The Creator

I'll admit that Swordgleam as an alias seems a bit silly now, but I've been going by it online for nearly six years, so I'm not about to change. I'm sometimes also known as Kaoz or Demon, names which I occasionally answer to in real life, much to the embarassment of all involved. If you see a Swordgleam on a website or in a game, it's most likely me. Say hi!

I'm currently a sophomore at a flamingly liberal liberal arts college on the East Coast. I work summers at an "adventure camp" where I am entrusted with small (well, medium) children and large (well, medium) animals, often at the same time. I enjoy acting, tech work, sailing, equestrian (known to sane people as "horseback riding"), programming, reading, writing, digital art, and long naps on the beach. I am also fond of action movies and cheese pizza, especially in combination.


  The Site

This is the third incarnation of a site formerly known as Warped Inspirations, built to host my many and varied gens. That was back before I knew PHP, and as a result was much less full of win and much more difficult to maintain and update. This site was started 17/1/07, the afternoon that I first learned PHP.

It is called "Chaotic Shiny" in part as an homage to Seventh Sanctum's Realistic Alignment Generator. Seventh Sanctum was the site that first got me interested in making generators, and has been a source of much hilarity throughout the past few years. More importantly, chaos and shiny things are two important elements in my life. They also describe the generators: chaotic, because they're random, and shiny, because they're (hopefully) awesome. And finally, it's just a bloody cool name.


  The Gens

I make gens whenever I get an idea for one, or, about as often, whenever a friend of mine requests one. I always have a few half-finished ones lying around, and I never really consider any gen to be finished. Most of the older ones have very sloppy coding, but I leave it that way both so I can look back and see my progress, and because I can't really be bothered. Generally, the ones in javascript that are in table format are the older ones - the gens written in PHP are either new gens, or old gens recoded into PHP.