Text:The Early Boom

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Title: The Early Boom

Author: thecoolkid26

Custom Name: The Early Boom

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October 8th, 2019

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The Early Boom (Multiple Games)

by: thecoolkid26

Genres: Developmental Games, Proto-Afterlife

Notable: First game boom, precursor to Afterlife
Notable Creators: PL_ADI, tylerz_world, thecoolkid26 (Other creators were involved)

Time Period: 2018


Table of Contents

Before the Boom............4
The Boom...............................9
End of the Boom..........17
Chapter 1 -

Before the Boom

The Early Boom, as its name implies, takes place in an early point of the history of RPs. It would come after the "Kingdoms Period," a point in time where Kingdoms was 
basically the only RP to exist. Kingdoms Season 1 would make the concept popular, and obscure games would begin emerging. UK_Countryball and UltraCraftGames, both future Warlords players, would make games during the Kingdoms Period.
Although debatable, the duo's series of games was completely separate from the Early Boom, although it would overlap with the time period.

Meanwhile, after a short period of SenorConejo's (host of Kingdoms) inactivity,


thecoolkid26 would create the Lands of Tckia. Although it would later be accidentally destroyed by SenorConejo, it gained enough traction to bring more people to the RP concept. It was the first RP to have 8 players rather than 4, which meant that
more people played, and by the time it was gone, people were into the concept.

The Lands of Tckia is responsible for much of the Early Boom, although Kingdoms Season 2 would help fuel it further.
Chapter 2 -

The Boom

The players of the Lands of Tckia, alongside others who spectated it or were familiar with the concept of RPs, would start making their own games.
Some of these would be developmental games.

PL_ADI is the most notable player of the Early Boom. He'd be the only future Warlords player from it, and his early games acted as a precursor to one of his most well known Warlords games, Abominate.
Alongside these pre-Abominate games would be some developmental games, which could technically be considered a precursor to his Warlords game, Groundhousery. 
Then, a series of unusual games emerged. Before this point, every single game was a developmental game (where you'd start a country from scratch and build up from there, hence developing)
but by this point, a new genre of games was emerging.

thecoolkid26 would be the first Warlords player to witness it, playing a game where you had to break out of a school.

These new types of games involved you
acting as an individual person, instead of a country or a country ruler, to achieve your personal goals. Whether the game was political or not, it was completely foreign from the original concept of RPs.
It is unknown who started this genre, which would be known as Proto-Afterlife games. Eventually, one of these games would be made by a player named tylerz_world. Tylerz was a player who had known thecoolkid26 through DF survival games, and
was not a major player at all in RPs. Yet, this one game managed to gain its legacy.

It would be the last game of the Early Boom, and a precursor to one of the most important games in RP history.
Chapter 3 -

End of the Boom

The Early Boom was, by no means, a large explosion of games. It was simply a series of both developmental and Proto-Afterlife games made by creators in a spread out period of time.
Yet, it didn't exactly end. Tylerz's game would act as the end of it, but it isn't really the end of the road. Rather, the Early Boom became the bridge.

thecoolkid26 used the knowledge he gained from tylerz in order to make a brand new game.
This game was called Afterlife, and used the concepts of the now called "Proto-Afterlife" games to make one that would absolutely blow up.

This would lead to the Afterlife Game Boom, or the DF Afterlife Boom, 
whichever one works.

Afterlife games would go on to become one of the three fundamental genres of RPs, solidifying its importance. Yet, the Early Boom is probably the weirdest and least discussed part of DF history.
It would be Afterlife and everything past it that history beyond Kingdoms becomes more well known.

So, the Early Boom could be seen as an end of obscurity. The last point in history when RPs were still a barely discussed topic in DF.
It's gained its place in history, as both the beginning of PL's career in RPs, and the beginning of the exponential explosion of RPs in DiamondFire, making it a truly significant event.