Gundam Operations: The Sands of War

[Surj Ronin]

Well, to add to the ever growing list of Half Life 2 modifications, I figure I'll post a help wanted for my own!

Gundam Operations will be a first person, single-played, squad-based, story-driven mod based around the One Year War in Universal Century 0079. What we are striving to achieve is a daunting amount of realism, hoping to immerse you into the cockpit of the Mobile Suit of your choice.

We are attempting an original Weight Limit system, a fully 3D hud, and everything you've ever seen happen in the 08th MS Team OVA.

An original script has been hammered out, along with a nice, big design document. Voice acting is also planned. We are knee deep into modeling right now, to prepare for HL2's release.

Please visit our site for some more information, joing the forums, and if you can skin or skinmap, we could use you. Badly.

Gundam Operations: The Sands of War

Thanks for your time!

 

[chapel]

Well, not that I havent seen a big mech mod before. I am curious as to what the gameplay will be, you said it will be gundams in the "one year war," whatever that is. What does the player do, really I know nothing about your mod other than its gundam and its first person and single player. I would recommend fleshing that stuff out for us, not everyone wants to dig through your site to find out that info.

Good luck, but please add more info.

 

[Surj Ronin]

No problem! Ask and you shall recieve!

For our gameplay aspect, we're going to be slowing things down a little bit, making the player think a little bit more before going into a firefight. You won't be in a super Gundam, able to take on every enemy in sight. You'll just be one of the grunts. I'm not going to call it sluggish, but the mech you pilot will not be instantly responsive to the mouse, either... Hard to explain, but if you just jerk the mouse to the right, it'll take a moment for the mech to follow and aim it's weapon where you point. Sorry for the bad explanation. I'm really frickin' tired.

Anyways, more about the mod:
The player's campaign will begin in Australia just after the Zeon drop a space colony onto the continent. Scripted moments in the mission will make it feel a bit scenematic, and the original characters, such as your squadmates, enemy aces, etc. will bring our tale from the One Year War alive. The player will lead a squad into the biggest battles of the One Year War, through the Himallayas, Operation Odessa, the Shuddering Mountain campaign, recapturing California Base, and even to a Colony or two.

Well, I've got to run off and work >.< so forgive the short post.
If there are more question, please ask, and I'll be sure to answer them for you.

 

[babywax]

Have you asked permission to use "Gundam?" If I remember correctly it is a show, and is copyrighted. You might have to change the name and a few things to make it a little less like the show.
Disregard this if there isn't a show called that.

 

[Surj Ronin]

Yes, there is a show called "Mobile Suit Gundam," but I do know of 2 other mods with the name Gundam in them, one of them having been around for about 2 or 3 years. The only Gundam mod that used this name and was shut down was Gundam Century, the Gundam mod for Starcraft, and the only reason was people in Hong Kong that were looking for a quick buck were burning copies of the mod and selling it.