PowerPlay Magazine

michal23: Please introduce yourself. What's your name, where are you from and how old are you?
Galanin: Hi, my name is Michal and I live and work in Prague and I am 26 years old.

m: How did you nick and team name on PPM come into being?
G: I will not tell you how my nick came into being. I have been using it for about 10 years and it has accompanied me through many web games. I have taken the PPM team name from a different hockey manager and it reflect the character of my previous residence.

m: How did you get to PPM?
G: I have know PPM creators from another manager game and I have been cooperating with them a bit. When this game was created, I offered my help.

m: What is your job on PPM?
G: Currently, I don't work on PPM due to personal reasons. We should renew the collaboration some time in spring or in summer. But the scope of the collaboration is top secret :-)

m: What is the essence of work that you do on PPM?
G: See above, I can describe what I have done for PPM. The ideas regarding economy, facilities, arena, player and staff attributes, and all that is connected with it came out of my and maxo's head. Including the initial light testing of economy. I have also helped create the first version of FAQ and I have been a consultant regarding some other things, if necessary.

m: Tell us what is being tweaked and developed on PPM at the moment?
G: All the basic features are being tuned so that the full version of PPM can be launched. We all hope that this will happen soon.

m: How many hours do you dedicate to PPM per week?
G: Not too many these days. Virtually nothing when it comes to work, when it comes to fun it's about 1 or 2 hours.

m: What about you and active sports?
G: I like to play football, squash, tennis, basketball, volleyball. I follow virtually every sport passively.

m: Which league does your team play in?
G: I started last season so I am somewhere in the seventh league.

m: What are you future team goals?
G: I will start realizing my team goals after the full version starts and I want nothing less than win everything. Oh, my modesty:-)