My name is Inigo Montoya...

[scar3crow]

[leileilol]

I came from the land of new hampshire

I was a lurker on the quakec newsgroup for a while in 1996, and because of that, it is where it got me today

then I came to inside3d's board around 2001 and the rest is history.

[ajay]

My name is Andy Simpson. I'm the grand old age of 41. I live in Swindon, Wiltshire, England with my wife and three children. I was born in London, leaving at age 11.
I'm a nurse working with people with learning disabilities.

I got into Quake pretty much straight after getting a pc in 1997. I'd been into games since the original Space Invaders, Defender and even Pong. Graduating through Sega Master System, Megadrive, Saturn, Dreamcast, Xbox and now 360.

I'd done a computer course in 1982, which involved what was then called "operating" and programming. I also played around with Basic, especially on BBC Micro's.

In my spare time; obviously when not doing Quake stuff, I train - mostly cycling and gym. Presently I'm doing nothing due to a hip flexor injury. Other than that I spend too much money, and waste too much time, on Dvd's.

Oh, and I'm ginger.

[Quake Matt]

[FrikaC]

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[FrikaC]

[Sajt]

[FrikaC]

[leileilol]

[CocoT]

[Sajt]

Oh, btw, I modded Wolf3d before Quake for a short while (mostly applying tutorials, I never really went into the code myself)

Lost all that stuff though. And I kept running into crashes and couldn't figure them out so I eventually lost interest.

Wolf3d mapping sure is a breeze though

[Bank]

[Error]

Era 1:
My name's Gerrad Hall... I'm currently 22. I pretty much got into pc gaming (console gaming for years and years before that) when I went to a friend's house when I was 11 and he was running a game of Doom 2 on 2 pcs. I hopped down and was completely amazed by the deathmatch. After that, another friend showed me Duke Nukem 3D and got me addicted... I believe I still have 10 floppies somewhere with Duke full version on it. I then bought ever level compilation I could find for it. I went through thousands of maps. Crazy.

Era 2:
One day I picked up a copy of PC Gamer that had the Quake shareware on it. I saw pics and died to play it. Unfortunately, the shareware disk didn't work, so I couldn't play it. Little soon after, he bought the shareware disk and it worked. I was glued to the computer from that day forth.

Era 3:
I bought a CD called Level Master V for Quake. I glanced through it and noticed something called a mod. I then installed the dragon mod that came with it (or wyvern? something like that). I couldn't, for the life of me, find out how to run the mod. We then spent hours and hours trying to find online how to run such a thing. When we finally figured it out, I was entralled... I couldn't get myself away from mods. The fact that you can make a game of your own out of your favorite game was amazing. I then noticed that there was a compiler available and source code. I looked at the code for sooo long that I finally knew what some of it meant.

Era 4:
I finally completed my first full mod. Austin Powers Quake. WORST MOD EVER. I even made all my own models, animations, and maps using a shitty version of Quark. Unfortunately I never fully released a mod. Everything that anyone has ever seen from me was half-done. I have this tendancy to start a mod... then start another and another and another... then get too lazy to finish and just keep starting new ones.

Era 5:
I like to try my best to keep this community going, since it's given so much to me over the years. I noticed that NOTHING was happening on I3D's frontpage for years. I talked with Frik for a bit about it and he was like "if you can help it, it's yours". So I then talked with Randy (who made an old remake of I3D a while back) and got him to code and design it. And, blam... new I3D. I then, fronted the money for my own space on the net. There was a lot of discussion about how there isn't a central file archive for our community anymore. I thought... "wow I have a lot of space and bandwidth and nothing to do with it, so I'll give it a shot". I had no idea that it'd take off like it did. Good stuff.

Era 6-ish:
Soon though, I would like to complete and release my mod made using the Gyro physics library (I love QuakeMatt's mods, thanks). Anyways, that's my story. BLAM!!

LINKS:




enjoy.

[SkinnedAlive]

My name is Robin Bagust and I am a 19 year-old philosophy undergraduate living in the UK. I've been playing Quake for 8 years now. I've pretty much grown up with it. I think I first played the shareware version on the cover CD of some now defunct PC gaming magazine that I used to read alot. I got the full version from my brother, who left it for dead and moved on to other games. I was playing doom as well for a few years before that. By all rights I should have hacked my to bits by now what with all evil violent games I played as a kid.

I have pretty much no experience in coding. I've dabbled in html and VB but nothing substantial. Apart from copying out BASIC code from books as a kid. We used to have a BBC Micro back then. I'm just starting to get serious about QC now though.

My other passion is music. I play guitar and bass mostly.

I also released a few awful mods and an awful map a few years ago. Oh, and made a couple of half-decent maps for Wazat's BattleMech too.

I don't tend to play online, usually I prefer to play coop on a LAN.