ID:190715
 Dec 19 2002, 5:16 am
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i'm bored and curious, so i figured i'd ask that. anyway, i found out about this place from a gaming site called gamefaqs. i'm pretty glad i did too! ^_^
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Ah, it was the summer of '95 - the summer of the giant 12-foot member and 14 slices of pizza. Those were the days.
We were all living in on-campus apartments that summer, doing research or other work at school. Tom and Dramstud shared the apartment next to us. Amongst the poker games, episodes of Beavis and Butthead, and subtle hints that a glass on the table didn't seem to be washed, Tom sat at Death -- his SGI -- and worked on this cool game called Dung. It was short for Dung: Eons and Dragons. Dung was cool. It had little icons that you could make walk around on this little map. Even better, though, was that from some unknown place on campus, Dan could connect to Tom's game and do stuff in it too. That was amazing. Never mind the networked deathmatches of Doom that we played on occasion, this was the really cool stuff. It was so cool that Chris spent hours on his Mac IIsi making all of the original icons for Dung. No game ever looked better. Over the years, we followed the progress of Dung, later DUNG. In 1996-97, we joked that it was taking so long that the final product would be released as DUNG 2000. Thankfully, Tom and Dan pushed ahead despite our playful ribbing. A couple of complete rewrites and a name change later, I finally got off my butt and started a BYOND project in early 2001. I always thought BYOND was cool, but nothing made me appreciate it more than actually working with it. I was blown away. So powerful, so easy, and here it was sitting under my nose all this time. My respect for Tom and Dan as developers grew immensely, from already very high levels. This is a project that truly deserves great success. Dantom have poured many years of their lives into creating an amazing, useful product, and I intend to do everything I can to help it grow and earn them the rewards they rightfully deserve. | |
Air Mapster wrote:
Ah, it was the summer of '95 - the summer of the giant 12-foot member... Dangast, Germany...about 20-30 minute drive north of where I live...  An artist 'erected' the 2-meter statue on the left many, many years ago. Only from the side and back can people tell what it *really* is... but no-one will admit to it of course... =) | |
I found it from CBM's website, he used to hack pokemon games and it was funny, but he stoped and swiched to play DWO and he made a fan site, so i ran into it then, sence then i have came along ways, that was like 2 years ago.
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A friend told me about it so i tried it out. At first i did'nt like BYOND at all. Then a virus deleted practically my whole computer so i had to join again for a second time. This time i understood everything more.
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http://leewhittaker.br0ken.org/BYOND/Bcommunity.html
Also features a few more peoples testamonys | |
Jotdaniel wrote:
Ahh, heh heh heh. From you hints you gave, I'm gonna *Ding Ding* You win the ....err....prize - to be determined in the future! Apparently there was quite an upset in the nearby community once people realized what it was. Unfortunately it would cost too much money to remove (it's buried pretty deep in the sand), and you can only see the back side when the tide is out. | |
Maz wrote:
But that chair.... The chair is supposed to be some sort of 'King Neptunes' throne sort of thing, I think... | |
Wierd, just seems like some random guy made it and placed it there so they could enjoy the sun and get wet at the same time...
But a throne is kinda taking it to the limit of imagination, its a *probably* creaky old chair, that would break apart if you tried sitting on it. But it does have a step thing... damn germans... :P | |
WTF?! I thought Dramstud had joined this summer....
AHHHHHH?!?! He's been here THAT long? Sheesh, silly me. | |
I found BYOND through the original DBZ game (Well, there was one before it, but it was just a text MUD and never really took off) back before the flood of DBZ games.
I found that DBZ games website while looking for a untranslated version of the 'Legend of the Super Saiyan' SNES rom. At the time the patches out there where so bad that I actually understood more in the Japanese version then the English version. -DogMan | |
Strangely enough, the chain of events leading me to BYOND started in a newly refurbished "Home Entertainment" department in the major nearby shopping centre. I had seen one of those "top 50 game" collections - a CD with 50 unregistered shareware games on it, for $20 Australian. (Bargain, no? :-) ) Being young and naive, I thought "cool!" and proceeded to persuade my mother to buy it for me, which she eventually did. ;-)
I got back home only to discover that most of the games on it were terrible, with one or two exceptions. The best game on there was the shareware version of Exile III, by Spiderweb Software. I played. I liked. I paid for the full version. I went to Spiderweb Software's website. I saw that they had a quasi-sequel out, called "Blades of Exile" - this time with a scenario editor. I bought BoE, played it, found a message board for it at ezboard, and became a member of that community. After a year or two, somebody posted a topic entitled "Other game creators like BoE" (or something like that). A couple of people posted about BYOND... and the rest, as they say, is history. Now was that the best $20 I ever spent, or what? :-) | |
I first found came here in late May '99, it was called "DUNG" (Dantom's Universal Network Game) at the time. And I stuck around for about 3 months, and created a space shooter game, that was pretty cool for what DUNG was back then, in fact I found the source on my old computer the other day, it scared me stupid seeing how ugly it was. Then I moved away and lost my internet connection, but I was living in an area with many things to do, so I forgot about it. In June of '01 I began searching for DUNG again to see how it progressed, I thought I had no luck, then I found BYOND. At the time I had no idea it was the same thing, I fiddled with the system for a while, posting questions on the forum and whatnot (pissing off many people in the process I might add), when I finally saw Dantom had created the system I knew it was DUNG, and I was happy. I've been around ever since.
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Crispy wrote:
Now was that the best $20 I ever spent, or what? :-) From the time that you bought the shareware pack, to the day you found BYOND, it would probably be over 100 dollars with Energy, Food, Water, Internet, Computer, House, clothes, etc probably would have costed about 100 times more than 20 dollars. -Sariat | |
I found BYOND through a post in my *gasp* Yahoo! DB/Z/GT Club (Group, now)...lol
But the interesting thing is that our club has a fairly strict no-spam policy... Any posts that are seen as being purely advertisements are generally jumped on by the members, and deleted by the owners (there are three of us, co-founders from the beginning)... If the links provided are club-relevant, then they are added to our links page... But the advertising posts are removed... The post that introduced BYOND to us was at first considered as spam...lol The poster was yelled at, and the post was deleted...lol (I'll refrain from posting his BYOND key to protect the "innocent"...lol) Anyways, out of boredom and curiosity one day, I decided to simply check out the link he provided (which was actually a link to his BYOND oriented Yahoo Club, instead of just this site...which was why it was considered spam) and from that club, I found the BYOND link... After checking the place out, I realized how amazingly wonderful it was... And just over a year later, I still have that impression... | |
I found it through a news article on the rougelike news site(not on the internet anymore sadly :P) which had a link to DUNG since it had the Night Soil rougelike on there.
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I was working with Ronn and Kazell, and Krondo if i remember correctly. On a few text muds that we have never finished (but could have been big).
Ronn was working with his friend, Manifacae and became a moderator for Dragon Ball Epic Online (epic, inspired by me to ronn, to manifacae.) I've been here ever since and not for even one second do i think that this was a waste of time. | |
I found BYOND last year while searching for a replacement for MegaZeux. MZX was no longer running on my Win98 system as it did in Win95 (I think the sound drivers just ate memory in a DOS window, or boot-to-DOS mode), and I hadn't been able to play it in over a year, so I really missed it. But I decided that if I wanted to work with something similar, I may as well look for something graphical, and a search revealed BYOND as the most promising result.
What got me to stay was the fact that the language was so flexible--at the time I didn't realize a tenth of its power, but it clearly had more potential than MZX--and that the community seemed to have a good support base if I had any questions.
Lummox JR