Paul Eres
Haircut sponsored by: Super Joe
Location	Paterson, NJ
Worked with	Hardi Gosal, Kelly Lea Harris, John Thornton, Kenneth Whitehead, Long Dao, Kevin Loan, Michael Kidder, Adam Perry
Website	Radical Poesis Games

Paul "RinkuHero" Eres is a New Jersey, USA based developer who started making games in QBASIC, then in the OHRRPGCE, and now makes games with Game Maker. During the night, he makes awesome games as RinkuHero. During the day, he has discussions without caps as Paul Eres. He was diagnosed with early signs of dementia on September 12th, 2010 by his internet physician, esq.

BiographyEdit

Paul Eres stirring, drinking tea.(01:47)
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• Born 1978, majored in Biochemistry at Rutgers University.

• From 2000-2002 was editor-in-chief of Ohrrpgce Monthly and Reasonably Septaweekly, two magazines mainly about the games created by Ohrrpgce community.

• In April 2001 co-founded The Heroists with Kenneth Whitehead.

• Currently an editor for TIGSource, and a sometimes-editor for Indiegames.com and Play This Thing! and informal head of RPGCreations.

GamesEdit

ReleasedEdit

• The Dungeon of the Sword (1995)
• Munchers (1995)
• Second Seeker (1996)
• Your Kingdoms (1996)
• Wingedmene (1999)
• And& (2000)
• Harlock and Rinku's Game which Includes the Game Bill's "Never Go West" (2001)
• Rulers of the 7 Wonders (2001)
• Tilde and the Mask of :P (2001)
• Knight of the Ages (2003)
• Alphasix (2006)
• Immortal Defense (2007)
• Fedora Spade series (2007-2008)
• Valentine Game (2009) - for Increpare's Valentine's Day Contest

In DevelopmentEdit

• Saturated Dreamers
• An Invitation to Neverwhere
• Micro Mike OWNS
• Alterpoint
• Ziggurats for Red Turtle
• New Detail
• Ergintandal

TriviaEdit

• Clysm and Paul Eres started the Kiva lending team for independent game developers: team, which collectively has loaned over $20,000 to the working poor.
• BMI = 16.2 (severely underweight)
• There have been several games made which include Paul Eres as a character, including Tea Time With Luap Sere - Make the World Right, seen here (as Luap Sere -- backwards for Paul Eres), Fedora Spade Episode 4 (as the character Lin Ku, a reference to Rinku), and three OHRRPGCE games: Santa Claus vs. The Heroists (as one of the main antagonists), OHR House: Season One (as one of the participants), and Harlock & Rinku's Game Which Includes the Game Bill's Never Go West (as one of the narrators). The most recent is The Indie Game Legend.
• Along with Kenneth Whitehead, ran the Human Day contest from 2001-2005, which offered Alex Chiu's immortality rings as a prize to people who make inspiring games.
• Eres came up with the name for the massively popular sandbox game “Minecraft” in IRC with Notch.Source.

InterviewsEdit

• Fake Karl interview
• The Claw interview
• timw interview
• Patrick Dugan interview
• TIGSource interview
• evajolli interview (currently down)

External linksEdit

• Studio Eres
• livejournal
• twitter
• formspring