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Thrust me i would like to provide more info but better wait [when it is done]. Because when it is done will be even better than what we have actually.

One last memorie before i run to shadowplane and vanish :

-Meeting Yves Guillemot made me thrust that future is bright [Great CEO].

That must've been really cool! I hear great things about him.

First memory :
The rush before burning the first gold master trackmania cd rom :
back in time, we were a 6-7 people team, struggling to have a "non too buggy" executable,
finishing with a 72+ hours long nonstop rush, implementing some last minute features (like the mediatracker v0.001) during the very last hours
before gold master.

Then Luc for from Focus Home Interactive (our publisher at that time) went driving all the night to reach the duplicating plant
in the east of France..

...souvenirs...

cheers !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRACKMANIA



Btw: Interesting storys
I think there should be more people like Cathodeus. These mini-leaks are making me wanna play the game and all the unfinished stuff you worked at so much, as no trailer or marketing could ever do xD.

Oh My Gosh and
These stories are so cool to hear from you guys!
I'm loving this and hope to hear more from the Nadeo team members.
It's nice to get a little personal glimpse of the people behind the "Mania". It also makes more sense the tight "family" that makes up Nadeo.
Keep it up! and I'm even more excited now to see what is coming next!

I remember my numerous trips going from Leipzig to Los Angeles, trying to find distributors...
When we first presented Trackmania prototype in 2002 to the biggest world editor, a lady told us that we should stop develop video games
A few years later in 2005, when we showed the first screenshot of Trackmania Sunrise to our german distributor, he told us the next morning that he dreamt of it.

pepita wrote: ↑23 Nov 2018, 18:10 When we first presented Trackmania prototype in 2002 to the biggest world editor, a lady told us that we should stop develop video games

And now Trackmania is in the Guinness Book of World Records!!!

pepita wrote: ↑23 Nov 2018, 18:10 When we first presented Trackmania prototype in 2002 to the biggest world editor, a lady told us that we should stop develop video games

Wow. And so the rise of independent game developers began.

-Really personnal this one : "How did i get my hands on the first Trackmania Red Box first time playing a Trackmania game" ?

-As a art student I was asked to paint a Draw with real oil paint on someone K itchen s walls. As a present they asked me if i wanted something. And it was that Trackmania RedBox.

Nice testimony here

One thing I also remember from the past is a team picture that was taken in 2012 at the Paris Games Week:

Cerovan wrote: ↑07 Nov 2012, 11:21

db89 wrote:Who's who?

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EDIT: image updated
I suppose that #1 is Hylis & #13 Cerovan...

And it was also very very nice to meet the team and some players at the Trackmania anniversary party in Paris one year later