Reporter: How old are you?
Phobos: Eighteen!
Reporter: When did you start playing WoP and how did you find it?
Phobos: Well ... I think it must have been in the year 2006, as I tried the PadMod. But there was no server, so I played against the bots:>. How I found WoP? I was looking for some custom maps for Quake 3 Arena and found the "PadKitchen," which was created for Quake 3. ENTE posted some screenshots of his padmaps in the planetquake.de-editing forum, and I saw that these maps were not for Quake 3 when I downloaded some of them, and tried to play them in Quake 3
. I saw nothing but missing textures, so I loaded the whole modification:>
Reporter: At the time, do you think, you were able to call yourself a part of the community?
Phobos: What do mean with "at the time"? As I tried the mod, or as I posted the first screens of my room-map?
Reporter: At the time when you tried the modification.
Phobos: No, no then.
Phobos: As WoP was released on the first of April, I think I was the first one, who tried the standalone. I got on Harm's nerves to get the download link. I think it was at 3 o'clock PM that I could download the standalone... Sure, at first I was all about making it but I somehow stopped from lack of desire to play. I then came to play again, when I was a beta tester for WoP 1.2.
Reporter: Ok, but now we may no longer see you as a community member, you may take more of a place of pride in the community as a mapper, or how do you see it?
Phobos: It's a matter of opinion, but if you get offered a place of honour you won't say no. In principle, everyone was supposed to get a place as an honourary member for WoP, who has campaigned for the community. WoP is ready for an award from the GamesCon, from my perspective. I mean, each member of WoP basically sacrificed his spare time and needs to, just so we can have a good time. And they helped to develop such a community.
Reporter: What do you imagine concerning WoP 2.0?
Phobos: Obviously a single player mode, which references it to other games like Tomb Raider and Duke Nukem, and their distinctive maps in an arena, then you attempt to defeat them
. But I know that this is too much work and I can understand the whole team will be happy if WoP 2.0 is released. I know it from my own art, if you draw at a picture for several days, I will get fed up with it and just can not see it anymore. I believe it is the same with the developersand their stuff. But I also hope WoP continues to live by the community and that there will always be new maps, mapobjects, player models, music packs and mods created by the community.
Reporter: Tell me briefly about yourself.
Phobos: What can I say, my past 7-10 class was just influenced by my illness :\. I was an outsider for a long time. But it has changed now, as I was looking for (and even found!) new friends. Like the community has seen, I like drawing and mapping, if I may say so :>. Mapping has also became a passion and I am working at the moment with modeling for mapobjects. I am now attending grade 11 in secondary school and try my final secondary-school examinations somehow to study later art & graphic, and then switch to game design
Reporter: What do you like most about WoP?
Phobos: At WoP, I like just the detail. Who would not know the posters that are available from the doctor? Where are certain objects, such as the hedgehog, frog, or the red ball? These were full of detail, and detail reflects the reality for me. But in general I may say: the maps, sounds and textures:>
Reporter: Have you ever contributed anything to World of Padman?
Phobos: I think I've made sure that the old Kai-Li Tutorial is back, so it is available to save mapobject catalogue. I put together the mappack with a little help from Brain as well. I also helped at the beginning of the community and took part in the beta test of the 1.2 patch. :S Well, and a couple of maps, from helping people and the times of which I played WoP, in ICQ. But no more: <
Reporter: What suggestions do you have for WoP?
Phobos: Suggestions? Rewrite the engine so that the shadows are automatically fine and do not have long compile times. Perhaps even something like bump mapping, so that the structures would also come out correctly
But that is far too much work.
Reporter: What is your favorite server?
Phobos: Wow, good question :S I am engaged at the moment only with the school. On the server name I can not remember because I haven't played for long time...
Phobos: But basically I have no favorite servers :S
Reporter: What is your favorite weapon?
Phobos: Favorite weapon? Betty
Reporter: And why?
Phobos: Because Betty is like the Rocket Launcher in Quake 3.
Reporter: And what makes the Rocket Launcher in Quake 3 so special, why do you like it so much?
Phobos: For the Betty you need something like a feeling that one should acquire first. It's just fun to watch when the opponent is hit in the air from the Betty
Reporter: What is your favorite map?
Phobos: My favourite maps are harms_diner and cyb_bath
But actually, my own :>
One Sunday evening, oregano4 surprised us with his brand new airplane map. Yes, a real airplane map with a realistic cockpit, seats for the passengers, and even playable overhead containers.
On this Sunday, January 31st at 8pm CET, there will finally be a "Pad Day" again!
A while ago, our forum-user, player, and now also freelancer, The Brain created a new, detailed tutorial in which he explains everything worth knowing about creating your own dedicated WoP-server. Be aware, though that it is explained using the Linux operating system and that advanced computer skills are required.
There aren't many WoP videos made by the WoP community. But, in mid-December, a new video was made by The Weasel, in which he puts ingame-video scenes of his four maps (Blockcity, Skatefest, Hobbyroom und Laboratory) together in one nice video-clip.
A new year is upon us and we admit that 2009 wasn't really the year of "World of Padman". Many things didn't quite work out the way we planned because of private reasons or "staff shortage". We intentionally backed off a little after we realized that 2009 wasn't the year of WoP 2.0 and there wasn't as much as we had hoped happening behind the WoP curtains.
Another year, still no WoP 2.0. But a new version of the X-Mas mod to save the day! (And maybe year, at least the month.) We could even call it X-Mas WoP 2.0, but the X-Mas team really is not organized enough to have any version numbers for the mod.
Some of you may recognized that something is going on with the community board. This is due to Smiley working hard on the database and the board software to bring it up to date. Please be patient and don't be sad if you find the board in maintain mode or completely offline. We hope to reanimate the board very soon.
