Interview
INTERVIEW WITH OCTANEPRO
By Miles Haggerty
H
ey OctanePro, thanks
for being here with
me today. You’re an
established content creator here
in the SMITE scene and we’ll be
getting to that later on, but first
tell us a little bit about yourself.
OctanePro: My name is Patrick
Jester, I grew up outside
of Philadelphia and after
graduating with a Management
Information Systems Degree
from Shippensburg University
I moved to the Hershey area
working within the Information
Technology Industry. Growing
up I was very much a console
gamer until I was introduced to
Counter Strike & Starcraft back in
middle school. Since then I have
spent a lot of time playing World
of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, DayZ and
now SMITE.
Issue 1 • May 2014
You used to do Starcraft 2
content as well, if I remember
correctly. What kinds of
projects were you working on
at that time?
OctanePro: I was involved
in the Starcraft 2 scene as an
amatuer competitive e-sports
commentator, along with being
a producer of a weekly Starcraft
2 show called ‘The StarCast
Podcast’. While in Starcraft 2 I
also worked on a few other side
projects revolving around the
Starcraft 2 scene and new player
education with a show called
‘The Strategist’.
It seems you’ve got a knack
for active content creation
for gaming communities.
How would you compare the
Starcraft2 community to the
SMITE community?
OctanePro:
The
Starcraft
2 community already had
an established communi