DJ Coco

DJ Coco
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Aliases:	Lightning the Hedgehog, dj trackmania, sonic-maker, TM, Super Thunder Dimentio, Caramelldancer Konakona, DJane Coco
Real name:	Lukas Kneringer
Interests:	Game Maker, Fangames, Anime

DJ Coco is an Austrian member from MFGG who joined on the 10th of May, 2008. He uses Game Maker 7 and 8 to make his fangames, but recently got Game Maker Studio so every project he starts from now on will be made in Game Maker Studio. He is currently a member of Team Dimensional and working on a team project he plans on selling, too.

Member History

When he first joined the forums he wanted to create a game in the Ultramario Engine and asked the forums for help to implement the Super Leaf power-up for him. This way he got to know Miaxis, who was willing to help out. DJ Coco declined all advice he could get and even turned down code snippets, claiming that he would just want someone to implement all the stuff for him and upload it afterwards. Miaxis programmed the leaf for him, but somehow it did not work on his computer. Around that time he came up with thousands of concepts for fangames and always asked the forums for help. Even when he was helped, he made no progress though and all those concepts have gone to waste without even an alpha version of any game having come to exist. People have told him that he can't just ask for help all the time and that he needed to learn to code himself, but he refused to. He then actually started a project with the help of some tutorials and Miaxis called Blocky, but it got scrapped due to lack of motivation. Many other projects followed and even though he did not intend to learn code, he began to understand the code by copypasting single snippets and gradually became more interested. By now, he's really experienced with Game Maker already and also has his own Mario engine, that according to himself plays as awesome as Super Mario World. It will be featured in his game Super Mario Adventure, also known as The Super Mario Bros. 5 Project, an indirect sequel to Super Mario World. The game is paused until his other projects get finished.

Fangames

He contributed two games being Super Mario - Quest for the Purple Coins and Super Mario Phone, which both participated in Minigame Competitions. Super Mario Phone scored a 3rd place. As soon as the forums got updated he kind of left but he came back to lurk around the forums, even if he's not posting that much anymore. In February 2013 he posted another game called Super Mario Bros. - The Next Levels, which is by far superior to his other Mario games. It also was the Game of the Month of February, 2013. There's two more currently in development. One of them is Luigi's Adventure - Fairytale of Crystallica, an original fangame featuring graphics by DJ Coco himself and Jake Von that takes inspiration from Super Luigi Dreams and Psycho Waluigi. The other one is Super Mario Country, a gameboy-styled Super Mario Land 2 fangame which also features custom graphics made by DJ Coco himself.

Other Games

DJ Coco also likes to code lots of original games, but only two of them got finished so far, being Space Case and a Super Mario 64 inspired game named The Underground Hotel he made in just 8 days for the birthday of his brother. Currently he's working on a team project called Codename 008: Cliax Chaos. There's lots of other games lying around his HDD too, which are either currently paused or scrapped.