My hype meter pegged on this one!

[publius]

Ok, couple of things.

     First off, I don't know what a red name is, but apparently it is a good thing so I am honored. Ahhhh, I see, it means you are a developer I take it?
Second, after browsing these forums, I think this happens to be the greatest forum I have ever been too.
and lastly, dunno if you guys are interested in how my company came to be, but just in case, I just now wrote this (now you can tell how little of a life I have to actually sit down and write a history about yourself, when you know damn well no one is going to read it :P)

A fictious character once said "what is in a name". It turns out, the answer is quite a lot.

     It was originally called TurtleWare (I was 11, cut me some slack), and all I made was windows 98 themes. Then when one of the themes I made called "Midnight Blue" got over 500 downloads, I realized just how much I enjoyed having people like the stuff that I make, so I started getting into programming in VB6 and made some really crappy games. By then I was 13 or so, and realized how lame TurtleWare sounded, so I changed it to NeoCorp (due to my natural 13 year old obsession with unrealistic hacker movies such as "Hackers" and "The Net", but namely "The Matrix" which shamefully is still one of my favorite movies, but that is beside the point. I called it NeoCorp on account of my obsession with Neo) and started developing games in DirectX for VB6

     I had some interesting games that people liked that were available on some sites like planetsourcecode.com. However, when I realized the limitations of making .exe games, as far as people getting to actually see them and use them, I got into website development. I picked up a php book one weekend in the summer, and by the end of the summer, I felt I was ready to start making browser based games. So, wanting to sound more professional, I wanted to buy a .com domain instead of the crappy free hosting I currently had at siteburg.com. I was going to buy www.neocorp.com, but same lame ass company that makes ropes (who needs a fucking site for a company that makes ropes, I mean seriously...) So instead, in godaddy's infinite wisdom, it suggested many different alternative names for my site, one of which was www.myneocorp.com. Desperate, I took it. It now had a personal touch to it, adding the word "my" the the front of my company name. I then later added productions to the end of it because I figured that every good company had a lame word after it, and ltd., llc, co., and inc. all sounded lame, and -mart seemed to be reserved for every goddamn department store ever made, I decided on productions.
     
     I then started working on some crappy virtual pet site, where I got like 200 people to sign up literally in the first 30 minutes, via spamming the neopets forums. I realized how lame virtual pets were and scrapped the project within the next week. I then worked on a game where you were a farmer. It was tilebased and you walked all over hell planting seeds, hoping to grow trees. Then when they finally grew, you had to be careful that someone else wasn't going to come over and chop down your trees and steal your wood while you werent looking. So you had to take the wood that you get, and whittle it into fences to protect your base. While I thought it was rather fun, it turned out to be an epic fail. So I worked on cloning a game called Vampire Online, which can be found at www.vampireonline.org. The one that I made was based off of it, but I added WAY more features. It was the first REAL success that I had, and I actually made my first real money from programming ever off that game. Some crazy lady donated $200 because she liked what I was doing and wanted to see me succeed. After she quit playing, I realized that I was beating a dead horse by continuing to work on my clone of it. The code was terrible sloppy and ran slow, so really, it was more like chopping the horses dick off and then slapping the horse about its face with its own dick.

      I then found a site called getacoder.com just recently, and I started to get back into programming after a year or so of PHP celibacy. I made about 400 bucks doing some freelancing projects, but I realized I just didn't get the same rush that I did when I made those first themes that for whatever reason people loved. So I went back to programming, and here I am with a new game, which turns out to be my most popular venture yet.

     If you are interested in seeing any more of my stuff, you can check out www.myneocorp.com which is my main site, or you can check out www.bourbanlegends.com for another project I am semi-working on where you post some "choose your own adventure" style adventures, just like the books. It has a lot of potential, but no one with creativity has posted anything there yet, its just a bunch of idiots who think they are creative geniuses. After reading the posts on these forums, I would love to see what would happen if some of you guys posted some stories, as they would actually be interesting.

edit: removed "gay" references and sorted post into paragraphs

[Signe]

Good.  We need some new victims blood around here.

[Azazel]

I think TurtleWare sounds better actually. Yes, I'm being serial.

Also, as a friendly word of advice, you might want to drop the "this is gay" thing 'round here. 

[schild]

That was cute.

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–noun
1.   a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
2.   a paragraph mark.
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7.   a great tool for making things readable on the internet.

Think of this as a love tap.

Edit: And yes, Turtleware is a better name. Unfortunately, it's already in use.

[publius]

Thanks for the advice  :-D

[Furiously]

"it was more like chopping the horses dick off and then slapping the horse about its face with its own dick."

That would have been poetry if you said a dead horse.



Serek Dmart, Serek Dmart, Serek Dmart

[Xanthippe]

     I then started working on some crappy virtual pet site, where I got like 200 people to sign up literally in the first 30 minutes, via spamming the neopets forums. I realized how lame virtual pets were and scrapped the project within the next week. I then worked on a game where you were a farmer. It was tilebased and you walked all over hell planting seeds, hoping to grow trees. Then when they finally grew, you had to be careful that someone else wasn't going to come over and chop down your trees and steal your wood while you werent looking. So you had to take the wood that you get, and whittle it into fences to protect your base. While I thought it was rather fun, it turned out to be an epic fail.

Neato!  Farming _and_ griefing rolled into one!

I want to play a game such as this, provided I can make axes out of the wood to grief other people with.

[publius]

     I then started working on some crappy virtual pet site, where I got like 200 people to sign up literally in the first 30 minutes, via spamming the neopets forums. I realized how lame virtual pets were and scrapped the project within the next week. I then worked on a game where you were a farmer. It was tilebased and you walked all over hell planting seeds, hoping to grow trees. Then when they finally grew, you had to be careful that someone else wasn't going to come over and chop down your trees and steal your wood while you werent looking. So you had to take the wood that you get, and whittle it into fences to protect your base. While I thought it was rather fun, it turned out to be an epic fail.

Neato!  Farming _and_ griefing rolled into one!

I want to play a game such as this, provided I can make axes out of the wood to grief other people with.

Yeah, you could make axes and grief other people with them. Once your farming skill was high enough, you were able to plant higher level trees, and when you chopped them down, if your whittling level was high enough, you could whittle higher level axes using that wood. Like I said, I thought it was pretty fun, but no one really played it :/

[Nonentity]

Wow, I leave this thread for a few days, and now it's here.

This is going places.

Publius, is there a visual indicator of some sort of 'power' or 'power level' anywhere? Just curious, I haven't seen it yet.

[publius]

You mean like of who is the strongest player or something? If that's what you mean, then yeah, there is a top mobsters list, where you can sort to see the top 50 strongest mobsters ordered by level, strength, defense, speed, and money.

By the way, if anyone has any suggestions for how to make this game better, by all means let me know and I will add it. Also, if anyone wants to see the source code so that they comment on that, let me know and I can upload a zip of it. Sourceforge already accepted my GRPG  project, I am just waiting until I get a somewhat more stable release before I upload the first version of GRPG to be downloaded and ran on other servers.

[Signe]

By the way, if anyone has any suggestions for how to make this game better, by all means let me know and I will add it.

Elves!

[schild]

Heh.

[publius]

I suppose I should have said that I "would consider adding it".

[Nonentity]

Would you consider adding elves?

Elves can be pretty gangster. Just look at Shadowrun, you have very ganster looking elves. And dwarves.

[schild]

I guess, if you're calling it Generic RPG, it has to have elves. Or some other race with pointy ears.

But still.

Elves.

Comeon.

[Lantyssa]

I prefer the irony of being "generic" and the only game without elves.  It makes a bold statement.

[Azazel]

Generic, Universal Role-Playing System?

You could call it GURPS for short!

[publius]

If there was some way way elves could be put into the game that actually made sense I would. But this is supposed to be a present-day mafia game. Throwing in elves wouldn't make much sense.

"After mugging og_wigga_4_life78, you run across an elf archer. You lose the roll for initiative. The elf gets first strike. He rolled an 8, but due to your armor class bonus, he misses. You pull out your SMG and let loose a spray of bullets, causing 4 HP of damage."

It just doesn't work. :/

[publius]

However, when Land of Valor is finished, there will be elves as a class you can pick. Plus LOV is going to be a lot more fun, since it is actually tile based so you have to walk around and explore different areas. It should be done within a month. I finished the map editor, so my friends are working on the maps, and coming up with weapon and item stats, etc.

[schild]

Pro Tip: We don't actually like elves.

[hal]

Of course we don't like el, Its the elf boobs ...Dummies

[schild]

Of course we don't like el, Its the elf boobs ...Dummies

Text elf boobs are not elf boobs. They're text.





















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[publius]

Pro Tip: We don't actually like elves.

Yeah, looking back I probably should have picked up on that one.

[Xanthippe]

Farming!

[publius]

Farming!

While I would assume that you are joking as well, in a couple of days I am going to be adding marijuana, and you will have to grow it if you want to get it, or buy it. It will be RM only, so I'm hoping that that will make more people want to get an RM account.

[Der Helm]

..., it was more like chopping the horses dick off and then slapping the horse about its face with its own dick.

How adorable!

I say we keep him.

[Der Helm]

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(I should not read  bash.org so often.)