Author Topic: Who created DP:PB2 ? (Read 5747 times)

w3b5t3r · « **on:** November 13, 2007, 01:31:48 PM »

I just want names (of the creators at the beginning)

KnacK · « **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:27:09 PM »

Well if it wasn't for The Great Carmack, none of this would be possible...

HOw far back did you want to go?

w3b5t3r · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:34:32 PM »

I want to know for an article on wikipedia

iEATnoobs · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:38:25 PM »

I really don't think you should be updating wikipedia.

w3b5t3r · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:38:56 PM »

What do you mean ?

cusoman · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:45:25 PM »

I think what he means is that he doesn't know you, and, because of such, he believes you are a n00b. Whether you are or not a n00b matters not, but what does matter is what you want to know. When Knack said the Great Carmack, he is referring to John Carmack, lead programmer for the quake series. He was the coding director for quake 2, to which this game is based, and so in the article you should say that DP2 is based of the Quake 2 engine. The actual programmer who leads this community and did all the hard work of making quake 2 into a paintball game was Jitspoe. He is the main admin and coded this game from the q2 engine, so if you are looking for a creator, it was Jitspoe, forging the marvelous paintball 2 game from the quake 2 engine. Hope this helps!

-Cusoman
PS: You may want to learn much more about DP2 before posting articles on wikipedia though..

w3b5t3r · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:55:21 PM »

Yes, but I now that pb2 is based from the Q2 engine, but jitspoe "created" the game alone ? this is my question

XtremeBain · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2007, 03:07:18 PM »

After talks broke down with Quake Innovations who had created the qwpball modification for quakeworld, Calrathan set out to create a paintball mod for Q2 without QI's help. Calrathan acted as project lead and lead programmer and jitspoe was the 2d/3d artist and mapper. They produced their first beta in almost record breaking time (20 some days). Then other people became involved (SmokeYa, TX_Outlaw, TiGeR, Sad and a couple others I'm missing) to bring the game towards a 1.5 release. After 1.5 Calrathan was busy with college, but jitspoe still found time to maintain the code to do mostly maintenance fixes (speedcheat/zbot detection, gl_modulate cap, bug fixes). Once the Q2 Engine SDK was released jitspoe used the BeefQuake engine and started building the DP as we know it today, almost exclusively.

If you want a history lesson, go read the news section and read the archives starting from July '98 to present.

w3b5t3r · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2007, 03:14:12 PM »

Thank you

KiLo · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2007, 03:18:32 PM »

Isn't their already a wikipedia about PB2?

XtremeBain · « **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2007, 03:23:34 PM »

Quote from: KiLo on November 13, 2007, 03:18:32 PM

Isn't their already a wikipedia about PB2?

No it got deleted because of power-tripping editors in the 'Games' section because they've never heard of it and this game hasn't received any substantial press in the last 7 years. There's no point making another WP article until unbiased parties from legitimate gaming publications (televised, online or printed) write a review or something. It doesn't matter how many members are registered with the login server, or that it exceeds 1000 downloads a day, or that it has one of the highest activity rankings on source forge, it's obviously not online encyclopedia material... yet.

Edgecrusher · « **Reply #11 on:** November 13, 2007, 04:30:42 PM »

Quote from: XtremeBain on November 13, 2007, 03:23:34 PM

it's obviously not online encyclopedia material... yet.

Maybe another 7 years will finally be lucky...

WarWulf · « **Reply #12 on:** November 13, 2007, 04:54:13 PM »

Quote from: KnacK on November 13, 2007, 02:27:09 PM

Well if it wasn't for The Great Carmack, none of this would be possible...

HOw far back did you want to go?

one day ill show you all my john carmack tattoo. its on my left butt cheek

Just Kidding

Original Gods of q2dp
John Carmack (creator of quake2)
Calrathan\jitspoe\sad\Fembot\nutiket\Tx_outlaw\tiger and i cant remember the other 1-2 names!

XtremeBain · « **Reply #13 on:** November 13, 2007, 05:38:09 PM »

Fembot did nothing more than police #paintball for years.

Apocalypse · « **Reply #14 on:** November 13, 2007, 06:38:51 PM »

If you really want to get it public make some sort of post about it or whatever I'm sure some people on here know someone who could do that. Also I think I remember hearing things about some website or something (believe it was american maybe?) where you can submit articles to some game critique or something but lets not get ahead of ourselves we should probably wait for a couple modifications to come out (build 20-21) before we do something like this.

bleach · « **Reply #15 on:** November 17, 2007, 08:45:01 AM »

I thought it was some guy who created dp2 or pb2 but he gave it up and jitspoe took over it thats what I heard?

y00tz · « **Reply #16 on:** November 17, 2007, 11:21:08 AM »

Quote from: XtremeBain on November 13, 2007, 03:07:18 PM

They produced their first beta in almost record breaking time (20 some days).

I'm still amazed by that. I think it was something close to 23 days from when they launched the site until the had a beta. Aww the gold ol' days.

Xirul · « **Reply #17 on:** November 17, 2007, 02:26:46 PM »

Quote from: KnacK on November 13, 2007, 02:27:09 PM

Well if it wasn't for The Great Carmack, none of this would be possible...

HOw far back did you want to go?

You could go back to Bill Gates, or whoever invented Unix lol

w3b5t3r · « **Reply #18 on:** November 18, 2007, 02:38:16 AM »

Yes, or to the ENIAC of the WW2

Eiii · « **Reply #19 on:** November 18, 2007, 03:05:37 AM »

Quote from: Xirul on November 17, 2007, 02:26:46 PM

You could go back to Bill Gates, or whoever invented Unix lol

This is right up there with the 'Doom and starcraft are both made by blizzard' quote.