Black Mesa Demo will be out in July

[TheBigM]

I was just browsing the ModDB forums and this thread caught my eye: http://www.moddb.com/forum/thread/black-mesa-demoin-july
Apparently there will be a demo of the Black Mesa mod for Half Life 2 brought out in July.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Its not gonna happen.

Raminator, one of the lead level designers sums it up pretty well

The thread was created before the day of this so called gamereporter blog post, so it just sounds like a troll making his/her rounds

 

[Darkside55]

The Black Mesa team are the best devs. Not only have they managed to recreate the atmosphere of Half-Life but they've even managed to emulate Valve's release schedule practices and marketing silence!

 

[JUL3]

The Black Mesa team are the best devs. Not only have they managed to recreate the atmosphere of Half-Life but they've even managed to emulate Valve's release schedule practices and marketing silence!

This.
What could really have happened that caused this:

to take another 3 years in development? Ridiculous.

 

[Darkangel]

I know the Black Mesa team are all doing this in their spare time and that it's a lot of work, ect, but 5+ years!?

At least give us a new trailer or something.

 

[Overwatch Sector]

I would laugh if this mod is long done. They are just waiting for Episode 3 to release so they an release their mod at the same time to piss everyone over.

 

[Lobster]

Large mod teams tend to suffer from all the production problems of a paid development team, but with none of the financial obligation to kick people up the arse.

Not everyone has the same drive to complete work and some develop conficting views on how the project should turn out, blame gets thrown around and the childish politics of your average WoW guild start to creep in. Not to say that has happened to Black Mesa, but it is super rare to see stuff like this ever see the light of day, simply because getting a group of opinionated talented people to throw out a simple buggy gameplay mechanic within six months is hard enough, let alone setting yourself the insane goal of a single massive release, multiple years down the line.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

This.
What could really have happened that caused this to take another 3 years in development? Ridiculous.

Valve wanted them to be the first mod team to use the new streamlined SDK
Now they've realised they can add attention to detail because it has inbuilt model, texture and sound editors as well as the new level editor so they have restarted the project