Jeff Kinney

Jeff Kinney is the creator of Poptropica.

Information
Besides Poptropica, he wrote the popular books of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He is an American game designer and author of children's books. In 2009, he was named one of Time magazine's 100 "Most Influential People" in the world. During his college years, he created the comic Igdoof that ran in his campus' newspaper, The Diamondback. He was born in 1971 in Maryland.

Personal Life
He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife, Julie, and two sons, Will and Grant. He has a full-time job as the design director of a Boston-based Internet publishing company. There, he made Poptropica.com.

On Poptropica
Jeff Kinney created Poptropica in 2007. Jeff Kinney had took cartoon in college and used his skills on Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Poptropica. The same year his first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book was published, he created Poptropica.He used a Default account to test several things on Poptropica. He drew Poptropica to look close to his Diairy of Wimpy Kid books (and it was his style of art). Kinney had been working at Boston Based Internet publishing company, where he learned web designing, and he used those skills combined with his drawing skills to animate Poptropica to life. Jeff Kinney designed Poptropica, with the help of a few others and then published it. He created himself a character ; Ned Noodlehead who was eventually put into Super Power Island. He came up with the ideas for the 1st few islands of Poptropica, inlcuding, Early Poptropica Island,Shark Tooth Island, and also came up with the ideas of Big Nate Island and Wimpy Kid related Islands.

Job On Poptropica
Jeff Kinney would hold Daily Meetings with the employees on Poptropica. Jeff Kinney would talk over with his staff about ideas for Poptropica. Once an idea was created Jeff Kinney scketched it up and presented it to the staff. Then the Staff would get to work on putting their ideas on Poptropica for people to play. Jeff Kinney is also in charge of hiring/firing people for Poptropica and is in charge of external affairs (this means get permission to use books for islands, accept advertisements from companies). Jeff Kinney would also help with designing the home page using c++ and Javascript.