In 2011 I started browsing the latest graphical/sound quake mods, putting together a pretty build using LordHavoc's darkplaces, rygel's ultra textures packs, the reforged packs and a variety of mods, to play quake original. Anyone can do the same, however the hassle comes when you have to browse the quakeone forums, stumbling to find the posts which detail what cvars and what configs/files you have to overwrite etc in order to get each mod to work. I literally spent as much time getting the mods working as playing the game. So I put together a nice-looking build of quake original and it's expansions called epsilon for everybody to get into, without getting into the hassle of config files and searching to find every available mod then getting them to work! The main quake build also includes the original shareware first quarter of the quake game - it is easily upgraded to the full game by dropping in the pak0.pak and pak1.pak files from the full game's id1 directory (more details below).

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It all started because I was having problems sleeping on friday & saturday nights, due to the noise caused by boy racers.

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It all started because I was having problems sleeping on friday & saturday nights, due to the noise caused by boy racers.
Boy racers are the kind of people you don't bother to kick to death in the streets, because people who feel the need to assert their dominance in the world by waking others up, are basically already dead inside.
So, I set up the isolation room at the studio as a sleepover space, and started sleeping there friday and saturday nights. I worked on music during the day in the weekends, but started to find I was way more creative late at night.
So once the boy racers had been curtailed, the police finally taking notice after months of notifications, I continued to stay over at the studio throughout the rest of the year on weekends.
After a year or so of this I wound up with tons of material, song ideas, starts to things that would never be finished, probably. Some songs got completed, but only those which felt like 'songs', real 'songs'.

A couple of examples:


But there was still tons of stuff which didn't readily fit the 'song' category - more ambient or one-off ideas.
I needed something to do with them... wait what was that thing people were bugging me about?

*Quake Epsilon - Arcane Dimensions is being worked on. It'll probably be ready some time around Christmas, But I'm not guarantee'ing jack.*

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