Category:PPP Team

PPP Team

A group of Belgian demo sceners who have dissected some of Game-Maker's file formats.

Contact information

Address any inquiries to pype_1999.geo(at)yahoo.com.

Links

• Distribution page
• Cyborg Jeff's distribution page
• Sylvain Martin's Game-Maker recollections
• Game-Maker blog

Team Presentation

(translated from Pype's '97 presentation in Badman III) The PPP Team Software

Pierre Martin ALIAS Piet

• 18 years
• Tracker under ScreamTracker III. Formerly just a level designer and head of PPP Team, he is starting to slowly become a "competent" graphic designer, specializing in abstract scenery.
• MASCOT: Spector - Spector is the 1st game that Piet completed with his own hands.

Pierrick Hansen

• Musician-designer-Programmer
• Departing on CPC programmer, he quickly came to teach us the art of basic graphic and animation
• MASCOT: Badman - Badman is the group's first game based on a idea by Pierrick. Not to mention that whenever he drops in, he affects the whole game. We wait impatiently for his next visit ...

Sylvain Martin ALIAS Pypein

• Graphic artist / programmer
• Responsible for most of the graphics in PPP's games. Even when he's not, he works on them anyway! He also is a programmer in BASIC and assembler A86. His sense of humor leaves a mark on all his games.
• MASCOT: Bilou - Although Bilou is Pierrick's character, it's Pypein who adopted him.

Pascal Deiting ALIAS Vegeta

• Japanese Branch - Manga Master
• Pascal is primarily a sort of "underground" level designer, in that his images are not the same size as his maps: his monster mazes are of such monstrous complexity that there isn't a tile to spare!
• MASCOT: Gohan - Pascal, whose programming history includes Dragon Ball Z 2, is now one of us. He is the only manga fan who's bigger than I. Unfortunately, I'm the one who had to draw Vegeta...
• PS: It is often said that we forget that Pascal is not supposed to be an artist, but he draws anyway, sometimes to funny results. Furthermore, we don't always fix it properly...

Lawrence Mazzapichi ALIAS Parmy

• BASIC Programmer
• Parmy is a man traumatized by his time with the C-64. Using the glorious Quickbasic, we have reproduced 'Island' and several other little Commodore games. (Those were good times.) Parmy is also a musician. It was he who composed "Outer Space".
• MASCOT: Purple - It's a BASIC game that made me sweat when I had to work on it with him. (I won't say how much work that was.)

Valentin Boigelot ALIAS Tentacle Bob

• Realization in Game-Maker
• TBob and his brother Puce often make their games together, with a few alterations by Pypein or Piet. Their games have a strongly surreal quality. (It's they who concocted Ratman, Tentacle Bob, and Bart Simpson.)
• MASCOT: I chose Tentacle Bob in particular because it is through this fellow that I discovered the CHEATER side of Tbob

Simon Boigelot ALIAS Puce

• Director of games under GM
• Simon, as his name suggests, is the brother of Tbob. There are not many games for them yet because they have DESTROYED their Game-Maker not so long ago, they're just like "It's no good, we're moving on."
• MASCOT: It's not for the sake of resemblance, but I chose Ratman because the B. Brothers managed to produce more BUGS than I have ever seen!

Francois Bare ALIAS the Clicker

• Turbo C and A86 programmer
• Francois is an application programmer in TURBO-C, and very very advan-C. (Haha!) He controls the mouse, screen, and everything. It's just a bit excessive: he tries to do a 'Clicker' (I will not detail here). And believe it or not, I offered to help!
• MASCOT: no, it's not a caricature of Frank!

So add it all up, and you've got a swell band of misfits.