Quake3World

Who created it?

Al Gore

originally id software created the site then gamespy industries hosted it and now i have no idea

axbaby wrote:originally id software created the site then gamespy industries hosted it and now i have no idea

id no makey....

DarkViper made it...

He basically converted Action Xtreme into Q3W iirc...

This guy yo!

http://www.caligirl.net/album/darkviper.htm

The site was originaly hosted by Mplayer, then IGN aquired them, and of course later GSI aquired IGN... :icon29: l

Bdw3 wrote:This guy yo!

http://www.caligirl.net/album/darkviper.htm

The site was originaly hosted by Mplayer, then IGN aquired them, and of course later GSI aquired IGN... :icon29: l

What was Mplayer?

o_0

a gaming website...

Like zone.com, heat.net, and battle.net used to be etc... the original Q3 install even had a option in the server browser to only look for Mplayer servers...

Do the people who are "high up there" even know this hole still exists?

Or is it merely a leftover forgotten...?

Holy shit, Mplayer.

That brings back memories. I was an aimbotting fag back then until I realized I could do better without it.

Bdw3 wrote:This guy yo!

http://www.caligirl.net/album/darkviper.htm

The site was originaly hosted by Mplayer, then IGN aquired them, and of course later GSI aquired IGN... :icon29: l

im pretty sure it was hosted by gsi before ign and gsi merged.
remember the We Do Youngsters clan? it got a taboo because GSI thought it to be offensive :icon32:

I can give you guys a little history

Quake3World.com was the official community site for Quake III Arena. It was a bit of a partnership between id Software and Mplayer.com. Mplayer.com hosted and maintained the site, as a part of the Xtreme Network division which I had started... it was a network of about 80 fan sites, along with many (about 50 or so) hosted sites for users/mods, etc.

I remember designing the original site back in the day (November '99) over the weekend, with only a few assets that were available... (screenshots ). You can see what it looked like here:
http://web.archive.org/web/199911280021 ... world.com/. It had a few other evolutions as the site continued to evolve and receive quite the traffic: http://web.archive.org/web/200006211511 ... world.com/

Of course it looks TINY on today's desktop resolutions... but it was simple, and it did the job! We released the Q3A demo exclusively on the site for a few days, then it went out to the rest of the world.

After a bit of time, I moved on to work with Infogrames, Inc. down the road from the Mplayer (HearMe) offices, and started managing the Unreal brands online, amongst many other action titles. Before I moved on, my sister Cali Girl (http://www.caligirl.net), who was also working with me at Mplayer at the time, transitioned into managing Quake3World.com, and I would say she did a fine job at it! She came to me about a month after I left and asked if I could help re-design the site again - so I did, again with very few art assets to do so, and this is what it looked like: http://web.archive.org/web/200103011523 ... world.com/

About 3-4 months after I moved on, GameSpy (now owned by IGN) acquired Mplayer.com (http://pc.gamezone.com/news/06_18_01_02_05PM.htm), which I believe turned out to be a bit more of a malicious merger, but that's my own opinion.

Of course with PlanetQuake already existing on the GameSpy Network, Quake3World.com was more of red-headed stepchild... but it has survived, which I am extremely happy and proud of. I give big props to DooMer and the folks who continue to admin this - even IGN and GameSpy for keeping it alive!

Anyhow, that is the history in a nutshell

whoa

lol R&RII

THE HANGOUT.


BTW DV, got n00dz of your sister?

Links need to be orange, and damn that's one way to necro and return to the boards.

z0mg

ah, the good old days when imagemaps were the kings of webdesign :nostalgia:

LOL - imagemaps are the bomb... even still today, when you want to be lazy with your slices

Now Flash is the new evil.

flash the new evil? what is this, 1999?
web2.0 is the new buzzword.

and slices are what caused every dork on the planet to create a website. talk about the apocalypse.

beeatches

Cool stuff DV, I'm glad you came back around.