Hello everyone! Oh where to start.
About Myself & My Presence:
My name is Richard, most family & friends call me Richy. Funfact; I was called 'Pork chop' in the neighborhood as a teen.
I'll be 34 years old, this March. Not to brag but yes, I am the wrong definition of a basement dweller, but only because I'm not in a basement.
I am a care taker for my Father which is a blessing that he's still kicking. He's got a medical history that fills half a piece of paper. Currently on Dialysis 3 times a week since he lost a kidney. I document BP, fluid intake, budgeting bills, filling medications and doing chores for him, in return; He gives me internet and a place to sleep.
Anywho, about my presence today. I joined the Eclipse Community in 2007; In fact being referred by the creator of Atu'los Online (An online game made in MMF2 that I've played and met Ambard in.) Imagine my surprise that when I joined Eclipse, Ambard was already there and was working hard on Ambardia Online.
I took it upon myself to show maps to Ambard, in an attempt to get into his project because his project really did look good to me, he was utilizing Reiners Tilesets and my time spent in Atu'los Online prior to, caught my attention and eyes. Besides, - "Why battle in a 1 vs 1 game project competition when we can 2 vs 1 and pwn?"
Ambardia Online was truly a learning experience for me, from it; I learned VB's syntax through Sadscripting - (Microsoft Scripting Control for External Scripting).
I have had previous experience in mapping (RPGMaker XP and other off-brands, games like 'The Sims' really improved my interior/exterior design.) So mapping wasn't really a problem for me on Eclipse from the start, so Ambardia Online really was productive, I dabbled into everything known to game developing on Ambardia, I tried my hand at pixel art, music composing, story writing, game balancing, coding, mapping. Hell, it was fun to just switch on/off different areas, it didn't matter how good I was in those areas. My attitude was and still is; This doesn't make me or break me. Meanwhile, on Eclipse; We were the most active project on its engine. We had put 3 years of development in Ambardia Online, peaked at around 50 players online at one time! But, the engine it was built on personally could not handle all that. Packet flooding prevention was kicking everyone offline lolol. Server lagged like crazy, constant & random crashing. I was not fluent in VB6 at all during this time. So off to Eclipse Support we went, and we've met people like JC, GodLord, Robin, Mellowz, several others god knows I can't name them all here lol. They were all willing to help fix the bugs for us and they did but the core of the network was still trippy, the coding was just too overpowered.
JC stayed around to add some features for us, which is how I met him, but it was towards my end as I did not want to develop anymore on that engine, it was just too bugged for me to keep motivated in.
So with that, soon after; Ambardia Online reached its end on Eclipse Evolution. We wanted to rebuild (Ambardia Reborn) on EO 2.0 which was the milestone engine by Robin derived from Mirage Source. But sadly we felt we lost most of our playerbase when Ambardia Online dropped. From then, I personally lost interests as Ambard lost his time due to his new business - I hope the best for him and his work.
I personally stopped being serious after Ambardia, I noticed first hand how long it took to add content that can be finished by a player in less than 5 minutes, something that took me hours to make, but my boredom was eating me alive, time is the devils workshop and I ain't trying to fall into evil temptations. So I was looking through Eclipse Projects and saw Labyrinth Hearts. This dude; Agoraphobic... Has passion and dedication, is as hungry as I was in Ambardia; (If not moreso!). He needed a mapper and I was free and bored so, hell yeah I'll jump in on it. I liked his progress and the graphics He is using.
So where am I today? I am on EO4 with Agoraphobic, making Labyrinth Hearts: Funfact, we've been getting it in for almost 2 years now, and our down time is pwning noobs on League of Legends. Huehuehue. I'll reprt u for feeding if you die in LH. <3
Then I'll sulk it off.
I'll conclude this book with a tl;dr.
I like Bone Thugs, coffee, cigarettes, games and hoes.