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mrxak

So who's actually here? Maybe we should have a little introductions thread. Potentially a lot of folks may be popping in from wherever else the Ambrosia community may have been hanging out all this time. It might be nice for people to reconnect if they've lost track of each other, and are showing up here now. I guess I'll start it...

I'm mrxak, and that's the name I always went by for Ambrosia stuff. I was a Super Moderator on the old Ambrosia forums once upon a time. I basically joined the Ambrosia community during the UBB days at the start of the millennium, but I lurked before that, back during the discboard days as well. I even had a couple old geocities fan pages dedicated to EV and EVO. When I found out EV Nova was being made, I finally started getting involved. Beta tested some Ambrosia games too, starting with EV Nova after it released. Also Aki, Apeiron X, Darwinia, Defcon, GooBall, iSeek, Multiwinia, pop-pop, Redline, SketchFighter, and Uplink. There's other Ambrosia games I played and really liked, like Harry the Handsome Executive, Ares, and probably a few others I'm forgetting now. I'm probably most known in the EV community though. I wrote a lot of haikus, and then I got really focused on EVN plug-in development, figuring out how to make the engine do funny things. Probably the easiest way to get in touch with me to find me on the EV Nova Discord server, but I'll be trying to hang out here too as much as I can so we can try and build this as the new forum for that game, and others. There's probably some kind of private message thing on this forum and you can try that too if you want and hopefully I'll get a notification. Since I have been around for so long, and I'm one of the last few people who do date back to those days, I'm glad this community has managed to stick together after all this time and we have a community-controlled place here that isn't dependent on any shady companies. My thanks to Wizard for setting this up for us.

I have a lot of stories from the old days and I can be baited into telling them pretty easily. I've met, in person, quite a few members of the EV community over the years, from multiple continents. I'm also the only person I know of who didn't work there to have been to both Ambrosia's old headquarters and their new one they moved to around the time they changed their logo from the old red and white to the all white one and tried to be a utility software company. I went to college in the area, and Ambrosia staff were pretty cool about fans coming over for a tour, to meet Hector, and so on. Most of the names you remember from Ambrosia in the mid 2000s, I met at least once. I've seen Andrew Welch's katana and his gigantic humidor. One time John Champlin (MagnusApollo) bought me and another community member $70 worth of sushi on Ambrosia's dime to enjoy together as a table. It's been a crazy ride, this Ambrosia thing. I should dig up all my old pictures again and post a few. But anyway, this is just an introductions thread and I've rambled enough for now.

I hope to see a lot of folks here!

DrFiveMinusMinus

Uhh, introductions! Yes, I can do those.

I'm DrFiveMinusMinus, a regular in the EV Nova Discord Server. If you're wondering why you never saw me on the Ambrosia forums, it's because I was a small child (I'm 22 now). I grew up with EV Nova, being introduced to it by my dad, but I only started engaging with the wider community years later. For a while, I was mostly known as "The gal that plays the TCs," as I play/review a lot of them and have a goal of playing every TC ever made. These days I do EV Nova plugin development; I made the EV Nova expansion plugin Brave New Void, and I'm in the final stages of putting together a beta for my Total Conversion, White Dwarf.

If you want to reach out to me, best way to do it is probably through Discord, although I'll be doing my best to be active here as well. I suspect I'll be seeing many new faces here, which I'm looking forward to! ~~A word of warning: do NOT ask my opinions on EV: Override, Polycon, the Polaris, or any topic of non-trivial importance, really. It will make you angry.~~

PallasAthene

I’m Pallas, elsewhere usually known as Sfiera. I’m mainly connected with the Ares and Cythera communities, and I maintain Antares, the open-source version of Ambrosia’s best space shooter. I joined the UBB in 2000, and have met a small number of AWB members in person, including Wizard.

Geek

I'm Geek. I discovered Ambrosia games on the Gaming MegaPac CD way back in the mid-90s. Loved Escape Velocity and was introduced to Override and Nova by a friend as a teen. Joined the Ambrosia forums in the mid 2000s, and got involved in small projects for Nova plug-ins, many of which became vaporware.

While I don't play Nova now as much as I used to, I've been busy trying to preserve the game and keep it running on new systems. "WineNova" is an ongoing project of mine (with the help of others) to bring EV Nova to macOS 10.15 and newer, on both Intel and Apple Silicon (via Rosetta 2). I will probably post a forum topic on that soon.

I'm also working on a larger resolution GUI mod for WineNova and EV Nova for Windows, though now in order to complete it, I've been working with others to try to reverse engineer hardcoded functions in the EXE code to get certain functions working at a larger resolution. I may post some tasty-looking screenshots of that effort so far, but I don't want to get people too excited until it's closer to completion.

More about me? I make puns. A lot of puns. You've been warned. I also like old-timey ragtime piano music, and have written over twenty piano compositions in the style.

nathan67003

I'm just here for the ride 😄

Name's right there, EVN was the first game I bought and the first game I ever used mods in. I set up a Discord server to try and incite more activity than the EVN subreddit did a few years ago and so far it's been working out pretty well! Still hoping we get a public release of whatever was done when Aftermath vanished, though. Declared "Font of Positive Energy" by others.

Token French Canadian.

WarlordMike

I am here. I am not in a position right now to give my full story, but I will do so when I get home.

WarlordMike

WarlordMike I got started with the original Escape Velocity when I was introduced to it on Macworld's Gaming Megapac CD (remember those?), along with a whole slew of other games. Then I found Override, which I still feel is the best of the Trilogy, and eventually Nova as well.

I was big into writing back in those days, and participated in the spaceport bars with some degree of frequency. Even though my writing was pretty bad, in retrospect, I still have fond memories of all the crazy things that happened with the Warbird and Threshold Station. Part of me hopes we'll see some of the familiar faces like Ragnar0k and fishloaf again.

With the advent of Cosmic Frontier: Override, I am greatly excited by what new things we'll discover in Override's remake. I might not be able to have the same "lightning in a bottle" experience as I did the first time, but it certainly doesn't diminish my expectations.

And to those who were there for it...

~~The Void is dead. Long live the Void.~~

JoshTigerheart

I'm JoshTigerheart, the owner of Tigerheart Industries and its many subsidiaries which include JoshTigerheart's Department of Useful Plugs, JoshTigerheart's Department of Useless Plugs, and JoshTigerheart's Department of Total Conversions. You might have heard of some of our products, such as Colosseum TC!

Anyway, I've been around the EVN community since 2004ish, granted with a large absence between the death of ASW and when the EVN Discord community managed to track me down. But now that the Cosmic Frontier is opening in the near future, Tigerheart Industries is hard at work once again and scoping out expansion into this new area! Well, as soon as the dyson sphere heats up all the coffee and then it's delivered still-hot-and-fresh to our various offices across the multiverse, at any rate!

NeoLuna22

Hello, I'm Neo. When I was a young kid, around 6, in the early 2000s, my father, a career programmer, introduced me to Nova and I instantly fell in love, playing the living hell out of it and downloading all the plugins I could off the old site. But life went on and I sadly had too much heavy stuff going on to think about nova, and by the time I did Ambroisa as an active dev studio was long gone. I thought nova was lost to me forever, but then in 2022 I found the subreddit and through it the discord, and now I'm here, among friends and flying my beloved valks again.

The Old Gas Guzzler is forever.

Srslywhyumadbro

Hi all!

Not involved in making the sausage, just a huge EV Nova fan.

Got hooked in the early 2000s and I still come back and play through once a year or more.

Glad to see the community building again!

Srsly

Arkholt

Hi, I'm Arkholt, known everywhere on the internet as Arkholt. I was known as Shenlon on the old Ambrosia forums and on the IRC server. I spent most of my time there on the EV Banter and Brawl forum and on the #ev3 channel. I've been an Ambrosia fan since Maelstrom. Glad to see there are still some other fans around. Looking forward to Cosmic Frontier. I backed the Kickstarter at a high enough level to get a përs ship, so you might see me flying around whenever it comes out.

prophile

Hello I amn’t

Egad

Hey all - EVN was the first game I ever bought (either that or Cythera) and I've enjoyed both for hundreds of hours as both a kid and an adult. Lots of nostalgia for Ambrosia but think their games are still just genuinely fun. I am such a nerd about it that when I took a drawing class in high school.. one of the first pictures I copied for practice was the one in my profile pic!

Meowx

hi i try way too hard to be cool my most notable feat is mining up enough gold to connect the entire minecraft server via minecart network

daowei

Hai Gais. C'est moi, the official sipper in the shade.

Mag_Steelglass

Hi everyone. I think most of us know each other from the Discord and/or the old forums. For anyone who doesn't know me, I made a bunch of Ares plug-ins way back in the day, made a big EVO-on-Nova plug-in more recently, and currently have a few more EV plug-in projects active. 🙂

LordInsane

Hello, everyone. Not much to say about myself; first found Ambrosia through Nova, was technically on the old Ambrosia Software forums but never really active or part, and now found this new place through Discord.

Never

i'm never,

perpetual lurker

vIsitor

Hi, I'm vIsitor. I sometimes also go by tHe_vIsitor or Captain Nice HardDrive.

I'm an old-school Ambrosia fan, weened on their shareware games in the wayback times of the 90s when they were basically the only game in town for the PowerMac. Mostly hung out on the Escape Velocity and Cythera subforums on the old ASW boards. I'm probably best well-known for starting off the (in)famous Nova "Speculation" thread series where the community theorycrafted about the setting and occasionally even coaxed the ATMOS devs into sharing their insights on their worldbuilding.

It's good to see the community posting on a proper forum again. Discord has been good to us, but it's lifeboat not a permanent solution.

Master_Frag

I'm Master_Frag, ~~and I'm an addict.~~
Until somewhat recently, I've mostly been a lurker at best, never really getting involved with the community, but eventually, I found the EVN subreddit, and then later joined EVN Discord.

I got into the original EV via a MacAddict CD, somewhere around the ripe old age of 6 or 7 around 1997 or 1998, on the family Performa 6300CD, and rapidly became hopelessly addicted, going as far as to do things like capture a Confed Cruiser with a shuttle just for kicks. Truthfully, I never did manage to register any of the games until Nova, around 2005...

Escape Velocity has been a part of my life almost as long as I can remember, and has kept me sane through some of the worst times of my life, and had an indelible mark on who I am today, and with luck, hopefully CFO can do the same for someone else, as well.