Potsdam, August 7th 2008 - ACHTUNG, ACHTUNG: My crappy 1&1-mailserver was down (again)!
Hard to say for how long, but if you tried to contact me in the last couple of days, your message may have been lost. So, if I haven't replied: Please >send it again. - Sorry for the inconvinience!
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Potsdam, July 30th 2008 - MoD-Couture available!
Here it is: The latest opportunity to transfer money from you to me. - Equip yourself with superhip, toonbulletproof and of course womenmagnetic monkey wear! The "shop"-button brings you where you want to be.
And now: Consuuuuume... consuuuuume... consuuuuume... - DO IT!
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Potsdam, June 19th 2008 - Head Tracking, Cam Tracking, Panoramic VR!
Posting no news here for over a month doesn't mean I've been lazy. - No, no, not at all! In fact, it wouldn't been much of a news to drop a "MoD is on a good way"-line here once a week. But be sure: MoD is on a good way;-)
- Have you noticed on how many faszinating methods people are working to replace the old mouse/keyboard control? Three of them seem especially interesting to me:
1. Best known is surely >Johnny Lee's Headtracking experiment with the wiimote. The guys from >Hyper TMG even promise to provide a version of Q3 featuring Head Tracking! - Can hardly wait to test that with my monkeys!
2. Even more interesting, but probably not capable of controling a FPS at the moment is ">CamSpace" by CamTrax Technologies. But this is how the future looks like: Control your favourite game (which is MoD of course) with a babana!
3. ... And finally: THE ULTIMATE 'Q3' VIRTUAL REALITY: >HERE
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Potsdam, May 6th 2008 - A little documentary film...
... about monkeys' natural behaviour when in armed combat.
Choose your prefered format:
AVI-film, 400x300pix, 10 MB
MPG-film, 640x480pix, 22 MB (NEW!)
WAV-film, 640x480pix, 13MB (NEW!)
You can not only see, how MONKEYS of DOOM is gonna look like, but also how badly I suck at playing it...
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Potsdam, April 10th 2008 - Say "Happy Birthday, Mr. Mummy!"
This nice little fellow is the youngest member in our family. - I bet, you can't wait to blow him to pieces, right?!
... And more good news: The stand-alone version of MONKEYS of DOOM is making pretty good progress! I often predicted a release date here and never kept it. But this time I'm really optimistic that it's gonna be soon;-)
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Potsdam, March 8th 2008 - Good, old-school chainsaw...
... replaces the gauntlet. But be careful with this baby, trees could be harmed!
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... Plus: The BFG is now a BFSS, a big f***g supersoaker! - Both still without sound, so NOT in the files-section yet:-(
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Potsdam, February 28th 2008 - Two month without internet...
... were great! I've never been more productive! Thanks, Deutsche Telekom! - And here comes the result:
1. "Kat1024", one of the smallest but most beautiful maps for Quake3, is cartoonized! - Grab it from the >files section!
A big THANK YOU goes to the author of that map, Mister Ken 'kat' Beyer, of course!
(As always I had no opportunity to test the map on other hardware than mine, so if it's too slow, too dark, too creepy or whatever on yours, >please let me know! I guess, some older machines might have problems with the mirrorpool, so I'm probably gonna release a version without that.)
2. I replaced two more weapons, the grenadethrower and the rocketlauncher. This is how they look like in MONKEYS of DOOM:
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As soon as they have sound, I'm gonna put them to the files-section, too.
3. From now on all health comes from refreshing alcoholic drinks instead of boring, hard to digest glassballs! Here is a picture of the yummies!
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4. ... Oh, and the armor looks a little different as well!
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Potsdam, December 19th 2007 - Here comes the checkered flag...
... for the map-contest! - Time for a big "THANK YOU!" to all who took part!
Over 30 maps have been sent in, most of them great, some fantastic!
Having them all together means the coolest part is next: Putting them through their paces in intense all-night-long hardcore-combat against man, woman and beast!
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Potsdam, December 5th 2007 - Hey, hey!
The nice guys at PlanetQuake have chosen the shot of Mr. Satan as their >Picture of the Day !
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Potsdam, November 30th 2007 - Something new to fiddle around with...
... is in the >files -section! Satan, Lady Pain and a so far secret weapon, called "Metal-Axe" (yeah, for the headbangers among you), are waiting there for the heaviest, most devilish, filthiest combat imaginable in Quake III Arena!
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Potsdam, November 19th 2007 - Ladies and Gentlemen...
... Please give a warm welcome to the cast of MONKEYS of DOOM! - And those are (in alphabetical order):
 Affe
 Albinia
 Axel Rouge
 Monsieur Cabernet
 Eclipse
 Countess Hemoglobia
 Karl (Team Red)
 Miss Mantis
 A fierce Nazi
 Lady Pain
 Robinson
 Rubinie
 and Satan himself!
You can't see it, but they are all modelled and animated in finest 3D and ready to fight until their last polygone as soon as MONKEYS of DOOM is out (... which will hopefully be in the not-so-far future...;-)
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Potsdam, October 28th 2007 - ACHTUNG-ACHTUNG...
It seems as if there was a technical problem with my mailserver during the last couple of days! So some of the maps you tried to send in may not have reached me!
Sorry for that! Please >try it again!
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Potsdam, October 24th 2007- Some FAQ...
... refering to the maps wanted:
Q: I have a great map, but the style doesn't fit with MONKEYS of DOOM at all. Is that a problem?
A: No! Send it in as it is, the cartoonization is my part of the job!
Q: Doesn't it harm id's copyrights to buy/sell this stuff?
A: No, as I'm just looking for maps. No original id-content (textures, models, sounds) is needed, wanted or will be used.
Q: My map is really good, but is it among the best of all time?!
A: "Best of all time" has an invisible ;-) behind itself. "Really good" is - hmm - perfect! Send it in!
Q: Why don't you save the money and make the maps by yourself?
A: Because I'm not a good mapper! And we shouldn't wait with MoD until we're all old and hate videogames.
Q: How do you plan to sell "Monkeys of Doom"?
A: Good question, any idea is welcome! One is to place it on a platform like >Steam, but I have no idea if that is practicable. What I know is, that it should be sold for a fair price (around 10$).
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Potsdam, October 23rd 2007 - Some people out there...
... seem to be afraid they could become Nazis with cartoon-Adolf on their screens. - To ensure not to make a Nazi of anybody, that figure is kicked, too!
Hope everyone sleeps better now ;-)
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Potsdam, October 19th 2007 - Those were the goodies...
... here come the badasses:
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(We have, from left to right, Karl, the Fuhrer, Axel Rouge, Agent Pale and a figure looking like Eric Cartman but isn't Eric Cartman)
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(These are Punkarella, Lady Pain, Countess Hemoglobia, Frau Hartman and Toodora)
- Ten women, ten men and all cartooney beauties of the highest grade. So our cast is complete!
... Okay, okay... I think I have to kick the figure looking like Eric Cartman but isn't Eric Cartman to avoid trouble with the Southpark-guys.
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Potsdam, October 16th 2007 - The cast, part 1:
Five guys, four of them new...
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(From left to right: Robinson jr., Brickles, Monsieur Cabernet, McGrape and Dr. van Tan)
... and five ladys (right, also four of them new!)...
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(Fräulein Rosa, Pinky-Sue, Mademoisselle Rouge, Albinia and Eclipse)
... will form the first half of the crew of MONKEYS of DOOM!
- So, no lack of killing-personnel, as far as I can see...
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Potsdam, October 11th 2007 - Bug fixed!
The website is tested and therefore should be displayed properly on the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 7
- Mozilla Firefox 2
- Opera 9
- Netscape 7
If not, please >let me know!
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Potsdam, October 10th 2007 - Sorry,...
Firefox- and Opera-Users! I just had to notice that this site looks like crap on your browsers at the moment:-(
- Hope to fix that quickly...
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Potsdam, October 6th 2007 - Surprise, surprise...
... This looks somehow different than when you were here last time, right?!
Well, I thought that old, dark pages didn't really fit with the style of the game. So I cartooned them up, and this is what came out. - Hope you like it! (If not: The old sites are still online. The flag with the big monkey to the right leads there...)
For those who look for something new: There will be a stand-alone version of "Monkeys of Doom" in the not-so-far future! The screenshots to the left give you an impression of what's comming up to you.
But back to the website: As you can see, I kicked the "mod-it-yourself" section, cause nobody seemed to use that. The ">about"-chapter got some tune-up, and under ">files" you can download four MoD-style player models for Quake3 to shorten the time until the full game is out.
Last but not least we have the ">play!"-site, as new as empty at the moment. It will contain a list of online-gameservers, ready for you to join cartoon-combat!
Okay, but now enough of the talking.There are some playgrounds of doom waiting to be made...
See you!
Wilko
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