by Error » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:57 am
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!!
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