And the winner is? ^
by Paul - Sunday 04 April 1999 @ 09:07
So who was the 200,000th visitor? Well it was Randy Maude aka Sniper#1. You mentioned about Quake 2 reviews and heres how things stand. 9 people are trying for the position. Anyone that applied was given a chance at the position. At the moment they have two test reviews to write from which I decide who does and doesn't get the job (if you can call it that!). I'll keep you all posted as to what happens.
About the Quake reviews, well I lied, I've just not had chance to get them done. I had more work than I expected to do. I should, all things being equal, have a few reviews up by Wednesday/Thursday of this week.
They'll be a slight change in the review layout when they do arrive. I've started to make changes to how its set out, not how its reviewed, but that all reviews will have their own page. I wrote a program which we just enter all the details of a review and it creates the HTML page for us. No messing about in Composer etc... From here all reviews will eventually be split up, not an easy task given the amount, but it will happen. This will mean I can create indexes which just let you select a review or archived review by map name, author etc.. It could be a month or so though before this system is in place. This will then help me when we go over to a another set up, which I explain next...
Monsto is in charge of something which is going to change how the reviews here will, eventually, be done. The idea he came up with is this. We put a web board on the site, we then create a thread and at the top of thread is a map review. You can then add your own comments and thoughts on the review or on what you think of the map. Now this is something which, to my knowledge, has not been done and I think it will be extremely interesting. Its not going to happen overnight, its going to take a while. Now I'd like to know what you think of this idea. So email me with comments.
Ramshackle has had a face lift. When I loaded up the site yesterday I thought I was at Peek's site before the graphics appeared! Anyway, it looks damn cool and you should pop by because you can download an updated version of one of ztn's Quake 2 maps, Painkiller II.
Speaking of Peek hes just released a beta of a DM maps he's working on.
You've probably read about the delays in the Quake 3 Arena test. Well that came as a surprise. Not that I WANT IT NOW or anything. Something else I was looking forward to was Team Fortress Classic for Half-Life. To be honest I was never a fan of it for Quake, I thought it was a mess, but the H-L version looks professionally done. Oh well, I'll just have to wait...
Other crappy news is that the glDoom project on indefinite hold. Dammit.
I missed out on doing my own April Fools gag, I woke up after dinner time so if I'd have pulled one of I'd have been the fool. I was disappointed to not see Redwood do any April Fools jokes, last year he did a shed load of them. Even sCary didn't bother. Blue did have some but the idea is not to tell you, you're meant to fall for them. I mean listing them under an April Fools section was a bit daft. The cruellest gag I though was ztn's saying he'd released ztndm7. Git! To console myself I think I'll go and buy a force feedback mousepad.
I got an email earlier this week from someone called "Doug Burmeister". You asked a load of questions, which I answered. Anyway point is I emailed you back and it bounced. I'd just like to know your proper email address, I tried mailto:[email protected].
In what spare time I had I re-installed Unreal to see how it would run on my new set up. On a fresh install the thing jerked a bit, but I updated to v220 and it runs just fine (with everything on highest settings). I'm actually enjoying playing DM against the bots. The maps are crap mind you, but it is fun.
