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Alex Hall

Real name	Alexander D. Hall
Aliases	Jadusable JadusableH TheRealJadusable Alex Hall of Fame Delex2002 xpoggers23 swaglord720
Gender	Male
Born	August 13, 1990
Age	30

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"He is twelve years old, internet!"

—Alex Hall, The Digital Fireside

Alex Hall is the author of Ben Drowned and co-host of the podcast The Digital Fireside. After writing the first two story arcs in his second year of college, he would return to complete the story ten years later.

Biography

Education

Alex graduated from Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis and studied Business Management at Saint Louis University.

Early life

At 14 in 2005, Alex began writing a fan fiction that takes place after the events of Devil May Cry 3. As of 2006, it appears to have been unfinished.

In 2008, during high school, Alex and several friends, under the name Consistently White, created a music video for a song titled "Hey I'm White," which is a parody of Kid Cudi's "Day N' Nite." They followed this video in 2012 with a Consistently White reunion video, which was posted to Alex's personal Facebook. It was finally released to the public on January 3, 2019, but was quickly made private.

Alex was a participant in the 2008 and 2009 48-Hour Film Project competition, participating from St. Louis. His 2008 entry, Normal, won awards for Best Screenplay, Best Male Lead, and Best Composer, but ultimately came in second place. His 2009 entry has been lost.

Ben Drowned

In September 2010, Alex wrote The Haunted Cartridge during his second year of college. The project began on a whim, and he wrote the entirety of it himself, working between classes and at night. After seeing the success of the story, he paid out of his own pocket to start a website that advanced the story. Unfortunately, a few days into the second story arc, his lack of funding forced the game to pause. After mentioning the real name of a player in-game, Alex allowed the player, Kayd Hendricks, to present his own portion of the story.

During the time leading up to the then-current Hubris arc (which has since been merged with the Moon Children arc), Alex introduced a new forum that allowed the player base to communicate as a whole. The story's final arc was intended to climax with the release of a video game, which was to be used alongside a new website. Due to the massive scope of the project, Alex put the game on hiatus during July 2011, which was due to last until his independent film Methods of Revolution was released.

Methods of Revolution

In April 2012, Alex announced Methods of Revolution, a film project that he considers his master work. After raising money during its Kickstarter campaign, Alex began production. However, after missing its deadline of a late-2012 release, it too went into development hell for several years. Following a post on the project's Facebook page promising things to come on December 28th, 2016, the page updated with a post on that date detailing the approximate scheduled releases of the three Methods films. Interestingly, Methods of Revolution: Prologue had its release date scheduled for April 23rd, 2017. A video was later uploaded on January 14th, 2017, further detailing his plans for Methods.

On April 23, 2019, Alex announced The Digital Fireside, a podcast intended to serve as a prologue to the Methods of Revolution project. Alex would later offer full refunds to anyone who contributed to the initial Methods Kickstarter.

Awakening

On March 17, 2020, Ben Drowned officially continued. On March 20, he started a Patreon for the project, intended as a tip jar for those who enjoy his work and want to support it. It later became used in-game for voting due to its security from outside influence.

Ben Drowned concluded on October 31, with a total runtime of just over ten years.

Works

Writing

• My Devil May Cry fanfic: Nelo Angelo, 2005 – 2006 (unfinished)
• Ben Drowned
  • The Haunted Cartridge, 2010
  • Moon Children, 2010 – 2011
  • Awakening, 2020

Film

• "Hey I'm White" (music video, 2008)
• Normal (short film, 2008)
• Unknown title (lost short film, 2009)
• Consistently White Returns (short film, 2012)
• The Digital Fireside (podcast, 2019 – 2020)
• Methods of Revolution (in production)

Voice

• Narrator, BEN - "Majora's Mask: 20th Anniversary Tribute" (video series by Zelda Universe, 2020)