# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erik-wolpaw
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:35:43.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erik-wolpaw"
name: "Erik Wolpaw"
slug: "erik-wolpaw"
description: "Erik Wolpaw is an American video game writer. He and Chet Faliszek wrote the pioneering video game website Old Man Murray. He subsequently worked for game developers Double Fine Productions and Valve, and is known for his work on video games including Psychonauts (2005), Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006), Portal (2007), Portal 2 (2011) and Half-Life: Alyx (2020)."
tagline: "American video game writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erik_Wolpaw_at_GDC_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.8
  momentum:             3.787149189927292
  historical:           5.567430666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1916322/"
    handle:    "nm1916322"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Wolpaw"
    title: "Erik Wolpaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "اريك وولباو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Wolpaw"
    title: "Erik Wolpaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Wolpaw"
    title: "Erik Wolpaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%83"
    title: "Ерік Волпау"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5388918"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5465629"
    title: "Erik Wolpaw"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump