Gene Cronk

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With an official title of “Systems and Network Administrator,” Gene Cronk managed the multiple server clusters that ran Res Interactive's Tootsville, as well as providing desktop computer technical support and other infrastructure services. He also headed up testing efforts for software development and created a number of utility programs that assisted the Art Department and others.

His main Toot character was named NullPointerException, which was a joke name designed to annoy the programmers. (In the Java language in which Res Interactive's Tootsville's servers were written, a NullPointerException error is one caused by bad programming.)

In other games, he's also represented by this character in Wasteland.

Mt Cronk is named in his honor. Significantly, it's the place where Snowcone lives, and the mountain keeps Shaddow Falls separate from the rest of Tootanga.