From our friends at tmaniacs, Hawkger translated an interview with Golo! Since I [Januy] haven’t got much free time for the blog atm this is a really nice surprise that tmaniacs allowed us to publish it! Many thanks, TManiacs for letting us publish their interview, and of course HawkGer for making an outstanding translation and sharing it with us from the RPG Blog. Now, TMX; Enjoy this interview with Golo!

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More than two months ago the German TM-blog Tmaniacs published an interview-article in which Golo gives answers to a wide range of topics regarding RPG, making the interview especially interesting as Golo is one of the only few authors who builds United RPG-tracks. I found this piece of writing so interesting that I decided to translate all of it into English so that a broader audience can read it. So if you like to know more about Golo and his ideas on RPG and TM in general, keep on reading!

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»I was recently sent a short video for the AMD Phenom II Minimovie Contest on Tek-9 by a friend. The video was called Alan – Unforgettable Moments and featured the Opel-QRD Team of Russia. I was absolutely astonished by the dramatic clip of what appeared to be a TM Video. The effects were insane, the explosions mastered and It was all perfectly synchronized to the unusual choice of rock music. The In-Sync speed up and slow motion parts worked so very perfectly and the twitch effect was simply epic!

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Welcome to the Author Showcase, a project founded by Natzke on Trackmania Nations Exchange. We already made a lot of Interviews, with famous users like Ron Turbo, Panis and GanjaRider, but also normal TMX users like Quat or SeaDevil! We have gotten a lot of positive reactions to it. And we now got the great news that we can publish our Interviews on TMX Blog! We hope you enjoy it!

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Welcome readers, to the first interview of 2010. It's time for a legend - it's time for FaHoFF!

Please tell us more about yourself (birthday, real name, place of birth, height, weight, favourite colour) and your background?
Hello to all readers first! My real name (the one that I only use in documents, and facebook xD) is Fahrudin, but I’m more known as Fahro. I was born on 7th of July, 1986. In a city located in north Slovenia, called Slovenj Gradec. After studying in Maribor and Ljubjana, I returned in Slovenj Gradec and started to work in family company that is dealing with real estates. I’m 178cm tall and weight is around 60kg of pure muscles [:P] My favorite color would be green …no, yellow!? I love them all, depends of mood …just like music!

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Hello TMX,

it’s been a while since the last article, sorry but real life has it’s things that suck all your time up!
Luckily HardDance was there to give me a little bit of text about himself, so why don’t you sit back and enjoy this little bio from the fresh new TMNFX Site Leader, HardDance!

Real Name: Magnus Næss
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Country: Norway

Who am I?
I am a normal teenager who goes under the genre lazy. Although I spend a few hours in front of the computer every day, I'm pretty active. I go second class by Sande Secondary School. There, I have general education and at least 2 hours gym every day. jippi! When I am not at school, I'm with friends, playing football or working. And work is something I set pretty high, since it is something I think is funny, instructive, and something everyone should do at the age of 18 that person, I am quite lively and sometimes hyperactive, but it is of course after 4-5 hours, I'm as good as dead 2-3 hours after I have stood up. (I'm no early bird)
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With TM2 rolling out in the fourth quarter this year. Benoit Vandangeon, had taken the opportunity and gave the new TrackMania 2 3D Engine a test with this outstanding short preview of the new environment to be featured in TrackMania 2. This only a snippet of what's to come later this year.

Yesterday Nadeo has uploaded a new announcement on their website, containing images of their new Trackmania for the Wii that is being made by FireBrand. Well, new, it’s still the same environments, but it will probably have a new campaign and other features. But read it for yourself :) From the Forum Topic;

Race on more than 200 tracks divided into six drastically different environments, and numerous game modes!

TrackMania on Wii also offers the incredible and essential track editor, giving the opportunity to create an infinite number of personal tracks! Then share your craziest creations with your friends, thanks to the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection! Of course, multiplayer modes are included: Hotseat mode, 4 players split-screen, and especially online play using Nintendo Wi-fi connection! Compete against your friends and join online players from all around the world!

 
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From the TMX Forums;

Hello

If you've recently fired up good ol' TrackMania, then I can be assured you've been asked the following question: Are you happy? With this being a quick poll, where you get the choice of: Yes, No or No Opinion. This was rather dull and useless. If Nadeo want a better response than a mere yes or no answer, they should've let players give a detailed response to there choice. This option was not given. However, we have started this topic to obtain your detailed response into this.

Rules you MUST obey when responding to this ...
• This is a one response topic. One reply per user.
• Do NOT discuss any responses posted here. Use the alternative thread here!
• Non useful responses will be removed, same applies for double posting.
• This topic must be kept as clean as possible for Nadeo to read.

If you would like to change your response. Do so by editing your original post. Do NOT post again.

Remember to use this thread to respond to each others responses.

Responding ..
Answer: Yes/No/No Opinion
Detailed Response: Message here.
Please make sure Answer and Detailed response are clearly bolded [b][/b]

TMUFX Poll
TMUFX Discussion
TMNFX Poll
TMNFX Discussion

So, leave your comment about Trackmania in one of these topic!

Hello TMX,

we continue the line of coders, so meet Piercy!

Real Name: Michael Pierce
Age: 20 (08.12.1989)
Gender: Both (j/k Male)
Country: United Kingdom
Area: Surrey
Real Occupation: Software Developer c# .NET

Who am I?
I am your standard overage teen(20 lol), out partying most weekends enjoying my life as it comes.  I'm very much into music although i don't have a particular genre, to pick a few, hip-hop rnb dance house garage dnb rock(heavy and light) bit a screamo here and there maybe lol.  Another, hobby i have other than computer, is cars.  I am really into the modified car scene, modified mine a little here and there hope to do more soon!  I am a very keen gamer and started playing FPS games ages ago.  My first computer FPS would have been enemy territory and i now often play the likes of enemy territory, cod4, cod5, cod:mw, l4d, l4d2, wsw.  I love the half life series and have been impatiently waiting for hl2:ep3.  I am in a clan called HESS and i am the lead coder/server admin there as well.
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Hey TMX,

This would be interesting for those RPG lovers out there!
As you may now, or not, the RPG Blog came up with a track building contest.
First prize was a brand new Trackmania United Forever Account.

Well, we are further in time now, and the results are out!

The winner of the RPG Track Building Contest is; Fishy!
His track Drop Scrolls on Sobekité was the winning track, be sure to check it out

“the track design is beautiful and the GM update looks very nice”
”The route and the tricks are very good, producing a great flow.”

On Second place; Sebik, with his track Four Powers.
He has won 15.000 coppers!    More...

Hello TMX,

It has been a week (so far)! While TMUFX just kept relax and calm, there was chaos on TMNFX. First there were some troubles in the forum (new posts landing on the first page), then somehow tracks got switched ( D02-Race for example was a totally different track), then TMX went back in time for 4 days and after that it went down!

All of that has it’s reasons, though some are unclear (even to the Crew), but one thing is clear: the Coders eventually got TMX back on track and it’s back it’s old state again, probably even better.

On a side note, why don’t you come up with the reason yourself for that reset back in time, you might even get 1000 coppers or more for it!
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