10 years on BYOND

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Jul 17 2008, 7:06 pm


That is a snapshot of the rougelike news site which I archived when it was announced it was going down since it still had useful links and info at the time. But back when it was online it was pretty much the first site I went to when I got online to see if any roguelikes got updated to play around with. It's safe to say I checked out the DUNG site shortly after the posting since I was real interested in game creation stuff, having no decent programming talent just yet.

BYOND certainly has changed a lot since I started using it. In fact when I joined there weren't even forums for it yet and all there was, was a few demos, and night soil. A shame I haven't really done too much during all that time especially recently. My last game was Racing Game which I initially released over half that time ago. So aside from updating my libraries I've pretty much just been a lurker.

And I know someone is going to point out that my key date doesn't match. So I suggest checking out Dan or Tom's key date or anyone's really old key and you'll notice they all show the same date. That's since the key system has also changed a bit. Originally there was a simple web form for requesting a key and it wasn't automatically processed. You had to wait a bit for them the email you back the key file. That and keys required periodic reactivation which never worked just right for me which is why there is a theodis2 key, theodis3 key, theodis4 key, etc. I ended up just making new keys every time my last one died. This was after the process was automated and before the old keys got updated which is why my theodis2 key shows an older date.

Anyway enough ranting about my key and hopefully BYOND will be around another 10 years for me to lurk around!
Jul 17 2008, 8:13 pm
You sir, have my respect.
Jul 17 2008, 9:53 pm
My decennial is coming up in 10 and a half months, myself. =)
Jul 17 2008, 10:23 pm
And here I've only been around for 7 years and 3 months. Oh well. I still have almost 4 times as many forum posts as you, Theo. :P
Jul 18 2008, 12:01 am
Im good.
Jul 18 2008, 1:46 am
3 more years until you become a teenager on BYOND.
Jul 18 2008, 7:24 am
Your libraries have been invaluable, Mr.Ent.
Sep 1 2008, 5:26 pm (Edited on Sep 1 2008, 5:32 pm)
LIAR!!!!


Joined: Jun 14, 99


*edit*

I like your demos :(.... It sucks how math is about 85% of programming :D.... Perhaps more >.<
Sep 2 2008, 7:53 am
His key shares a join date with a lot of other horridly old keys. That around the time the key database was converted over to its current form. Theodis has been around for longer than that.
Sep 2 2008, 1:58 pm
It was even mentioned in the post:

"And I know someone is going to point out that my key date doesn't match. So I suggest checking out Dan or Tom's key date or anyone's really old key and you'll notice they all show the same date. That's since the key system has also changed a bit."

Ss4toby loses major points for not reading. ;-)
Sep 2 2008, 2:27 pm
Jtgibson wrote:
It was even mentioned in the post:

"And I know someone is going to point out that my key date doesn't match. So I suggest checking out Dan or Tom's key date or anyone's really old key and you'll notice they all show the same date. That's since the key system has also changed a bit."

Ss4toby loses major points for not reading. ;-)

Alright!!! What you people need to do is stop and ask yourself, why would this dude point out something that is explained in the post?... It is because he is simply joking... Ya stupid jerk!
Sep 2 2008, 2:48 pm
Ss4toby loses major points for failing to show that he was joking.