth Moves - 2007, Also voiced Orbulon
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - 2007
- Wario: Master of Disguise - 2007
- Custom Robo Arena - 2007
- Planet Puzzle League - 2007
- Brain Age 2 - 2007
- Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast - 2007
- Advance Wars: Days of Ruin - 2008
- Endless Ocean - 2008
- Dr. Mario Online Rx - 2008
- Magnetica Twist - 2008
- Mario Super Sluggers - 2008
- Animal Crossing: City Folk - 2008
- WarioWare D.I.Y. - 2009
- White Knight Chronicles - 2010 - first project with 8-4
- Fossil Fighters: Champions (2011)
- Fire Emblem: Awakening (2013)
- Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (2013)
- Fossil Fighters: Frontier (2015)
- Xenoblade Chronicles X (2015)
- Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 (2016)
- NieR:Automata (2017)
- Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (2017) - Voiceover Supervison, Editing
- SaGa Scarlet Grace (2019)
- Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (2022) - English Tranlation Editors
- Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! (2023)
- Redemption Reapers (2023)
- Unicorn Overlord (2024)
- SaGa Emerald Beyond (2024) - English Editor
Many of the games he's worked on are commended for their writing, such as Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Chibi-Robo!, Animal Crossing: Wild World, and Hotel Dusk.