Name:
Urmel
Age:
24
Location:
Netherlands
Quote:
Horses.
Position:
Founder / Developer
General questions:
1. Do you have pets?
Nope
2. What is your favorite color?
Green
3. What kind of music do you like?
Pop Punk, Post-Hardcore, Death Metal
4. What do you do on your free time besides spending time on PU?
Games, Anime, Interwebz
5. What are your goals/dreams in life?
Making a decent amount of money by doing what I love to do
6. What got you interested in Pokémon?
The red/blue/gold/silver gameboy games and the anime
7. What got you involved in PU?
Started it
8. What makes you different from the rest of the PU team?
I started it and I'm the only one programming the client, I guess?
9. Why do you enjoy your position at the PU team?
I love programming and games.
10. Who do you admire? Why?
Ken Thompson for his works on Unix and the C programming language. And more recently his work on Golang of course.
11. Are you into sports? If so which ones?
E-sports! League of legends.
12. What is your dream job?
Lead programmer on an interesting project, possibly for a big company.
13. What was your first screenname?
Urmel
14. Do you have any piercings?
Nope
15. Are you a lefty/righty?
Righty
16. Do you have any tattoo's? If not do you wish/plan to get one?
Nope and nope
17. Do you have any siblings? If so, how many of each?
One sister
18. What is your favorite website?
Reddit
19. Do you play computer games? If so, which ones?
League of Legends and Guild Wars 2
20. Do you play video game consoles? Which ones?
Got 'em all. But I pretty much only use my PS3 for watching anime nowadays.
21. Are you married or planning to get married?
Nope and yes. Don't know with who yet though
22. Which languages do you speak?
Dutch and English
23. Do you drink?
Yes
24. Do you smoke?
Nope
25. Do you have a license?
Yes
a) Do you own a car?
Yes
b) Have you ever been stopped for speeding?
Nope
26. Do you obtain a good amount of sleep daily?
On most days, yes
27. How do you sleep?
On a bed
28. Have you ever been on an airplane?
Yes
29. Have you ever broken a bone?
Yes, my collarbone
30. Do you wear jewelry? If so what jewelry do you wear?
A watch
31. How do you dress?
Like a bawws
32. How many keys are on your keyring?
5
33. What time do you go to bed? What time do you wake up?
Midnight-1AMish
34. What's the freakiest thing you have done?
I don't know
35. Do you live alone?
No
36. How many hours a day do you spend in the computer?
12
37. How many hours a day do you spend in PU?
Nowadays, less than an hour. Hopefully a lot again in the future.
38. What is your favorite beverage - coffee, tea, soda, beer, other?
Beer
39. What do you hate?
Mosquitos
39. What do you love?
Dead mosquitos. Also games and anime.
40. What is your religion?
None
41. What is your hair color?
Dark brown
42. How tall are you?
1.80m
43. How much do you weigh?
65kg
Extra questions:
1) How did you guys come up with the concept of PU?
I worked on Tibia private servers and spin-offs for a while so I was all into 2D multiplayer game development. Then I wanted to make a similar game of my own and saw a lot of potential in an online Pokemon game because of the way those games are played and how addictive they are. I became friends with Mr_Dark at university and we came up with all the other things that are possibly with an online version.
2) When did you actually started to work on this idea?
September 2008
3) Did you ever expected to have such a large followers of this project?
Not at all
4) How much money did PU cost you personally over the past few years?
~4000
5) What kept you going on rough moments?
The people on our chat
