RIKIHIGGINS'S PROFILE

Okay so this is actually - you have to understand how wild it is that I actually have this at all but I have some physical printed pages of like two threads off the GGZ forums from 2004. I have gotten rid of like, so many of my possessions so it's insane that I have this at all. It's like a post from Indogutsu about a recipe and then a writing plotline brainstorm thread. I can maybe scan some in if anyone's interested.
I wish my brother was alive to tell you more - he was the one who got me added to GGZ in the first place and was the one who was actually fiddling around trying to make a game. I was mostly online for social reasons (homeschooled). He was very inspired by the games he found on there and we were trying to make one of our own. I can find old forum posts on other sites by him with a link to our demo but it gives me a 404. So that's probably gone. (Unless anyone might know how I could find it...I know the name...)
I could put you in contact with maybe 5 former members.
I actually ended up dating a member for like a year and a half long distance. We met twice IRL once his side of the country and once mine.
The community was super tight knit from what I recall. It was huuuuge part of my life for quite a few years.