onpon4
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| Aliases: | onpon, onpon666, jaychant, jaychant0 | ||
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onpon4 is a member of MFGG who joined on October 18th, 2011. He is best known as the creator of Bowser's Last Stand.
He is a strong supporter of free software. As such, he refuses to use nonfree sofware such as Windows, Game Maker, and Adobe Flash, among others. His operating system of choice is Trisquel, and he strongly recommends buying freedom-friendly hardware, such as what is found on Think Penguin. On MFGG, he in particular advocates the use of free replacements for Game Maker, such as Game Editor. He is involved in a project called Stellar, which seeks to be a more suitable replacement for Game Maker written in Python.
His current preferred way to develop games is with Python, using the Pygame library, though he is also very interested in learning how to use Pyglet.
Bowser's Last Stand was developed before onpon4 was a strong free software supporter (he used Linux Mint at the time, which he considers to be unethical now), but even then, he did not like Game Maker. The only reason it was done in Game Maker was because the engine was done, and he decided he might as well finish it.
Trivia
- "Onpon" comes from Japanese: 音本, which is an irregular combination intended to mean "origin of sound". onpon4 has not explained why he chose this for his username all over the internet.
- The number "4" is commonly added to onpon4's usernames because many services require 6 or more characters in usernames. The number "4" was chosen because one pronunciation of the number in Japanese, "shi", is also exactly the same as the pronunciation of the word "death". Similarly, in Chinese, 4 is "si", which sounds very similar to "death. As a result, "4" an unlucky number in Japan and China.
- When "onpon4" is said in Japanese, the pronunciation is "on-pon-yon", though if one wanted to make the final syllable ambiguous as to whether it means "4" or "death", it would be "on-pon-shi". onpon4 never uses the latter pronunciation, since it lacks the novelty of "on" being in every syllable.
- When written in Japanese, "onpon4" is 音本四 (音本４ and 音本4 are not correct).
- onpon4 usually spells his username in all lowercase, "onpon4" instead of "Onpon4" (though this is not the case if the "4" is omitted). This comes from a programming convention; names are case-sensitive, and only classes are usually capitalized. He is not particularly bothered when people write it as "Onpon4", but he much prefers the all-lowercase form.
- He also has his own website and blog.
