Looking For Modellers And Mappers Of Hl Engine
ModChaosControl
HiveMind NS bot creator Join Date: 2004-03-31 Member: 27613Members
HiveMind NS bot creator Join Date: 2004-03-31 Member: 27613Members
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I, as the leader of Miasma Entertainment, for our next project, am looking for mappers and modellers.
This will be for our next retail project based on the HL engine.
if you are interested please email: modchaoscontrol@hotmail.com
You must provide:
-A sample
-A small collective of your experience modelling or mapping
-Be willing to give us your full name (for website purposes)
To see what we're all about please visit <a href='http://hivemind.game-mod.net/miasma/site/' target='_blank'>http://www.MiasmaEntertainment.com</a>
This will be for our next retail project based on the HL engine.
if you are interested please email: modchaoscontrol@hotmail.com
You must provide:
-A sample
-A small collective of your experience modelling or mapping
-Be willing to give us your full name (for website purposes)
To see what we're all about please visit <a href='http://hivemind.game-mod.net/miasma/site/' target='_blank'>http://www.MiasmaEntertainment.com</a>
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:edit: BTW, your sig's too big <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
best friend, Tim Kawasky, who was working in Sector 5-J of the installation,
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Sounds kind of like Blue Shift...
best friend, Tim Kawasky, who was working in Sector 5-J of the installation,
has gone missing, you decide to find out what the hell's going on here.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sounds kind of like Blue Shift... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sounds sorta like every fps involving an installation that requires a security detail.
Think... Doom3.
You better be! Being undercritical, or even adequately critical is just not acceptable, and certainly not "cool".
You don't want to be "uncool", do you?
He obviously never read the latest statement by Flayra titled
"NS, NS retail, NS: Source, NS2, etc.".
The words "too costly" should have caught the eye.
Judging from your team roster it doesn't appear you actually have ANY level designers or modellers. And a quick peek at your front page states that you need an entire roster of people to even begin work on this thing.
It seems every other week some mod comes out of the woodwork saying "We got this awesome mod, now all we need are modellers, mappers, coders and graphic artists!"
Not only that, but a complete lack of an real information or even conceptual artwork about your game gets me to thinking this game isn't going to go too far.
However prove me wrong, but all signs point to 'Yet another one of those mods'
however, if you can pull a "I TOLD YOU" in a year, iam sold
For a NS Retail 2 years ago, yes cost may have been a factor. But for this guy, cost has nothing to do with it. Even if the HL1 engine lisence was free, the project would fail on a retail level.
Why?
Because its using an ugly 6 year old engine.
And if it takes say, 2 years, to complete this game that means you'll be using an 8 year old engine by the time the game ships. As much as we all want to go "oh yeah I buy the game for the gameplay, not the graphics", the retail market doesn't work that way. Gamers are shallow. Ugly games don't sell. And as far as liscensing technology goes, it is far more economical to liscence a newer engine because it will help you sell more copies.
/me awaits KFS to come into the thread and either confirm my statements and/or prove everyone wrong. :P
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I don't try to sound like I'm damning your project. Its just that when you show up on a forum and start trying to recruit employees for your retail game (and what are you even going to pay them with?), there is a higher level of critism involved than simply someone making their own mod.
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word...
Can I try and do a KFS? Pwease? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
*Confirms DOOManiac's Statements*
Retail games on the HL1 engine that aren't basically mods are doomed to fail. Ever heard of Nightfire? 007 game based on an upgraded version of the HL1 engine(presumably in order to leech of HL1's success; I only got it because we got to choose 3 old games to recieve for free when we got a new computer some time ago), and...bad.
Then when I tried to get more information I got this dead link:
<a href='http://deformation.miasmaentertainment.com/' target='_blank'>http://deformation.miasmaentertainment.com/</a>
Also, cost = major factor
HL engine license - 10k
Source engine license 250k
quite a difference.
Also, cost = major factor
HL engine license - 10k
Source engine license 250k
quite a difference. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If cost is a major factor then money is a factor. Here's something to mull over, moneywise:
Nobody except a complete braindead moron is going to pay more than $15-20 for something based on the Half-Life engine. And it would have to be of extraordinary quality (better than NS and CS) for you to get people to pay that much. Why would they EVER buy anything from you when they could get Far Cry or something (or even Deus Ex 2) from a bargain bin and get a graphics engine that isn't older than they can remember back?
Edit: That said, if it gets done I can't wait. A horror shooter set in a mysterious government facility sounds crazy and mold breaking. Something I'd want to try.
Downside, you have to pay for the platform SDK's.
Well, HL1/Source have the basic principles and well try <a href='http://www.thesnarkpit.com' target='_blank'>The Snarkpit</a> and you will see some astounding screenshots of DM maps sent off to Valve for the competition.
Although I think that competition, is extremely exploitive there are some good designers entering for the prize.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic
This whole thing (we're enhancing the graphic, surviving in a secret facility where all hell broke lose) is so damn cliche.
*is dragged off and beaten by the mods*
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THE LIFE IS LIKE A TETRIS UP AND DOWN
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HAVE A ORANGE SUMMER
Yes, I know this is the internet. That's not really an excuse kids.
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THE LIFE IS LIKE A TETRIS UP AND DOWN<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
ROFL. Oh god you guys have to stop. My lungs... air...
You don't need air!