Chatting With Cycloniac, One of the Minds Behind the 'TrueSim' Roster Projects for MLB The Show and Beyond

I’m just getting back from a vacation in Boston, but before I left, I reached out to an OS community member so I could bring back the OS Spotlight this week.

Some prior folks featured include studbucket and Matt10, and this week I am chatting with Cycloniac.

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With these interviews, it’s always my intention to mostly give the OSer the floor because it’s not hyperbole to say OS has kept chugging because of you all. We try to engage you and give you the tools to want to stick around and share with the community, but ultimately it’s you all who take the ball from there.

Cy is one of those members who always seems to be working on something. He dabbles in various games, collaborates with plenty of folks, and is always trying to create something that enriches the game — usually for franchise mode.

When I think of Cy, through the years my association starts with the “TrueSim” MLB The Show project so this is also why I wanted to reach out to him at this point in the year. I think MLB The Show (in the time before real minor leaguers were in the game) and EA’s college football game (before the 10-year layoff) were the two most crucial roster projects around.

In current times, MLB The Show and NBA 2K are now probably at the top of the heap, and Cy works on both of those games. He’s also a lot like me where he got involved in OS at an earlier age and has kept up with it since then.

Anyway, enough from me, let’s jump into the interview.

OS: As I always ask every community member at the start of these, what’s the day to day like for Cycloniac?

First of all, thanks Chase for having me! I love your writing and it’s an honor to be featured here. I love this question because I think a lot of us on Operation Sports don’t know a lot about each other beyond what we post on the forums.

Cycloniac/Cy is what I go by on the forums and social media, but my name is Stanton — I’m married and I’m living in the Twin Cities. I manage internal communications for work, but got my professional start as a copywriter for a few ad agencies, both in the MSP area and in The Bahamas, where I grew up.

You've been a member of OS since May 2009. Do you remember why you first signed up on OS?

2009, sheesh! I was a teenager back then. If I had to guess, I’d say looking for sliders and ways to make sports video games play in a more realistic way. I think OS was the one place I found back then that had that specific focus, and the rest is history.

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