,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, An interview of MGen (kuski of month on July 2001): ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' -= When did you start playing? =- I started playing across in 1998 as i can remeber, I was playing it very rarely and badly. I stopped it soon and in the end of july of 2000 I have met Elma. I was very glad to see 'across' under Windows and started to hoyl... :) -= Ex-teams and why did you change teams? =- I haven't been in other teams before The Elastic Aborigines. It's my first team. But I wouldn't like changing teams I think. -= Current total =- 42:41:14 -= Location =- Hungary, the cities are Tatabanya (where I live) and Budapest (where I study). -= Across Career briefly? Any WRs?, World Cup I and II and so on.. =- I haven't had across career. I hadn't even know that WR table exists, I just played it for fun. -= Do you still like Across? Why/why not =- I got across full version since but I used to dislike across's 'bugs' (as slowing down the bike at some vertices) so I just checked the levels. After Elma I can't play across well any more. -= How did you get Across/Elma? Was it your worst mistake? or the best? =- I got across from somewhere I don't know :) I've met Elma first in our 'office' where we have been developing game, one of the graphicians had it and played it on his computer. That would be a mistake not to copy the game onto my computer and start to play it :) It was the shareware version then I got the full one from Balazs. -= Favourite internals / most irritating internals =- Oh, I was waiting for this question... I hate much levels, but the most irritatings are Slalom, Double Trouble (what is the common in these??? :), Long Haul and Quick Round. My best level is Zig-zag because I like all the discovered (and undiscovered) tricks on that. 'It's a challenging level' as a kuski said in #across :) I always liked the style for Freefall and then also come Labyrinth and Serpents Tale. -= Your own best WRs? =- I had 2 internal WRs, on The Steppes with 12:51 and on Freefall with 15:34. My first and only OLP WR is made on Drive, 17:23. I'm proud of my Steppes WR achievement mostly. I developed the style on my own and had the WR for months. -= Best WRs in your opinion? =- I must check the table... :) Yep...the brand new O&U WR (31:08 by Jarkko H) is quite shocking...I knew 31:6x style and I just can't believe it now. Anyone saw Zig-zag WR except Jarkko H? :o It must be the most lucky or most weird-trick ride ever driven... And don't forget that ALL WRs are the best WRs! ;) -= Who in your opinion is/was the best player in the world? =- It's an unanswerable question you know... I can just write down some nicks without sorting: zyntifox, pajen, Jeppe, Deadelous, Karlis, swos...and many more. -= Are there some kind of external contests you like? =- I don't know much contests especially external ones. If the question contains it: I like those 15-30 min battles very much we play on IRC in the nights :D The most interactive competition ever. -= Best lgr in your mind? Which lgr do you use? =- I'm not changing lgr. I use the original one with some extra: sometimes when I just can't see the wheel on a dark blue background I paint it yellow or I draw the kuski's head to a perfect circle to check collisions with the wall more precisely. -= Mention some good things you have gotten with Across/elma? =- Fun. Much fun hours. Anyone else can we got with it? :) -= Mention some bad things you have gotten from Across/elma? =- Sometimes I get very nervous by trying a trick unsuccelfully for hours. Then I hate myself why I played it for nothing. It takes much time from my freetime that is fortunately much enough :) But I shouldn't spend that much time on it. And I can't tell that there's no connection between Elma and my newly grew-up bad results of my studies. -= What is the most frustrating thing you have face in your career? =- The most frustrating thing was (in general) the period when I couldn't be better more. At the total of about 44 mins I couldn't make a best time and my total stayed the same for a while (1.5 months, 10 sec bettering). I thought I won't play more... And losing my WRs were almost that frustrating. -= Your best achievements? =- 3 WRs, Hungarian Cup 2nd place, Middle European Cup 5th place and being the 1st on Hungary for a long :) Some battles won and so on... -= How much did you play in your sickest period? How much these days? =- F*cking sickest periods...some days I had the whole day as freetime and played Elma for over 8 hours a day in the hostel. It wasn't good for health.. Nowadays I play under 2 hours a day in average when I'm at home (this means that I don't watch TV in the evenings :) -= Best memories with elma? =- The Elma Crime movie shooting day is a good memory :) And all that battles I played or the times when I developed new WR styles. -= Best Elma friends? =- Almost all hungarian kuskis on IRC, especially TEA members cause we know eachother for a long now. I must also mention EML(in spite of his earlier mistake), csybe, Abula, Karlis and all I talked to on IRC... they know who I am talking about :) -= What gets you to play Elma still? =- I think battles and new techniques for levels (internal+OLP) do. While Elma world is alive, I'm playing it. -= What do YOU think should be improved in an eventual new version of elma? =- The editor should be improved a little bit in my opinion: - Selection thingy: moving more vertices, whole polygons - Drawing the whole bike and objects to see sizing The physics itself is very okay. Merging is a thing I miss, and a network game feature. It means that battles would be managed by a server computer (one of the battl0rz): direct winner-rec downloading, no cheats with time and so on... -= Do you have a life when playing elma? =- Life and Elma exclude eachother, aren't they? :) Battling is a piece of my life as hoyling alone by the way. -= You like battling too? =- If it haven't turned out yet, yes. I play battles whenever I have time. -= You have gotten some negative feedback about playing elma from your friends, right? =- It's not this way as I realised. My friends say when Im playing: "Whow, he has enough patience for this game...how could it be?", and they say: "Congrat.!" when I make good times. They aren't negative to Elma, including my parents. They not force and restrict me. Nice environment to play Elma, eh? :) -= Which games do you like beside Elma? =- I like more older games than newer ones. I play Magic Carpet 2 (DOS), Heroes 2-3, Unreal Tournament, and multiplayers: MrBoom (DOS), Jump'n bump, Triplane (DOS). I also like Revolt. -= Have you thought about if you could stop playing Elma soon, or anytime? =- I had been thinking but now I know that it's no sense to stop playing elma. If I don't play then I just not got new times. Why to force myself not to play it in the future...again. -= Are you at the top of your career now? If not so, then when? =- I am over the top of my career...I mean I've taught everything that a kuski must know, I also have good times enough (on my scale :) -= Was it a surprise to be voted for the kuski of month? =- After getting 2nd, 3rd in the previous votings, I can say no. But the first time when I was on the list and I leaded I was quite surprised :) Anyway I must have been voted not because of my best times. -= Mopolauta, any opinions? =- Sometimes I read mopolauta thingy. It's good for discussing about topics that aren't needed in #across. Just go on beeing, mopolauta! :) -= Your opinion about MC Studios and MUe's Elma animations =- MC Studios rule! Quite much songs, lyrics and all is made with real drums, guitar and singing...that's why I like them. Of course, MUe animations rule too! Hehe, what else could I say.. :P MUe is one of those who create something new about Elma. He got many good ideas. -= Your relation to OLP =- Hm. I liked OLP as being a brand new level pack with WR-table. I played it much, nowadays not that much. There are more hated levels in it than among internals. I must say that it's good for many players who like that style of levels and OLP was/is generally a good idea. -= Why that nick, MGen? =- MGen is a nick of my nick :) MicroGenius is my full one, but it was too long to pronounce, so I got to be MGen. ("mgen" is the real one but TEA was found by CSabi, MUe and me...see the reason? ;) About 8 years before I wanted some nick and thought of something that contains "nitrogen". I am the younger brother and the friends called me "little" one. And they suggested "Microgen" intead of "Nitrogen"... -= Your real life. Do you have it? Tell something (any girlfriends? school, work, other interests etc) =- Yes, I am having but needs some changing. I am studying at the Technical University of Budapest and I'm going to be an engeneer in informatics. So I like programming, working with computers. I was developing a game in a team one year before (Screamer4x4 is its name). My other interests: playing guitar, all kind of astronomy. My newest project (that is being late) is to build a 20cm telescope. Girlfriend, eh? The only word that is before Elma in my dictionary but not means anything now. The Girl seems to be very unreachable... Other things to know: I hate hot weather! I like cats and chocolate. (cats not to eat :) I'm a Nirvana fan. I'm lazy. -= Please write here something about the game, fellow kuskis, moposite, #across, whatever =- First of all, about Moposite: the best gaming site ever! Im looking forward to the new moposite and know that it will be alive forever :) I take the opportunity to say "Hello!" to every kuskit and "Thanks for taking part in forming the elma world!". And I must mention that cheating in Elma is the most infantile way of being the 1st. Have fun with Elma! :D MGen 17 August 2001