EatChildren
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Hey all, first heres a little short story:
Our team first began work on a mod for FarCry. The mod was to be based around a Waterworldish universe and be a shooter/rpg hybrid. Our team started off small but eventually grew quite large. It all started off so good, but as with most good things it must come to an end, unfortunately in this case far too soon. UbiSoft failed to release an SDK on time, something we drastically needed. The FarCry community has withered and died, and there is still no SDK. Due to frustration people began to leave, work began to take longer than expected, and the general attitude of the team was quite grim. Eventually it was time to announce the project was dead. There was no point waiting for an SDK to work on a large mod to release to a community that would barly knotice it.
And now here I am, at a HL2 forum. The team has decided that the death of one project will not stop us, and we have taken off again with a new vision. The old concepts have been destroyed and we are starting anew.
First I'll give some details of our new project: It is in simple terms another RPG/Shooter, but much more on the side of an RPG. However it is not medieval but infact in a modern-ish world. Thats nothing new or special of course.
We believe we have quite a unique feature of the mod, and that is going to be the universe it is set in. We have taken the world of Elves, Dwarves, Men and Orc that we often see in Tolkien's Middle Earth and the various AD&D games, and taken them to a world of evolution.
It takes the classic Fantasy world and evolves it to a little beyond modern day. It was once common to see a pack of Orc weilding short swords and chainmail, and it now will be common to see a pack of Orc weilding submachine guns and tattered clothing.
This is not simply a modern world with these races. We are taking into extreme account the various life-styles and unique features these races had in there middle-ages time and making sure that there living style in this new world reflects how we believe society would have evolved. Politics and crime are common-place and magic is no longer concidered "mystic" but instead a science. Gone are crowns and septres.
We believe this would be the first time in gaming history that this has been attempted. The closest to my knowledge at attempting this was Arcanum, and even then Swords, Shields and Armor were very dominent. Feel free to correct me of course
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Oh dear! I havnt said much about thegameplay yet! Well, it will have the typical Attributes and Skills, but we are throwing in a few little unique ways of increasing these and learning new abilities. Gameplay will consist of one main quest (with multiple paths) as well as a plethora of side-quests, like any good RPG. Of course, we are working on a few little unique features to keep things fresh.
This brings me here. We are welcoming programmers, modelers, texturers, etc, but we are mostly looking for some keen concept artists.
Concept Artists will require to have a deep imagination, as they are going to have to design these mythical races to fit a modern world. We are accept talent in all forms; buildings, humanoids, weapons, anything.
We currently do not have a website up, as we believe it is far from a priority at this point in time. We do however have a few talented members working away on design.
If anyone is interested in more details on the mod or looking to apply for a position, post here or PM me.
Oh, one last note. We call ourselves !mammoth! Studios and can be contacted at [email protected] .
Well, thats all! Happy gaming!
- Jarrod, Mod Leader/Director
Our team first began work on a mod for FarCry. The mod was to be based around a Waterworldish universe and be a shooter/rpg hybrid. Our team started off small but eventually grew quite large. It all started off so good, but as with most good things it must come to an end, unfortunately in this case far too soon. UbiSoft failed to release an SDK on time, something we drastically needed. The FarCry community has withered and died, and there is still no SDK. Due to frustration people began to leave, work began to take longer than expected, and the general attitude of the team was quite grim. Eventually it was time to announce the project was dead. There was no point waiting for an SDK to work on a large mod to release to a community that would barly knotice it.
And now here I am, at a HL2 forum. The team has decided that the death of one project will not stop us, and we have taken off again with a new vision. The old concepts have been destroyed and we are starting anew.
First I'll give some details of our new project: It is in simple terms another RPG/Shooter, but much more on the side of an RPG. However it is not medieval but infact in a modern-ish world. Thats nothing new or special of course.
We believe we have quite a unique feature of the mod, and that is going to be the universe it is set in. We have taken the world of Elves, Dwarves, Men and Orc that we often see in Tolkien's Middle Earth and the various AD&D games, and taken them to a world of evolution.
It takes the classic Fantasy world and evolves it to a little beyond modern day. It was once common to see a pack of Orc weilding short swords and chainmail, and it now will be common to see a pack of Orc weilding submachine guns and tattered clothing.
This is not simply a modern world with these races. We are taking into extreme account the various life-styles and unique features these races had in there middle-ages time and making sure that there living style in this new world reflects how we believe society would have evolved. Politics and crime are common-place and magic is no longer concidered "mystic" but instead a science. Gone are crowns and septres.
We believe this would be the first time in gaming history that this has been attempted. The closest to my knowledge at attempting this was Arcanum, and even then Swords, Shields and Armor were very dominent. Feel free to correct me of course
.Oh dear! I havnt said much about thegameplay yet! Well, it will have the typical Attributes and Skills, but we are throwing in a few little unique ways of increasing these and learning new abilities. Gameplay will consist of one main quest (with multiple paths) as well as a plethora of side-quests, like any good RPG. Of course, we are working on a few little unique features to keep things fresh.
This brings me here. We are welcoming programmers, modelers, texturers, etc, but we are mostly looking for some keen concept artists.
Concept Artists will require to have a deep imagination, as they are going to have to design these mythical races to fit a modern world. We are accept talent in all forms; buildings, humanoids, weapons, anything.
We currently do not have a website up, as we believe it is far from a priority at this point in time. We do however have a few talented members working away on design.
If anyone is interested in more details on the mod or looking to apply for a position, post here or PM me.
Oh, one last note. We call ourselves !mammoth! Studios and can be contacted at [email protected] .
Well, thats all! Happy gaming!
- Jarrod, Mod Leader/Director
