[drzel]

In 1997 I played my first online multiplayer game. It was QuakeWorld Team Fortress. It was incredible, janky, fast, ugly, complicated and absorbing. I found a community of other players through IRC and devoted 8 hours a day to playing this treasure.

By 2005 (a very decent shelf life), the game was all but dead. This was a significant part of my life gone.

In 2018 I found the source, forked it and began FortressOne, a modern port of this classic game.

There are now a thousand people on our discord channel and daily games in four continents. I’m over the moon but more work needs to be done. This year my goal is to get it on steam.

[mylons]

so cool. the competitive quake 3 ctf scene was this for me. IRC from 97-2005ish was a beautiful time on the internet for me. discord seems close but doesn’t quite match that world for me for some reason.

[pplante]

i played a lot of TF in my life. i took a long hiatus from the HL2/Source based TF2 and decided to play again a few years after they added hats. i joined a game and quit after a few minutes, just before the barrage of crap ruined my LAN party memories.

i hope no one remakes Tribes.