Name: Danny "Mr_Dark"
Age: 24 (Feb-1988)
Location: The Netherlands
Quote: It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
Position: Founder / Lead-Developer
General questions:1. Do you have pets?No
2. What is your favorite color?Black
3. What kind of music do you like?Metal, (Classic) Rock, Thrash, Blues, Jazz, Classical, D&B, Techno, Minimal, House
4. What do you do on your free time besides spending time on PU?- Full-time job as a programmer
- Playing guitar
- Video games (League of Legends, Guild Wars 2)
5. What are your goals/dreams in life?Start my own/work for a gaming company
6. What got you interested in Pokémon?Started with Pokemon Blue when I was a kid, was hooked immediately.
7. What got you involved in PU?I met Urmel at university, he was thinking of making a Pokemon MMO because all the others were/are crap.
8. What makes you different from the rest of the PU team?After working on PU these years, I stopped caring about Pokemon in general and now only do this to push my programming skills to new heights
9. Why do you enjoy your position at the PU team?Becuase I'm at the top of the food-chain . On a more serious note, there isn't much difference in positions. Everyone has a say in stuff and we vote when we want to add/modify/remove something.
10. Who do you admire? Why?Gary Holt (guitar player of Exodus), he's just beast when playing guitar.
11. Are you into sports? If so which ones?I've played badminton for about 7 years. Also enjoy watching kickboxing
12. What is your dream job?See question #5 or playing in a (Thrash Metal) band
13. What was your first screenname? Been a long time ago, but I think it was something like TheUnknown. But I'm using Mr_Dark for ages now.
14. Do you have any piercings?- 8mm flesh tunnel in my left and right ear
- Industrial in my right (click if you don't know what it is)
15. Are you a lefty/righty?Righty
16. Do you have any tattoo's? If not do you wish/plan to get one?Nope, no plans either
17. Do you have any siblings? If so, how many of each?None
18. What is your favorite website?http://xkcd.com19. Do you play computer games? If so, which ones?League of Legends, Guild Wars 2
20. Do you play video game consoles? Which ones?Legend of Zelda
21. Are you married or planning to get married?Not married, maybe someday
22. Which languages do you speak? Dutch, English
23. Do you drink?Yes, beer mostly
24. Do you smoke?Joint, once in a while
25. Do you have a license?Yes
a) Do you own a car? Yes, Mercedes CLK230 (2002)
b) Have you ever been stopped for speeding?No
26. Do you obtain a good amount of sleep daily?Most of the time, yes
27. How do you sleep?With my eyes closed
28. Have you ever been on an airplane?Multiple times to various destinations
29. Have you ever broken a bone?No
30. Do you wear jewelry? If so what jewelry do you wear?A watch if you can call that jewelry
31. How do you dress?Shorts/Jeans with a t-shirt
32. How many keys are on your keyring?6
33. What time do you go to bed? What time do you wake up?Most of the time go to bed around midnight and I wake up around 8 (because of my alarm)
34. What's the freakiest thing you have done?Too many things, can't pick anything
35. Do you live alone?No, with my mom
36. How many hours a day do you spend on the computer?All hours awake
37. How many hours a day do you spend in PU?2/3 hours, depends
38. What is your favorite beverage - coffee, tea, soda, beer, other?Beer
39. What do you hate?Corporate suits
39. What do you love?Sleeping
40. What is your religion?The one were you don't give a poop
41. What is your hair color?Dark blond
42. How tall are you?1.96 meter / 6'5.17 inch
43. How much do you weigh?78/80Kg
Extra questions: 1) How did you guys come up with the concept of PU?All the other Pokemon MMO's were/are crap, so we thought; "We can do this much better!"
2) When did you actually started to work on this idea?Half 2008 or so
3) Did you ever expected to have such a large followers of this project?No, especially since we haven't actually released anything for such a long time. Something even we consider ourselves "vaporware"
But we're still determined to rule the Pokemon MMO world!
4) How much money did PU cost you personally over the past few years?I don't have the exact numbers, but I think the total cost of PU for the last four years is about €4000. Pretty rough estimate since we also have had some donations in the past and we're getting some advertisement revenue. Could be more or less.
5) What kept you going on rough moments?Just putting PU aside and doing other stuff for a while.
