My friend at school had given me a copy of the OHR engine on a floppy disc (this was long before I knew of the online community) and a couple of his games to play. I soon began trying to make my own game. I started work on AXLE RPG, based on a comic book I drew at school, and after a few months I drifted to the dark side, so to speak.




Another friend of mine came over and we wanted to make a game to bash our other friend's recent sexual preference (We were 13, what could you expect). So in the short course of a weekend, we made Mr.Triangle's Shitty Adventure 1. We thought everything about it was hilarious, and today, well... it's not very funny at all. In 2003 I joined the OHR community online, and had 4 entire Mr.Triangle games under my belt at this point. And from there, it kinda progressed to where we're at today.


The overall design of Mr.Triangle wasn't inspired by anything in particular. I wasn't aware of the Copy/Paste feature in the OHR, so I had to draw each frame one by one for everything. I figured if I was doing this, I might as well make something easy. A red triangle, one big eye, and 2 skinny stick legs were all the shape needed to be dangerous.



Over the years, I experimented with his design and tried to detail him up. At one point he had striped sock leggings and snazzy jazz shoes, another time one of his legs was an extension cord and then he had demon wings. But when it was all said and done, the simple design was the one that worked. I just needed to draw him a bit less sloppily.



In House Heroes, he had 4 different costumes, but those were basically additions to his original design.


In high school, I wanna say, junior year, my art class had reached the portion where we learned about silk screening. I had made a few screens, but one of the first ones I did was a Mr.Triangle screen. I only have 1 shirt left of my own, and I don't really wear it anymore since it's gotten kind of faded. I don't have the screen anymore, sadly. I wanna say Setu Firestorm and I are the only ones that have them.




Mr.Triangle has been used to death in a ton of different projects, some of them not even my own. I think he has been in every game I've completed except for a handful. The same friend who got me into OHR was working on a 3D project at one time, and as his test character, he used Mr.Triangle. He also appeared in a game with a bunch of Nintendo characters, Super Mario & Friends Adventure, and it was very out of nowhere. That was the first time someone besides myself put him in a game. Fenrir Lunaris has used him extensively in Vikings of Midgard. Recently, James Paige used him in his Bubble-Bobble clone Don't Eat the Soap.


Game List of Mr.Triangle Appearances:

• Mr.Triangle's Adventures 1-5 / 2001-2004 (main character)
• Mr.Triangle's Battle Royal / 2003 (main character)
• Mr.Triangle's Maze Madness / 2003 (main character)
• RMZ's Battle Royale / 2005 (optional character)
• Mr.Triangle's Adventure / 2005 (main character)
• Mr.Triangle's Maze / 2010 (main character)
• Halloween Quest 1 / 2003 (optional boss / weapon)
• Halloween Quest 2 / 2004 (optional boss)
• OHR House: Heroes / 2009 (main character)
• Super Mario & Friends Adventure (cameo)
• Vikings of Midgard (villain)
• Don't Eat the Soap (enemy)


He does, believe it or not, have a theme song. My old band created it back in 2005 (on our 2009 album, I had did a skull and crossbones of Mr.Triangle as the actual CD label art). It's a punk-rock anthem like tune that we had refined over the years. However, Vampiducki transformed the tune several times to be used in OHR games for me. At one point I was going to be making Mr.Triangle 6, and he had made an RPG boss version of it to be used for that. That project was abandoned and then I gave it to Fenrir to use for the Mr.Triangle boss battles in Vikings. There were 3 themes made for OHR House: Heroes. The original idea for Week 6 was going to be that the 4 heroes had to win a battle of the bansd contest, but the labor involved in that was CRAZY. So it was abandoned, but Vampiducki did a synth-rock version of it there. My personal favorite has been the Mega Man 9 style for Mr.Triangle's Maze for sure. Recently, Vampiducki made music for an actual theme song for Mr.Triangle's Maze. My buddies and I did vocal recordings and they were all mixed into the song. Click below to hear the finished product.



If someone could have told me that making a hero to star in a gay-bashing game would have been my prolific character when I first made him, I would have said they were nuts. Mr.Triangle was never intended to be serious, but over the years, I've tried my best to remove him from the bashing light and just make him a huge jerk to everyone instead. I've seen him on a fair amount of HamsterSpeak covers, so I suppose what I'm doing is sort of working? Otherwise that's all dumb luck.


I told myself after the 5th game was over, that I wanted to make one, really good Mr.Triangle game before I'm done. One that isn't offensive, and is just a solid, fun, and enjoyable game; that game is Mr.Triangle's Maze. Kinda funny how his design is so simple, and he works the best when he has the fewest colors. I can't say for sure if this is the last Mr.Triangle game or not, but dammit, it's definitely going to be the best one. Hell, 2011 will be his 10 year anniversary year!