For the next season I decided to start another team. I would have recycled the name "The Hammor Party" but I had some other ideas for team names that had to get a day in the sun. My favorite three contenders were
Team Antichrist Chicks, Chicks, Chicks, and Dough Louder than GodTeam Antichrist was just a name to get a chuckle out of my friends and scare normal people. Unfortunately some of THP's members were normal people. It was out. Louder than God would have been a
MULTI LINE MACROteam (like the Heros(?) from INL), but the name wasn't too popular. I went with CCC&D, a name inspired by my friends Bradley Spatz and Andy Mitchell.
bcs: "What are the four most important things in life?" thoth: "computers, beer, food, sleep" afm: "No, you geek. Chicks, chicks, chicks, and dough".After I drew the logo, I knew I had a great name. Pity we didn't get to play much. I don't actually remember if we got to play any games, but I do remember that I got fed up with trying to schedule games, where the enemy team would never show in force, and my team would sometimes show in force.
I decided that I couldn't take it any more and shelved the team. It's a pity. I had an idea for a cool T-shirt. It would be a picture of me standing on a stage with three chicks hanging on me like gangster's molls while I threw money into the invisible crowd. Oh well, it would have been fun taking the picture.
Former teammate John Bartoszewski (The Punisher) asked me if he could assume the captaincy and I was pretty darn happy to surrender the frustration of scheduling (also a little relieved. I felt guilty at abandoning my followers). However, by this time my interest in Paradise was waning, being replaced by an interest in DOOM. I rarely showed up at games and was appropriately listed as an honorary member. Eventually I even quit hacking paradise code and passed the torch to Bill Dyess and Bob Glamm.
As for my current addiction, it's writing a game. I have thrown together with two other guys (calling ourselves Purple Frog Software) and we're working on a successor to DOOM. Don't worry, if we get it done, it will be a noticeable improvement over DOOM, but we're not going to go as apeshit as Quake. We'll let ID prove that 3-d engines work before we invest to much time in it. We're content to do multi-story buildings.
Keep an eye out for the Purple Frog Mission Editor, a Linux/X-based WAD editor that blows everything else away.
Written by:
John "The Punisher" Bartoszewski