5 years of my life.

[Robin]

Just a little post with all the images I've had saved over the past 5 years, which show a timeline of my life on the internet, starting from when I first found Konfuze.

**The Kite Minase Years!**

My first 2m on Runescape!


Kitescape, shitty private server.


I start off by spamming the Security section.


Then move on to confuse people on MSN.


I make a really shitty comic.


I've always been an asshole.


I help someone make a GUI.


I do some Mapping on William's old Bevrias engine, using the RM95 graphics.


My drawing improves.



My oldest avatar.


I make a pro GUI!


I try spriting.


My desktop, including one of Winds Whisper's earliest sources, dating back to 2005 and the Elysium release. The usual files you'd find on a 14 year old kid's desktop who thought he was better than he was. :P


I made the first full RM2K game! It was pretty shit, but had around 5 - 10 players on it at all times.


I release a huge set of RM2K sprites, all manually aligned using a small program I made which allowed me to drag around 48x64 areas of an image.


I try spriting again.


Sean and I browse Elysium forums!


I join the NarutoRealm team, August 2005.


Sean's self-portrait photoshopped onto a background, as he was known as a 'Deer Shagger' at the time. There was also one with some badgers, but I don't have that.


I get an avatar to match Sandopan's!


My desktop, once again.


I make an epic-fail system which was the first, and is still pretty much the only, to try and give NPCs are more realistic appearance.


**The Kite Years!**

The original 'Kite' signature.


NarutoRealms development kicks off.





I start making new signatures and avatars, just for fun.




Single Player version of Winds Whisper is coded from scratch.


Young Robin!


I have a suit :o


NarutoRealm gets a leet amount of members.


I convert the NarutoRealm server to run off MySQL.


I start drawing again.



Montage of NarutoRealm members.


Robin goes all Emo on you.




Avatar I whipped up when I went back to troll Elysium members. Ended up getting Mod on their forum instead :x


I buy a scarf!


I work on a Dating Sim for my friend.


NarutoRealm's final Dx7 release.


Tetris programming challenge.


Horrible contrast on this picture. I look like I have Lipstick on xD


Good ol' Counter Strike


Harry and I were _always_ sick fucks. By the way, we took on each other's names to impersonate each other.


IQ tests!? On MY internets?


I finally get better at graphics, with some help from friends.


**The Robin Years!**

NarutoRealm is brought back! Now run by Myself and Absolution.



My head was always stuck firmly up my own arse.


Wtf?


Drawing, which I tried to photoshop. She looks like a man with no mouth.



NarutoRealm some more xD It took a while to die properly.


Suddenly, pretty much overnight, I understood programming a lot more. Ended up whoring out on Mirage and making a custom engine with it. He's one of the earliest versions of Essence!


My famous woodcutting system.


Smilies in chat.


Lol, what a sad fuck I was.


Group image, we each added something new. Mine was the Pedobear stamp.


Competition on Rezeyu's old forum.


I spoil the end of Harry Potter for all my friends.


Winds Whisper starts shaping up.


Yet another Desktop.


I add a visual bank to Winds Whisper.


Woodcutting again.


Very early version of Silverdale.


Insomnia, a sci-fi online game ZoSo and I started to create. We got quite a few complex systems programmed in, and was the first Mirage game to contain lighting and dynamic maps.


I drink 15 cups of coffee. I felt _very_ weird for the rest of the day. My mind went wondering mid-conversation, shit like that.


I load up Chris' Chaos Engine. What a piece of fucking shit.


I work on Playerworlds but don't stay around long.


Harry and I make a pokémon game. Lasted for about 2 days.




Winds Whisper's early versions again. The Devinshire area actually survived for a long time after this.


Sebastian and I plan another game.


Winds Whisper is released.




New GUI.



Eclipse mapping competition!


Early version of my DirectX8 game, Life Essence. First of it's kind, back when everyone was still dicking around trying to find out how to use DD.



More mapping competitions!




Change my signature to 'Robin', as all my forum names are switched from Kite to Robin.


A lot is said about my social status xD


Try out some new signatures.


My early spell-book feature.


Essence is released.



Winds Whisper is re-released, yet again. Another face lift.


And another…


Yet another signature.


Harvest Moon game.


Yet another image change.


I play Runescape again for the first time in several years. A whole new graphics update!


Essence is re-marketed.


I release the Dx8 version.



More r00nscapes.


Winds Whisper is re-programmed to have dynamic maps. I'm still the only person who knows how to change the system to run off this. End up selling a few copies at £80 each.


I join Rory on the Nin Online project.



I do a Java re-write of Nin, which doesn't really go anywhere.


Andrew, Matt and I play 2moons and end up just hacking it.


I start college, and end up making a new craze! URIAH KING!





I briefly work on WoH.


Winds Whisper is re-named to Wind's Nocturne, with my new dynamic sprites code.



Aydan and I get l4d.


I start playing Silverdale as a normal player. I end up being the first person to do several things, and create the most popular guild, Godborn.




I start soloing bosses!


I make a new DD7 and D3D7 hybrid engine.


I start playing Runescape again, a member of the oldest clan around, The Sabres!


I re-join the Silverdale project with Sebastian and Dmitry.


New look!


Look at the difference! Me a year before.


Sebastian and I work on the new GUI for Silverdale!


-Present Day-

Just looking back, I realise how terrible I was at the start, but how everyone helped me through. Simply having DarkEcho explain to me what a packet was moved me forward completely overnight, and I soon became at the forefront of development, releasing the first public domain project with dynamic sprites, dynamic map sizes, Dx8 GUI, quality spells, item animations, drag + drop inventory…

Now, I'm much more laid back. I work hard on my projects, but I'm now a lot more mature and focused, meaning I don't hop between projects like a rabbit on acid.

Who knows what the future holds?

[Guest]

HOLY FUCK,

THATS A FUCKIGN HUGE POST

ROBIN YOUR AMAZING< I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE WITH SO MANY GAMES FAILED AND GOOD<
PROGRAM FOR ME

[Nubzero]

Why the fuck I just read all of that I don't know…..

[IceCream Tuesday]

Damn, You've gone pretty far. I remember Kite, didn't know that was you.
Shame I don't have anything like this. Haven't accomplished much..
Though.. my progression in pixel art would be kinda insane.. my first piece was such a piece of shit. lol

Never knew you released your dx8 source.

[Dark Crusade]

Looked through it all, real impressive. Makes me want to do one… xD

This post is literally a loaded shotgun at pointblank to any dialup users.

[Robin]

@IceCream:

> Damn, You've gone pretty far. I remember Kite, didn't know that was you.
> Shame I don't have anything like this. Haven't accomplished much..
> Though.. my progression in pixel art would be kinda insane.. my first piece was such a piece of shit. lol
>
> Never knew you released your dx8 source.

I was never registered as Kite on Eclipse, I was only registered as Kite on Mirage and Elysium. Konfuze + Early Elysium was I kiteminase. When Eclipse was first released, I never registered but lurked around for a while, seeing if it was going anywhere.

In the end, I stuck at Mirage, moved on to Elysium later on, ended up leaving there then joined Eclipse after Soljah sent a mapping competition invitation. I joined here, everyone hated me because I was an 'outsider' so I decided to stick around and get people to accept people better.

Now, Mirage is just a place for Matt to shout at himself, so I only really come here now. It's the only forum around people are actually making games still.

I've made plenty of friends, as well.

[IceCream Tuesday]

@Robin:

> I was never registered as Kite on Eclipse, I was only registered as Kite on Mirage and Elysium. Konfuze + Early Elysium was I kiteminase. When Eclipse was first released, I never registered but lurked around for a while, seeing if it was going anywhere.
>
> In the end, I stuck at Mirage, moved on to Elysium later on, ended up leaving there then joined Eclipse after Soljah sent a mapping competition invitation. I joined here, everyone hated me because I was an 'outsider' so I decided to stick around and get people to accept people better.
>
> Now, Mirage is just a place for Matt to shout at himself, so I only really come here now. It's the only forum around people are actually making games still.
>
> I've made plenty of friends, as well.

Yeah, I meant from Elysium, I joined eclipse.. then when Pingu came here one day spamming the shit out of eclipse saying its engine is just Elysiums with a different name.. I went there for a little to check out that community. hung around there for a few months then came back here. Thats also where I found Godborn.. which is where I first met you.

[jna]

Epic topic, i read through all of it.

[emblem]

I'm tempted to make one of these too now.

Also, what do you mean Dynamic Maps? Like, any size?
Hmm. I like the sounds of that, but scrolling maps doesn't really appeal to me.

I recently figured out how to do DirectX8, and the first thing I did when I figured it out was convert Mirage over to Dx8 >>;

[Robin]

@Tylian!:

> I'm tempted to make one of these too now.
>
> Also, what do you mean Dynamic Maps? Like, any size?
> Hmm. I like the sounds of that, but scrolling maps doesn't really appeal to me.
>
> I recently figured out how to do DirectX8, and the first thing I did when I figured it out was convert Mirage over to Dx8 >>;

Yup. Dynamic maps means the array of tiles is stored in a dynamic array that can be re-dimmed.