"So many people worked on this game when it was first in development. Making new levels, pushing ideas. Re-editing each others maps, talking about all the possibilities for this game and how quickly it was becoming the number one game in the world. We never talked to Jesse or Minh those guys were the main coders. But the people who made the maps we were a community of our own and if you could see the maps that never made the update you'd cry, especially the ones from Europe those guys had an attention to detail that would blow your mind. Macman (Main texture artist, mapper of Oilrig) was my neighbor and teacher, I pretty much figured most of the stuff out myself but whenever I would get stuck he would always take time away from his work to help me with my own and I got to push things to the limit and pass that information down to the next generation of mappers. I don't know if I'll ever get back into game modification because I know it will never be like it was in the beginning. But just to be a part of something so huge for even a few short years is pretty amazing

Get out of there, it's gonna blow

-ShaggyD420"