Robinson Technologies

Robinson Technologies is a Japanese video game development company founded and run by Seth "@Seth!" Robinson. The company was founded in 1989, when Robinson created the BBS door game, Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD). He currently operates the company with the help of his wife, Akiko Robinson, in Hiroshima, Japan. Notable games developed by Robinson include Legend of the Red Dragon, Dink Smallwood, and Growtopia.

Company history

Legend of the Red Dragon

In 1989, at the age of 14, Seth Robinson created a game for his Amiga-based BBS that he called Legend of the Red Dragon, or simply LORD for short. The game was not immediately popular, but it took off after he ported it to the PC. Originally only featuring text-based menus and fighting, the game allowed for early multiplayer RPG play before the advent of MMORPGs. It allowed for multiple players (if the BBS had enough phone lines) to play at once. Later, the game would feature a form of graphical menus using RIPTerm.

IGMs, or In Game Modules (a form of modding), were a popular addition to LORD. They allowed for others to add onto the game and customize it in any way they wanted. In fact, many IGMs were their own encapsulated game. However, some IGMs were written to be cheating devices, allowing players to grief other players, to give themselves money and gems, and alter forest and player fights.