How about something bigger for us snarkpitters?
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Re: How about something bigger for us snarkpitters?
Posted by Quaver on Wed Jun 22nd at 8:56pm 2005


I was sitting at the end of my exam today and this idea came across my head. Why dont we snarkpitters make our own mod, and i dont just mean a few maps for HL2. You see we have loads of mappers, plenty of modelers, enough 2d artists and i think we have a few coders. I havent got any ideas for a mod but we could throw a few ideas around as for a theme etc. If a few good ideas come up, with proberly will happen, we could set up a poll as to what theme we will go with.

Ive set up a poll just to see if anyone will actually think about joining the mod if it happened. Also if it was to go through we would have to choose a reliable project manager as i fell i could not handle it myself.

So the question for the poll:
Would you enter the mod and if so what possition would you take?
Due to the limited number of poll options i have combined some of the options.




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Re: How about something bigger for us snarkpitters?
Posted by Natus on Wed Jun 22nd at 9:36pm 2005


i dont think im good enough for something big.
i still sa a good mod would be a mod with a portable strider cannon rifle type thing xD







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Posted by fishy on Wed Jun 22nd at 9:44pm 2005


the same general idea has been kicking around in my head for a while now, and no doubt has occured to more than a few other regulars. a full mod would be cool, but maybe a little too ambitious as a starting point.

i'd say that using our various strengths to focus on making a map [or set of maps] for an existing mod would give a much better return for the effort put in.




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Posted by $loth on Wed Jun 22nd at 9:46pm 2005


I would only be good for mapping, but I think this is a great idea. But preferably after the contest.




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Posted by Quaver on Wed Jun 22nd at 9:49pm 2005


Well have to see if any coders wish to join otherwise it proberly will be just a set of maps for a mod.

As for my idea i watched the Aliens vs predator film earlier and thought that a game with a similar theme would be quite fun, where the aliens start of as a hatchling and they have to hunt down a marine and attatch themself to it. Once this happens the marine dies giving birth to the real alien which can then go around hunting the rest of the marines and to kill them they have to destrol their base/spawn point.

The marines just have to hunt the aliens down and kill the queen alien(was that what it was called?) so it cannot make any eggs. They could possibly get upgrades from amount of kills and the aliens can walk on walls, jump really high, are very powerful and could possibly eat the marines to regain health.

I do believe there was an Aliens vs Predator game but it didnt have some of these features. Thats my best idea but i expect there will be some better ideas from other members.




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Posted by fishy on Wed Jun 22nd at 9:55pm 2005


we could all add an idea for a feature that we want to see, and throw it all at whoever offers themselves up as the sacrificial coder.

natus wants a mobile strider cannon, and i want conc grenades, a la tfc.




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Posted by Quaver on Wed Jun 22nd at 10:06pm 2005


Yeah, my ideas abit big for a mostly mapping community based mod, I would like to see drivable vehicles with passengers/turrets like seen in games like UT2004, dunno how easily i can be coded but would be a first for a hl2 mod.




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Posted by parakeet on Wed Jun 22nd at 11:32pm 2005


im interested.. although , i'd be good for nothing other than mapping and ideas >_<

i like concs... a lot...

and it would need some long range sniper rifles ^_^



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Posted by satchmo on Wed Jun 22nd at 11:57pm 2005


I'm just too busy to commit to a major project like this. Sorry.


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Posted by BlisTer on Thu Jun 23rd at 12:06am 2005


i'd say go for an unrealism mod cause in a few months there will be a lot of good maps in that genre <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif"> . Still, i dunno if there's (a) coder(s) here who's up for the (huge) job


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Posted by Natus on Thu Jun 23rd at 1:58am 2005


what about some more monsters, not just xenome thingies but huge claw guys with fire spitness and other cool features...maybe laser eye scientists with reinforced laser glasses :/






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Posted by Windows 98 on Thu Jun 23rd at 2:03am 2005


I like the idea






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Re: How about something bigger for us snarkpitters?
Posted by Cassius on Thu Jun 23rd at 2:18am 2005


If this becomes popular, I'll contribute.





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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Jun 23rd at 2:32am 2005


Why don't you guys just figure out how to activate all the HL2 weapons? That would be nice. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Re: How about something bigger for us snarkpitters?
Posted by rs6 on Thu Jun 23rd at 3:01am 2005


I'll help out with any misc stuff you need done. I don't really want to sommit to somethign though.



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Posted by Madedog on Thu Jun 23rd at 5:52am 2005


Umm... as I love community projects, I would become a mapper. I am not so good in programming, so I cannot take that responsibility. Perhaps I could become a webdesigner ... (lot of experience in that area) aswell.
And, umm... today I am going to start studying (hard) XSI... so logically, I should be a below-average modeller aswell <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Jun 23rd at 6:09am 2005


I don't have the skills to tackle any kind of project, but if I hypothetically did... then I would fall under the mapping category.




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Posted by wil5on on Thu Jun 23rd at 9:48am 2005


I guess I'd be most valuable as a coder, there are plenty of mappers here better than me ready to commit to this project. I doubt I'd be able to find the time tho...


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Posted by Andrei on Thu Jun 23rd at 2:13pm 2005


Mapper, but I can also act as a sound engineer.




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Re: How about something bigger for us snarkpitters?
Posted by Loco on Thu Jun 23rd at 2:56pm 2005


Can fit in some mapping if I'm given some sort of theme or aim to go for. Unfortunately, not a vast amount as I'm very busy, but still do-able.







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