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 Haircut sponsored by: Super Joe | |
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Paterson, NJ |
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Hardi Gosal, Kelly Lea Harris, Jeanne Thornton, Kenneth Whitehead, Long Dao, Kevin Loan, Michael Kidder, Adam Perry |
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Paul "RinkuHero" Eres is a New Jersey, USA based developer who started making games in QBASIC, then in the OHRRPGCE, and now makes games with Game Maker. He is perhaps most known for Immortal Defense and for his 10,000+ posts on TIGSource.
Biography
Paul Eres stirring, drinking tea.
Paul Eres stirring, drinking tea.
- Born 1978, majored in Biochemistry at Rutgers University.
- From 2000-2002 was editor-in-chief of Ohrrpgce Monthly and Reasonably Septaweekly, two magazines mainly about the games created by Ohrrpgce community.
- Currently an editor for TIGSource, and a was in the past an editor for Indiegames.com and the now defunct Play This Thing!
Games
Immortal Defense
Released (Commercial)
- Immortal Defense (2007, 2015 update for Steam release)
Released (Freeware)
- The Dungeon of the Sword (1995)
- Munchers (1995)
- Second Seeker (1996)
- Your Kingdoms (1996)
- Wingedmene (1999)
- And& (2000)
- Harlock and Rinku's Game which Includes the Game Bill's "Never Go West" (2001)
- Rulers of the 7 Wonders (2001)
- Tilde and the Mask of :P (2001)
- Knight of the Ages (2003)
- Alphasix (2006)
- Fedora Spade series (2007-2008)
- Valentine Game (2009) - for Increpare's Valentine's Day Contest
In Development
- Saturated Dreamers
- Immortal Defense 2
- An Invitation to Neverwhere
- Alterpoint
- Ziggurats for Red Turtle
- New Detail
- Ergintandal
Trivia
Luap Sere
Lin Ku in Fedora Spade
- Clysm and Paul Eres started the Kiva lending team for independent game developers: team, which collectively has loaned $78,000+ to the working poor (as of 03/2017).
- There have been several games made which include Paul Eres as a character, including Tea Time With Luap Sere - Make the World Right, seen here (as Luap Sere -- backwards for Paul Eres), Fedora Spade Episode 4 (as the character Lin Ku, a reference to Rinku), and three OHRRPGCE games: Santa Claus vs. The Heroists (as one of the main antagonists), OHR House: Season One (as one of the participants), and Harlock & Rinku's Game Which Includes the Game Bill's Never Go West (as one of the narrators). The most recent is The Indie Game Legend.
- Along with Kenneth Whitehead, ran the Human Day contest from 2001-2005, which offered Alex Chiu's immortality rings as a prize to people who make inspiring games.
- Eres came up with the name for the massively popular sandbox game “Minecraft” in IRC with Notch. Source.
Interviews
- Fake Karl interview
- The Claw interview
- timw interview
- Patrick Dugan interview
- TIGSource interview
- evajolli interview (currently down)