Castle Paradox

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:19 pm Post subject: Original Bob

I was cleaning house yesterday, going through boxes, generally making a mess, and I discovered something that I had never realized I even kept. The earliest known picture of Bob the Hamster!

I drew him while on break at my first part-time Job when I was in junior-high. I drew him on the back of one of the "1$ Off Golden Apple Pie" tickets which they were paying me to pass out to strangers on Main Street Julian (I suspect that the origins for my deep antipathy for all forms of advertising lie in this job)

Anyway. There he is. The first incarnation of Bob... sort-of. The truly remarkable thing about Bob the Hamster is that he has a dual origin. Near the same time I drew this (within a month), my cousin Brian *also* drew the first known picture of Bob the Hamster on the margins of a Church bulletin (along with the first known drawing of a Plip) -- Oh! What I wouldn't give to have a scan of that!

It is entirely possible and likely that one of us inspired the other somehow, but neither of us can remember how or when, so it stands that Bob has two origins.

jabbercat · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 12:49 am Post subject:

Not only does Bob the hamster and the OHR.RPG.CE save you from a fate worse than death on a daily , they also have a vivid history and cute doodles!

Bob the hamster must be one of the best web personalitys ever!
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Eggie · Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 904

Everything outreaches from each other. Now your asking, what does that mean? I don't know, I heard it somewhere. What can I say? It's like the seed of OHR, kind of. Maybe not OHR... but something. I'd give almost anything to find my first drawing of 'Eggie'.

Minnek · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:49 am Post subject:

I still have all my first sketches of my game characters.....including my very first one, JD...... you probably haven't heard of him......I never released those six newbie games. Horrible graphics. Oh the memories Rolling Eyes

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Grandtrain · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 85

That drawing reminds me a lot of Ren and Stimpy.

Flamer · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 10:02 am Post subject:

oh, the memories...
it only felt like yesterday that I ran into hamsterrepublic and saw bob and thought "looks interesting, but what on earth was OHRRPGCE?" investigating lead me to staying and participating to a very small extent.
i believe, i have my first drawing of my main character somewhere in my calculus book somewhere.
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jabbercat · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 11:44 am Post subject:

My very first drawing for a game (I dont plan ahead much) would be of Ellen Ripley blowing the head of an alien I would put in a scan but it was A1
so there we go Ha ha ha!

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Frickin' Genius · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:58 pm Post subject:

let's see... the very first picture for my game, that I drew... nevermind, all of them suck and I still have all of them...
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Uncommon · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 11:32 pm Post subject:

I'm ashamed to say this, but my characters were originally made because of Pokémon. I made a character named Josh (based off of me, of course) that had a particularly tall Alakazam named Hocuspocus and made stories about how they'd own on all these other trainers and stuff. I actually got OHR so I could make games about them.

Eventually, I dropped the Pokémon, but kept the characters Josh, Greg, and Amy. I made new stories for them (including a Final Fantasy 7-related story), which most of you would know as my newbie game ORBituaries, but dropped that project 'cos I thought it was stupid.

Now, I've renamed Josh and Amy (Caleb and Fiona; I only changed Greg's last name), made a load of new characters and completely different stories that make a lot more sense than all of the previous ones. Of course, all of them have grown older (I think Josh was originally 13, but Caleb is 17 in part 2 of Where Gods and Mortals Dance) and grown into their own characters.

Anyway, regarding pictures, I still have some old notebooks full of pictures of my Pokémon through post-ORBituaries eras (I call them my "archives"), but I haven't scanned them out of shame. I've actually thought of scanning a few to show how my art has developed.

madhatter · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 11:57 pm Post subject:

Let's see... My first drawing for a game character was waaaay back in grade five. It was of teenager named Vivian, and the game was called Zodiac...Hardly original. I dropped the idea for it after two weeks. I still have the original sketch...somewhere... Most of my drawings are in one big teetering pile of junk ontop of my desk Ha ha ha!

I haven't mentally prepared myself to look through it yet.

Flamer · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:57 am Post subject:

Uncommon, you're not the only one to use OHR because of Pokemon related stories...
my character pretty much developed the same way yours did. Instead of shifting to themes already produced (like FF7) I decided to be original and used aspects of my life to shape the character's own personality.
I created 8 characters one based on me and the other seven are based on close friends whom i've grown close to.
Two to three years has past, and I've developed every character's distinct personality (all eight).

Story-wise... what story? I'm trying to find a story that doesn't seem cliched and killed to it's days. I've only got bits and pieces of stories that would amplify my perspective of the character's personality... nothing solid.

I think I still have pictures of pokemon drawings I made (no not for the game, these were made out of self interest) I'll scan a picture of the main character when I get another usable scanner.
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Eggie · Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 904

God, all I did was made people sad.

I have several pictures of all my other RPG characters, but what happened to Eggie? Oh, hear me, Eggie, come to me, come to me, this is Ryan. Hmmm...

Uncommon · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:09 am Post subject:

Well, all of my characters were still based off of me and people I knew, there were just in a FF7-related story (it was, like, 200 years after, or something). Their personalities were really just extremes of traits that the person they were based off of had (for instance, Josh was always angry, Greg incredibly pessimistic, Ice a hyper idiot, etc.).

Yeah, but after I changed their names, I didn't regard them as the same person anymore, and they ended up developing their own personalities.

Komera · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 711

i remember my first winger picture... my mouse had died so i was stuck using mousekeys (had not yet obtained a stylus). i did the drawing in a trial version of adobe photoshop, so i couldn't even save the picture in progress, and thus had to leave the program open for three days (because using mousekeys is inhumanely slow). to save the picture, i hit printscreen, pasted to mspaint, saved it as a bmp, then used thumbsplus to convert the bmp to gif.

quick trivia: most of the enemies at the begining of w;p1 were done with mousekeys during this time... just in case anyone ever wondered why the earlier enemies weren't quite as fluid as the later enemies.
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Flamer · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:36 am Post subject:

heh, damn mousekeys are so annoying.

good thing I've got a choice between a laptop "joystick" mouse or the generic mouse.
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If we were a pack of dogs, IM would be a grand Hound, CN would be a very ficious little pitball, and Giz...well, it doesn't matter breed he is, he'd still be a bitch Raspberry!

(no offense to anyone that was mentioned)