Archiving the history of the video game Quake 2: created by id Software; customized by the Quake 2 community.
"Welcome to Cow and Chicken. You are about to play one of the most fun mods ever created for Quake 2. The Gameplay is a blast. The game features both multi-arenas and one on one death matches arenas. However, unlike other mods the action here is pure capture the flag."
For Jason Bergman, sounds make the game. The 45 minutes to six hours spent in aural alchemy are well worth it because, at least in games, sound dictates reality. Asked about the sound he is working on, Bergman casually replies, "I'd tell you, but I'd have to kill you," quietly adding, "and record you in doing so."
"Very soon, as soon as we have the Quake2 engine, in fact, we'll be building a walkthrough exhibit hall, and your statue will be standing on a pedestal for the world to see. The page as you see it now is only a temporary stepping stone until the Quake2 engine arrives. The reason we need the Quake2 engine is so that people will be able to invoke the web browser by shooting your statue, thus accessing your stats, as you see them on the sample page...If you have any questions about the museum, please browse http://www.mama.org/ first. MAMA is a member of AAM and many other museumology organizations, and is a proud part of the Northern California School System's in-classroom art education program. It also runs a childrens' art academy. You'll enjoy seeing this fascinating online and offline museum at work."
As John got older, "I told him lots of times that if he was ever going to make money with this stuff he'd need to be the head of a computing department," says John Schuneman, John's stepfather. "I kept telling him to get into the scientific uses for computers." John, now age 29, never did. He never finished college, or worked for a big company. But he kept his singular focus on games. And for the last five years his stepfather has been eating those words, with pride.
"While he's parted ways with Microsoft, Alex St. John still defends DirectX. He traveled to the Lone Star state to talk about APIs, software patents, 3D hardware, the best talents in the game industry, the volatility of plan files, politics, ethics, and the future of SGI's OpenGL with John Carmack and id's outspoken new programmer Brian Hook..."
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