About Silk Games
My name is Ben Mallahan... but among those who play my online games, I'm known as Silk Wizard. Silk Games was started way back in the summer of 2001 when I stumbled across "BYOND"... a game development system for creating 2-D multiplayer games. Having always loved playing games, I decided to try my hand at making them.
My first game --Dragon Warrior Online-- was an instant success. It was made as a tribute to the 8-bit Nintendo RPG series "Dragon Warrior". Within a few months the game managed to pull in a massive sleeper-cell of Dragon Warrior fanboys from all over the internet, and the Silk Games community was born. My second game, Proelium, became the most successful action game on BYOND, and appealed to a completely different base of players.
When I started making games I was just entering my Senior year of high schooll; but I continued to work on Proelium and DWO throughout my college career. Although life has had a tendency to interfere, I've tried to devote as much time as possible to keep up what I consider to be a fun hobby.
There are a ton of games that I'm dying to create, and a few others that I'm well into development on. Regardless of how future Silk Games projects pan out, the tight-knit community that has formed around the games has definitely been the greatest realization of what I've spent all of this time and effort doing.
