Posted Apr 01, 2007 at 01:16AM by Victor B. Listed in: Rumors Tags: MySpace, MSN, Digg, Richard "Dampe" Denton
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Well, if it isn't April Fools Day, it's certainly a time for strange news. As reported on digg.com">Digg and first broken by Squid News, it seems that Richard "Dampe" Denton, the creator of video game Ocarina of Time 2D, may not actually be dead.

The post on Squid News outlines a rather plausible account of fact-checking the events behind Dampe's death. Furthermore, it seems his accounts on MSN and MySpace have remained active, which does indicate that someone's using his accounts, at the very least.

Unfortunately, due to the timing of this news, we're still calling this a rumor for now. It could just be a very bad joke, but it also could be an attempt of the developer to get away from the pressures of having to work on OoT2D. In either case, we're hoping more evidence points to his being alive than dead, just so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief.


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   by Jonny (Unregistered) - 2007-04-01
 » Elementary my dear Watson...

If he wanted to get away from the pressures of development, he could have told the community, "Hey, I'm taking a break from this for a while". That would be the logical thing to do. Although the evidence that the death was fakes seems worth considering, I just dont think any intelligent human being would fake death to get out of developing a piece of freeware.
That begs the question: What defines "intelligent" these days?

   by Finch (Unregistered) - 2007-04-01
 » WTF

If this is true then i have lost all respect for this guy.
People die every day and you don't joke about these things .

   by Kanadwen (Unregistered) - 2007-04-01
 » Um...

You know, it could be one of his friends or family members on his accounts making sure the word that he died has been passed around. It's happened....

   by Koru-Kun - 2007-04-01
 » hmmm....

It could be that his accounts are active due to his family going through his friend's list and telling them the bad news.

   by Noin (Unregistered) - 2007-04-01
 » ...i hope he really dies...

This mother*****er sure liks to fake his death, and now i really hope that this lil prick dies for real, and i mean painfully and slowly...

And before you start flaming me, better check this first:

http://squidnews.com/2007/04/01/dampes-not-dead-ocarina-of-time-2d-creator-fakes-his-death/

And join the club of the haters of this mother*****er...

---May you die for real, painfully and slow---

   by mister jesus (Unregistered) - 2007-04-01
 » LOL!

dampe | April 01, 2007
No, I really am dead. Stop disrespecting me.

-Quote from his youtube profile


   Re: Threatened - 2007-04-01
 » LOL

someone mentioned that

and it was changed to "Richard is dead"
   by -_- (Unregistered) - 2007-04-01
 » A running Joke..

A car accident death is a running joke in a certain game community when said person is tired of making stuff.

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   by eternalcold (Unregistered) - 2007-04-01
 » what a *****

Yeah so i just checked his youtube account... "dampe
Joined: April 16 2006
Last Login: 55 minutes ago
Videos Watched: 845
"

Its nice that a dead guy logged in 55 minutes ago. what a *****.

   by m (Unregistered) - 2007-04-01
 » dumb

ok, maybe he logged onto his youtube was logged onto by a family member, mine's allways logged in, so any1 who goes on youtube at my house goes on my acc. second, u can say anything you want, but juse keep in mind, karms might come around.
stop being dumb ppl, dead or not

   by Neuromancer (Unregistered) - 2007-04-01
 » Why do people pull crap like this?

If he was tired of working on the game why didn't he just say "I'm taking a break now..."? It's not like anyone was paying him to make ocrina 2D... He can just say "I don't feel like doing this. Tee Hee." and no one could do anything about it... No need to fake your own death.

   by HenshinMijin (Unregistered) - 2007-04-02
 » Its True Actually...

Dampe did die remember.... thats the joke
(Ocarina of Time - future) Dampe's Ghost
But still.... this is not the kind of thing u joke about unles "Dampe" himself started it, which he might have

fo shizzle
~K Dizzle™

   by guy (Unregistered) - 2007-04-03
 » dumb

if he did die i give him my respect if he didnt im not mad but he can scare alot of people like that

   by guy (Unregistered) - 2007-04-03
 » ahh

the oot2d site has been updated it now says we are kings among runways watever that means

   by Rhicard "Dampe" Denton (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » suck my ass slowly, baby

I COME FROM THE HELL TO FLAME YOU ALL, O PITIFUL MORTALS! HAIL THE DAMPE! ***** THE DAMPE! SHOCK THE DAMPE! BLESS THE CHRIST! OMG! TARD! TARD! REATRD! TARD!



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