Hylis ITW

[w1lla]

http://www.tm-actu.com/news-561-florent-castelnerac-itw

It's French.

Alpha +- 01/11

[Steve_59]

An English language transcript would be wonderful, if anyone has the time and the skills.

[tcq]

http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic.php?p=7240#p7240

Here is an Interview with Hylis on the ESWC 2010.
Interview Hylis - ESWC 2010
At the moment it's only on french, but an english subtiteld version will come soon as stated in the comments.

We can integrate subtitles with the youtube interface by applying a str file. We will incorporate them as quickly as possible but it is a very long work which requires lots of patience !

And here is a short summary over the content of the video by redfog.

They are talking about the ESWC, They where talking about Carl and Bergie.

And about TM2, they talk about Esport too.

And hylis said that he want to do a big thing about Maniaplanet and TM2 the 1st of november, because it will be Nadeo's 10 years old Birthday!

And Hylis was talking too about the Major evolution of trackmania community in 2010. That there was a Major Community thing each week,ect.

[Knutselmaaster]

Don't get exited, it is a nice interview, but for the visitors of this forum there is no real scoop....
I think there was, but there is a cut, suddenly.

I will translate the important bits tonight for y'all.

[Mandark]

Thanks... what's he actually talking about ? I was expecting some game footage

Hylis FTW

[Trackmaniack]

LOL This is offtopic...but has anybody noticed that Crazy ALWAYS seems to post right after Knuts? What's with that? Just an observation.

[Mandark]

I don't know why

I also haven't noticed this

[Knutselmaaster]

Do I have a stalker?

Ok, here is the info about TM² and Shoot and Quest Mania that i've translated.
The first half of the interview is talking about the current TM competitions, witch is not really relevant for us, and i'm sure there are sites and forums that will discuss that.
I won't give an exact translation, but just the red line.
See it as an artists impression of the interview
(please Hylis, correct me if I explain something you said in a different way that you wanted it to be understood)

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Because the interview is essentially about the competitions in the first half, the first question concerning TM² is relevant to that:
Is TM² made for the E(lectronic)-sport, in other words is it designed for the casual gamer or for competition?
Hylis responds that the game will have the spirit of the first game (TMO), aimed at the gamer and what he wants to do, not really at the competition, like Nations was.
He adds that the main concern of the development team is to make a high quality game; beautiful graphics, good gameplay, purity (as in crystallized, something that feels complete), a game where the player can express itself (custom content, block import, scripting etc).
Surely there will be competition, as that is what the community does and the game lends itself to do so.
The quality of the game deserves it to have competitions, it is asking for it in a way.

Hylis would love to bring out the Alpha of TM² November 1st, as it is the 10th birthday of Nadeo.
He likes to speak about Nadeo², as they enter a new era with TM², ShootMania and QuestMania and the whole ManiaPlanet universe they are creating. Also he reveres to the binary number 10, which is 2 in decimals.
Still, nothing is sure, he promises nothing, he just tells that he would like it to happen that way....

The evolution in the games is something really nice, he explains, this won't be games that come out and let people wait for 2 or 3 years for the next edition.
With the new environments coming out every 3 or 4 months there will always be something new to discover for the players. Not that they will need that, as the quality of each environment will give a lot more than 3 months of gameplay, but there will always be new things peeking up on the horizon for those who would like to move on. ManiaPlanet is always on the move so to speak.

The question we are all waiting for; Will we have TM² at the beginning of 2011?
Hylis doesn't promise anything but he tells that when the Alpha has been launched, the Beta will come pretty soon and the momentum will accelerate everything, once the Alpha comes out, things are "on a roll" and everything will go very quick.

He closes up by saying that he is still pleasantly surprised by the community, the current TM game is already approaching 4 years of age, and still there are major events about every 2 weeks.
Like big competition finals, tournaments, new big community websites, etc.
Nadeo wants to feed that particularity of our community with the way ManiaPlanet works; new content on a regular basis.

[Steve_59]

Thank you Knutselmaaster.

[Mandark]

Do I have a stalker?

No, you don't :p
And thanks for the info

.. I am getting mad.. But please, if you don't release the alpha on November, can you give us some game footage just to tease us ? ... I am watching that TM2 video and i just can't stop watching