Past Quakers

[RenegadeC]

Over the years Quakers have come and gone, which particular Quaker sticks out the most in your mind that's no longer with us?

For me, I'd say Tux. He pretty much made the first Quake RPG mod base, a cool QMovie mod that made making Quake movies a bit easier, as well as his site being once hosted here on Inside3D (I think he was also a moderator here at one point). I remember talking to him on ICQ back in the day discussing modding and what not a lot, he inspired me a lot as well as FrikaC obviously.

[leileilol]

Wazat

he doesn't go to #qc anymore because of jackpott but jackpott's been long gone
because of this we think he's gone forever or something
we were ALWAYS helpful hands to eachother in 2002-2004 at least via email

and JTR, also and Tei he did a lot of weird stuff. telejano's common but i'm more after his weird stuff

[Tribal]

Tei

With his always over the top engines full of eyecandy

He was a nice guy too, i learn a lot about quake with him

[leileilol]

holy crap i forgot to mention tribal

[RenegadeC]

[RooT]

[scar3crow]

[Willem]

[scar3crow]

[Orion]

[RooT]

[Wazat]

FrikaC

But he's still pretty active, I think. I don't know, I haven't been lurking as actively as I should.

I'm glad I've been mentioned here. It feels really good to know I've been helpful and memorable in this community. I do still lurk, and I even mod on occasion (spiffing up Conquest, BattleMech), though very briefly.

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I should take this moment to mention why I liked modding for quake so much: It was simple. Modern games are so complex with their graphics, their architecture, etc that it's just overwhelming to try to get into them. The learning curve is [b]steep[/i]. Quake is extremely limited, and I found myself chafing against these limits almost continually; however, I could do in Quake what I could not do anywhere else: mod. Actually mod, and successfully too.

Any other game has proven to be either too limited, clunky or simple in its tools (Warcraft3), or too complicated and overwhelming (HL2 and everything new). The games that I want to mod for are too hard to get into, though when my brother gets back from his mission he may be interested in doing projects together.

Right now I'm working in a video game company. I do get a lot of joy out of creating games, though I'd love to be able to work on one of my own game ideas instead of the ideas I'm assigned to program. Perhaps I'll have the time one day to start modding again. For now I write down my ideas at home and plan.

And I'm playing games frequently again, which I hadn't had time for back when I crashed and drifted from the Quake community.

I miss the community here (both Quake and Nexuiz), including people like FrikaC, Cheapalert, CocoT, LTH, Ren, scar3crow, Entar, Lord Havoc, The Evil Dr. Shadowborg... the list is longer than I ever thought it was.

Oh, and the reason I don't come to chat rooms anymore is I can't keep up with them... too many conversations going on at once. However, if you guys want to contact me by PM or email, do it! Also let me know if there's a thread going on that I might be interested in. I don't mean to be aloof... I'm just a slob.

Talk to you guys later.

[Tribal]

[Urre]

Arr, Wazat in sight!

Anyhoo, hi there mate. Your post inspired me to say something I've been wanting to say, but forgotten/not had a good place to say it.

Even though I'm mostly a DP modder, and generally get disgusted by Quakes limits, I started out there as well. A while ago, when I was reading about game dev, how complicated people constantly make it (yes, make), how often most articles concentrate on engine coding rather than gamecode, I realized exactly *why* Quake has been such a successful modding platform. Quake, as a development platform, has a close to perfect balance of moddability vs ease of modding, especially for anyone new to the subject of making games. I know a lot of newbies complain about how badly documented everything is, but we've come to the conclusion that it's just not true, they just don't look for it. With Quake, you can do a lot, without a lot of work. With slightly more work you can even make a non-fps game, something which is even easier in updated engines, without the actual process getting more complicated, often quite the opposite. It's not until I started messing with CSQC that I've experienced working on Quake based projects is tedious (although the possibilities I get with CSQC are wonderful).

This got a little cluttered, and my point might've gone lost, but I haven't seen this balance in any other game. Half-Life might be the closest one, judging by the amount of quality mods and maps made for it, but it might just be thanks to persistent modders, I haven't actually looked into modding for Half-Life.

[revelator]