COMMUNITY HISTORY

Dark Dominion died and then essentially became Dev Empire, which was coded by Kav and a few others. I was active there till it died.

Mine basically follows this: RPg2knet , DE , ---> Gaming W.

Saved alot of time no?

I remember DE but I still thought of it as Dark Dominion. I knew Despain (wasn't always called Despain) from back during the DD/DE days. Whatever happened to Kav?

Whatever happened to Bloodrose? He was the guy who made "Until My Finest Hour" right? He made some pretty sweet games.

I dunno, he withdrew due to GW related RMDrama quite some time ago (like...4, 5 years maybe, even), and has only posted sporadically on some obscure sites. I don't even have any idea if he is working on the sequel to In The Name Of The Rose and Until My Finest Hour still (both incomplete games) and I don't know to what degree he"s still actively prt of the community. He made UMFH which as I recall was a pretty but low-content demo with too many custom features and liteing fx for its own good, and before that he made In The Name of The Rose which was a very substantial demo/short complete game and was very, very good if I'm remembering correctly and unfortunately, just about totally forgotten nowadays.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ghostlight.vortexgaming.net

R.I.P. This is where all my history comes from.

In my entire history I have never been banned from anywhere knocks on wood!
although I have OFTEN skirted the line.

author=GreatRedSpirit link=topic=2342.msg40768#msg40768 date=1225317042
cool guys like Lys, Shqua, B&T, BL2k, Shadowtext, and others.

Wow...those are names I haven't heard in years. Man, I feel all old and nostalgic now... :(

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I started making games in RM95, then 2003, then XP, then VX, now GameMaker and XNA.

I plan to keep doing this.

My memory is probably gonna reach further back than most of you.

I started with RPG 95 at Don Miguel's forums. Young, narcissistic upstart that didn't know jack shit about programming and had a habit of saying the first thing that popped into his head(just like irl)...yet still made a lot of good friends. I remember Don having problems with a young hacker(I can't remember his name) who hacked Don's board and took it over. The dude was a complete asshole at times but a very talented programmer. Don got his board back but decided to start up a new forum.

This is when the "golden age" started and some of the best rpgmakers came around. I'll post their names and what I personally thought of them.

Lysander86...Perfectionist...good guy but sometimes I wondered if he was a real person.
Shqua...another good guy but a graphics freak(didnt like games without custom graphics)
Maxim809...he was REALLY young but we bonded. At times, I felt like he was my younger brother or son or something.
Ryethe...another of my really good rpg maker buddies.
Iishenron/FinalDragon...unexpectedly, I ended up bonding with this guy and was pretty intrigued by him and his mystery. After all of these years I could count the facts about him that I am %100 positive of on one hand. I even based a character in my game on his mysteriousness. 1 of 2 people that knew almost everything there is to know about Forgotten Majesty, from beginning to end(the game that players never got to see and all the data that I lost when my old comp crashed). If I trusted one person to finish my game and keep it faithful, it'd be him. Lol..."him". I still remember when I thought he was a she and the first time that I found out that he was black. Wait. Yep...those are the only 2 facts that I know about Iish, lol.
Shadowtext...I used to be kinda rough to this guy until I found out that he was really, really young. Then I started to admire his intellect.
RPGAdvocate...another person that I wasn't totally sure if he was a person or a highly sophisticated automaton. Nevertheless, someone I respected very much. Thoroughly trashed my game and my lack of programming skills which inspired me to step things up in the completed release that never was.

I remember when Destiny's Call was released and people were talking about how good it was. One poster made a thread called "A Destiny's Call Review...;)" which sounded innocent enough but proceeded to unfairly(but funny) trash the game. That thread somehow ended up being THE thread...never ending, people getting trashed, flamed, praised, wasting time, me discussing how much better-looking I was than everyone else, newbies making a name for themselves but trashing the vets in THE thread, me posting my private parts to stir up discussion...lol...the good old days...

The forums were good fun for a while but every now and then trouble would rear its head. Enter: RancidDiarrhea and something-something Duck King. Rancid was terribly annoying but eventually, he actually became tolerable...but something-something Duck King was a horror. He had this way of making you mad just by posting. He was awful.

LOL...I still remember the porn game that someone made that had all of the forum members in it.

During this time, Don Miguel decided that he was gonna leave the rpg community for good and hand the reigns to someone. For some strange reason, he considered me for the spot which perplexed and infuriated some of the community(and rightfully so). "Kindredz!?! Are you serious!?! That naked airhead!?! All he does is talk about how attractive he is and how ugly everyone else is!" But Don defended me, eventually letting me know that he saw through my act and realized that I was a fair person. I remember a woman by the name of Minismoo or something like that who made it a point to find me on AIM and try to get me in her camp for when I took over the community. Apparently there was some drama between her and others that I knew nothing about and didn't really care. I did think that she was a good person and a mother that just wanted to protect her kids(who were also rpgmakers).

I didn't take the job but I forget who did...

I remember a few years ago, finding out the major plot twist to SO3 and thinking to myself "Those @#$#$@! stole that from Lysander's "The Frozen World". I remember watching Naruto and thinking to myself "Those ^$#%@!# stole that from ME!!(demon sealed inside a child...if you played the second demo of FM that I made, you know this part)"

Eh...Man...I'll finish this up later...

I like topics like these! It's so nice to see that RMN has such a wide variety of members from many other places! It's also nice to see some older GWers posting here.

author=Max McGee link=topic=2342.msg40911#msg40911 date=1225388206
Does anyone else even REMEMBER Dark Dominion??

Yes!! I was a big fan of EmperorEvil's RM2K hack that allowed huge numbers of switches, variables, battle animations, etc., until I came to feel that the build was kind of unstable and prone to crashes. But yes, I had a history of posting on many of the smaller game making website (not all of them..), like DD and later DevEmpire, SkyTowerGames, War of the Magi, and a few smaller ones. I didn't tag along too well at DD though, I felt like there weren't enough nice people there :-X.

I'll keep my topic shorter... I joined GamingW after downloading RM2K and reading some articles; from the start, I wanted to be an admin. I became a staff writer for a series of articles on storywriting, managed their mailbag articles for awhile, etc. I also became pretty active on the forums, took over the Crap Shack for awhile (people were angry about that ;D), and eventually became a global mod and admin.I was hired as admin, then I quit for awhile, then rehired.

My job was to prepare the website's content for a new website launch (GW4? GW5? Can't remember). I scoured a bunch of other websites, identified other writers who maybe posted elsewhere or were only active on the GW mainsite, and invited them to work on writing articles (I remember dragonheartman and a few others... AutumnDragon?) It was a pretty good team, I felt, but the newest GW iteration didn't come soon enough.

In addition, I ended up quitting the site entirely after disagreeing with management. I don't want to turn this into a bash-GW thread, so I'll just say that I felt that, whule I agree there was a lot of stupid drama, the admins and mods were handling it inappropriately with the internet-is-serious-business attitutde-lol that became prevalent. There were disagreements on things like banning 'lame' members or about the privileges of donating money to the site, and I became disatisfied and left in a big fuss with the two other content admins, AnonymousGuy and Moriason.

In the mean time, at some point I also started a game development studio called Darkest Oblivion Productions with some really cool people from GW. Holbert was nice enough to host the website for me. We made a couple funny games, and we also did a few 'sponsored' games like BadLuck's excellent AraFell. The site eventually collapsed when I disappeared from gamemaking entirely and the webmaster Impeal took an admin job with GW.

I had been hanging around #rm2k for awhile (maybe trying to give the impression that not all GW admins were lame-oh?), and was offered by Holbo to become an RMN admin. I did that, tried arranging some content at the beginning, got teased by WIP for my crappy little website DarkOp's web traffic for flash games, etc.

I got busy with college classes, drifted out and in and out, and stand here today, a wiser, gentler man.

In conclusion, the Civil War was a trying period for the young America, but through the conflict we became a stronger, more perfect Union that truly observed the principles outlined by our Founding Fathers.

RM Gurus. Yeah bitches, that's how old I am.

I stumbled upon #rm2k when I was like, 13 through Don Miguels webpage. That's really it, I've never completed or produced anything playable in any RPG Maker I've touched. That's gotta be some kind of record.