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==The first heyday of the Oni fandom== | ==The first heyday of the Oni fandom== | ||
Oni Central reported the latest news from Bungie West, and covered the development by fans of early programs such as Oni Key Config and OniTools | Oni Central reported the latest news from Bungie West, and covered the development by fans of early programs such as Oni Key Config and OniTools. Other fan sites sprang up over time, such as OniShots (focusing on screenshots taken by fans, and game tips and cheats, with a forum that accumulated 7000 posts), OniRes (focusing on game modification and also hosting a forum), and OniChars (a forum for discussion of Oni's characters). OniShots and OniRes were eventually hosted on Oni Central. | ||
==The later years of Bungie.org== | ==The later years of Bungie.org== | ||
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Today, most of the traffic on the B.org servers goes to the Halo subdomain, which Claude personally manages. The rest of the bandwidth goes to oni.bungie.org, run by Harry, and to serving the freeware Marathon trilogy from [http://source.bungie.org source.bungie.org]. | Today, most of the traffic on the B.org servers goes to the Halo subdomain, which Claude personally manages. The rest of the bandwidth goes to oni.bungie.org, run by Harry, and to serving the freeware Marathon trilogy from [http://source.bungie.org source.bungie.org]. | ||
The original Oni Central Forum, now referred to as the Carnage board because it (and other B.org forums) ran on the carnage.bungie.org subdomain, was a threaded board running on simple software known as WebBBS. In March 2003, Harry decided to move to modern forum software, and OCF was restarted on the ikonBoard software, which presented the indexed, flat style of forum that is usually seen on the Internet today. | The original Oni Central Forum, now referred to as the Carnage board because it (and other B.org forums) ran on the carnage.bungie.org subdomain, was a threaded board running on simple software known as WebBBS. In March 2003, Harry decided to move to modern forum software, and OCF was restarted on the ikonBoard software, which presented the indexed, flat style of forum that is usually seen on the Internet today. | ||
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[http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/index.php oni.bungie.org/community/forum] (PunBB/FluxBB, 2007-{{LOCALYEAR}}) | [http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/index.php oni.bungie.org/community/forum] (PunBB/FluxBB, 2007-{{LOCALYEAR}}) | ||
The OniShots and OniRes forums were archived at http://carnage.bungie.org/onishotsforum/os.archive.pl and http://carnage.bungie.org/oniresforum/onires.archive.pl respectively | |||
==The second pillar: Oni2.net== | |||
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In 2005, at a time when most gaming fandoms would be starting to decline, a new Oni fan site was opened, [http://www.oni2.net Oni2.net], run by Christian Illy. The purpose of his site was to serve as a community portal and also as a place for fans to store Oni-related content under personal subdomains. | |||
One of the sites Illy linked to, modestly called "Oni Stuff", was run by a fan named [[User_talk:Ssg|Ssg]]. The site documented much of the inner workings of Oni's game data. In October of 2005, a member of OCF named [[User:geyser|geyser]] suggested using Oni2.net to host a wiki which could store this information in an easily-editable format so that others could help in the reverse-engineering efforts. Thus OniGalore was born. Over time, nearly everything about the game has been documented here. Later on, Ssg's [http://ssg.oni2.net original site] joined the Oni2.net domain in September 2007. | |||
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Other important uses of the oni2.net domain included the [[Multiplayer#Fan-made multiplayer|OniPlayer]] project and the [http://edt.oni2.net subdomain] of user [[User:EdT|EdT]], which became the number-one source of information for Mac users on how to mod and run Oni on their machines. 2007 marked a high point in the community's reverse-engineering activity, leading to a near-complete understanding of the engine. With this increase in knowledge came an increase in the number of mods being made, and so in September of 2008 the [http://mods.oni2.net Oni Mod Depot] was opened by [[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]], in order to serve as a central location for the community's mods. | |||
==The community today== | |||
The primary activity of the modern community is producing mods, up to and including totally new levels. To see what the community has accomplished, see [[History of Oni modding]]. Fans have also speculated on possible [[Oni 2]]s, updated the game with [[Daodan DLL|patches]], and worked on [[multiplayer]] projects. | |||
[[Category:Community history]] | [[Category:Community history]] | ||