Looking to chat with the original tribes team members
by Ryan M · in General Discussion · 01/10/2005 (10:46 pm) · 36 replies
Hey! Welp after e-mailing a few dead accounts for various team members, I was referred here by a friend who said most of dynamix turned into garage games. I'm a diehard fan of tribes 1 and EVERYTHING having to do with it. Ive combed through the .vols many a times searchign for new textures and abandoned ones never to see the light of day. (due to dev constraights I think). I've found the easter eggs in the maps the mappers left behind (the one on broadside is a great example, I think scott left that one). I'm very interested in the history of tribes, tribes extreme and the like. I think I did more research on tribes extreme today than ive ever done on any college term paper.
So, my goal in posting this is that i'll get the attention of a few of the texture artists and graphics people behind the game thats taken up my life for 7 years now. I am a graphics designer currently involved in a project having to do with T1. I'm responsible for all textures updates and things like that (its like some 400 pbmps I think, lol). I put out an APB for anyone who has the alpha or beta of tribes (as seen in the video floating around where the grenade launcher/plasma thing has a hand attached to the side) and the wrist laser). Id give a kidney to play that piece of history...geeze. haha.
I know I may be rambling but i'm excited to hear what comes of this. Thank you for your time and if you wish to discuss anything not here, e-mail works just fine.
webmaster@photoshopjedi.com
-Exorcist
P.S. heres a little taste of what i'm working on: 32 bit textures
Its interesting and one has to wonder why this skin only has certain parts avalible on it? I know I do...stuff like this is what interests me.
Edit: I fixed your links
So, my goal in posting this is that i'll get the attention of a few of the texture artists and graphics people behind the game thats taken up my life for 7 years now. I am a graphics designer currently involved in a project having to do with T1. I'm responsible for all textures updates and things like that (its like some 400 pbmps I think, lol). I put out an APB for anyone who has the alpha or beta of tribes (as seen in the video floating around where the grenade launcher/plasma thing has a hand attached to the side) and the wrist laser). Id give a kidney to play that piece of history...geeze. haha.
I know I may be rambling but i'm excited to hear what comes of this. Thank you for your time and if you wish to discuss anything not here, e-mail works just fine.
webmaster@photoshopjedi.com
-Exorcist
P.S. heres a little taste of what i'm working on: 32 bit textures
Its interesting and one has to wonder why this skin only has certain parts avalible on it? I know I do...stuff like this is what interests me.Edit: I fixed your links
#22
Is Andrew still hacking away at T1? I havent spoken to him in a year or so...
01/31/2005 (5:58 pm)
Desert of Death, standoff nightmares....Is Andrew still hacking away at T1? I havent spoken to him in a year or so...
#25
sorry but i suck at gfx work =)
04/05/2005 (9:41 pm)
I'm bored and try to bring some new flavour in heresorry but i suck at gfx work =)
#26
Well when I say "we" I mean me, and then people come watch me play and say "damn that was a fun game."
04/06/2005 (12:50 am)
Hot damn that looks sweet. We've been doing a lot of T1 nostalgiating at GG.Well when I say "we" I mean me, and then people come watch me play and say "damn that was a fun game."
#27
04/06/2005 (1:28 am)
I wish GG could make the next iteration of Tribes....whether it be in the Tribes universe or not.
#28
Tribes 1 is one of the greatest games in the video games history.
It showed to everyone what team-based multiplayer gaming was really all about.. everything else span off from there..
you can see bits of tribes in following games like Halo, Planet Side, Breed, UT 2004.....
I remember staying up at night so that I could play on american servers... at first the game was not available in Europe,
so I joined a US clan and played during the ngiht.. I rememebr setting up the Allarm Clock at 4am so that I could play a clan match!
Finally it got released, (and also pirated) in Europe... finally UK servers came up and I formed (with a friend) a new clan, the NM clan.
NM stands for No Mercy. We joined a UK Division 2 and won! Gaining admission to Division One! But after that team members had to move on and
take a brake from the hard work involved with taking part to Division matches.. like weekely training etc :)
Tribes 1 also pop up in some interview paper I filled in for my last job application... loved T1 to bits.. and still do
Great stuff Ryan M
04/06/2005 (4:26 am)
Pat,Tribes 1 is one of the greatest games in the video games history.
It showed to everyone what team-based multiplayer gaming was really all about.. everything else span off from there..
you can see bits of tribes in following games like Halo, Planet Side, Breed, UT 2004.....
I remember staying up at night so that I could play on american servers... at first the game was not available in Europe,
so I joined a US clan and played during the ngiht.. I rememebr setting up the Allarm Clock at 4am so that I could play a clan match!
Finally it got released, (and also pirated) in Europe... finally UK servers came up and I formed (with a friend) a new clan, the NM clan.
NM stands for No Mercy. We joined a UK Division 2 and won! Gaining admission to Division One! But after that team members had to move on and
take a brake from the hard work involved with taking part to Division matches.. like weekely training etc :)
Tribes 1 also pop up in some interview paper I filled in for my last job application... loved T1 to bits.. and still do
Great stuff Ryan M
#29
-Ryan
04/06/2005 (7:21 am)
Thanks for posting some new stuff Gunner. I got really busy and havn't had time to continue on this project. But now that we have full terrain support...back to the photoshop drawing board! I can't wait for this to be released. And to everyone else, thanks for the compliments. (fyi: that disc skin isn't finished yet...heh I was still workin on it).-Ryan
#30
i started playing tribes 1 in DF, which means DarkFire. As i know DF played a lot with NM in the early days. Nice to see ppl still check stuff out which is related to tribes.
04/06/2005 (9:08 am)
Hokurto, i started playing tribes 1 in DF, which means DarkFire. As i know DF played a lot with NM in the early days. Nice to see ppl still check stuff out which is related to tribes.
#31
Wow.. eh eh.. those were good times... I really miss all that excitement.
Now and then I still wonder what the other NM ex-players are up to these days...
Some day I should search around for them just for fun:0)
04/06/2005 (9:13 am)
GunnerWow.. eh eh.. those were good times... I really miss all that excitement.
Now and then I still wonder what the other NM ex-players are up to these days...
Some day I should search around for them just for fun:0)
#32
04/06/2005 (11:57 am)
Those 32 bit textures are hot :(.
#33
04/15/2005 (7:55 pm)
Looks very nice man good work
#34
05/08/2005 (9:32 am)
I'd like to see this through, especially after seeing that sky. Guess I should stop looking at what everyone else is creatinga nd start doing my own thing instead of procrastinating for the next few months like I have been.
#35
05/08/2005 (9:41 am)
The sky looks really great on this, but I don't think you'd be able to see the stars where the dark side of the moon is. Really looking great otherwise, though :) 
#36
05/08/2005 (11:01 am)
What a great thread. :) Nice work man!
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