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[Gizmog1]

We just did a thread on "What version of the OHR did you first use?" and it got a decent turnout, so let me revive another favorite thread topic from the days of old: How did you come across this wonderful thing of ours?

Me, I was interested in making games, but I didn't even know what kind. So I googled "GAME MAKING ENGINE" or somesuch, and came up with a page giving rough tutorials on how to do sidescrollers in C. This seemed terribly complex and arcane. But there was a link to some engines and whatnot to make things easier, and, being a fan of Final Fantasy, I clicked on the only "RPG Construction Engine" on the list, that being the OHR.

I've still got an old game file for "Couch Potatoes" A game in which the idea was going to be a combination of battles and puzzles. Literally half of the game would be solving puzzles (I actually did a thing at the time which was pretty neat, using touch NPCs as lasers, and a for loop turning tags on and off which spawned trap door NPCs) and the other half would be battles . My proudest graphic to this date is a robot walkabout and hero graphic, which I really should steal one of these days.

Anyway, how'd you come to get here, and what were some of your first projects?

[Jack]

i have my brother to thank for finding it. he showed me this program that he'd downloaded (which happened to be the ohr), and i got into it. after he found out he had no idea how to use it, however, he deleted it from the computer.

so i did some detective work and searched the history, found hamsterrepublic.com. i think the first game i came up with involved a smiley face man trying to rescue his wife from a bunch of lawn gnomes. i scrapped that project for a while after i learned there could only be 4 maps.
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[Mike Caron]

Ah, it was the Spring of 2002, at lunch time in Grade 9. I was bored, so I looked on the internets for a game to play. I found this crazy game called "Ends of the Earth 2" (bet you've heard of it). I played it for a bit, and thought it was neat. Next, I looked in the readme (wait, after I played?), where it said something like:

"You can make your own games too, using the O.H.R.RPG.C.E. You can get it at http://hamsterrepublic.com"

So, the next step was to download that, so I did. I played around with it, did the tutorial, then began working on The Best Game EvarTM. Needless to say, it was never finished, and it was not the Best Game EvarTM, quite the opposite.

So. Yeah.
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[Moogle1]

I found Wandering Hamster on a QBasic RPG site. I was blown away and investigated to find out more.

I found out more.
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[LeRoy_Leo]

My RL friend, Minnek (Who is still with us behind teh scenes) introduced me to the OHR in early 2000. At the time I had all sorts of ideas that I wanted to fabricate somehow, so seeing the OHR RPG creation engine was thrilling for me. For the whole summer, Minnek and I worked on the OHR. I threw a lot of crap together, and we had numerous sleep-overs where he showed me what games he was working on. Then we began planning and tadaa; RPGExcel was born!
Man, the memories.

Minneks' games, most of which never made it to the public light:
Fantasy Realms I and II (Ah, the Radishhats )
Black Mage RPG (OH NO! IT'S PINEAPPLE MAN!)
Some kirby spin off, the name of which escapes me at the moment.

My Game:
Turtle Quest. I worked a few years on that, on and off, and it's still a piece.
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[PlayerOne]

I was a long-time supporter of Crimson Fire's PalmOS RPG makers, Kyle's Quest and Kyle's Quest 2 (although my game-making record wasn't too hot). KQ2 was left in a pretty bad state and CF seemed to vanish off the face of the earth with KQ3 "imminent", so there was nothing much around for newer Palms.

Some time later, someone posted a link to OHR on another forum I frequent (Retro Remakes), and I came and had a look and thought, "hmm, 320x200 with fairly low machine requirements and a good library of existing games - maybe I could port this to the Palm?" and contacted James about the source. He later made it open-source and I have yet to do anything about the Palm version. By the time I do, Palms will probably not need the low res and low performance requirements.

My first project was OHR for Windows.

[Leonhart]

I got tired of the RPGToolkit, so I decided to look for a new one..
I tried the OHR and I found it easy to make a simple game...
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[AdrianX]

..i was looking for old DOS games in dosgames.com ..and since making comicbooks is one of my hobbies,i've decided to download the OHR from the link on that website.i remember saying something like "making role playing games is like making interactive comicbooks" while i download the OHR.
..my first game was entitled "Crucial Destiny"..and i have dubbed it as the "game that will never be" because everytime i start to work on a game with Crucial Destiny as its title,it'll soon be either corrupted or will be destroyed by a virus.

[Nathan Karr]

I know I've already said most of this in the topic Gizmog just mentioned, but I'll say it again anyway(in more excruciating detail).

I have thisfriend(a nephew by birth, a first cousin by adoption) named Alexander Blade Roelofs(He goes by the name of Bladesage). We were pretty big fans of RPG Maker for the PlayStation, but our friend(another first cousin on the same side of the family) that owned it only came over to his house every month or so, and so I'd get maybe 8 hours of using a year. I still have my game, or what there was of it.

Anyway, Alex searched around the internet(a privelege I didn't share) for an alternative RPG maker. He found the OHRRPGCE. He either wasn't paying attention, or was just lazy and came somehow to the beleif that the OHRRPGCE was named Wandering Hamster. We made a couple of games together(I did the graphics, music selection, map design, and just about everything else; he named the games and main characters).

After about a month of that he quit to find a more generalized game engine. He now uses Game Maker.

My first solo game was called Wolf's Quest. It consisted of Wolf, his dad, his house, and a grassy area just outside with three random enemies(a UniBlock, a slime, and a monkey). My second game is the one I truly consider to be my newbie game, Starrhao Swordsmen. The main hero was a summoned version of the player(WULF of BEI).

I couldn't do plotscripting because the computer I was using at the time was incapable of reading HTML documents.

And now I'm here.
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[Ysoft_Entertainment]

Hm... let me think, when was it that I first discovered OHR?

Oh yea, I think I was in ninth grade. I developed an interest in rpg games. So I was searching around the internet in the library for a good rpg. Thats when I stumbled upon hamsterrepublic. Since I didn't have a pc at that moment, I left it as it is.

Later on I got a laptop, and decided to look around for hamsterrepublic, but the name escaped me at that moment. After much searching I found the republic again, and downloaded it.

My first game was Pyramid of Power, which I think I reserved a name on the Zant, I don't remember if I actually released a demo. But after a while I dropped that.

My first demo was Dragon Warrior 1: PC version, but since my old laptop was out for a full month, I lost interest in making it(actually more like I lost track where I left off.) Some day I will pick it up and finish it.

Thats basically my history with the OHR.
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[Onlyoneinall]

I first got linked from Ambriose's page of game creation engines. From there, I went and found a place called the Hamster Republic and since I liked hamsters, I gave it a try. The first crappy games were about me (the first one I uploaded so people can make a comparision) and I have made countless games, none ever finished except for the first and second, which sucked to begin with. Finally after about eight or so years, I finally brought out a complete project, the Eight Granasties. Woo! Xerian was an unsuccessful project, and now looking back at it, the dialouge is horrible. I can't believe I wrote that.
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[TMC]

Similiar to Adrian, I had found and was downloading piles of crap off of dosgames.com, since I'd been playing nearly next to nothing but old DOS game demos since we'd had a computer. Finally I had a look on the Game Creation Engines page and downloaded a few out of interest (didn't really have much desire to make a game, I think). I downloaded the best rated engines, but they were all crappy, so I tried again and downloaded the OHR. This was in early 2002 (actually, I'm of the suspicion that I found it on my birthday, no idea why I think that (maybe I'm think of prime95 the next year)).

My first game, which was my HOWTO game, was Uiot Raiders. I gave up on it shortly after finishing the HOWTO, but instead stuck around the Helpme board, learning the engine and plotscripting. My sister took some interest in the OHR and I helped her work on something for a couple of days before she got bored. She still occasionally says to me "Hey lets make a game!" It took me a long time (half a year+?) before I tried another game, which only survived a few weeks without any progress. Yeah. I have a really bad record. I hope to some day actually make games.
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[Komera]

One more time: I saw someone linking to it on the old Windsor forum. Nuff said?
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[Jes42]

I had been wanting to make games for a while. I ran into a game making program on the internet quite by accident and decided to look around to find one that suited me.

[Linkmax]

I was at our local library, looking around for games on dosgames.com, because our computer at the time was only a Windows 3.1 computer. I found the OHR, and it suprisingly worked, it took me a while to figure out how to use it of course. That's about it really.