Benno98 is a well-known Sploder member, who has both a mainsite account and a forums one. He was not known by many users on the mainsite until he made his first minecraft inspired game, which got over 10,000 views in a short amount of time, also winning the contest. He made 3 sequels to this games, 2 more winning the contest. Because of these games many users now know Benno98 on the mainsite, and to this day there are still a few posts on his minecraft game, which now has over 80,000 views. He has made many games, most from when he was new on sploder, in total he currently has 369 of them. He is level 250 which happened no long after his MS fame, and he is on the top of the hall of fame by far for being the most "playable member", something which even he doesn't know what exactly it means.
Benno98 made a forum account a few months after he joined the MS, he did not use it much until after about a year, in which he was inactive a few times but now is popular on that side of sploder too. He has been a private since he joined and has not been promoted yet, he has over 10,000 posts and 1,100 thanks which is not a lot considering how long he's been on the forums. He was infamous for making the "Brocky" jokes popular, by making a member called Brocky, who had an avatar that was consider "scary", chase a scared version of his avatar along the page. This became popular very quickly and many other people starred doing it. He also created a "Meaner list" which was a joke list in his signature where he put the name of anyone who was mean to him, of course he didn't mean it, and many people tried to get on the list. He also for a short time got the custom title "Priwate", in which he pretended to be a superior version of the regular private.
Early History
Benno98 found sploder around early 2010, he and his brother found it like most other members, typing in "make your own game". He originally just made games as a guest, he and his brother mostly used the platformer though they did make some shooters. On the 30th of october he and his brother decide to make an account called "benno98" which they would share for a while. The brothers made some games, made many friends and competed levels with other memebers. After a while the younger brother decided to make his own account call "Jungleman6" where the older brother continued to use the benno98 account.
On the 21st of January 2011 Benno98 decided to make a forums account, at first he didn't really like it so he stayed on the mainsite most of the time. Back on the mainsite Benno98, Jungleman 6 and their best sploder friends toad01 and alexmd, made tons of MS alts each eith names like "theevilowl" and "theevilbenno" ect... These alts were used for fun and theevilowl had many games made after it. Eventually a mod banned all of the alts and benno98 and jungleman6 because of them, Benno98 then went to the forums and requested that his and his brothers main accounts were unbanned, which was granted. Since that day most of his alts are banned with just one he made later called benno100, being unbanned.
Later history
After a while benno98 started to use the forums more, getting to know the basic rules and members, he was still not very known at the time but was eager to get a mainsite staff position, in which he never got and eventually gave up. Back on the mainsite after making a lot of games benno98 made his famous minecraft series, which still to this day had made him popular. Because of his fame his brother got jealous and left, never returning to sploder again. After this benno98 became more active on the forums and less active on the mainsite, by this time he reached level 250.
On the forums benno98 made some friends, but he still spoke to alexmd and toad01, after a while benno98 became inactive on the forums again for quite a while. After about a year he came back and started to get more active and interact with other users more than before. Once benno98 became more active on the forums his mainsite account went untouched for a long time, after being active for a while he knew his GCSEs were coming up so he left again, this time making a game about it. He never went on sploder again until may 2014.
Once benno98 returned he was welcomed back by some users, and benno98 saw this as a good opportunity to make a lengthy but good platformer game. His idea was to remake some of his older games into brand new levels and put them all in one long game, he took his first ever game and 9 others. He made the first two levels and then made a hype thread on the forums, which got some attention. Later on benno98 added more levels and finally finished in less than a month. However once he publish the game it got ignored, which put benno98 of making games for a while. After this he has made a few games but they're all using the PPG.
During the last few months of 2014, benno98 decided to make some brocky jokes, which took brocky's avatar chasing a scared version of his, this became popular on the forums. He also made a meaner list and the fake rank priwate in December, which were also popular. During this time he was very active on the forums and made a lot of friends, some users though he was solider worthy.
2015
2015 saw a big change in Benno98, quite a few members started t complain about his forum jokes, which responded in him becoming more depressed, since he also had a lot of college pressure. This made him make an apology thread requesting a promo-ban and the removal of his custom title. Many people tried to cheer him up and say that his jokes were good, after a few days Benno98 became better and was his old self again, although he did cut down on the jokes a lot, never making a brocky, meaner list or priwate one since. Benno98 now has gained back his respect on the forums and he even took part in the Liarmy, which was a forum "gameshow" in which certain members got their named changed to "Liam #<number>" which fought against other groups. His main site account still sits in the dark, he has made plans to make new games, however none are under construction as of now.
Trivia
- Before Benno98 joined sploder he made many games which were all lost, a few of his publish games were actually originally ones he made before he joined, from memory.
- Before his brother made his own account, there was some debate over who should keep the Benno98 one.
- Benno98 has had many avatars in his past, his first one was a green alien-like one, then he had a human-like one with an eye piece, then it went on the a series of hooded humans, then his most famous one, the orange one with blue hair, until he changed to hos current one.
- Benno98 was once accidentally POWed because the staff though his brother was an alt, the next day things were sorted out.
- During the 2011 April fools joke were everyone became a fake soldier, benno98 at first though he was promoted and got hyped, he was later disappointed.
- Benno98 tried to become a mainsite staff for a while, but most of his old reviewer applications were copied from the mainsite, although he was never caught, never got the job, something is is greatful for as he says he'll never want to get a staff position by cheating again.
- Benno98 is currently 16 in real life and lives in the UK.
- Benno98's name originally had no captial, however once the names were changed back from the Liarmy ones, the Generals accidentally gave him a capital letter, to which he asked to keep, so they let him.
Links
- Mainsite account: http://www.sploder.com/games/members/benno98/
- Forums account: http://forums.sploder.com/index.php?action=profile;u=7702