Another barely decent myth, ruined.

The fact the best "myth" turned out to be some dude just making horror games Is pretty cool and honestly even if the games are old and most are broken It's still nostalgic and fun to play the games sometimes

Dude was literally living a normal and peaceful life, and then remembered “Oh crap, i forgot i’m a roblox myth”

"Close your eyes, and picture those games. What do you see?" ... a 20 year old man screaming at the top of his lungs due to scary legos

You may not have written a story for Rust, but the story wrote itself. Thats what made it interesting because it left people guessing.

It's oddly heartwarming to see what was once such an ominous figure shown to be another dev, just trying to put out their passion to the world. It gives me motivation to strive for my own goals, knowing every legend started the same way at some point.

It's nice to see you revisiting your work, I was mostly fascinated to your games when Albert posted stuff about you, I hope you work on other myths someday.

I used to think the story of Rust was about a guy who was in a mental asylum and had multiple personalities but now finding out that there was nothing behind it is so funny to me. I am so glad you're in peace with your past and open about it because most people who quit stuff loath it. I will forever miss Rust because it was a big part of my childhood and I'm so grateful you made smth this good.

I love how Rust in reality was really just a horror passion project, some random art you made that blew up. It really shows how much you cared about the horror genre and the art of video games, and how communities really contribute to the lore and the meaning of such media. It's sad most of the games are slightly broken, but I think just having them exist and the memories is fine. Rust was one of my favorite "myths" on the Flamingo KZfaq channel and your games really were a part of my childhood an the development of some of my friendships, thank you for sharing with us your art, and it's great and just so heartwarming to see everyone back and just taking a walk down memory lane while we look at some nostalgia and talk about the Rust games like we're old friends catching up.

I definitely believed that Rust was a fully fledged out story, but now that you revealed the "story" of everything, I now see Rust as a collection of games showcasing your building/coding talents. Good job, man.

@flamingo let’s catch up

You deserve more credit for the effort you put in, and no doubt many of us would like to see your work continue, the myth community will rise again, and however it happens, you were a important part of Roblox, of course most of us came from Flamingo, but we are still here. Still here. Stay strong, trust the process.

dude this guy was probably like 12-ish when he made this scaring the SHIT out of albert lmao

These games were honestly a huge part of my childhood and I loved how simple yet terrifying they were. I really enjoyed the fake players aspect and just the constant mystery surrounding your character and why these different places existed in the first place. It was really cool to see the behind the scenes of all the games; and even though there wasn’t much of a story, the atmosphere that was built throughout the games was enough to make up for it. I hope you’re well and can’t wait to see any future projects that might come about.

After finding out that all of it didn't actually connect and had no purpose really changes the view on everything, i remember being up at like 3 am going through the games trying to find out the story behind it all *yyyyears* ago. definitely one of my favorite "myths" or atleast horror game makers (in your eyes) in my opinion. cant wait to see your future content though, rust!

Even though you didn’t end up pinning down a full-fledged story, I still adored all the games and videos about you. You were such a big part of my childhood, man and I really thank you for all the work you did. Wishing you luck on all your future projects! If I had to put together a story with what you had already, I’d say perhaps “RUST” found a kid in the abandoned asylum and took to making them his AI Masterpiece. Turning them into the Smile Creature after increasing experimentation. This kid-turned-creature roams around abandoned buildings in search of people they can make “happy” and (maybe this is a stretch) they look through abandoned buildings because it reminds them of the asylum, where they came across some of the most unhappy people. Maybe some of the single-player games were actually encounters with the creature by different subjects and maybe the kid had a fascination with scarecrows. So that whole scarecrow thing was just a way for the creature to bring in some “happiness” On RUST’s side of things, he increasingly goes on to create more AI’s. Which slowly improve as they gain more abilities, such as, chatting or calling meetings. I like to think RUST already believes in the AI takeover of the world and is simply facilitating it in a controlled manner, to which he can reign over. Which is maybe what the bunker in OP. RUST is for. The eventual takeover haven and the main control center. In the middle of all of this, Flamingo is either the test subject for RUST. Being the person who has to firsthand test these AI’s, or he’s the next person in line to becoming RUST’s next AI masterpiece and each game is simply testing his abilities not only to communicate with the Smile Creature but also the AI’s. That’s why RUST so closely monitors Flamingo in each game. That’s what I have in mind. I haven’t done a full watch-through of the series in a long time so I could be missing things or have huge plot holes. So please don’t mind me. If anyone else has any ideas of how you think the story could’ve gone, do share! And again, thank you so much for your hard work RUST! TLDR; I just filled in a made-up story for the series that I came up with on the spot

i love the whole idea of communities trying to figure out some horror game story that seems really well hidden and put together just for the creator to say "i like abandoned houses :)"

I was just a kid when Rust was big, and it's kind of crazy to think that was a full 6 years ago. Thank you for it, it was one of the most unique experiences on Roblox at the time because of how ominous everything felt. It was really mysterious in a fun way, it felt like there was a huge story to it but honestly I can't blame you that it ended up to be you just having fun making atmospheric horror games. I'm a novice developer on Roblox myself now, and I can understand pretty much every point you make in this video. It's kind of funny, you ended up sparking a whole subgenre of Roblox games just by having fun doing what you like.

Flamingo fans incoming

It's so surreal to see the myth that made up most of my childhood finally be explained and given answers, who knew that the terrifying games were just a passion project? I certainly didn't. But it's nice to get explanations about the designs and other things.

man this brings a tear to my eye. such a scary guy who I genuinely had nightmares about turns out to be a young dev who just wanted to have some fun. if you asked young me all those years ago who I thought rust was, I would've said a grown man who created scary games with all this lore. now im watching a video with animal crossing music in the back on this teenager explaining those memories to me.

Would you ever consider uncopylocking all your old games? I know I, and lots of other people would like to take an in depth look at them. I've been enjoying the content that you have been making as of late. Keep it up man.

Yes!!! I used to love watching Flamingo play these and the mystery was so cool! I cared so much about this series that I was so excited when you were going to start uploading again.

this is awesome, I always love these kind of "late behind the scenes" videos after the heat dies down. Keeps this stuff from just fading as an old memory. Was absolutely not expecting to ever get any kind of clarity on the RUST_010 roblox games that I had completely forgotten about

This is so nice, to see that RUST was actually just a chill developer trying to make passion games! If you ever do want to revise the RUST series I do know a game studio which would be more than happy to help.

After seeing the whole vid, I can safely say that you were definitely a big inspiration for me. Most of the games you had created made me want to attempt my own forms of horror maps, and while they were never finished, I can say that I had fun with them all. It's always great to see creators going back and showing the world what they created, and I'm so glad to have seen this story's life, despite how little story there is. Can't wait to see what you may do in the future!

You know, even if there was never any story behind these games at all and were just simple horror games (for the most part), they still seem somewhat fascinating in a way.

recently rewatched all the rust videos. Its honestly really hard to belive 2018 was 6 years ago. I rememder coming home from school and and watching these on my familys 2007 imac. That thing still works, its a beast. I honestly died laughing watching this, seeing how you didnt think about most of the lore stuff. Still, i was horrifed of rust, even though it never was a true cohesive story it still was really entertaining.

I remember as kids me and my friends ran into each others houses. We would sit and play your games endlessly, “analysing” every detail in every game you made cuz we genuinely thought it was made from some guy who was a serial killer. I was never into roblox myths EVER besides Rust 010. It was simple to follow and scary enough for its time. Thanks for being a part of my childhood

One of the best myths for sure, just because of how unique and honestly terrifying the games were, at that time there was nothing like it, a stalker myth who made you find codes using a computer that also sent you to different games, looking at your own dead body and it jumpscaring you, the clone people coming after you, and much much more.

Been waiting a long time for this! Glad to see the "story" finally come to a definitive end!

You have truly inspired me into wanting to make a horror game. The way you just went through all of your games and giving the background of what they are all about has really motivated me, so thank you!

This is one video I didn't expect to see but I am glad I saw it, I recently was rewatching Albert's videos so it makes sense why this channel would appear once more to me but still, this is really just nice to watch, a developer once thought as scary now known as fun and interesting going over their silly games

This character you made was my first introduction to the myth community on roblox, which is still to this day, my favorite subject within the roblox community. After I "investigated" your character and it's story that people had created for it, I started helping out in the myth community, and I actually ended up helping via building and 3d modelling for a couple different myth creators. Overall I think it was a really cool introduction to a good community, and I really enjoyed the games you created. Through what you made I got to meet a lot of really good people and I'm glad to have discovered it when it was just created. I'm happy to see the games explained after so much time.

As someone who used to be obsessed with RUST_010, I'm very glad you finally decided to explain your games. I used to be so obsessed, I think I remember more about your games than you do yourself lmao, so here are some things you missed that I personally remember: -The developer password in the database DID in fact have a correct password, which is "devlogin123". It would say "Success" although it did nothing. -I remember the applications in the computer in R U S T. One of them was a command prompt where most commands didn't work. However, typing "execute" would make the CMD say "Success! Please wait...", although nothing happened aswell. Somebody said if you were to type that in then go to Smile! and do the ending, you would get a different one (Although that's most likely not true, but it'd be nice if you clarified). -In "It's out there...", the computer at the end of the game would lead you to a place called "in the distance...", which you missed. Was there any way to open the barricaded door at the end of that game? (Or do you not remember?) -"look behind you..." has an ending where if you touch the sewer gate thingy, it would lead you to an ending similar to Smile!, where you get murdered by some guy. -What was "it"? Before the myth ended, you would always ramble on to Albert about some creature called "it". And you said it was the creature who chased you down in "can you see it?". I assume you didn't plan out anything and it was just some random thing you made up with no relevance. -WHAT WAS THE SECURITY PASSWORD IN FROWN FOR GOD'S SAKE /j So yeah, just wanted you to explain some things you didn't explain in the video. It's fine if you don't answer. Edit: OH YEAH I FORGOT, Can you explain what that "News616" video was?

its very amazing seeing this as this is quite literally a part of my memory that will never leave as long as im playing roblox so seeing a video made by the man behind it all is awesome, and youre voice is so calm i absolutely love listening to it.

You sound way more chill than I had imagined, for lack of a better word. These were pretty important to me when I was younger, it's neat to see that they were just someone making horror games without much of a story in mind. Makes me curious about what some of the other people Albert made videos about had in mind when they were making their games

I miss old Roblox myths

Glad to see you revisit publicly! Brings back memories of online friends I knew who made myths/horror games and summed it up to making it up along the way. Brings back a simpler time when people just made these types of games just to make em and not for external reasons (not to say that’s anything bad or wrong) :)

Man, this was my favourite myth. I would play the games for hours trying to find the "super scary deep lore." I must say you made fantastic atmospheres during your time! Hope you find greatness wherever you decide to head next. Cheers!

I gotta thank you man, I remember coming home from school and watching the new rust flamingo video and exploring the games with friends. You made a core memory for not just me, but many others.

Man, these we're good times. If only we had a proper ending with the "myth" and not a cliff hanger

First time I ever learned about rust was exactly 6 years ago, I was 11. Now I am 17, and just watching this video brings back a lot of memories. Thank you for the nice spooks man.

Out of all the flamingo myths, RUST will always be my favorite and I’ll probably continue to watch the RUST myth videos. Finding out that all these games were all for fun and had no connection to eachother still opens a lot to me, maybe it wasn’t made for with a connection or story, but one could still be found and then it uncovers more for many. It was a crazy journey with you though and we all had fun making theories etc. I remember making theories and stories off this myth too and it filled up my notebook. I hope to see some of your future content soon!!

I literally loved this series so much, keep up the good work man!

Im still surprised how you just seemed like a very creepy person back then but ended up just being a very normal guy. It’s also cool seeing you play through all your scary old games, it brings a lot of memories!

this is incredibly nostalgic, and im surprised how much of this i remember. all these games felt huge but you explain them so simply. i spent a lot of hours looking at all this while editing albert's screams together for compilations, thank you for making a part of my childhood.

honestly, I feel like you could be an even greater horror developer with this experience. even though you’re not really as much of a “myth” anymore, it would still be fun to see more stuff like this.

Bro I’m so happy you made this video it unlocked so many memories I used to be scared of you but ever since I saw this video it kinda switched so thanks man.

It sucks that one person ruined this experience for so many other people. I wish some of the kids nowadays could've experienced what It was like growing up with the Myth community, with some of the most major... it's mostly ruined but I do hope someday it does return. I remember you we're my biggest Inspiration for even getting into making games along with VSB but I really wanted to make a myth game. I still do, I've tried... but to no avail nothing really, works. Thank you for being a myth even if It wasn't intended, you Inspired something that Roblox nowadays, lacks.

i did not expect you to just explain all the mystery behind your games, this is truly something that surprised me. i love this, thank you.

I always loved the Rust games and I had no idea you were making videos and stuff! It's neat seeing these games in a different light and the fact that there was no story to Rust makes it even better to me honestly, it means people can come up with their own tales. :]

This is so heartwarming. You actually played a role in my childhood, thank you rust.

thank you for the explanation. it was nice seeing answers to everything after all these years. and thank you, RUST, for everything.

What an entertaining Rust_010 video

Dude you were my favorite myth I loved all of your games!! I’m glad your doing well though, I remember trying to “figure it out” and looking at this video and seeing that there wasn’t even a story planned and most of the games were just normal horror games is so funny to me 😭😭

Dude, I remember when I was younger I used to be like, terrified of you and all the rust games, while also simultaneously being super invested in all of them and I’d try “figure out” the lore and I’d look at theories about them to try and figure out all their secrets. Honestly your games were a big chunk of my childhood.

honestly watching these games in action years ago made this seem as an scary as hell game with a weird mystery unsolved. but looking at it with the darkness removed and with the developer commentary, it just seems like a normal place I could fix up in a few hours on roblox studio. It's kinda amazing how these map can seem so big by masking it in the dark. you did amazing work! :)

watching albert play these back in the day as they came out is one of my favorite memories i have of roblox. looking back on it now its kind of obvious that there was no plan for them, but the mystery that each game's open-endedness brought was super interesting and i'd love to see some indie or even triple-a devs try to replicate that. ive seen stuff like it, but nothing has ever quite captured the mystique brought about by your games. glad to see you revisit these in such a chill manner, and i cant wait to see what the future of your channel holds

Its kind of sad that its completely over, that feeling of fear and excitement watching a new RUST video. However im glad i finally get an answer

RUST was always one of if not my favourite myths that came out the myth community and its very fascinating to see all the games behind the scenes and revisited since the myth community has unfortunately died. Well done man

The fact that you made these games without a storyline or anything planned really shocked me, because, a person in one of Alberts videos made a good point/theory about the rust games being based off this one serial killer who killed people AROUND THOSE SPECIFIC abandoned places, the serial killer also used a RUSTY KNIFE and the barcode on it was 010. Was it not based on that? Here, let me paste the original comment from Alberts video: "Yes. This is all one big prank. The Johnsons were murdered at that shack and the person who did it left their knife, the barcode on the knife was 010, and it was a rusty knife. There was a guy named Mike Stevenson who died there with a smile. I investigated a little more on this topic and found 6 casses of dead families who died from a rusty knife. The location's of there deaths formed a circle around the shack. There was also another family known as the Rogers, who lived in the shack. They found a horrible thing in the basement. It was behind a box which of course, had rust next to it. Behind the box was a rusty metal bin that had an eyeball, a lung, and an ear in it. So this rust killer is definitely NOT a joke. The guy that's doing this probably just wants to scare you, or make you go to that shack. I recommend NEVER EVER going near or in it. The police have placed restricted sign's all over. If you're a reckless teen, DON'T GO NEAR OR IN IT. I saw a story of two teens who went in probably expecting to come out, but they didn't and they found their bodies on the floor, one in the bathroom with a broken skull with a knife sticking through, and the other with a lawn mower caught on his leg, and his leg was a bloody mess, police say the guy with the lawn mower on his leg, was still alive but something had slit his throat. Another story was a married couple went to this shack and the man was found dead in the kitchen with a knife in his head, and the woman was found with her chest and stomach split open and she was missing a few organs. So I think that this psycho rust killer, collects body parts and organs for something. Flamingo I recommend to NOT go near or in that shack."

Kind of amazing how your games are still probably the scariest I've played. Nearly all Roblox horror games can't emulate what you were able to do and I applaud you for it.

Animal Crossing music is the least expected song i expected to hear, but i appreciate it Good video btw i loved your myth games back then :) Edit: keep making games btw you single handedly made me sub and inspired me to make more games myself!

This is really cool to see since I would’ve thought that you’ve abandoned rust like many myths have after kazdam (but makes sense since you didn’t work with him entirely) and I think it would be cool to see a story revolving around ai and simulations of real places and the player (us) are like testing the ai and as it goes on and on the ai gets better in the simulation and then possibly something like rust is the final prototype or just something similar just to connect some of the games that didn’t have story to make a bit more sense, but it’s your games and story not mine but I will be happy to play them if you plan on making more

it's fascinating to see a big part of my spooky childhood ended up being so simple. You were my and so many other's inspiration for creating myths. (while the majority of us can all admit it was mostly for clout lmao) it's really cool to see the behind-the-scenes. the funniest part to me is how people kept trying to guess what the story of RUST was. And it ended up just being a dude who wanted to make spooky games

it's so cool to see you look into your old stuff and give us a breakdown behind it.

your map making evolved into something beautiful, and i admire your love for horror and abandoned places.

Honestly, its nice to see you look back fondly on these games. Good for you!! :]

It’s really neat to see the games that used to appear in my nightmares explained! I’m honestly shocked that they aren’t connected at all, even loosely. They really do seem like they would be! One thing I was always curious about, though, was the critters with the elk calls. What was the inspiration behind them?

I remember one of your games giving me and my friend a good scare that left us pretty shook up some years back. It’s very interesting to know the person behind such a notorious myth, since many remained distant and mysterious.

Used to genuinely believe Rust had a story and was a horror entity but now I can see that behind the curtains its just a coding showcase instead. Pretty cool stuff to look back on and know about!

very cool to see the behind the scenes of these games, sad to see that roblox broke the code lol. I remember playing these games trying to figure out the story, watching other lads play it as well. You were really talented with your work, the obscurity was the best part haha. nice to see ya back

I gotta say, your games made my childhood. Even though they were a little spooky for a kid, i found joy in that. I spent time watching flamingo play your games and theorize about it. I then would play them on my own and scare myself. It was super fun and even if there wasnt much of a story to it. They still made my life what it was. 😊 I enjoyed this and i enjoyed the little rust series. Glad to have been there for this 🎉

Ah, the memories that made me not sleep at night. I’m not getting that time back.

10:59 when I tell you this was the only roblox game that ever genuinely jumpscared me. Like bro, I remember watching Flamingo's video on this place back when it first came out, and when all the players came at Albert all at once, we both screamed in unison lmao. I'd never seen anything like that on Roblox before. The series was super fun to watch tho. Thanks for making my childhood a little cooler

honestly this is kind of a nice close, not really anymore questions left in the air, just you makin some cool horror games, i love it :)

When you think about it from a developer perspective its genius even if its unintentional, people will think your games have hidden lore so they keep playing them. I loved watching videos about your games back in the day and I hope you keep making games.

Thanks for making this video! It's interesting that this myth was actually just you having fun and making scary games. I feel like if your character did have lore, they would probably be some dweller who loved scaring people that decided it was a good idea to explore these abandoned and haunted areas. Although, the approach you were taking with your unfinished game made sense too. The fake players being androids that stalked the real players would have also been a chilling plot. Me and some other random friends a while back tried to make a myth, but the hardest part for us too was writing a good story. I was maybe thinking of making a myth of my own now that I have much more experience and resources, but I've been busy with another project I'm helping a friend with. I suppose having a little myth on the side wouldn't hurt, though. Anyways, you've been a huge influence on me in terms of making me want to get involved in the myth community, even if you didn't quite understand what a myth was. I thank you for that.

I honestly admit as a Russian-speaking person, it hurts me to look at how you show everything after this whole story, but it’s nice to know that you are not some kind of myth or something like that... a good story growing up, it was nice to watch all this, you raised half a generation and me in that number

good job on keeping in on just like everything, it’s really nice to see your still outgoing and stuff

This gives me intense nostalgia, I’m happy you revisited the games and other things.

I used to play these games from the start pretending like I was figuring out the myth cuz I watched albert, you were a part of my childhood :)

this was so cool to see. i remember when i was a kid i would watch the flamingo rust series multiple times a day and i'd have to turn away from my laptop when he was playing the more realistic maps- i had so many theories and rust was honestly my favorite myth for so long. it was so cool to see the reality behind the games, lol. you are amazing

I must admit when i opened KZfaq today i was not expecting a Rust video! It is absolutely insane that it has been six years. You inspired 6th grade me to create my own myth actually! Im going into senior year this year and i just wanted to say thanks lol! Its kinda funny because i remember i was convinced one of my friends was you or somebody spying for you. It is actually kinda nice to have closure that you were just some regular guy with a love for scary games like me. :)

I had a feeling there was no point to all the games but that's what made it fun. It was fun trying to investigate everything about the games and exploring strange things within them. There was no story at all but it was fun watching flamingo trying to figure out what was going on. You were a huge inspiration and you were someone who got me into building games. I'm glad you're looking back on your old work.

It’s nice to see that you’re doing well even if the myth community has became more obscured. It’s nice that you have moved on instead of trying to keep putting out attempts of the games

You have no idea how much I loved your gamers and Albert’s vids on you, I hope so much that you guys can collab again

i wish we would bring back roblox myths like this, just simple, beautiful, and nostalgic experiences

Truly a moment of all time. Bravo Vince, you never let us down!

ah yes when i got scared of some old 1970 something news footage from 2019

i remember you making discord servers for q&a type things a few years ago, me and my friend had asked a few questions so its really cool to see you making videos again :D even if the games are discontinued its nice to revisit what it was

ive just started watching albert again after a while and binged the whole rust series. once i finished the videos, this was reccomended to me. its funny to me how after years youve come back to explain this, and that it happened right when i started watching albert again lol

I honestly loved all your games and stuff... it was very creepy and it left us all wondering what the story was... I honestly hope a new talented creator like you makes something similar to your RUST_010 games. ❤

you don't know how much i loved these rust games when i was younger, To a point i remade my own versions of them on LittleBigPlanet you inspired me to keep leaning into the horror category of games I try to make. thank you xdd

seeing all of the RUST_010 game again and hearing the thoughts of the creator behind them makes me feel so nostalgic, these were such a huge part of my childhood

man the aesthetics in these games are gorgeous, area 0001 kinda reminds me of serial experiments lain... i also remember i was deep into the roblox myth community (shout out to enszo btw) and found your content, as someone who loved horror content i ate this up. hope you're doing fine man

Kinda cool to finally see some closure on this, as someone who really enjoyed this content I do hope in the future we can get more cool horror experiences from you when you have the time!

This was so nice. I used to be so fascinated with them and actually scared when Flamingo or Albert explored them in his videos. I hope to see more myths games from you. Good luck :D

jesus, the memories are flooding all back. i remember watching flamingo play all these rust games, being too scared to check them out myself, and also being too stupid to know anything that was going on. i love how some myths are actually starting to make videos or just be themselves, because it's nice to know how they're really feeling from time to time. sure, myths are definitely decreasing in size on roblox, but as long as i know this guy is fine, im happy.