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Arwym

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

## Biography

Besides Crankeye himself, Arwym was perhaps the longest registered currently active member today. She's now been registered at RMRK for over 3 years. Though she had been here all this time, it was only recently she's actually shown activity.

Her activity had increased to the point where she could be considered a full-fledged prominent member. She was a moderator of Bean Bags from it's creation. She has since moved on from RMRK, the reason for which she has explained in her definite goodbye.

### Personality

You could best describe Arwym as sweet, intellectual and respectful. It is impressive that she puts up with some of the members at RMRK. She also offers helpful and friendly advice whenever she sees the opportunity to, which is gaining her much respect in the eyes of members that recognise it. She sticks by her ideals, and it's been suggested she would make an excellent staff member.

## Community Involvement

Arwym has shown up in the #Crankeye IRC Channel often, and has made a good impression upon all of the chat regulars. She is also behind the creation of the RMRK Universe project, currently being discussed in Community.

### 2007 RMRK Awards

Arwym was nominated in the following categories:

* Most Attractive Female Member
* Most Boring Member
* Favourite Staff Member

Arwym took 2nd for Most Boring Member.

### 2008 RMRK awards

Arwym was nominated in the following categories:

* Best Council

### Projects/Achievements

She has a keen interest to learn in a quite precise spectrum, mainly web related things. She runs her own website and is learning all the skills need to further this, including things like PHP, HTML and CSS. She has a knack for graphics too, her first avatar was a vector art she made herself.

She is also currently a dialogue writer on the Gold Team in the Guilds.

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## Related Links

Arwym's RMRK profile

Arwym's Personal Network

RMRK Universe - Community 2D MMORPG Project
Feb 2008 Crash

## Boom

On Februrary 29th 2008, at approximately 7PM GMT, Rmrk officially blew up. In a bitter co-incidence, this was the day that RPG Maker VX was finally officially released in english, and this happened a mere hour or so after Crankeye.com added the new files to its repository.

## What happened?

RMRK's enormous database suffered a major mySQL table crash. For those not accustomed to such things, basically, consider a filing cabinet spontaneously combusting. Being the wonderful thing mySQL is, it attempted to self-repair automatically, though this too also failed and not only succeeded in corrupting vast amounts of the data, but also brought the entire server down with it.

### Effects

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The server itself is fine. Anything else on the server that was not directly linked to RMRK.net's mySQL database was fine (evidently, as you are/were reading this). Crankeye.com IS linked with the database, and as such was broken too. During the time, RMRK.net and Crankeye.com both displayed an identical page, offering what the majority of both sites' visitors for that particular day would want - the newly released RPGMaker VX.

### SO WAS EVERYTHING GONE?

Calm down young one. Not only does RMRK's stellar host keep monthly, weekly, day-before and daily backups, RMRK's own real admin, Roph, ignores all insults of being a nerd and continues to vigourously backup. His most recent backup was automatically generated and deposited offsite after the RMVX announcement was made - meaning only a few hours (possibly) of posts may have been lost. He still has the raw (albeit heavily corrupted) current mangled database, so it may turn out that not a single post is lost. We have certainly learned from the past.

## Summary

Everything is now back to how it was. Well, sort of. There was so much corruption (it turns out there was curruption leading up to the crash, forcing us to dig further back into backups to get clean data), that around 60 hours of posts have been lost to oblivion. February 27th in the early evening was the most recent snapshot without any corruption, so it was decided to simply fully restore from that backup.
Gracie

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

### Personality

Generally loveable, quirky, and caring. Outgoing in the best way. Approachable and if you give her a chance, BIZARRE. Grace is a swell girl that is mature for her age, despite a sense of humor that speaks to the opposite. Her self confidence is lacking, but this is hardly something that is able to stop her from truly shining as an individual of great value.
Grace is also a furry, but this is a fact she does not openly admit,simply because she does not want it to affect peoples judgement of her.

## Community Involvement

Grace has a topic for sprite and pixel art requests in the RPG Maker section, containing a very excellent frog for RPG Maker VX. More art is surely forthcoming. In addition, she has an art topic in the gallery.

Most noteworthy of all however is the radio show she co-broadcasts alongside Dave (Another recent addition to the RMRK community). From seven to nine PM (GMT -0) every Wednesday, Dave (keeping things on track) and Grace (flavor commentary) host a rock music and talk radio show titled "Trauma Sponge". The music is excellent, the dialogue is amusing, and it's all far, far too short.

### Forum Activity

Posting regularly, she is a contributor to many threads and always a welcome addition to conversation. She has no enemies and is well liked

### 2010 RMRK Awards

Gracie won the 2010 awards, under the category of "Best Newbie".

### Moderator Status

On the 26th of April, 2011, Gracie became the merciless and tyrannical ruler of the sewers, a status she obtained by asking Roph very nicely. No, really. At the time of writing, Gracie has a habit of simply abusing her power, since its the sewers and nobody gives a shit.
Best Veteran

"Who that has been around regularly for at least a year has had the best lasting impression on you, and why?" - Roph

### 2007

* 2007 1st Place: TIE: Zypher & HaloOfTheSun
* 2007 2nd Place: Nouman
* 2007 3rd Place: TIE: GilgameshRO & arlen

### 2008

* 2008 1st Place: HaloOfTheSun
* 2008 2nd Place: TIE: arlen, Arrow-1 & Holkeye
* 2008 3rd Place: Roph

### 2009

* 2009 1st Place: HaloOfTheSun
* 2009 2nd Place: TIE: Modern Algebra, Irock, & Holk
* 2009 3rd Place: TIE: NAMKCOR, Doctor Swordopolis, & Anski

### 2010

* 2010 1st Place: Anski
* 2010 2nd Place: Modern Algebra
* 2010 3rd Place: TIE: Roph & Holk

### 2011

* 2011 1st Place: TIE: Zylos & Modern Algebra
* 2011 2nd Place: Anski
* 2011 3rd Place: HaloOfTheSun
Theme Month: DIDNEY WORL

In April of 2012, Acolyte decided to do another theme month for May (even though she started it in April). The theme this time was for members to have animated .gif avatars of Disney characters. Acolyte was kind enough to create most of the avatars for the members that participated. Below is a list of participants:
RPG Maker

*If you are looking for information on the member by the name "RPG Maker", see RPG Maker (member)*.

RPG Maker (commonly abbreviated to RM) is the name of the piece of software that allows anyone to make there own RPG's. Originally on the PC, three games for the Playstation series came out, but have been discontinued. RPG Maker is used by many people all over the world.

At RMRK, members tend to only use RPG Maker 2000, RPG Maker 2003, RPG Maker XP and RPG Maker VX

## RPG Maker 2000

Originally translated into English by Don Miguel. Userss that download RM2k also had to make sure to download and install the RTP (Run Time Package), which contained all the resources necessary to make your game. Users could import custom resources for their games as well, so there were a lot of possibilities here.

The battle system consisted of a first person view, but clever users could make events for custom battle systems (CBS).

## RPG Maker 2003

This version included slightly enhanced RTP graphics, the ability to use MP3, and a more traditional side-view battle system. For those that don't like to use RMXP, this is typically the one that is used.

## RPG Maker XP

Enterbrain developed a whole new scripting system for this version. Also enhanced graphics, more audio compatabilities such as .ogg, and a whole slew of new features. Yet, some useful features from RM2k3 were removed, such as the side-view battle system. With the use of scripts, one could get this back however. These same scripts however, contain many bugs, as well as take alot of satisfaction out of making games without them.

## RPG Maker VX

RPG Maker VX is the latest program from the RPG Maker series. It was developed by Enterbrain and is the latest in the PC RPG Maker series, following its predecessor, RPG Maker XP. RPG Maker VX follows the naming pattern present in previous RPG Maker releases by having a suffix based on the Windows versions the software was designed for (in this case, Windows Vista and Windows XP).
Best Writer

## Description

"Be it poetry, short stories or dialog, who has the most impressive talent at conveying emotion through words?" - Roph

### 2007

* 2007 1st Place: maia
* 2007 2nd Place: Arrowone
* 2007 3rd Place: Forcystus

### 2008

* 2008 1st Place: maia
* 2008 2nd Place: Zylos
* 2008 3rd Place: TIE: Holkeye & Arrow

### 2009

* 2009 1st Place: Zylos
* 2009 2nd Place: maia
* 2009 3rd Place: Dertt

### 2010

* 2010 1st Place: Anski
* 2010 2nd Place: Holk
* 2010 3rd Place: NAMKCOR

### 2011

* 2011 1st Place: Anski
* 2011 2nd Place: Holk
* 2011 3rd Place: EvilM00s
Lavata

## Biography

* Join date: December 20, 2005
* Position: Moderator of Gallery
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* One of the "senior" members. (Senior meaning he has been on RMRK for at least a year.)

Lavata has been on the forums a long time. He is one of the few member who still uses RM2k3, but he is widely considered to be a good RPG maker.

### Personality

Lavata is a helpful guy, quick to offer constructive criticism and is, overall, well-liked.

### Forum Activity

Most of Lavata's posts are in the Creativity Outlet, Forum Games, and Video Games sections.

### Projects/Achievements

Lavata is currently working on an RM2k game called Dragon Fantasy REMAKE. It is meant to be a throwback to old, NES-type RPGS such as Dragon Quest/Warrior 1-through-3 and Final Fantasy 1-through-3, thus the graphical style.

Though he knows that this style of game is not as liked as most others, he has still chosen to work on it and make it his first (and maybe last) RPG in RPG maker in which he completes.

### 2006 RMRK Awards

Lavata was nominated in the following categories:

* Zero to Hero
* Most Mature Member
* Best RPG Maker User (creativity)
* Most Artistic Member

He placed 3rd in Zero to Hero, Most Mature Member, and tied for 3rd with landofshadows in Most Artistic Member, and he tied with Fumannchu for second in Best RPG Maker User (creativity)

### 2007 RMRK Awards

Lavata was nominated for the following categories:

* Favourite Staff Member

## RMRK Buddy List

Members in Lavata's buddy list are:

* jap0911
* Blizzard
* Arrow-1
* Nightwolf
* Nouman
* Irgna
* eternal\_renegade
Starfyre

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

## Biography

Starfyre joined RMRK early on and quickly gained a rise in popularity, mostly due to him joining the IRC channel. He was quickly given Extra Access. He has unfortunately fallen to inactivity and hasn't been around anymore.

### Personality

* For a while it was cool to make fun of him because of his last name, Stubblefield.
* He can't seem to decide on a name, since people will probably make fun of it

Starfyre rarely posts on the forums, his posts per day are a measly 0.5. He is known for short, abrasive posts. Sometimes they only contain a smiley that isn't even recognized by the forums.

### Forum Activity

Starfyre mostly posted in The Sewers and Community. He's also an avid reader of Video Games. Starfyre was a writer for the The Guilds.
Yuyubabe

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

## Biography

yuyubabe found and joined RMRK due to her interest in RPG Maker games. She quickly became well-liked due to her upbeat and friendly personality. It wasn't until late 2011 when she started posting more regularly and began to venture into the General section of RMRK's forums and into the IRC channel. This is when most of RMRK's veterans took notice of her, and her popularity increased even more so. In early 2011 she was added to the Extra Access and RMRK Advanced user groups. In late February of 2012, yuyubabe joined the Taco Revolution, and subsequently became a strong supporter and VP of the HALO4MOD 2012 campaign. A result of this was that she was given local moderator status over Community, and the subforums Welcome, Bean Bags, and Ask A Stereotype!. She was also formally recognized as being "very nice and pretty", as per the demands of the Terrorist Insurgents.

She is also the sister of RMRK member Dr. Mc.

yuyubabe is in a relationship with RMRK veteran, Malson. No, she is not attracted to power.

### Personality

A very warm and fun-loving person, yuyubabe quickly attracted many friends at RMRK. She graces RMRK with her kindness, and can always find something nice to say about the members that others cannot.

## Community Involvement

Yuyubabe is quite active in RMRK, in both the RPG Maker and General sections. Due to her popularity and involvement in the HALO4MOD 2012 campaign, she was promoted to local moderator of the Community board and its subforums (minus Forum Games) in March 2012.

### Forum Activity

Yuyubabe is a very active member, particularly in The Sewers, Welcome, and Community. She is also an IRC regular.

## Related Links

yuyubabe's RMRK Profile

Major Arcana Thread

yuyubabe's artwork

FE Style Facesets!
Kitten

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

## Biography

From the moment Kitten posted her Introduction thread her lovable personality, quick wit, and endless charm made her an instant sensation on RMRK. She often helped out by searching for resources requested and giving advice. Her slip into inactivity, while not often discussed, was widely felt.

### Forum Activity

Kitten was most active in Resources and Extra Access with random postings in the Sewers.
Avast Ye Merry Pirate Award

## Description

*"Who would the RIAA be most pissed with? Who managed to find and upload for you that hentai game you had given up all hope on of finding?"* — Roph

This annual award is for those who go out of their way to bring you the best or rarest of finds on the internet, usually the top dogs of the RMRK Trading section who manage to always find the exact album that you were looking for, or enlighten you with games you'd never heard before.

## Recipients

### 2008

* 2008 1st Place: Tezuka
* 2008 2nd Place: HaloOfTheSun
* 2008 3rd Place: TIE: Link, Holkeye & Anski

### 2009

* 2009 1st Place: Roph
* 2009 2nd Place: TIE: Tezuka & Holk
* 2009 3rd Place: Malson

### 2010

* 2010 1st Place: Roph
* 2010 2nd Place: Anski
* 2010 3rd Place: Tezuka

### 2011

* 2011 1st Place: Roph
* 2011 2nd Place: Holk
* 2011 3rd Place: Anski
RMRK

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*RMRK Refers to the forums. For the site, see Crankeye.com*

## Summary

RMRK is short for RPG Maker Resource Kit, and is the forum of Crankeye.com.

When spoken in full, a "the" usually proceeds, making it The RPG Maker Resource Kit.

Though at first, "Crankeye" or "RMRK" or "The RPG Maker RK" used to synonymously refer to the site and forums together, nowadays when speaking of the forums, RMRK is generally used, whereas to refer to the site it is usually referred to simply as "Crankeye". This might be due to each word or phrase being the domain names respectively.

## See Also

* About RMRK
* Forum Versions
* Crankeye.com
* Forums
* RMRK Memes
Pacman

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

## Biography

Pacman, originally AngryPacman, joined RMRK due to interest in RPG Maker VX. He loves soft drinks and will absent-mindedly peel the labels off of the bottles after he's done drinking the contents. His fear of spiders is totally rational, and he cannot answer the question "How are you" without thinking about it at length.

### Personality

He was initially a very angry man. Highly belligerent and short-tempered. Nobody liked him. Throughout this tumultuous period, Pacman endured so much vitriol and confusion he inadvertently labored the trail of ascension into the depths of passable personality, possibly hunger.

A few months thereafter he became a tolerated and a, surely against great initial aversion, mostly-liked member of the community. He calmed down significantly and showed prudence in his behavior.

He is now a respected member of the community as a whole.

Rumor is that Dr. Mc is in madly love with Pacman.

## Community Involvement

Pacman is the moderator of the Scripts board. He has contributed many scripts to the game creation community, as well.

### Forum Activity

He is very active in the The Sewers and the Game Creation forums.

### 2011 RMRK Awards

He was nominated in the following categories:

* Best Newbie
* Zero To Hero
* Best Username
* Best Use Of Avatar and Signature space

Pacman placed first in Zero To Hero, and second place in Best Newbie category.
RMRK Member Factfile

Yet another great topic created by Silverline. In this topic, members post various information about themselves, such as Shoe Size, Favorite Book, Pets, Where they've travelled, and so on. In addition, members are only allowed to post in this topic once, and posting again will result in immediate deletion of that post. If a user wants to update their information, they just simply edit the original post, rather than creating a new one.

### The Participants

Those members that have posted in this topic are:

* Silverline
* neosiris
* Captain Callahan
* Zxmelee
* dwarra
* sepiroth666
* Westfield
* Tsunokiette
* Master\_of\_Time
* michaelxp
* blueXx
* Red Eye Dragoon
* deadly\_diablo
* ArkBenett
* Teh Dalton
* Dr\_Swordopolis
* Cryforequanimity
* Ramiro
* Jakinblack
* Soul
* Infenyte
* Blasted\_Redoubt
* TheRotS
* landofshadows
* RPGPersonell
* Lord Cloud
* GilgameshRO
* SexualBubblegumX
* ahref
* monster-doog
* Viper
* Maestress Xina
* Doak
* Knox22
* Time\_Frog
* kaigen20
* Supervisor
* Mental
* LinkaN
* yunasgrace91
* loonygamer
* Panther III
* wildrj
* veltonvelton
* Twar3Draconis
* arrowone
* Yossy
* Dox
* Nikolai
* Geno
* Nightwolf
* Dragonfly
* BanisherOfEden
* darkelementwars
* ZaMullet
* Majestic Wolf
* Holkeye
* Chaos of Destruction
* Lominisio
* illusion
* Irockman1
* Yami
* Lavata
* Zetsukomaru
* .:Pyroken Serafoculus:.
* ataraxy2
* Decadent Sympozium
* modern algebra
* Snailer
* Blizzard
* Rune
* Nouman
* KareiIsORANGE
* Kaitenshin
* Yukimora
* Arwym
* Amalgamadora
* pythonusr
* jap0911
* Final-Knight
* Kashii
* NAMKCOR
* Dark\_Koji
* Jalkson
* link999
* mastermoo420
* biohazard
* ChaosSpartan28
* zeldaz
* Mexneto
* Sh4kk4
* RWinchester88
* sinu\_siku
* Shadow\_Blade
* Black\_Shadow
* Dr\_Swordopolis
* Revanica
* Tezuka
* Skanker
* Ebichu
* mangadude5760
* arlen
* Zypher
* Dan80315
* Leventhan
* EVAProject01
* Cassie
* iceflame1019
* Angelic\_Diablo
* Firerain
* SiR\_VaIlHoR
* Violentpurge09
* Forcystus

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Lackluster

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A wild Lackluster appeared!

## Biography

* Join date: May 05, 2007, 12:16:58 PM
* Aliases: Lalu, Lack.
* One of the "senior" members. (Senior meaning he has been on RMRK for at least a year.)

Lalu came over to RMRK after he was banned, again, for trolling on RMXP.org.

### Personality

Lackluster says what he thinks no matter what the situation. This of course causes many members to hold a grudge against him, but many more just find him humorous.

## Community Involvement

### Forum Activity

Lalu can be found most of the time in Community, Scripts and The Sewers.

### Quotes

**"Don't apologize to Irock look at his rep. He's hated."**

**"Holk wishes he was as sexy as me. I am the greatest thing to ever happen to the Earth. All of you shall bask in my neverending** **glory and magnificence."**

**"Summarized version: He wishes he was me."**

**"Pink, because pink pwns."**

**"\*Orgasms\*"**

**"I TOOK THE JELLY OUT OF MY OWN GOD DAMNED DONUTS!"**

**"I hate love stories...I hope someone dies."**

**"Zomg kittehz!!!!"**

**"Look at the list....I'm in jail D:"**

**"Yes. Roph is hideous beyond the level of Zypher."**

**"In a "I wanna hug you" way...not a creepy Zyphery way."**

**"Saucy, we should make babies"**

**"I've only masturbated 3 times.....**

**...since I read your post."**

**"I use soap on a rope ;O"**

**"Please kill yourself you stupid depressed peace of shit."**

### 2007 RMRK Awards

Lackluster was nominated in the following categories:

* Biggest Drama Whore
RMRK Wiki

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## Important articles

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Mangadude5760

## Biography

* Join date: September 21, 2005
* Aliases: Kirk, Manga, "Magnadude"
* Position: NOTHING! lol
* Age: 18
* Gender: Male
* One of the "senior" members. (Senior meaning he has been on RMRK for at least a year.)

Commonly known as the brother of Captain Callahan. Nothing too unique stands out about mangadude; he was there primarily for RPG Maker, and didn't post very often. However, occasionally a post by him could be found in Video Games or perhaps even Creativity Outlet.

### Personality

He seem to be very quiet in the beginning of his membership, but then continued to be on the forums at least once a day. He wasn't a massive spammer like his brother, but did in fact post quite a bit.

He became a little active on MSN, talking with dwarra, Zxmelee, and Ramiro, as well as several other members from the forums.

## Community Involvement

### Forum Activity

His interests Included the Projects/Games, Forum Games, General Chat and Spam forums.

### Projects/Achievements

One project always stood out from his normal RPG making. This game was the first to really feature real people from RMRK, and you would be able to talk to other characters. Are though, there was one enemy in which happened to be blueXx. Surprisingly he didn't seen to care because of its lack of quality. And in fact was right, the project was made in less then a day.
Credits

* 50GB Partition
* 768MB dedicated, up to 1.5GB burstable RAM
* Latest CentOS stable release
* 5Mb/s dedicated, up to 100Mb/s burstable connection
* Latest stable releases of mySQL and PHP
* We make use of APC (Alternative PHP Cache) to cache and serve compiled pages, which makes for a great speed boost thanks to the entire site being served dynamically. SMF 2.0 also support's APC user variable caching, providing a further speed boost.
* Latest recently released versions of WHM/CPanel.
* Sphinx Search Server to provide search results. The resource usage is so incredibly low, even guests are allowed full search permissions.

This currently handles RMRK and all the other sites on the server just fine, with plenty of headroom. Average page loads per day are usually in the 20 to 30 thousand range. Our mySQL database is approaching 500mb, and receives an average of 15 queries per second.

### Look & Layout

#### RMRK2

A.K.A. "The Light Theme" - Used to be the forum default, though has now been superseded by RMRK2 - DARK. It is a simple edit of an SMF theme named ORANGE-LT; originally just orange bits re-coloured purple, though over time has accumulated more and more changes.

#### RMRK2 - DARK

A.K.A. "The Dark Theme" - A more adventurous edit of RMRK2 - the entire forum's colours are changed to a dark purple, with light text. In May 07, this became the new forum default.

#### RMRK - PINK!

A novelty theme created for and forced on all users for valentine's day '07 and '08. It remains a selectable theme, though is not kept updated with the latest features that the other themes have (such as dropdown menus).

#### RMRK - FIELDS

A.K.A. "RMRK GRASS" or "the grass theme" - Created for Djangonator. A natural theme with light colours and a distinctive fields background. Main colours are white along with light blue and green.

#### RMRK 3

The newest RMRK version out so far! Made to fit the theme on crankeye.com, this theme is very cool looking no matter what chewey may say.

All current forum themes are created or adapted by Silverline.

#### 2008 Redesign

The main site's new layout was created by Roph, and following after was a matching forum theme. Generally this is referred to as "RMRK4", and the forum theme's name is RMRK4-Lite.

### Forums

RMRK Utilises the free SMF forum system. The forum was converted from phpBB. For a list of all people with varying degrees of authority or power on the forums, see the Staff Category of users.

The forum runs various mods, edits and "hacks":

* Profile Comments - SMF Modification
* Spoiler Tag - SMF Modification
* [mp3] Tag - Written by Silverline
* [flv] Tag - Written by Silverline
* Advanced Postbits - Written by Silverline
* RMRK Level System - Written by Silverline
* Show Buddies on Profile - Edited SMF Modification
* Java Chat Integration - Written by Silverline
* Dropdown user menus - Written by Silverline
* Application system - Written by Silverline (Implemented as the system for project subforum applications)
Maps

Maps are the on-screen representations of a developer's game world in the many RM engines. The term "map" is almost universally recognised as the layout of tiles in a given space on the screen, creating a playfield for the player to navigate his characters and accomplish tasks.

## Map Types

These types are basic archtypes of mapmaking; not all games will follow this mold but are typically similar.

### World Maps

Thinking of mapping as a "biggest to smallest" task, we have the World Map being at the forefront. It contains the entirety of explorable territory in the game, be it an area, an island or a whole planet- some designers sacrifice detail for depiction of star systems or galaxies, or the many fantastic planes of existance in their game, but the concept remains the same: the overall explorable content of the game. On this map we see gross representations of oceans, mountains, deserts- landforms on a global scale, or the scale of a standard globe or atlas.

### Centers of Civilization

THe world map will have on it depictions of castles, towns, cities or whatever stands for a smaller division of the world; this scale of map usually holds the services that the player characters will need to survive the gameplay. Typical to this map are the outer representations of Inns, Weapon and Armor shops and the like, and possibly NPCs who will give clues to the current conflict or even prospective party members. These maps typically contain charaters that give the players their objectives.

Also on this scale are the dungeons. For the purposes of this discussion, a "dungeon" is a defined space in which an objective is sought to be completed. In contrast from town maps but in common with world maps, random monster encounters occur here.

### Building interiors

The last broad category of maps are the interior maps. These are the inside of the buildings shown in the town maps, and is where a great deal if not all of the game commerce occurs. Some interiors have several floors to them, which are essentially more interior maps.

## Mapping Technique

In all RMs, mapping technique is slightly different but all makers encourage the developer to use plausible goegraphy in their mapping, i.e., mountains, deserts, etc. The varied layers in RMXP have proved challenging for many mappers to master, but it is common opinion that more layers equal better detail. RMVXA also has a layering feature.

Basic technique includes providing a visually appealling yet plausible playfield that allows the player to explore any area they can see, given the right conditions within the game, such as proper vehicles or appropriate progress through the game.
Holk

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

## Biography

Holkeye joined the forums from the suggestion of Silverline, who was familiar with Holkeye elsewhere. Holkeye had also become aware of HaloOfTheSun's music through Silverline, and similarly Halo had heard Holk's music through him too. The three had thought maybe they should work on a project together, but at the time, HaloOfTheSun couldn't commit, and really wasn't good at the proposed style anyway. Still, Holk and Silverline were making progress on this project.

Primarily most will remember Holk from his feud with hatefuckingforest, who was one of the members brought to the forums by SexualBubblegumX. Holk ended up winning the flame war and hatefuckingforest was shortly after banned.

After a long absence, he went on to become one of the more prominent members at RMRK, being nominated for several RMRK Awards and further still winning a few. One of the original members in the Extra Access forum, he started the "All About" trend, where members post (obviously) all about themselves in detail.

In the latter part of 2007 Holk informed everyone that he is a recovering addict, fighting an opiate addiction. The members of RMRK are proud and support him.

On March 20, 2007, Holk was given mod powers over Creativity Outlet.

Holk was later promoted to Super Moderator status.

### Personality

Holk is a pretty laid-back person, and is open to a lot of theories, which, unfortunately, as of late has been frowned upon in Elitist Debate due to immaturity. He is also responsible for some of the better quotes in the Quotes out of Context thread.

Also, Holk is one fine piece of manhide. --LadyJules 22:28, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

## Community Involvement

### Forum Activity

Holk is most active in The Sewers, Video Games, and Community. Holk often shares his wisdom with RMRK members in Bean Bags.

## RMRK Awards

### Drama

When it became obvious hatefuckingforest (and likewise, Jesus Hitler) were only there to flame and shoot down everyone's opinions and ideas, Holkeye stepped in, and was backed up by HaloOfTheSun and (passively) Yossy. The fight didn't really go on for very long, but escalated pretty quickly.
Tutorials

The Tutorials & Eventing Help board is where RMRK holds information regarding the use of the various RM engines, how to work them, and how to get the most from them. Also contained here are the Event Systems for VXA, VX and XP, completed plug-and-play event systems which add dimension to games without the use of scripts.

## Divisions of the Board

The Tutorials & Eventing Help board is further divided into several smaller forums.

### Tutorials Database

Here the compiled knowledge of 6 years of RM use has been put into its own board. This board contains tutorials for many different procedures for all RM engines. Some tutorials are general, while others are complex and are intended for advanced users.

### RMVXA Event Database

The 2012 release of RMVXAce in Japanese has not deterred some advanced users to get a jump on the creation of event systems for this maker. They can be found here. While still a small section, it is likely to grow over the next few months, especially after the release of VXA in English.

### RMVX Event Systems

Completed and tested event systems for the RMVX engine are in this board, most of which are intended to be copied from included demo games included in their postings.

### RMXP Event Systems

Similar to the previous boards, this section houses event systems for the RMXP system.

## Related Links

Tutorials Database
RMVXA Events Database
RMVX Event Systems
RMXP Event Systems
IRC

Connection info:

Server: irc.rmrk.net

Channel: #crankeye

Web Chat: Click here

## IRC Channel

The RMRK chatroom has been around for a long time; it was created in Q4 of 2005. It came about after requests from members for an irc channel or some kind of chatroom, which Crankeye eventually provided. The chatroom was originally on the Windfyre IRC network, and the channel's name was originally #RMRK. This changed to #crankeye in mid 2006 though, after (due to inactivity) the channel had been dropped and re-registered maliciously.

The channel was originally very underused, and members joining were unlikely to find another member in it, and even if they did, that other member was usually away. There were occasional spikes of activity. Sometimes, if members saw that Crankeye was online, they would all rush to the chatroom for a chance to talk to him. Later on after Silverline, Dwarra, Pegasusgamer2005 and HaloOfTheSun became moderators, they were given moderator powers in the channel also.

## Change

During and after the downtime, the channel picked up in activity greatly. Most members were first timers, wondering where the site and/or forums had gone, though some regulars decided to join. With Silverling bringing up Crankeye.org, the channel's activity grew even higher, and it began to see real use.

## Modern #crankeye

The #Crankeye channel is now almost always populated with at least 10 users. A select few users are given moderator / operator powers in the channel even though they may not have respective status on the forums. This comes about in order to guarantee that there is always somebody there able to deal with any possible troublemakers. This was boosted by the addition of a bot that automatically kicks and temporarily bans people who flood or repeat messages within an unreasonable timeframe. IRC is currently without a bot, but there has been no need for one in quite some time.

* Many RMRK users, even though they may be regular on the forums, have never used the chat. They are encouraged to try it out.

* The chat plays an important part in RMRK as a whole. Perhaps the most important or noted proof of this was Deliciously\_Saucy's promotion to mod status, after her not being a member for very long (this is actually not the fastest, as dwarra was made a mod a mere 6 weeks after joining). Members who only ever used the forums and not the chat, most notably Blizzard, saw this as a bad thing.

### IRC Regulars

The following members are most likely to be seen in #crankeye on a regular basis:

* Roph
* HaloOfTheSun
* Malson
* Irock
* DrSword
* NAMKCOR
* yuyubabe
* Strike\_Reyhi
* Acolyte
* LadyJ
* threeofspades
* Skanker
* Krabboss
* Holk
* Anski
* Pacman
* DrMc
* Zylos
* Firerain
* Mollrow
Threeofspades

RMRK Member

## Biography

Threeofspades randomly appeared one day on IRC, where it was discovered that she is best friends with yuyubabe in person. She decided to join IRC after hearing yuyubabe talk about RMRK. She logs onto IRC every day to talk about anything that comes her way. She quickly has become one of the more popular members and has made many friends.

She has a deep love for music, especially the band Green Day.

As of late, threeofspades has decided to put RMRK behind her. She will be missed. =(

### Personality

At first, threeofspades appears very shy and unassuming. She will apologize quickly if she thinks she has offended anyone. This does not stop her crave for an interesting conversation. In fact, she becomes more upfront, bold, and confident as she opens up to a situation. She isn't often known for lying, or shirking her opinion.

## Community Involvement

She has no interest in RPG Maker, so threeofspades posts only in the General and Creative sections. Most of her posts can be found in The Librarium, In The News, General Chat, and Community. She is also an IRC regular.
Legend of Jam

## Biography

* Join date: January 04 2008

Legend of Jam registered to RMRK after reading a Chat topic in the CyberConnect Forums about an annoying member named "Naphe". He found the link to "The Legend of Naphe" topic created by Zypher. After close inspection of the topic, Legend of Jam replied to the topic in the Chat Board on CyberConnect, explaining how much Naphe was an annoyance to any community he had registered himself to.

Legend of Jam is a frequent user to the CyberConnect Forums as he is a big fan of the .hack//series of games, and with the creation of CC's new game, TW R:2, he became even more active.

Legend of Jam also created his own Forum site about Games, which he officially opened on December 25th. After much agreement, he managed to open the forums with his own domain address which he acquired for free. He is now happily watching his forum come to life after only a few days.

He now is looking for a good life playing peacefully on the new R:2 game, while enjoying his time chatting with his friends on the CC BBS.

### Personality

Legend of Jam has a different personality depending on how he is feeling at different times. He is more of a night person to a day person, so you could say he is "nocturnal".

## RMRK Buddy List

Members in Legend of Jam's buddy list are:
Currently None

## LoJ Links

YouTube: http://youtube.com/profile?user=JamZmat
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/xjamzx3
Bebo: http://xX-Proud-2-Be-Me-Xx.bebo.com
CC BBS Profile: http://www.cyberconnects.com/bbs/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=11845
The ramen noodle

## Biography

* Join Date: September 8, 2006
* One of the "senior" members. (Senior meaning he has been on RMRK for at least a year.)

B&

the\_ramen\_noodle isn't one of the more active members at RMRK. He denies this by saying "that he will be on more often.", yet everyone knows that this isn't likely to be true. He is arrowone's brother.

## Artwork

Most of the\_ramen\_noodle's artwork can be found on Fanart Central, but currently is bringing his crap to Crankeye's too. Now two sites must look at his many mistakes found in virtually every picture of his work. He pays hardly any attention to light sources, constantly draws off-model, and is lazy when it comes to anatomy. He draws virtually everything, even manga. He names the official date which he started to take manga "seriously" on March 21st, 2006, but this is because he is a **stopwatcher**. He hasn't even been drawing manga for a year and thinks he has dramatically improved.

## Community Involvement

### Forum Activity

Most of the\_ramen\_noodle's activity has been in the recently archived Anonymous, lol forum. Other than that, you can see his posts non-anonymously in Spam, Forum Games, and in Creativity Outlet, where he sometimes shares his art.

## RMRK Buddy List

Members in the\_ramen\_noodle's buddy list are:

* Arrow-1

## Related Media

### Not So Memorable Quotes

"If there wasn't a last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. That's how much of a lazy bastard I am."

"Reality is not reality if you want your conceptions to be perceived above all other views. To have your mindset and views above all other more realistic views on this so called reality, and the wish that everyone must see to it that way so you can get everything you want, will always, always, ALWAYS result in inevitable failure. In other words, this is a really fucking confusing quote."

"Supercalifragulisticexpealidocious. Who in the hell would want to sing that, much less spell it?"

"OOOOOP!"
Best Musician

## Description

*"From all of the composers at RMRK, whose subtle tones have impressed you the most?"* — Roph

Many of RMRK's older members no longer use RPG Maker at all, but they do still have the creative talent for writing music and playing songs. The Best Musician award honors the skills of greatest of these people for their artwork.

## Award Recipients

### 2007

* 2007 1st Place: HaloOfTheSun
* 2007 2nd Place: Arlen
* 2007 3rd Place: Zypher

### 2008

* 2008 1st Place: HaloOfTheSun
* 2008 2nd Place: Arlen
* 2008 3rd Place: Reives

### 2009

* 2009 1st Place: Arlen
* 2009 2nd Place: HaloOfTheSun
* 2009 3rd Place: Holk

### 2010

* 2010 1st Place: Arlen
* 2010 2nd Place: Holk
* 2010 3rd Place: Roph

### 2011

* 2011 1st Place: HaloOfTheSun
* 2011 2nd Place: Malson
* 2011 3rd Place: arlen
Scripts

Scripts are a way to modify the existing coding of RMXP in order to develop special, unique features. This feature only became available in the XP version. In Previous editions of RPG Maker, all custom systems had to be done through events. This board is the 4th most popular board, following Spam, Forum Games, and Resources. At the time of this edit (August 16, 2007), there have been 10,219 posts in this board.

## Child Boards

The Scripts board has a number of child boards. These are:
Script Database
Scripts Help
Script Requests

To see the respective function of each, see the sticky topics inside each respective board.

## Notable Contributors

* modern algebra, whose contributions need their own sub-categories
* Pacman
* cozzikuns
* Dark Gaia
* Woratana
* Yanfly
* arhef
* DoctorTodd
* LoganForrests
* Zeriab
* Zylos
* NAMKCOR
AlianceKing2007

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

## Biography

Pegasus, as he was most commonly referred to as around RMRK when he joined, was a very active member in RPG Maker development, often creating graphic resources for other members. It wasn't long before Crankeye appointed him as a moderator. Besides neosiris, he was the only mod around for a long time. When Silverline created the RMRK Super Moderator position, Pegasus was instantly promoted, of course, along with HaloOfTheSun and Yossy.

Since then, he changed his name to AlianceKing2007 and has become inactive, surrendering his position over to newer and more active staff members.

### Personality

Pegasus was one of the nice members, often creating title screens and charsets for members' RPG Maker games. One of the most noted qualities about him is his poor grammar.

## Community Involvement

During the period of the guilds, Pegasus was the leader of The Dark Masters guild. As he is considered an inactive member now though, Pegasus doesn't get involved in any forum events. He can still be found at his website and forums, though, where he is known as Dark\_Prince.

### Forum Activity

When he still posted, most of his posts could be found in forums such as Resources, RPG Maker 2000, 2003, and XP Discussion, Forum Games, and the Poster Board.

## Related Links

AlianceKing2007's site

AlianceKing2007's RMRK Profile
D&P3

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

## Biography

* His real name is Cry. Wrap your head around that.
* He is a C++ coder, but sucks at Ruby
* He likes vanilla coke
* His game idea came to him in a vision he had while listening to music. Also lucid dreaming.

### Personality

He is shown to be very active on the forums, boasting an impressive post count and time spent online. His interest in posting in the New Projects section has paid off as he is helping out AbsoluteIce with his project.

## Community Involvement

### Forum Activity

Curiously, most of his posts are located in Forum Games. He has shown an interest in learning to create scripts.

### Projects/Achievements

Some people are eagerly waiting for him to unveil his crazy game idea!
Ramiro

## Biography

* Join Date: November 15, 2005
* One of the "senior" members. (Senior meaning he has been on RMRK for at least a year.)

When Ramiro joined the forums, he was looking for RPG Maker projects to become a part of. Luckily (or maybe not), the guilds weren't quite dead yet, so he joined The Dark Masters to become a writer.

He also aspired to become a good mapper, and wanted dwarra to teach him how to do this. At this time, dwarra was still active in RPG Maker, and still willing to help out all he could, and so he gave Ramiro some lessons.

Ramiro became **very** active on MSN, constantly talking with dwarra, Zxmelee, and deadly\_diablo, as well as several other members from the forums. This is when he was gnerally considered to become annoying, and often members who didn't want to talk to him would block him.

Also, between him and Zxmelee, he had made up something called "Da Mans" and added it to both there Signature. This was made up on a spelling mistake on MSN. This would show that they were best friends on the forum.

Somehow, somebody also found out Ramiro's password, and started posting as him, and then changed his password, obviously not realizing all Ramiro would have to do is click the "I forgot my password" link to get a new one. He accused dwarra and Silverline that did this, but it's most commonly assumed it was dwarra.

Eventually Ramiro just left altogether, even against the wishes of Master\_of\_Time and other unmemorable members who still liked him.

Ramiro is often still found on MSN, when not playing Ragnarok Online.

### Personality

Ramiro was unarguably a very nice person, and although English wasn't his first language (He's Brazilian), he spoke it fairly well. He just became annoying because he would never stop talking, and his use of exclamation points would get ridiculous too.

## Community Involvement

Ramiro was a member of The Dark Masters Guild.

### Forum Activity

Often he would post in Resources to get his maps critiqued, or Creativity Outlet to get opinions on stories he had written.

### Quotes

Ramiro tended to end a lot of his sentences with an army of exclamation points. Example:

* "LMAO LMAO LMAO!!!!!!!!"
* "Welcome back man, past is past!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
* "hey dwarra!!!! wonderful tutorial, I loved it, it really helped me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Video Games

*Everything from the next generation consoles, the retro, to the modern day. Including reviews, recommendations, contests, and chat.*

The Video Games forum has been around since the beginning. The title of the forum is fairly self explanatory.

Discussion in the forum is steady, and the forum rarely requires moderation, unless a particular argument (usually on which system or game out of a selection is better) gets out of hand. Coincidently, the forum is under strict moderation by arrowone for just this sort of thing. Lately there have been a lot of arguments of which is better: the Nintendo Wii, the X-Box 360, or Playstation 3. There has also been an emerging of numerous Halo 3 bashing threads. arrowone has recently stated in a stickied topic, "If I catch even one bitter comment on how "this console sucks" or "only morons play Halo 3", I'm locking the topic I see it in. I don't care if you were joking," He has indeed been enforcing this rule.
Level 60

Level 60 was created by HaloOfTheSun to allow a forum where only members who's levels are 60 and over can view and post in. Of course, seeing as Irockman1 is in Extra Access, this was created to not allow Irock in, seeing as we all need some room to breath in sometimes.

A few days after its creation Roph made it password protected. Now it is visible to all in the forum index, but only those with the pass may enter.
Dertt

Position(s)
 RMRK Member

## Biography

Dertt appeared on RMRK in the summer of 2007. No one acknowledged him until he posted something which inexplicably compelled HaloOfTheSun to call him an idiot. Suddenly the entirety of the forum decided that Dertt was an idiot, but then Halo came to find him amusing, and the opinions of most other posters became neutral once more.

### Personality

While Dertt seems to be one of the more accommodating members of RMRK, giving even the most hated or hostile posters a chance when no one else will, his posts can sometimes be very biting and vitriolic. However, even when provoked, he has never directly flamed another member. He has never really given anyone a real reason to hate him, but even still, Anski is known to have some indeterminate issue with him.
Also, he's a loser who started his own Wiki page.

## Community Involvement

### Forum Activity

Most of Dertt's time on RMRK is spent hovering around the sewers and the RMXP-related boards.

### Projects/Achievements

Prior to joining the forums, Dertt had begun work on a project known as "Clericus" (sometimes seen with the subtitle "Shapers of History"). After posting his project topic, he came to the realisation that everything he'd done so far sucked, and so he began implementing several nice new features, as well as painstakingly re-mapping, re-eventing, rewriting, and essentially re-envisioning the entire game. Recently, though, a large amount of the project data because corrupted, and the future of Clericus is uncertain.