Rock 24 by Mint_Sauce

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After a disastrous rescue attempt to free Richard G Newell, a renowned rebel scientist, Dr. Gordon Freeman awakes to find himself locked in a holding cell on a mountainside prison facility dubbed 'Rock 24'. His new mission, locate and free the rebel scientist and escape the collapsing combine prison.

This mod was equally made by myself and another mapper who goes by the name of smokerscough.

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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Sep 20th 2006 at 1:56am

Looking very cool, I love the scripted sequence where the combine car crashes into the pillar and slowly falls over. Looks like some really solid gameplay and level design, can't wait to play it.

You should write up some tutorials on scripting sequences for single-player. I know its the area I'm most dreading with my own singleplayer project :razz: .
Posted by Mint_Sauce on Sun Sep 17th 2006 at 1:12pm
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Thanks for the positive replies guys! It's taken a loooong time to make Rock 24 and it's our first attempt at a proper mod. When we started out on Rock 24 we really didn't know much about Hammer at all. Hopefully when this is finished we can take everything we have learnt and start fresh, making something really really good. I already have a few ideas for a short SP map. :smile:

I redid the video as well so it's higher quality and better edited with no blank bit on the end either, check it out.

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~henleyb/rock24_promo.avihttp://www.snarkpit.net/forums.php?forum=2

When we say soon, we don't get much time to work on Rock 24. At the moment I only have time to spend about 6-7 hours a week on it. When we started out we were spending about 5 hours on the week nights and about 20 hours on the weekends. There's not much left to do but not having time means it's taking a while. :sad:

Believe me, I want to get this out and stop worrying about finishing it so it will be done. Today I've got to write down the script for some voice actors, should be fun. :smile:
Posted by reaper47 on Fri Sep 8th 2006 at 5:48pm

It would be nice to have 3 screens or so in your map profile here. It's a barrier if people have to visit a second website to see any. It would be a shame if anyone missed them because of that. I watched the screens and they look beautiful. This really is close to E1 quality!

And something else: Your map is currently listed as a HL1 map here, please edit the settings in the map profile. :smile:
Posted by Naklajat on Fri Sep 8th 2006 at 12:59pm

Rock24 is seriously looking very slick. I can't wait to play this, the anticipation is on par with that I had for HL2:Ep1, if not higher. I also downloaded ph_machine and ph_machine_02, quite nifty. Definitely not what you usually see from "learning the tools"-type maps. From what I've seen you show a real propensity for level design, or at least a love of tinkering, keep it up, it's not a common quality, and so it's coveted by developers big and small :wink:

Any estimates other than "soon"?