Creativity in ARK Designing with FirePumpkin

FIREPUMPKIN – ARK ARKITECT AND BUILD MASTER

Hello, Nitrado community! We’d like you to meet a fantastic Nitrado Partner, ARK builder, and master designer with a keen eye for details. A streamer and gamer, FirePumpkin aims to help you fill your empty rooms and ARK worlds with a touch of beauty with detailed how-to-building tips and tricks videos. Whether you’re looking to simply awe at the amazing builds that can be created in ARK or you’re looking to try decorating for yourself on your own ARK: Survival Evolved server, FirePumpkin has your back.

FirePumpkin is a wonderful mother of two special needs children, caring for them while also working to share amazing content and community fun around ARK. Her community, ARKitects Official, is a Discord and Gaming ARK cluster created during the pandemic. The ARKitects Official has since grown to promote fun and positivity in building and designing in the gaming world of ARK.

Now that we’ve given a small introduction to FirePumpkin, we have had the amazing opportunity to conduct an interview with her. Ready for action, we dove into ARK to take on an exciting dino-mite adventure. This is what transpired from our amazing ARK adventure with FirePumpkin and what we learned about her story!

START OF A GAMING PASSION

When FirePumpkin first started gaming, it was only in bits and pieces usually through friends with games like Sonic. Once FirePumpkin neared college, her gaming experience was expanded vastly with PC gaming. Playing Minecraft and games like it, FirePumpkin grew into the world of PC gaming with its massive worlds and luxurious graphics.

Initially with ARK though, FirePumpkin first began by playing on Xbox. This made it more difficult to build and create in ARK without mods. It was up until last year that she finally began playing ARK on PC to enjoy mods and other infinite possibilities in the game. From that, FirePumpkin appreciates the difficulty of building without mods in ARK. With those mods, FirePumpkin would go on to unlock infinite ways to create and design in the lush world of ARK.

CHAOTIC BEGINNINGS LED TO A UNIQUE ARK COMMUNITY

Before the name FirePumpkin came to be, the ARK content creator was known as Ezailia. While playing ARK on Xbox in a PVP unofficial ARK server, FirePumpkin found herself under attack by a deadly tribe. This tribe was a “particularly fierce one” in the words of FirePumpkin, “lying to our faces and stabbing us in the back – one by one taking out everyone”. To combat this behavior, FirePumpkin used the Xbox name-changing feature to change her name. Xbox randomly suggested the name FirePumpkin, quite a great name suggestion, forever setting into stone the ARK designer’s name.

FirePumpkin played a different style of ARK, where she assisted with sorting and organizing what other players brought home. She met others that were intimidated about that part of the game and through her kindness, she encouraged them to try different parts of the game, fail, and learn how to play! This grew to the passion to build and design in ARK.

Being an ARK designer and part of the ARK community, FirePumpkin helped create a group around ARK building and designing during the midst of the pandemic. The group, properly called the ARKitects Official, is an amazing YouTuber group of builders and designers for ARK. The designers of this group work to create everything from wondrous water bases to medieval houses, Japanese-themed house interiors, and much more. The ARKitects Official also features a cluster for ARK that offer unique experiences through amazing builds, activities, and interaction with YouTubers.

If you’re an ARK builder yourself, FirePumpkin mentions:
“We do take on new builders. You can do what we’re doing if you want to participate!”

INSPIRATION DERIVED FROM COMMUNITY AND BEAUTY

FirePumpkin gets her inspiration from collaboration and the beauty of ARK. While FirePumpkin can build on her own and has built some amazing creations, she mentioned:

“I have the opportunity to start with not just a blank page but a blank build, so it’s like I’m being handed an option for creativity or inspiration. Where someone may have drawn a blank looking at empty walls inside of this particular build, that’s inspiring for me. I just try to think about it as if it was a real house with real interior design. What is its use? If I have a big space, can I break it up and make zones? That kind of thing.”

Along with her amazing skills to build off of blank slates, FirePumpkin also gains inspiration from blueprints or interesting architectural styles such as craftsman houses. This sparks her inspiration, alongside her strong passion to work with others and bring them together. Working together brings the most inspiration to FirePumpkin, bringing many creative people together to create a story and a design, and then figure out how to make it in ARK!

LAUGHER, INTERACTION, AND GROWING A COMMUNITY

ARKitects Official was a passion project first created during the pandemic as a fright park. Helping to bring fun to everyone who couldn’t go out, as it continued ARKitects Official grew offering fun events and eventually the cluster it is now. Through sharing and creating buildings and designs in the amazing world of ARK, the possibilities are endless in this community.

With all that interaction and the creativity swelling around this community, that is what FirePumpkin enjoyed most. Working and laughing with other ARKitects Official while building some of the most epic buildings and creations for everyone to enjoy.

CHECK OUT FIREPUMPKIN AND ARK DESIGN

We’d like to thank FirePumpkin for her time gaming and sharing such amazing information about herself. From the amazing buildings her and the ARKitects Official build in ARK, to what the community has achieved for ARK players, it’s truly amazing. I know that we can’t wait to see what wondrous building designs come from the ARKitects Official and FirePumpkin next.

You can check out FirePumpkin on YouTube to see their content and join the ARKitects Official!