Hi, I'm playing with you since some time, but never introduced myself.
I started playing tremulous after reading the announcement of version 1.1 on a popular French website named LinuxFr.org about Linux and Free software. It was in 2006, 8 years ago. In the glorious years I played a lot on the french server named bricosoft.
At the time I was a student, some friends where developing a map generator for tremulous named tremgen (Tom has talked about it in this forum here) and it was a school project (we had a very nice teacher ). Badly, like many school projects, it did not survived the year. This time was epic, we were hosting lan parties at school using a SiliconGraphic O2 as server, yes, a friend has ported tremulous to IRIX operating system. It was a fabulous time.
I'm bad at every game I play. It takes me 8 years to get the intermediate level I have.
The first time I discovered the Unvanquished project I was amazed, and I still am. Since I'm now a writer on LinuxFr.org, I wrote some papers about Unvanquished ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5])…
I'm not a very prolific developer, but I maintain abandonned software, write installers and patchers for broken unmaintained games, and I host some servers for games that nobody plays.
I can translate some things, I started translating Unvanquished in the beginning but badly time ran out and I've never released something serious. Hopefully, others have done that (thanks to them). Perhaps there is something else I could do to help the Unvanquished project, but for the moment I don't know what.
I like to help people and I am an extremely loyal guy (perhaps too much, if possible).
In real life I work for a local FM radio station in south of France. I have a moped older than me, I do photography a lot and painting a little and I practice snowboarding. Like many French people I speak only French language, and I write a little bad technical English, and I mumble Spanish (can read more than I can write) and I can decipher some liturgical Latin (nevermind, I joke).
I love playing Unvanquished like I played this day at dev game time.
So, I am convinced, I'll stay here a little while.
My favorite alien form is the granger .
By the way, illwieckz is obviously not my real name, and it means nothing at all.
See you soon!