Rock, Paper, Shotgun interview Minivera Creator

[Evo]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun have an done an interview with Adam Foster the acclaimed creator of the acclaimed Minerva mod. (Yes I know I used acclaimed twice in one sentence, but I don't care!) This is a great interview with Adam talking about the Minerva itself, assistance given by Valve and much more besides![br]

RPS: What sort of assistance/input have Valve given on the most recent chapters?[br]AF: I went out to Bellevue again in June - for an unfortunately cancelled mod developer?s conference. I?d already booked my travel, and it was a shame to waste it? So I got a few days of nattering to Valve personages, playing their games (I can point out absences of bugs in Episode Two and Portal which were my fault!), and best of all - I got to see Robin Walker and Marc Laidlaw play through the in-development MINERVA.[br]Which was a bit of an eye-opening experience. The former played it almost through FPS shorthand, effortlessly pointing out potential pitfalls and problems for unwary players, and then broke the scripting in the let?s-destroy-the-facility underground blast by demonstrating that bored players could jump down the shaft to his or her death. He knew what players might think, so he knew what to test.[br]The latter? Well, he truthfully demonstrated how someone could run entirely the wrong way down corridors, and get utterly and completely lost in a seemingly linear map.[br]It was great. ;-)

Check out the interview here and enjoy!

 

[Asuka]

Interesting, reading now.

 

[Evo]

Thanks for the PM Crispy but I saw this before I checked my PMs :O

<3

 

[Reginald]

Awesome interview. I already can't wait for Out of Time even though it has at least another year to go.*

Metastasis is one of the best FPS games I've ever played, let alone mods.



*Estimate.

 

[Steel.Inferno]

Good interview.

I'll have to bookmark RPS, loved all the stuff from them I've read in the past weeks.

 

[Crispy]

Thanks for the PM Crispy but I saw this before I checked my PMs :O

<3

On the buzzer, I like it! :thumbs:

 

[Kadayi]

Good interview.

I'll have to bookmark RPS, loved all the stuff from them I've read in the past weeks.

RPS is a quality site for sure.

 

[mrxskinny]

Something he said about the big mods that are large overtakings was a bit disconcerting. He mentions Black Mesa: Source specifically and I would hate to see it fall apart because the scope and vision that the team working on BMS may really be too big.

 

[Crispy]

Worse case scenario BMS probably have enough content to release an episode of the mod. I'm not sure if they've been working chronologically though. Because it's a single player which already has a solid template, the core assets could easily be finished by now, with only the maps and map testing to go.