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Gandalf Parker · #**231** October 4th, 2006, 01:12 PM

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MarcinM said:
Anyway, 30 year old married male, general IT grunt, Polish (what's up with all the Polish place names in the game anyway?

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Not sure if its the answer but it might be worth pointing out that the two developers are Swedish (I believe) and most of the alpha testers were Finnish? Thats the impression I got anyway.

Gandalf Parker

MarcinM · #**232** October 4th, 2006, 01:57 PM

Sure, but then I'd expect a lot of Swedish and Finnish names, not Polish ones - especially like Szczebrzeszyn, which is a kind of an inside joke

I suspect a Pole on either the dev or the testing team

Anyway, thanks for the welcome and congratulations to Illwinter on shipping!

Kristoffer O · #**233** October 4th, 2006, 02:05 PM

The map was made by Jason Lutes. I have no clue as to where he got the names from

Does Szczebrzeszyn have anything to do with bumble bees?

Illwinter and alpha are mainly swedish AFAIK. A few of unknown nationalities (likely european and american) as well.

Nerfix · #**234** October 4th, 2006, 02:05 PM

I suspect IW got their hands on a polish map.

MarcinM · #**235** October 4th, 2006, 02:33 PM

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Kristoffer O said:

Does Szczebrzeszyn have anything to do with bumble bees?

Well an insect anyway, yes ... it's used in a phrase along with the town name as a tongue twister for kids and foreigners. The kids usually do better

Does Jason Lutes collect tongue twisters? Or insects? Or both? o_O

atul · #**236** October 4th, 2006, 05:11 PM

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Nerfix said:
I suspect IW got their hands on a polish map.

...or then they just got tired of hearing complains that the game wasn't polished enough..? "Now here's a map with maximum Polish!"

JaydedOne · #**237** October 4th, 2006, 05:17 PM

st.patrik · #**238** October 5th, 2006, 01:29 AM

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MarcinM said:
Hello!

I was brought here via the excellent Silent Seas AAR posted by St. Patrik. I'm not sure what specific aspect did it, but it was a very compelling piece that has me considering purchase of a game that was only remotely on my radar.

Remotely, because I originally deemed the game too hardcore - but the AAR made it seem like taking time to learn it would be quite worthwhile

Wow

I'm really flattered! Thanks for the compliment

bottleneck · #**239** October 5th, 2006, 05:34 AM

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MarcinM said:
been gaming since Pong

we are obviously the same age...

btw du you tell your wife that Dom3 is a game you can leave at any instant, or du you keep telling her "sure, but i just have to finish the turn first so i can save the game" ?

Kristoffer O · #**240** October 5th, 2006, 08:54 AM

> Well an insect anyway, yes ... it's used in a phrase along with the town name as a tongue twister for kids and foreigners. The kids usually do better

I have a suedo-polish friend that has tried to make me utter an unspeakable sentence about a bumble bee (perhaps another insect) flying in reeds or something.