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ETR — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:04:56 +0000

and find.

http://www.stuffic.net

wip :p

Warsow and the AGP Tour

ETR — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:13:51 +0000

In an attempt to push some of the activity on Lovesow, and using it for what it’s intended (:P), let’s discuss the latest big news in Warsow land: The announcement of the Association of Gaming Professionals (AGP) Tour!

Now in short; the AGP Tour is intended to ‘revive’ the deathmatch scene, specifically the 1v1/duel scene. The concept is trying to treat the duel fps games as real sports as much as possible (the comparison between FPS and Tennis has been brought up multiple times). This means an emphasis on (individual) players, extensive coverage on-site (meaning ‘produced’ shoutcasted video streams over ‘open’ coverage like demos and gtv), and even altering the game to support the understandability (word is Quake maps get a visual makeover to give a sporty feel and a consistent, recognizable style).

Deathmatch to the masses

We all know 1v1 dm games are fun, but getting that knowledge across has been proven very hard. Trying to explain the game’s functioning to your parents, girlfriend, real life no nerd buddies is the closest you’ll get to realizing what’s important and how to explain. Previous attempts in bringing ‘our game’ to the masses have proven painful and hilarious at the same time (let’s hope best-buy isn’t involved with AGP ). See the YouTube video why:

The ideas of the AGP Tour are very comparable to Warsow’s ideas; in the end we too try to make DM gaming accessible, fun, understandable and show it’s competitive potential. That’s why I feel Warsow fits in perfectly.

The point of much discussion is the fact of having multiple games in the same competition. On one hand you might say how much difference there is between the games; weapons, movement, visual style, etc. But in the end the game mechanics are exactly the same over every game - resource control and good aim count in any game. For the players it’s a huge difference, but for the people you try to explain the game to, it’ll be very much alike.

Warsow in AGP Tour

On to Warsow’s specific case: First of all, when checking the list, note that Warsow is sitting in between Quake 3, Quake 4, and UT3! Our little free-time project, our ideals about FPS gaming, our low-tech cartoon shooter is sitting in between huge-budget giants! Top-down games along with our bottom-up Warsow!
In the end, whatever happens to the AGP Tour, it’s always good to get some exposure, and AGP is helping us with that. It’s their effort and their cause which benefits Warsow as well. Sounds cheap, but any press-release mentioning Warsow is a nice freebie.
Next to that, the interest from top gamers will benefit Warsow. Even if they are ‘forced’ to play Warsow for the competition, it will raise awareness, and the competition level hopefully!

There is nothing to lose, with having Warsow in this competition.

Jarod interviewed on SK Gaming (link)
AGP Announced on ESR (link)
AGP Press Release (link)

Lovesow dev update!

ETR — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:53:30 +0000

Trying to support this page a bit, I added the option to add Polls! Means if you need the opinion of Warsowians on maplists, gametypes for competitions or other Warsow-related stuff, make a poll! Embed polls in your post by creating them in the admin panel and typing the poll id in your posts to display it. The latest poll will also be displayed in the sidebar!

Next to that, I have added a new category, called ‘Spam‘. If you need to promote your competition, your website, your map in the making, or anything else; make a Spam post!

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

Lovesow Mobile!

ETR — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:14:31 +0000

Yeahh, taking Warsow community blogging to the next level! Lovesow.net just got Web3.0-ized!

After getting my 24/7 internet connection on my sweet HTC S710 (which supports push email, multiple accounts, windows live services integrated), and discovering the amazing world of mobile websites, I figured lovesow couldn’t stay behind! Having the frontpage weighing in at a fat ~100/200kb, my phone was struggling with opening it.

Enter Wordpress Mobile! A very easy to use plugin, mobilizing your wordpress blog! After toying around with the css, check out the result:

Post on!

Capture the BEER

triple — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:44:49 +0000

These Guys definitely deserve the Purple Heart of Warsow for true man kind and not ragequitting

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Train!

ETR — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:08:54 +0000

Heavily photoshopped pic I took in Paris (Gare du Nord!) (original photo)

Kikooooooooo

lokirulez — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:22:38 +0000

A Full-Feature Warsow Movie

ETR — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:58:29 +0000

Made by voiceofreason777!

Warsow on Sony Ericsson P990i

lokirulez — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:47:32 +0000

As posted by Wildkater:

CDC4 - The ETR report

ETR — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:01:08 +0000

Day 1

Starting out on Friday, I sadly couldn’t make it on time. Shamefully having emailed all participants to be present at around 11 am, I managed to show up at 7.10 pm! Unfortunately, I didn’t miss much at all, because there were no PC’s available for Warsow! Can you imagine, people taking their fridays off, leaving their girlfriends sick at home, only to show up on the other side of Holland, at the border of the end of the world, to find out there was no possibility of actually playing matches! Sad times.

Anyway! I met up with the usual suspects (tourneys are beginning to feel like reunions, in a good way); h1o, marrk, scoobz, jannis, A_Spec and Rikku, with special-guest star, all the way from Germany – mister pillz - also known as pielz, pillemann, pillzemann, or anything in between. Potatoes and Poki are his best friends, more on that later.

We did nothing at all except for hanging around a bit this first day (poor h1o had been there since Thursday night, the others came fashionably late like myself too). We realized djevil wasn’t going to come (no hard feelings) so the right thing to do would be to call up zkyp and bug him to no end to let him play the next day (he was visiting on Saturday). And so we did. After initially not having succeeded, we gave ollipop a ring (zkyp’s roommate who was coming along too), only to have zkyp answering his phone too, at which point we had no choice but to force him to play. He gave in. I forced him to come around 1 pm on Saturday, to be able to start on time.

Hanging around always comes to an end in the evening, and having arranged nothing for sleeping places at all, we had to resort to marrk’s creative mastermind. Marrk’s creative mastermind came up with a plan of squatting the house of our parents (for the record; me and marrk are brothaz from tha same motha. And fatha), because they were in France. Seemed like a cool plan, with scoobz’ car, Rikku living near wzzrd, and h1o having a place to sleep and make love with all fellow pudgy porky cod4 players (no disrespect here). 5 Warsowians, 1 house, what could possibly be wrong about that!?

So! Time to sleep was upon us, and doing a quick round of maths, we’d figured it’d be best if we’d split up the group for maximum comfort, meaning me and jannis took the train home, and scoobz, pillz and marrk went to our parents place by car.

I don’t exactly recall at what time we arrived, we were all pretty tired, but having played nothing at all, we brought down one pc and played some duels with scoobz’ laptop. Twas fun. After that, we divided the beds and went to sleep. The inseparable duo Pillz und Poki took the living room, jannis and scoobz went upstairs, and marrk and me squatted our own rooms after beating the PiC boys in a game of foosball.

Day 2

And so comes the next day, having set the alarm at around 11 am (if I recall correctly) we were all pretty much up and about around 1 pm (gamer lifestyle) for the ride to wzzrd. Sadly due to poor scheduling, we were forced to our daily mcdonalds break. These mcdonalds breaks have made a lasting impression on me, and have awaken a deep fear of German cuisine in me. We all were having a hard time eating at mcdonalds after waking up, but Pillz tops it off by ordering 3 large portions of fried potatoes, throwing them in one bag, and actually taking around half an hour to eat them all, while dipping them in barbecue sauce and sucking/chewing on them for a couple of minutes. Jannis and me were forced to rock-paper-scissors for the one who had to sit next to our German friend. Jannis lost.

And ofcourse we came in way too late at wzzrd! Thank god we could compensate our lazy lateness by bringing in our own CRT monitors. That’s right! There were only TFT’s this time around, but Warsowians aren’t forced to new technology that easily! We stuffed 5 people and 2 monitors into scoobz’ petite car. Scoobz had a 19″ screen on his lap. I was covered under a pile of bags and backpacks, and the 2nd monitor was in the back of the car. Properly overweighted, we had the most uncomfortable drive ever.

Then we finally got into wzzrd around 3 or 4 pm, met up with zkyp, ollipop and Raida (UT player), set up our pc’s, and basically started out gaming right away. We were one-and-a-half-day behind schedule, so we had better get some games played. Then suddenly I fell into a hole-in-time, and when I managed to climb out of the hole it was 3 am. By that time it seemed we had finished all of our games of the day, having left the loserbracket final and the grand final for Sunday. Happy times. Beer drinking times. We stayed to chill a bit, and then left for the Warsow Bros. Parents Place again. We got home at around 4.30am, and being true and shameless geeks in a gathering, we watched some Quadv streams together (God…), Pillz introduced us to Poki, and then hit the sack. End of day 2!

Day 3

Hitting the sack late, getting up early (11ish) resulted in another difficult journey to the east, with another potatoe-in-car-session by Pillz. We came in pretty late (finals were scheduled for 3 pm, we got there around 2.30 pm, with the loserbracket to be played). Luckily our experience allowed us to not care so much, as ’schedules’ are very dynamic anyway, Friday being it’s best proof.

We let jannis and h1o warm up for the game, and managed to get the loserbracket final played. With alot of communication back-and-forth about finals and casts, we managed to squeeze in the Warsow finals after some qw, cod, or et game (who knows? ;D). Sadly the match didn’t get casted in the bar,

but on the 2^nd stream (meaning A_Spec up in the Quadv lounge by himself ). Anyway, you should all know, the games were very intense and nice to watch. Words and whine being thrown back and forth between the players only livelied up the games.

Sadly the server-admin on the scene was the stereotypical serveradmin type, the overweight one, black-shirt and jeans wearing social handicapped virgin, stuck in a windowless room for 3 days straight. So after some ‘rigid’ cooperation througout the tourney (I actually got him to raise his voice to me), we didn’t get the serverdemo’s. We were all tired after the finals, and there were alot of other games scheduled, so we decided to bail out on the prize ceremony. After greeting and thanking A_Spec for his part of the job, we headed home.

ANYWAY!

All in all it really was a great event. The tourney didn’t went smooth at all, the organisation from crossfire was far from well settled, communication was difficult… But with the cooperation and willingness of all the Warsow players (come on, we even got zkyp to play) we managed to enjoy ourselves, with our own game, CRTs and people.

The sleepover party and roadtrip style-travelling was real nice too, and I’m happy we made it again. Big thanks to all warsowians participating, A_Spec for his superb work, Cash for helping out every now and then, ollipop for battling mc’s, Raida for having once owned me in UT2k4 TAM, and so on. I’m gonna post some movies I made with my phone later (introducing Pillz’ buddy Poki to the masses). CU@Next LAN (UK anyone? ).

Links:

Crossfire Gallery
marrk’s Gallery
QuadV VODS
Demos (MVD!)