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Ripull
Activity	Terminated
Month joined	July 2008
Membership	Premium
VisitsA player's visits indicates the amount of joins on their public experiences (shown on their profile), and does not include visits obtained from closed or deleted experiences.	Around 325,040,000
Page last updated on March 22, 2024

Ripull (formerly MARIOSTAR6464 and boydocks) was a Roblox developer known for his experiences titled ROBLOX Derby, ROBLOX Derby 2, Ripull Minigames, Rovive and Climb Time. He joined Roblox in the summer of 2008 with his brother AdamTheNoob and began making his own games in late 2009. He is now permanently retired.

Experiences

ROBLOX Derby

In summer 2010, MARIOSTAR6464 began a project called ROBLOX Derby which was inspired by the PS1 game Destruction Derby R.A.W. It was released in October 2010. The game was quite buggy and underwent drastic changes for an entire year and a half, until being brought to a completed state in February 2012.

Before the game was finished, back in December 2011, MARIOSTAR6464 planned a new game called ROBLOX Derby 2. The game's creation began in January 2012, where the main GUI system to the game was created. It was only in October 2012 that the game itself was built to completion in all of 1 week. Some days, MARIOSTAR6464 spent 15 hours flat out building the game. He wanted to get it done as soon as possible because he promised it would be created before 2013 ended. Following 2 weeks of beta testing with a small group of fans, the game was publicly released on November 2, 2012.

ROBLOX Derby 2 now exists and is fit to play. Despite the rushed development, the game is very solid and bug-free. However, it does require a powerful PC to play at full graphics due to so much activity in the game. The game has a fangroup which, when joining the group, free VIP access is given to both the ROBLOX Derby games. This group was one of the largest groups on Roblox, and the second largest non-military group on Roblox, trailing behind Shedletsky's LOL group. It was the first group on Roblox to incorporate group VIP.^{⁠[citation needed]}

MARIOSTAR6464 also created a spin-off to ROBLOX Derby, called ROBLOX Derby Team Version, where users play the original ROBLOX Derby game on two teams: the "Red Rally Racers" and the "Blue Bumper Bashers". It was created in 4 days of modifying the original ROBLOX Derby, and no longer functions properly due to Roblox updates.

Around late 2014, MARIOSTAR6464 changed his name to Ripull and temporarily ceased development for the ROBLOX Derby series. On November 28, 2014, Ripull began work on ROBLOX Derby 3.^{⁠[citation needed]}

Ripull Minigames

In late 2014, Ripull released a new game called "Ripull Minigames", a game full of minigames for the user to play. They have to try to survive or get 1st place in order to win the certain minigame chosen. Players have to vote one game out of three.

It had taken part in Egg Hunt 2015 and became his most popular game. It also has been historically the top Minigame Game from 2015 - 2017. It has since fallen to games such as Epic Minigames but had a bounce back in activity in late 2018 to early 2019. However, do to a lobby and systems overhaul in 2020 and the lowering attention in Minigame Games in general, the game lost a good chunk of its fanbase which consisted of the aforementioned boom in 2015–2017. The game now appeals to a younger audience and is steadily dying out from its former glory.

Ripull MEGA Games

On July 30, 2015, Ripull made a new game page called "Shine Project Shine". This game is intended to be the sequel to Ripull Minigames. Project Shine was supposed to be Ripull Minigames 2 but was later changed to "Ripull MEGA Games". In the middle of 2017, Ripull MEGA Games (currently Ripull Games) started losing players due to the lack of updates, the game remained dead in late 2017.

Rovive

In early 2018, Ripull started working on a new game called Rovive, which is a recreation of the game Rust. The game is about surviving, collecting resources, and running around finding players to fight. He started progress on reworking the game, as it was abandoned of its progress back in 2019, only to abandon it yet again.

Controversy

Scamming Rovive developers

On August 14, 2021, Psychem posted a tweet on Twitter stating that Double Tap, the group of developers which were mostly minors that were working on Rovive, had been deceived and lied to by Ripull. The developers were promised percentages and compensation if the game didn't release. The game never fully released, and the group members never received any compensation. The developers were scammed by Ripull, and had worked on his game Rovive for over a year without payment.

Ripull also cut communication with the developers, left every Discord server that the developers were in, and banned every member from his own Discord server that was talking about the situation. As of April 2022, all of the developers besides YTGonzo have not received any compensation.^{⁠[citation needed]}

False Roblox account strike

On November 17, 2019, Ripull falsely received a warning as someone had imposed him with a group named Ripull Minigames Fans and also got him copyright striked falsely. He has addressed this statement on Twitter. A day later on November 18, 2019, the copyright strike was passed on to the correct account, DreamyyClouds, which was the group owner that got him falsely warned.^{⁠[citation needed]}

Ripull’s termination

His termination is likely related to either his retirement where he would have contacted Roblox for his account to be terminated, or the alleged scamming of developers he hired for the game “Rovive,” which never released. He had promised to at least partially pay developers if the project fell through, which he did not do.

Trivia

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• His name is a play on the word Ripple.
• He owns a Steam group called Ripull , which serves as a friend list for him on the platform.
• He is friends with the YouTuber Natigska, and has appeared on one of their gambling YouTube livestreams.
• TheEasterZombie is Ripull's older brother.
• He previously stated on his Roblox profile that Roblox was a bad platform and that he was only used it for money.