Since when has the name Ezagor been used?

Since 2007, the years Atakan Özalan ran his own Metin 2 PvP server in primary school. That is when the name started. He first used a computer earlier, in 2002, at four: that is a separate date, not the start of the name.

Is Ezagor the same as Zagor?

No. Ezagor (e-z-a-g-o-r) is a person's online name, Atakan Özalan's. It is not Zagor, the Italian comic-book character published by Sergio Bonelli Editore, and has no connection to it.

Does Ezagor make games?

Yes. The name comes from games: Warcraft III at four, then his own Metin 2 server in 2007. Today Atakan Özalan builds GoTasty, an idle street food game for Android from GOGOGO LLC, the company he co-founded with his brother Okan Özalan. It is coming soon to Google Play: gogogollc.com/games/gotasty.

▣the shadow stage

ezagor

Ezagor: Atakan Özalan's online name since 2007

I'm Atakan Özalan. Online, you may know me as Ezagor, the name I've used since 2007. I first used a computer in 2002, at four, five years before the name existed. This is where I keep the experiments, gaming roots and ideas that shaped the engineer I became. Atakan Özalan: companies, engineering work and professional biography

ezagor.com↓ enter the reel

the pact

01I found the machine in 2002.

02The name came in 2007.

03I'm still here.

04The handle outlives the projects.

about this name

Who Ezagor is.

Ezagor is the online name of Atakan Özalan, who is studying computer engineering in Istanbul while he works. He has used it since 2007, the years he ran his own Metin 2 PvP server in primary school, and it has followed him across game servers, forums, Discord, Telegram, Web3 testnets, Medium and GitHub. His first computer came earlier and is a separate date: he started using computers in 2002, at four, with Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.

Under his own name, Atakan Özalan is Co-founder & CTO of 3 companies: GOGOGO LLC, GOTONOM Yazılım Teknolojileri A.Ş. and GeoMono. GOGOGO LLC makes Goddo and the upcoming mobile game GoTasty; GOTONOM makes GoVista, GoPeople and GoTrack, so the two sister companies make 5 products between them. GOGOGO LLC and GOTONOM Yazılım Teknolojileri A.Ş. are independent sister companies; neither is the parent or subsidiary of the other. GeoMono is an independent company with different founding partners.

This site is the handle's own room: the lore, the experiments and the communities that shaped the engineer. It is published in 3 languages: English, Turkish and Spanish. The professional biography, the companies and the public work live at atakanozalan.com. Ezagor is spelled e-z-a-g-o-r and is not Zagor, the Italian comic-book character.

questions

About the name, answered.

Who is Ezagor?: Ezagor is the online name of Atakan Özalan, Co-founder & CTO of GOGOGO LLC, GOTONOM and GeoMono, who is studying computer engineering in Istanbul while he works. ezagor.com is the name's own site; his professional site is atakanozalan.com.
Since when has the name Ezagor been used?: Since 2007, the years Atakan Özalan ran his own Metin 2 PvP server in primary school. That is when the name started. He first used a computer earlier, in 2002, at four: that is a separate date, not the start of the name.
Is Ezagor the same as Zagor?: No. Ezagor (e-z-a-g-o-r) is a person's online name, Atakan Özalan's. It is not Zagor, the Italian comic-book character published by Sergio Bonelli Editore, and has no connection to it.
Does Ezagor make games?: Yes. The name comes from games: Warcraft III at four, then his own Metin 2 server in 2007. Today Atakan Özalan builds GoTasty, an idle street food game for Android from GOGOGO LLC, the company he co-founded with his brother Okan Özalan. It is coming soon to Google Play: gogogollc.com/games/gotasty.

ezagor gobot

The stations, walked by his GoBot.

Ezagor GoBot walks the stations on ezagor.com: the family CRT in 2002, his own game server in 2007, the first chatbots in 2015, testnets and mining in 2020, augmented reality glasses in 2021, GOGOGO LLC in 2023. At each station his face shows that year.

lore reel

Eight stations, from the first computer to the surfacing.

STATION I
2002
The First Worlds
Four years old. He's at the family CRT alone, completely absorbed in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. The handle isn't named yet, but the instincts are: navigate the worlds before learning to navigate the words.
First worlds
Reign of Chaos, then Frozen Throne. Commands a campaign before he can read its briefing.
STATION II
2007
The First Server
Primary school. A self-hosted Metin 2 PvP server runs out of a bedroom. The handle finds its first players. Its first farewells. Its first ban list.
Handle origin
Two syllables that fit the in-game name limit. They stuck.
STATION III
2012
The Autonomous Years
Years inside the worlds. Metin 2, Wolfteam, Ikariam, Darkorbit, Counter-Strike, League of Legends: ranked play, leaderboards climbed, tournaments entered. He learned alone and won alone. The chat rooms followed the wins, not the other way around.
First reputation
Known for one thing: he maps the game before he plays it.
STATION IV
2015
The Machine That Listened Back
Turkcell BiP Messenger chatbot flows. AIML rules whispered in XML. <category><pattern>HELLO</pattern></category>. The first machine that listened back.
First production AI
Two years before the world used the word "chatbot" in earnest.
STATION V
2020
Into the Chain
Nodes across testnets. Mining rigs humming in the dark. Wallets stacked. Discord channels paid attention to. Communities pilled with patience.
Web3 era
Four years on-chain before most people knew what a wallet seed was.
STATION VI
2021
Glass on the Face
An AR marketplace on Google Glass 2, built as his university project. A monk with a relic strapped to his right eye. The future arrived early and on the wrong device.
STATION VII
2022
The Studio in the Wallet
Diffusion before diffusion was a household word. AI portraits printed in batches at 3am. Generative drops curated like a record label.
STATION VIII
2023
The Surfacing
GOGOGO LLC is founded. The handle stays. The mask stays. The work goes public, almost. The other stage opens; this one keeps the lights low.

Open the lore page, one anchor per station →

the catalog

What got built in the dark.

Years of work nobody saw coming. Not a speculator, not a hobbyist: an operator, a builder, a maintainer of small things that ran for long times. None of this was on the public timeline until now.

A flat-lay contact sheet of monochrome artifacts from years of private work: chips, schematics, GPUs, prints, frameworks.

13 Languages

Real projects shipped in each, not hello-worlds. C · C++ · C# · Python · Java · JavaScript · SQL · PHP · Swift · Kotlin · VB.NET · Assembly · MATLAB.

Nodes

Run across testnets and mainnets. Uptime as a discipline.

dApps

Built and shipped. Some still up. Some seasonal. All the work.

Mining Rigs

GPUs racked in a corner. Quiet. Expensive. Useful.

Chatbots

From AIML rule trees in 2015 to multi-agent stacks now. The conversational seam never went out of fashion.

NFTs

Both sides of the table. Minted the contracts, traded the secondary. Technology and market: not one without the other.

ML Forecasting

Sales-report expectations from trained predictors. The math under the marketing, built in dark rooms, applied to real P&Ls.

AI Studios

Diffusion before diffusion. Curating the latent space like a record label.

I-Ching × Quantum

An honesty algorithm. Quantum randomness crossed with the sixty-four hexagrams, for wheels of fortune that want to prove they don't lie. Artlessness · honesty · genuineness as hard constraints.

Gamification

The whole loop, end to end: find the angle, write the idea, build it, run it. Loyalty systems, daily rituals, retention loops. The interesting half of every product.

Communities

Discord channels moderated. Telegram channels seeded. Trust without names.

Consumer Psych

Censydiam frames. Hook-model loops. Need lists. The other half of every product.

the constellation

Every room the handle has lived in.

Some still online. Some only in archives. Some only in memory, the way the dark internet always was.

A cosmic constellation graph of platform-name nodes connected by light filaments, monochrome.

IRC
mIRC
Donanım Haber
Frmtr
Metin 2
Wolfteam
Ikariam
Darkorbit
League of Legends
Counter-Strike
BiP
Discord
Telegram
X
Medium
GitHub
GoTasty
OpenSea
Ethereum
Solana
Polygon
Arbitrum

found objects

Six artifacts from the archive.

Picked from nearly two decades of profile pictures, screenshots, and engraved metal. The handle in object form.

Hooded silhouette dissolving into vertical binary rain, pure monochrome. — Wallpaper · 2024
The Binary Banner

Profile picture · circa 2007

MMO Portrait

Parchment scroll covered in handwritten AIML XML tags on a dark wooden table. — Source artifact · 2015
AIML Scroll

Identity card · 2019

Discord Rank

two stages

This is the shadow. The named one stays elsewhere: same human, different room. The brother runs the operating side from okanozalan.com.

the other stage →

where the handle lives now

Five handles. One inbox.

One inbox: ezagor@icloud.com. Direct messages outlive platforms.

A dim empty desk lit by a single spotlight: only a faintly glowing keyboard remains; a hooded silhouette exits the frame.

manifesto

I've been at a keyboard since I was four, and ezagor since 2007. The handle outlives any company. ezagor is the part of me that ships at 4am, runs nodes you've never heard of, and paints with diffusion models for fun. The visible world is downstream of the work done in the dark. If you came here for a portfolio you missed the point. If you came here for a name you missed the point.