Ymgve at 21:22, 29 June 2007

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<pre> the interview
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we are sorry that we can offer you
just only one interview this time.
pyle, the interviewer of the us-part
has sent the finished interview with
phantasm/destiny, but for any reason
only god and the post knows this
sheet never arrived at the mamba<-
address...

we are sorry, therefor to offer you
only the european-interview, but
with a famous programmer...
remember 'flimbo's quest'???....

interview with laurens van der donk:
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m: mamba

l: laurens

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m: hi laurens, would you mind to
introduce shortly yourself to the
readers?

l: well, ok. my name is laurens van
der donk, i'm 19 years of age. i
live in a dutch city called
helmond.
l: my prospects are to code flimbo's
quest part 2 (ah,click!) and my
interrest is always to get lots
of girls.

m: tell us, when did it all start for
you? i mean your interrest in
computing, did you firstly start
in 'boys without brains'?

l: mh, that was 4 years ago. i star-
ted in the group hotline for a
very short period and afterwards
moved to the boys without brains.

m: was flimbo's quest the first game
you wrote?
l: yes, the first complete i must
say, anyway, yes my first and
only.

m: what will come after flimbo now?
the successor is planned, have you
further plans? how will flimbo 2
look like?

l: i started already with flimbo's
quest 2 and i'm busy with learning
on the amiga. i think that after
flimbo 2 i will gonna start with
my first amiga game.
how flimbo 2 will look like is a
secret.

m: nowadays people code a game fastly
they don't care how it looks like,
they only see the money they earn.
what do you think about that and
do you wanna have the 64 kept
alive because you are not a guy
like those or is it simply fun
that keeps you coding on that
machine?

l: right! i'm doing a game because it
is fun to do. i can't program for
money, because it takes a long
time to finish a game. so if you
have to work 6 months without fun
and just do it for the money i
think you will go mad.
m: some groups have cracked very fast
what took you many work,what do
you think? the first versions that
came up were tape versions, the
disc version was well protected by
mario van zeist i heard, are you
as angry as mario about the crack
going around, what does a coder of
such a game think?

l: i'm getting well pissed with
crackers who crack games very
fast! a lot of games are sold
royalty based. the programmers
lose a lot of money! i agree with
mario van zeist.

m: do you work especially for system
three or are you independent? do
they pay you well for your job?
what did the single people get for
their work on flimbo, can you give
us numbers?

l: i'm a freelancer for system three.
it's very difficult to give you
numbers because it depends on how
good the game is selled.

m: are you familiar with the scene
today and in the old days? to whom
do you have still contact, who are
your best friends? what did you
do?
l: i did some simple demos for the
boys without brains. i don't know
anything of the hackers out there
at the moment. i also don't have
contacts to swap with, because i
just don't want to.
my best friends are: jacco van't
riet, mario van zeist, arthur van
jole, reyn ouwehand, dave hogen-
dorf,(miriam and renate zondag)

m: what are your hobbies beside com-
puting?

l: i watch a lot of video-movies,
fitness, drinking, going out and
swimming.
m: do you have a girl friend?(if yes,
how does she bear your work on the
computer?,if not: what should she
be like?)

l: i don't have a girl friend at the
moment. i would like to have a
girl with long blond hair, who
likes prince, doing a lot of sport
and who is friendly to me and to
my friends (renate zondag is such
a girl).

m: yo, talking about your favorites,
what are they...

l: food - shoarma, steak and fries
of course

drink- beer, lot of beer, beer!

music- prince, stevie u, cock
robin and madonna

movie- prayer for the dying, no
way out, stake out, willow
and batman

land - (holidays) spain,australia

others are: i like to fly and rea-
ding good reviews about flimbo!

m: what is it that really could piss
you off? (don't dare saying any-
thing about this interview!!!)

l: that there are people who don't
like flimbo, haha.

m: ok, laurens. where can people meet
you?

l: at my house probably, in venlo
(sometimes) or at the dockside in
belgium.

m: thank you laurens for the inter-
view. if you wanna greet somebody
feel free to do so now...

l: hmm, let's see: hi to mark cale
(producer of flimbo), jacco van't
riet (graphics flimbo 2), arthur
van jole (graphics flimbo 2),
adrian cale (system 3 p.r.),
renate zondag (because she is so
pr....), mario van zeist (bamboo
man), miriam zondag (jacco's girl
friend), stauros fasoulas (he's
back in business) and you gotcha,
for doing this interview. bye!
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Mamba 12 ch02 The Interview - Revision history

Ymgve at 21:22, 29 June 2007