Mikhail Pustykh (mi-KHA-IL pus-TIhk; Cyrillic: Михаил Пустых), better known online as BBoxer was the first ever modmaker and administrator of several Incredibox resources (including Incredibox Wiki). In 2018, he founded "TIM" and worked on the very first mods for the game. In 2020, he started working on IncrediWiki.
History[]
| “ | Hi. Are you developing your own version of Incredibox? |
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| ~ Artemiy Kopych on 2018.09.19 |
At the beginning of September 2018, in an inactive VK group called "Incredibox Club", images of unusual characters from the game began to appear in the group's photo albums. They looked different and weren't in the game itself...
These were the first sprites he made and published online, that were just reassembled clothes from various versions of the game with an original color palette and small unique details added. The first sprite drawn was his alter-ego - a dark slate gray character with a vinyl disk on his cap. The name came up by accident when he was making an animation for this sprite and he needed to name the file, so he just shortened the word "BeatBoxer" to "BBoxer" and subsequently began using this name as his alter-ego in Incredibox community.
Among this sprite there were two more popular sprites, one of which was drawn on the same day as BBoxer sprite, it has a yellow and orange poncho with the number three on it. The second was drawn on September 10th, dyed in neon pink and blue shades and wears a hat, that resembles the color of BBoxer's sweater.
These three sprites are his most famous sprites in community. New sprites kept coming out, but they weren't as popular as these ones.
On September 19th, Artemiy Kopych dm'd him to find out the details. He found out about the development of a modification for the game, the idea of which was to return The Original to the mobile version of the game. Artemiy asked to become a beta tester of the mod, but later, closer to winter, he even joined the development.
BBoxer Anim..mp4
On October 4, a video with the animation of the BBoxer sprite is published in the VK group. During the development of The Original On Mobiles, sometimes funny things came out that were laid out in meme posts on October 6th and 5th. One of them was later used as custom emoji on Artemiy's discord server. Also, on October 6th, a teaser of the upcoming mod was published showing the development process.
After a while, BBoxer notices its sprites in the Google image search results, but their source was not VK, but Instagram. Mersha Beauty found his sprites online, started posting them on her profile. Since then BBoxer decided to start his own Instagram account, and quickly became friends with Mersha. And once he even made a sprite especially for her.
"TBBM"[]
During the development of The Original on Mobiles in 2018, the idea came up to create a small team of modders who worked together to create mods. Subsequently, TBBM (The BBoxer Modifications) supposedly founded in early 2019. Initially (and for most of the TBBM existence) the team consisted of three people: Artemiy Kopych, BBoxer and Yegor Grekhov who supposedly joined on April 1st.
BBoxer was originally the leader of the team, but unfortunately, he had to leave due to some circumstances, passing leadership to Artemiy. During the leadership of Artemiy, the team began to recruit more members, and later renamed to TIM (The Incredi-Modmakers)
Mixes[]
Like any Incredibox fan, BBoxer has his own mixes. Some of them were popular:
- V7: Alluring Trap (4K Views, 1.2K Likes)
- V3: I Need Help (1K Views, 308 Likes)
- V8: 0-5-7 (1.2K Views, 247 Likes)
- V7: Immersion (557 Views, 158 Likes)
There is also his personal favorite old mix that did not gain popularity:
- V6: Mind Control (61 Views, 24 Likes)
After the release of the mod, "Travis" he posted a mix called "I Don't Believe" (27K Views, 760 Likes)
Trivia[]
- The first attempts to modify Incredibox were made back in 2017
- His sprite was drawn on September 7, 2018 at 18:19
- On some old BBoxer fanarts, you can see that his nickname is spelled by mistake with the last name "Anim", due to the fact that the title on the animation video with his sprite was mistaken for the full name
- Was worried about the 2019 boom of modmaking very much, when people began to publish a lot of low-quality content
- Quite inactive online, often sends long messages
- In 2018 and 2019, he had about two sites on but none of them were presented publicly
- Helped such people as Diamond and Artemiy Kopych in the undertakings of modmaking. Also helped random people from the community who asked for help or just questions regarding mods, one of these people was PersonFromBrazil.
- In 2017, BBoxer used the nickname “Vgvg”, under this nickname you can find his old mixes (like "Mind Control")
- If you type the letters of this nickname on a russian keyboard, you will get "Мпмп" as the result, which refers to the first letters of his name (Михаил Пустых).