Posted by BrianL on September 08, 1998 at 21:58:26:
In Reply to: Re: My Massassi story... posted by Elvenlad on September 08, 1998 at 20:36:25:
Well when I first found massassi it was only an idea in my head -- I think the worst part was trying to find a name for this damn place!
Anyway, I have to admit I didn't know JACK about editing until pot-head taught me how to adjoin, insert things, and extrude. If you download the horribly named and horribly built (although no errors) level called "The Lozier Project" - you can see my first level.
Then I was ready for more. I wanted to make a level that looked like the place I lived (did we ALL want to do that at some point?). Anyway, I bugged SLUG for days and days until I FINALLY understood it, and released 5600 Block. I'm still contemplating whether to do that level over again (I think I will). That level had one or two small bugs that I know of (most ppl won't even encounter them), but the framerate was terrible.
Then I decided I could write all the stuff down and help out other ppl who would be in my situation. I never thought it would get this big, and I want to thank all of you that come here -- without you guys, this site would be totally pointless.
If you take a look at the old msg boards, many of the ppl who ANSWER questions today used to ASK them - there are quite a few funny posts if you have a few hours to kill.
Anyway, enough blathering. My latest release was called "Obelisk" which was released with manowar2 -- it's a pretty good level if you ask me (of course I'll say that, I built it).
In my brief stay with manowar, I met Mangore Kiramin and Rishka -- the BEST level editor I know, and the BEST cogger I know -- the rest is *about to become* history :-)
Hang tight guys, my SP is going to be released within a couple of months.
Brian