This is a sample people file.
Nearly everything is comments.

You have to number people with a hash.
A person consists of a name and something to go beneath their name.
The name and description are both enclosed in square brackets.

Here goes!

#0

[BEN DEANE]
[IF THERE IS A BUG IN BEN'S CODE, IT IS NOT A BUG - THE UNIVERSE HAS GONE WRONG. EVEN IF IT IS A BUG, THE UNIVERSE HAS PROBABLY GONE WRONG ANYWAY.]

#1

[MIKE DISKETT]
[WITH RESPECT HE GOVERNED. RESPECT EARNED BY BEING HARSH BUT FAIR, BY LEADING WITH A STERN DECISIVENESS YET LISTENING TO POINTS OF VIEW, BY LIVING HONOURABLY ON THE LONELY PEDESTAL OF COMMAND AND STILL BEING ONE OF THE TEAM. WE LOVE YOU MIKE. WE LOVE YOU.]

#2

[SEAN MASTERSON]
[HE ISN'T STONED, HE ALWAYS TALKS LIKE THAT... OR MAYBE HE IS ALWAYS STONED.]

#3

[PETER BLOW]
[I'LL HAVE A 'P' PLEASE BOB. HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FIDDLY DROP-DOWN MENUS. AND HE'S PROUD OF IT.]

#4

[MARK ADAMI]
[I DREAM OF DAYS GONE BY. DAYS OF REST AND LEISURE. DAYS OF BLUE SKYS, PICNICS AND NAPS IN THE AFTERNOON IN A GARDEN BY A RIVER. DAYS WHEN YOU COULD WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND WONDER WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO THAT DAY RATHER THAN GIBBERING WITH TERROR AT THE RELENTLESS NIGHTMARE THAT IS YOUR LIFE.]

#5

[MIKE MAN]
[FLUCTUATES BETWEEN MISERY AND HAPPINESS. HE WOULD SACRIFICE ALL FOR HALLIWELL. (ED. ANYONE UNDERSTAND THAT?)]

#6

[MARTIN CARROLL]
[A BIG BLOKE WHO IS SHY AND RED FACED WHEN NOT ON A MOTORBIKE.]

#7

[TRISTAN PARAMOR]
[SUCH A STRANGE PERSON I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.]

#8

[JEFF BRUTUS]
[KING OF THE COOL.]

#9

[KEN MALCOLM]
[THOUGHTFUL YET SMILEY AND WILY.]

#10

[SHINTARO KANAOYA]
[POSH KID. HE'S SCARED OF MARTIAN FUNGUS.]

#11

[A D MOORE]
[LETS TRY A HORSE SNORING BACKWARDS MIXED WITH A TADPOLE FARTING.]

#12

[RUSSELL SHAW]
[WOLFGANG AMADEUS SHAW.]

#13

[MARTIN BELL]
[HE IS A VEGETARIAN WHO DOESN'T EAT VEGETABLES. NO WONDER HE'S GREEN.]

#14

[MARK LAMPORT]
[GET CONNECTED WITH MARK LAMPORT - A SENSITIVE AND CULTURED INDIVIDUAL.]

#15

[MARK HUNTLEY]
[A BIG CUDDLY TEDDY BEAR.]

#16

[ANDY ROBSON]
[EAT FOOTBALL. BREATHE FOOTBALL. TEST SYNDICATE.]

#17

[CHRIS HILL]
[NO COMMENT.]

#18

[STEPHEN JARRETT]
[A MATURE INDIVUAL EVEN THOUGH HE LOOKS LIKE A DISHEVELLED STUDENT.]

#19

[MATT WEE]
[WEE IN NAME. WEE IN STATURE.]

#20

[JAMES LEACH]
[SEPARATED AT BIRTH FROM PENFOLD.]

#21

[NEIL COOK]
[THE FATTY ELDER BROTHER OF PETE CUNNAH (OF D:REAM)]

#22

[BARRY MEADE]
[A BIG SCARY IRISHMAN. BUT UNDERNEATH THAT HARSH EXTERIOR LIES THE HEART OF A WARM BUNNY.]

#23

[IAN SHIPPEN]
[WHIZZ KID. HE CAN BUILD A SATELLITE OUT OF AN EMPTY CEREAL PACKET AND A TIN OF BAKED BEANS.]

#24

[VINCE FARQUHARSON]
[BALD BEARDED INDEFATIGABLE PERFECTIONIST.]

#25

[ALEX PETERS]
[PATIENCE PATIENCE PATIENCE PATIENCE.]

#26

[RIK HEYWOOD]
[A NICE STEADY BLOKE WHO WILL SORT IT OUT FOR YOU - NO MATTER HOW STUPID YOU'VE BEEN.]

#27

[PAUL BOULDEN]
[I HAVE ONLY SEEN THE TOP OF HIS HEAD ONCE. AND THAT WAS FROM A DISTANCE.]

#28

[WHO MADE IT HAPPEN]
[SYNDICATE WARS BLAH BLAH BLAH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT BLAH BLAH BLAH MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE AT BULLFROG BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH SNORE BLAH...]

#29

[JON RENNIE]
[HARSH, CRITICAL AND TO THE POINT.]

#30

[BULLFROG]
[MARK ADAMI, AUDREY ADAMS, JONTY BARNES, ANDY BASS, MARTIN BELL, STEWART BLACK, PETER BLOW, JEFF BRUTUS, MIKE BURNHAM, DAVID BYRNE, ANDY CAKEBREAD, CATHY CAMPOS, GARY CARR, MARTIN CARROLL, DENE CARTER, SIMON CARTER, MATT CHILTON, ADAM COGLAN, NEIL COOK, GLENN CORPES, TONY COX, ALEX CULLUM, ANNETTE DABB, DIANNA DAVIES, TONY DAWSON, BEN DEANE, MIKE DISKETT, KEVIN DONKIN, LES EDGAR, ALEX EVANS, JON FARMER, VINCE FARQUHARSON, STEVE FITTON, JAY FOAD, EMMA GIBBS, LUCIA GOBBO, JO GOODWIN, MARK HEALEY, RIK HEYWOOD, CHRIS HILL, DAVID HOOPER, DAN HOUGHTON, MARK HUNTLEY, WAYNE IMLACH, STEPHEN JARRETT, SIAN JONES, NEIL KAMINSKI, SHINTARO KANAOYA, JOHN KERSHAW, CHRIS KILLPACK, MARK LAMPORT, STEVEN LAWRIE, JAMES LEACH, JOHN LYDON, KEN MALCOLM, MIKE MAN, SEAN MASTERSON, KATHY MCENTEE, FIN MCGECHIE, PAUL MCLAUGHLIN, STEVE METCALF, PETER MOLYNEUX, ADRIAN MOORE, GARY MORGAN, PETER MURPHY, ANDY NUTTALL, TRISTAN PARAMOR, BARRIE PARKER, ALEX PETERS, MARK PITCHER, SEAN RATCLIFFE, RICHARD REED, BJARNE RENE, JON RENNIE, JOHNATHAN RIDER, ANDY ROBSON, SAUREV SASRKAR, IAN SHAW, RUSSELL SHAW, IAN SHIPPEN, GUY SIMMONS, NATHAN SMETHURST, CARSTEN SORENSEN, MARK STACEY, GARY STEAD, DAVE STEWART, MATT SULLIVAN, JAN SVAROVSKY, RAJAN TANDE, DARRAN THOMAS, ALEX TROWERS, MARK WEBLEY, MATT WEE, NATALIE WHITE, MATT WHITTON, MICHAEL WILLIS, ALAN WRIGHT.]

#31

[BARRY CLARKE]
[THANKS.]

#32
[DOIDGY]
[MORE PUNCTURES THAN A SIEVE. LARGING IT UP SYNDICATE STYLEE.]


#33
[ANDY CAKEBREAD]
[CAKEY WENT TO SWEDEN TO SEE HIS FLATMATE WHO WAS GETTING MARRIED. WHILE HE WAS THERE HE WAS SOMEHOW MISSED OFF THE CREDITS AND ONLY JUST MADE IT INTO THE MANUAL. SO HE NOW DESERVES A REALLY BIG MENTION IN HERE... HOORAY FOR CAKEY! HE IS AN EXCITING AND DANGEROUS MAN. HE STORMS THROUGH LIFE WITH A TOTAL DISREGARD FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL SAFETY.]

#34
[GLENN CORPES]
[ATHOUGH HE STOMPS AROUND LOOKING GLUM HE IS SMILING INSIDE. ASK HIM WHY HE IS LOOKING GLUM AND HE WILL RESPOND WITH A CHARMING LITTLE GRIN.]

#35
[IAN SHAW]
[THE GRAPE ON TWELVE JUST WHEN HE THOUGH BLEAK.]

#36
[CHRIS KILLPACK]
[HE LOOKS LIKES SOMEONE OUT OF CAPTAIN SCARLET.]

#37
[]
[THERE ARE LOADS OF OTHER TESTERS WHO PLAYED THE GAME AND GAVE US BACK COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS AND BUGS. THANKS TO ALL OF THEM.]

#38
[NATALIE WHITE]
[TRIED TO ADD A BIT OF FEMININE POLISH. A FUTILE ATTEMPT.]

#39
[]
[WHAT DO YOU SAY TO AN EX SYNDICATE WARS PROGRAMMER? IF YOU PROMISE TO BEHAVE I'LL LOOSEN THE STRAPS.]

#40
[TONY COX]
[THE MODEL CAMBRIDGE MATHEMATICIAN.]

#41
[]
[MANY THANKS TO CAROL AGGETT, MATT EYRE, IAIN HANCOCK, JULIO VALLADARES, MICHAEL GIEVERS, NICLAS NORDLANDER, GIUSEPPE D'AMARO, FRANCK BADIN AND EVERYONE WHO HAD THE TOUGH TASK OF DEALING WITH TRANSLATION ISSUES!]

You finish off the list of people with the END command inside a pair of brackets.

[END]




Next come the list of groups of people- so level designers go together, programmers go together etc...
A group consists of


#0
[SYNDICATE WARS]
[28]

#1

[PROGRAMMERS]
[1,0,4]

#2

[ARTISTS]
[5, 6, 17, 19]

#3

[SOUND GUYS]
[12, 11, 40, 32]

#4

[LEVEL AND MAP DESIGN]
[24, 3, 9, 18, 10, 22, 38]

#5

[SCRIPTING]
[2, 20, 21]

#6

[TESTING]
[16, 8, 7, 27, 29, 37]

#7

[SUPPORT PROGRAMMING]
[13, 14, 26, 33]

#8

[EVEN MORE PROGRAMMING]
[34, 35, 36, 25, 23, 31, 39]


#9

[LOCALISATION]
[41]

#10

[THANKYOU TO ALL OF]
[30]


Finish this with an END too...

[END]
