Thousandth Post

LimpingFish · Sat 20/04/2013 20:14:53

I remember that RPG thread! I was a registered lurker at that point. The original me died in the mass "zero post", inactive member clean-out that CJ did back in...'04? I think I was a Winter 2002 (or perhaps early '03) sign-up. I was here for Foz v Vel, I know that for certain.

I wasn't around for EZBoard, though.

Ponch · Mon 22/04/2013 06:41:25

Congrats on the milestone post, Baron. Here's to a 1000 more. And thanks for kicking off this nostalgia thread. It's bringing back memories of the early deys when I was but a lurker and not yet the prolifically posting cow that I've become.

Andail · Mon 22/04/2013 07:59:06

For those who want to know what the AGS community was like before moving to this place, here's a brief history:

A brief history of the AGS community before we moved to this place, for those who want to know

Pre-Ezboards
Nobody really knows what was going on here. It's a bit like the universe before the Big Bang. Basically it was CJ and Gilbert, talking about all the good games that could hypothetically be made with the AGS.

Early Ezboards
CJ soon understood that people wanted to be able to talk about stuff outside game creation (don't look so shocked, younglings, this was before Facebook - people needed to hang out somewhere) so there was a general forum made, called gen-gen. In gen-gen, Eric wrote funny stuff, Helm wrote angry stuff, Naranjas wrote intelligent stuff and Dgmacphee wrote silly stuff. The rest just basically stood around and watched.

Every game that was released was praised to the skies even though they all sucked. If it had a character that could move, it was considered great. Virtually all games were just Roger and lots of blue cups, and this was considered wacky and parodical when it was in fact just lazy.

Yahtzee showed up and proved that AGS could be used to actually make playable games, and then he left again, for he had been insulted somehow.

2ma2 appeared and made a game that really looked good, without any warning whatsoever, and he was considered awesome for a long time. Every time he promised to make a new game, it was all the community talked about for years. Then he stopped making games.

In the community at large there were hardly any rules, and in gen-gen there wasn't even a god, so gradually everyone started flaming each other and acted like trolls. Then Evenwolf appeared out of nowhere and calmed everyone the fuck down, and from then on there was order.

We implemented lots of new forums, like the critics lounge, and suddenly the community grew really big. Then we left Ezboards. The rest is history. No wait, that was the history, the rest is the present, kind of.

miguel · Mon 22/04/2013 09:55:28

It's good to know this stuff. It's funny how we spend so much time in this virtual community.
I have nothing meaningful to say but I do miss having and knowing that CJ would show up often. Even when he begun to show up less it was reassuring in some way to know that he was around.

Vince Twelve · Mon 22/04/2013 22:04:53

Ah, I miss Helm. He was the best in all the regularly appearing religion/philosophy flame wars. (Do we still have those?) Without Helm, I don't think there would have been a Linus or Resonance. He said something very nice to me after I made Anna in the OROW that encouraged me to make more games.

Congrats on the 1000'th post Baron! Looks like I hit 1000 five(!) years ago. I don't post very often any more (and when I do, it's always about Resonance, I know, I know) but I'm still on the forums pretty much every day. When I'm at work and need to browse the web for a bit to refresh my brain, for some reason my fingers automatically type a 'b' and press enter in Chrome's address bar and the auto-complete takes me to adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb. I'm glad that old link still redirects to the correct address. It's like a reflex.

Joseph DiPerla · Mon 22/04/2013 22:06:00

Quote from: Andail on Mon 22/04/2013 07:59:06
For those who want to know what the AGS community was like before moving to this place, here's a brief history:

M0DS and I were around then too. I was making CJ a book of suggestions for him to implement. It was great. Also, there was Jereon Dekker (Or something like that) hanging around.

Apparently I reached 1000 posts. Who knew? But it doesn't show up on my milestones. It stops at 950 for some reason.

AGA · Mon 22/04/2013 22:48:19

Jeroen Dekker was def and JD later by the way. Don't think he's around anymore though.

Like I said, it only counts the posts that still exist. So you may have 999 extant posts, but since that's between 950 and 1000 it won't show.

kconan · Tue 23/04/2013 03:04:44

I like that summarized "In the beginning..." style summary of the Ezboard era. What about the early days of the AGS board?

AGA · Tue 23/04/2013 07:03:26

Quote from: kconan on Tue 23/04/2013 03:04:44
I like that summarized "In the beginning..." style summary of the Ezboard era. What about the early days of the AGS board?

They're still available to read! Although the very earliest posts aren't, unfortunately.

MiteWiseacreLives! · Wed 24/04/2013 06:03:48

Good going Baron! long time active members like you make this forum so useful and addictive. Although, I'm beginning to notice an inverse relationship between time reading the forum and actual work on my game.. does this affect you guys too?
PS that RPG Maker link just made my day

I was going to make some dumb comment about hooking that dude up with Icey for a OSD remix, or some love-child speculation.. but that would be childish, especially from someone who has to finish his game and make 950 more post before I have a say.

Stupot · Wed 24/04/2013 08:41:30

Quote from: MiteWiseacreLives! on Wed 24/04/2013 06:03:48Although, I'm beginning to notice an inverse relationship between time reading the forum and actual work on my game.. does this affect you guys too?

I always find that I have more to add to many discussions on AGS when there is something more pressing I should be doing... like jobhunting now, or writing my dissertation this time last year. I guess that's how I've built up over 3000 posts :/

miguel · Wed 24/04/2013 09:49:50

I think that time spent on this forums instead of actually making your game is a chronic behaviour of AGSers. It can be good and inspiring and even anti-stress, but it can also stop you from completing those hotspot descriptions you left behind in room3...

Dualnames · Sun 28/04/2013 17:34:56

It sure took you some time to reach them posts.

Timosity · Mon 29/04/2013 14:12:34

Quote from: Nikolas on Sat 20/04/2013 19:44:21
I actually do remember your nickname, but without an avatar I'm not too sure anymore. You had a green one, right?

I remember you Nikolas, I can't even remember the last avatar i had, but i think it had green in it and was a character of myself.

One person I'm not sure has got mention is Spiros, I remember him being helpful back in the day