Mathew Anderson

Mathew "Berek" Anderson (born July 13) is an American video game community and PR manager and author. He is the Senior Community Manager at KingsIsle Entertainment since July 2018, overseeing the community happenings of both Wizard101 and Pirate101. He goes by the aliases of "Sparck" (Wizard101) and "Bat Masterson" (Pirate101) and is the co-host and sometimes host of KingsIsle Live! alongside Senior Producer Leah Ruben. 
==Career==
In November 1999, Mathew Anderson became a Game Master for as part of the volunteer guide program for , and he worked with the EverQuest Quests & Events team for several years. In 2004, his responsibilities were expanded with a new program for . Around the same time, he became Community Manager at OGaming Network, and in June 2006 he left his positions with Sony Online Entertainment.
OGaming Network merged with Allakhazam to form the new ZAM Network, and in September 2006 Anderson became Community & PR Manager at the company. There he was a community manager for a wiki and the game's news portal. He was later promoted to managing the portal team. He helped to build one of the first wikis for Warhammer Online, and also made a dungeon atlas for Lord of the Rings Online. From July 2007 to June 2008, Anderson was a foreign English teacher for the Center for Teaching and Learning in China. He wrote about his time in China in his 2016 book, China and the High Roads Beyond: Memoirs of a World Traveler.
In December 2008, he was hired at Quest Online as Community & PR Manager. While spending just eight months at the company, Anderson built up a community around the to-be-released MMORPG Alganon, directing the marketing and content strategies for the game, and leading a community team consisting of off-site moderators and volunteers, similar to what he had done himself previously on the EverQuest games.
In July 2009, Anderson was hired full-time as a senior Community Manager at the Las Vegas-based Petroglyph Games. He became the voice for all of the company's marketing and community communications and was generally responsible for all community-related operations for all of Petroglyph's products.
In February 2014, Anderson was hired as Community Manager at the Houston-based SixFoot. One of his first accomplishments at the company was building the community plan for the 2015 RTS game . He managed operations relating to competitive livestreaming, and developed a weekly livestreamer program that would maximize competitive player reach.
In May 2016, he was hired at Portalarium as Senior Community Manager, where he worked with on the 2018 MMORPG , a Kickstarter-backed project that was described as a spiritual successor to the series. He led the company's community needs while also assisting in PR, branding and content marketing efforts.
In July 2018, Anderson was hired at KingsIsle Entertainment as the company's Senior Community Manager, taking over the position from Tom Purdue. He formally announced his hiring on July 20, 2018.Mathew Anderson announces he's been hired at KingsIsle
==Published books==
* The Legacy of Civilization (2016)
* Quantum Worlds (2016)
* China and the High Roads Beyond: Memoirs of a World Traveler (2017)
* Our Cosmic Story: Exploring Life, Civilization, and the Universe (2017)
* Habitable Exoplanets: Red Dwarf Systems Like TRAPPIST-1 (2018)
==Credits==
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**Empyrea Part 1 Expansion (2017) – Marketing (Community Manager)
**Wizard City Underground Expansion (2019) – Marketing (Community Manager)
**Karamelle Expansion (2020) – Marketing (Community Manager)
**Lemuria Expansion (2021) – Marketing (Senior Community Manager)
**Novus Expansion (2022) – Marketing (Senior Community Manager)
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