Jan Paul van Waveren passed away
Jan Paul van Waveren passed away
Not sure how many of you know (of) him but he was instrumental in developing the AI for the Quake 3 bots (a job he landed at id Software because of his success with the Gladiator bot for Quake 2) and idTech in general onward. I'm not sure what happened to him but I saw John Carmack tweet about it (with lots of old id Software peeps and industry veterans chiming in).
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Whoa that's sad 
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he also made the omricon bot for Q1 I believe.. when I saw those bots navigate around the maps I was like [mindblown.gif]
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Damn, that's surprising. First Paul Steed, now this.
RIP Mr. Elusive.
RIP Mr. Elusive.
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did he do Reaperbot for Q1? that thing was brutal
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And he looks so young in the photos I've seen about.
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Yeah, I think he was in his 20s when he joined ID Software.