Octopus58 (Developer)

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Octopus58
Aliases:	Michael, MG, M.O.G., Octo
Born:	December 25th, 1999
Occupation:	Game developer, musician, artist, video editor, programmer, writer
Residence:	Israel (former) Canada (current)
Languages:	English, French, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic
Works
Projects:	Super Hard Quiz P1!! Royal Squared Guppy's Quest MEOS

Octopus58 (or Michael) is a developer who started working on small projects since 2008. He is currently most known for working on Guppy's Quest, his first major project.

Biography

Michael was born in Israel on December 25th, 1999. There he had learnt to speak Russian and a bit of Hebrew. After living there for 3 years, he has moved to Canada and has lived there since. He later on learnt English, and forgot a lot of the Hebrew he learnt as a very young child. Since he felt lonely from being separated from his extended family, Michael has always taken an interest for artistic things such as sketching, painting, and modelling on his free time. Later on, he started playing a lot of games on the computer, mostly flash games on sites like Newgrounds and so on. He particularly enjoyed adventure/action games such as Sonic Heroes, which still remains as his favorite game to this day. Due to being very lonely when he first started school in 2005, he has often talked to himself and has eventually came up with an imaginary friend, Gontaper, who he'd play with during recess. However, playtime with his made up friend eventually extended into a made up world, SP, and things seemed to go much beyond just his imagination all up until now, and still going.

Michael was into trying to make music and play it since he was still very young. He has started piano lessons around five years old, which have allowed him to learn more essentials that would allow him to play more instruments later on such as the accordion, alto saxophone, ocarina, pan flute, recorder, guitar, and so on. Essentials such as scales and chords helped him develop song ideas later on.

Michael has started off programming in early 2008 in scripting languages such as Batch and Visual Basic Script. His childhood hobby was to make fake "viruses" and install them on school computers. Through that small hobby came learning more about other languages such as Actionscript 2 and 3, Java, C# and C++. Michael also started to get more into image, music, and video editing software. After a few years, multi media became his main hobby, where he would try to combine multiple types of media into one piece. This is what slowly started to get him into making games.

For his works, he has taken series such as Sonic, Kirby, Mario, and Zelda for inspiration. Additionally, he was inspired from web animations and games such as Salad Fingers, Pico, and some games made by Tom Fulp and Dan Paladin. The art he has seen in the series has inspired him in making his own locations and characters. As much as he takes inspiration, he still sticks to his own original concepts and ideas for works such as his games.

In late September 2015, Michael got interested in a game he found called Indie Game Battle from a Facebook post revealing Salad Fingers as a playable character. He wanted to see if he could somehow assist in development after seeing the full cast of characters at the time. He became friends with the main developer Felixblobdev (Felix), who at the time was an up and coming game developer who has been known most from his featured Happy Wheels levels. From late 2015 to May 2017, Michael made remixes/original tracks for the game, as well as some graphical assets including skins, and some stages. Felix has also helped out Michael with Guppy's Quest, giving Squared Palace (at the time Water Temple) tiles and animated objects better shading, as well as revamped assets. Felix has added Gontaper as a playable character in Indie Game Battle. However, in mid 2017, the game has got canceled. Felix and Michael still speak with each other in regards to development of other games and on other matters as well.

In May 2017, Michael has met Rosemaryy (Emily), who he has quickly became very close with. She joined MGFlow58 and after some time, had become one of the Co-Owners. They have started to draw a lot together, and try to make small things together out of a shared hobby and passion for multimedia and art. Emily was very proficient with art, which eventually resulted in her starting to collaborate with Michael in remaking Guppy's Quest assets for the Unity remake (character sprites and animations, tiles, backgrounds, etc.). Her characters from Star Dust have also been added as main characters in the game, along with shared locations/characters between SP and Star Dust such as Somniamor, Sleepy Bridge, and so on. They have also started working on a brand new project called MEOS (Michael and Emily Operating System) which is designed to be a spoof game of operating systems.

Since September 2017, Michael has been attending university for a degree in Computer Science, but still intends to focus on his game development and eventually make a living from it with Emily

Works

Discography

Michael has made numerous tracks public since 2013. Some are very old and poor quality, others are more up to date.

Music

The music in the game is composed by Octopus58. The style is aimed to be different from song to song to create a certain feel for the area

Album	Track Number	Song Name	Year
Guppy's Quest OST	01	The Depths	2018
Guppy's Quest OST	02	Where the Sun is Always Shining	2018
Guppy's Quest OST	03	Reality Generator	2018
Guppy's Quest OST	04	Bird Brains	2018
Guppy's Quest OST	05	Watching Clouds	2018
Guppy's Quest OST	06	Green Tides	2018
Guppy's Quest OST	07	Snegopad	2018
Guppy's Quest OST (Night)	01	The Depths	2018
Guppy's Quest OST (Night)	02	Where the Sun is Always Shining	2018
Guppy's Quest OST (Night)	03	Reality Generator	2018
Guppy's Quest OST (Night)	04	Bird Brains	2018
Guppy's Quest OST (Night)	05	Watching Clouds	2018
Guppy's Quest OST (Night)	06	Green Tides	2018
Guppy's Quest OST (Night)	07	Snegopad	2018

Newgrounds

Michael has started making his first public works on Newgrounds in 2012, uploading his first flash animation "Octo's loop collection!" (now unpublished) on March 30th 2013. His first flash game was "Super Hard Quiz P1!!".

Links

Music channel: OctoNote