It's just interesting, to learn how people find these websites.
To be honest I found BYOND searching for a DBZ MMO on google, found it on the tenth page.
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 Oct 5 2007, 6:03 pm
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Oct 5 2007, 6:17 pm
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Jamesburrow
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I was going through a spree where I wanted to find a good free online game, and I found MLAAS and became hooked. That was back when MLAAS was actually good, of course.
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My friend Glass1234 and I was in Engineering class, and I wanted to play a mmo that was free, and he told me about byond and Seika. Ever since then I was hooked.
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I was in middle school back in the late 90s when I was in the computer lab looking for a online Dragon Warrior game, google pulled up BYOND for me. Been on it ever since!
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No it was BYOND, but it was a really early version of BYOND. I might have just missed the whole DUNG thing.
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I think it was back in the days of nam....
Kidding on that but I think it involved google and lots of boredem and dont forget the dialup there was the dialup too | |
Yeah, but that doesnt mean BYOND wouldn't have turned up in a search for it. It could have easily pulled up a forum post that had to do with Dragon Warrior, or a hub that had the words dragon, warrior, and game in different places, or whatever.
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Jamesburrow wrote:
I was going through a spree where I wanted to find a good free online game same. Of course, when I was looking for online games, "good" wasn't something needed to play, just free. Heck, before I came to BYOND I was messing around on Cartoonnetwork.com and its silly antics. We all seem to agree that google is our friend. | |
lol. Actually, that was back when I still used Yahoo. If I remember right, I found the OnRPG forums through Yahoo, and then BYOND through a search on their forums. lol
But yeah, good wasnt that big a feature with me either, although if it sucked I wouldnt play it ^.^. What I was looking for was an online game that wasnt quite so large as RuneScape (suckies mmorpg ever, in my opinion) because when you get that many people its hard to do anything without have 20+ noobs in your way. | |
I was directed to BYOND by a BYONDer that I know in person, though he doesn't use it very much anymore, as far as I know. He told me about it when I expressed interest in making a game (which still hasn't happened, 2 1/2 years later. :P).
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I typed in something like "Free online game creations" and found BYOND around 03, I didn't join until 04 though.
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Saw it in a gamefaqs post
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I was searching for dbz games on the internet and stumbled upon BYOND.
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Turn of the century style, I was actually becoming interested in game creation. I had messed around with RPG maker and loved it. At the time I knew very little about programming other than the fact it was necessary to make games. I knew practically nothing about RPG Maker but was able to make some kind of small boring RPG. But I got tired of it. I wanted some multiplayer action.
I punched up Altavista and ran a search for "Game Makers" or something along those lines. I did actually stumble upon BYOND at the time. But I didn't read it. At first glance, it looked like just a place for people to play games. If I had pulled up Developer Central, I probably would have signed up then, alas fate said no. My fault for not exploring sites further. I later gave up my search when I was unable to pull the kind of system I wanted (which happened to be: BYOND). Then, as I grew into my early teenager years, I started to watch Dragon Ball Z. Next to it, Star Wars was my favourite television of all time. So naturally, I started playing a relatively old game known as "Dark Forces 2", a Star Wars game. Diving further into the realm of Dark Forces 2, I actually learned that it was possible to modify games. So I managed to find a community which was doing so for a Dragon Ball Z style game. It went by the name TDiR. Somewhere in that forum, a user named "Rivin" (I think) linked us to a game here on BYOND. That happened to be Dragon Ball Online. Which I quite enjoyed... until it died. That's how I found BYOND. The rest of the story is located here (as well as several other peples). | |
I've told the story before, but I don't mind repeating it...lol
A BYOND user (Liushinkyu) had joined my DB/Z/GT Yahoo Club and had posted about BYOND and all of the cool DBZ games that could be played here (this was back in late '01, as you can tell by my key's registration date) If I remember correctly, the rip problem had already reared its ugly head, because Liushinkyu mentioned that a lot of the community didn't like the flood of DBZ games that had cropped up... Anyways, the club had a strict no spam policy (part of the reason we founded it was to move away from a larger club that had been overrun by junk posts and spam), and I initially axed this post because it sounded like he was promoting his own website... Fortunately, though, it was my habit to check out the links posted, by spammers or otherwise, so I checked out BYOND before deleting the post... I was immediately hooked, because BYOND seemed perfect for a project I had simmering on a backburner... I had a set of roleplay battling rules that I had written up that I had been looking to build an automated program to handle... The rules were intended for use over IM conversations, but that requires each player to do their own calculations, and to trust each other not to cheat, so I wanted to make some sort of automated client that could handle it for them (including the actual chat itself) Up until then, though, the extent of my programming experience had been making a few rudimentary programs on a TI Graphing Calculator, so I was stuck on this project... Then I came to BYOND, read some of the site, and realized it was exactly what I needed to finally bring that project to reality... That project, of course, turned into DBTC... The rest, as they say, is history... | |
I think the way I found it was by searching Altavista for "game creation tool" in 1999, and I stumbled across BYOND-then-DUNG shortly after the release of DUNG 2.0. I had some difficulty getting the keys to work, and wound up uninstalling and reinstalling the thing from scratch a few times. I finally managed to regain access to my original Spuzzum key some time towards the latter part of '99, and when they moved over to BYOND at the late part of '99, we started having Gatherings of BYOND -- Tuesday night gaming sessions of Lexiconomy, Conflict, Hog, Sixes, Hunter, and whatever other little games there were on BYOND at the time -- until all of us started going in our separate directions when the GoBs started getting their fair share of people popping in, going "wtf is this" and popping back out.
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or ask,yahoo,live or the various other search engines out there
if you dont support google for any reason such as the recent commercial agreement with aljeezera (suspected anti americian bias) or the china censorship | |
I used to be big on late night text-mud sessions on my old Tandy pc with a dialup connection back in 1999. I got into building them myself and working on a few friends' MUDs at the same time, one of them was Dragonball Epic (text MUD).
Well sometime around playing Dragonball Epic two of my pals Ronn and Kaiser directed me towards BYOND to play DBZ:NN and I believe DBEO, which I think they had something to do with. I immediately became hooked and started my first project as a pixel artist (and a poor one at that) for Ronn's game Blood Bath. Eventually I started working more in pixel art and got a spot on DBZ: NN, Haroki gave it up and I started learning from the source in order to create my own DBZ game. And here I am 7-8 years later still doing the same damn thing, but with more style... lol. | |