Happy Birthday Polycount!

Jeff Parrott · Apr 2012

So I guess today is Polycount's 14th birthday!

Thanks Drew, Adam, and everyone that keeps this awesome community built ship running. Looking forward to the next 14.

EDIT: No joke. http://www.polycount.com/about/

"Polycount was founded by Drew ‘Rogue13′ Risch on April 1st, 1998 along with his good friend Ted ‘bearkub’ Shockey. It was originally known as the Q2PMP, as its first purpose was to store and showcase Quake 2 plug-in player models. In 2007 long time member Adam Bromell (circa 1999) joined the Polycount Crew as its Principal Editor and Website Architect to help grow & develop Polycount as a complete resource for videogame artists."

thatanimator · Apr 2012

is this the April fools joke thread then?

14 years eh? 14 more?...fuck it, lets go!

slipsius · Apr 2012

Wait wait wait.... So you`re telling me Polycount is the longest running april fools joke? Cats, Penis tanks... It all makes sense now!

(Happy birthday PC!!!)

Lamont · Apr 2012

r13 · Apr 2012

I changed the name to Polycount the day before Quake3 came out. It was December 1st 1999. The Q2pmp name wasn't gonna work anymore at that point. Who knew we'd last all the way through Quake2?! It was mind blowing at the time as no one had communities that lasted that long. All we really did was reformat the site into the green and black at that time. I think we might have done our first boards upgrade at that time too.

Cheers to all! Bring on the dancing cakes and cats!

TelekineticFrog · Apr 2012

Did not realize it had been that long now...dang. I was still living with my parents back then and making quake 2 skins, playing Unreal Tournament and the Tactical Ops mod way too many days blending together. I had yet to ship a title and worked at an Architecture company. 37 shipped titles later and working on number 38 and Polycount is still king.

Here'e to many many more years. Happy Birthday!

Oh and obligatory celebration cat
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Yozora · Apr 2012

r13 wrote: »

Cheers to all! Bring on the dancing cakes and cats!

Dancing cakes?!

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tRens · Apr 2012

Shouldn't there be some sort of PolyCon every year on this day?

ScudzAlmighty · Apr 2012

Happy Birthday Polycount!

Vio · Apr 2012

I would have loved to have seen what art looked like when it was new. Happy Birthday PolyCount, Don't get too drunk and end up crashing now!

nathdevlin · Apr 2012

Happy birthday PC, I agree finding some work from it's first couple of years would be fun.

MrHobo · Apr 2012

Happy Birthday Polycunt!

Have a look at 1999 courtesy of the internet archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000815070639/http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/

lloyd · Apr 2012

xxxo

brandoom · Apr 2012

KyleJensen · Apr 2012

Happy Birthday, Polycount! xD

Daven · Apr 2012

D4V1DC · Apr 2012

Happy Birthday, POLYCOUNT!

JR · Apr 2012

Yay! Happy birthday to the greatest art comunity ever!

rolfness · Apr 2012

LOL I feel old

happy birthday !

adam · Apr 2012

ALL HAIL GREENTOOTH

seforin · Apr 2012

haha, holy shit I always thought it was mid april....jesus april 1st....so much makes sense now.......my dear god belias?! It ALL MAKES SENSE!

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Donavonyoung · Apr 2012

My dearest Polycount. I wish you the best of birthdays, and hope only to see this amazing community grow with even more talented artist. Here is to another 14 years. Cheers!!

seth. · Apr 2012

14 years old, soon polycount will have big boy hair and start making virginity pacts with its friends......then we are all in trouble.

happy birthday greentooth

Norron · Apr 2012

Wooo!

Ruz · Apr 2012

happy birthday PC, yaashh

leslievdb · Apr 2012

parteeh

Really incredible accomplishment keeping a board alive for so long! tnx guys

bounchfx · Apr 2012

awesome! hooray for pc!

sltrOlsson · Apr 2012

Cat GIFs 1999 style!

php0relia

GRATZ PC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Veizer · Apr 2012

Congrats PC! In a couple of years greentooth will be able to drive a car heh

InProgress · Apr 2012

Happy birthday Polycount!

Rurouni Strife · Apr 2012

Mmm Happy B-Day to Polycount indeed! Let me buy you a shot. Oh no I insist. It's your choice. A Hulk? Coming right up!

EiGHT · Apr 2012

Happy B-day PC.!!!!!
Your stripper is on the way ^__^

leilei · Apr 2012

Happy 14th Q2PMP!

ErichWK · Apr 2012

I wonder how many youngins here never played quake 2!

MaVCArt · Apr 2012

happy birthday PC! couldn't find an animated GIF awesome enough for you guys so I'm just gonna say my most sincerest congratulations to the PC team and community for making this forum what it is after fourteen years!