Death & Taxes : Source

[MightyMiyagi]

I'm getting a team together to work on a Source mod called "Death and Taxes." The setting is the U.S., many years in the future, a short time after coming out of a long period of civil war, revolution, and unrest. The new government (a confederation of rural and urban districts) has difficulty maintaining control of the populace.

You play a tax collector. Sounds like a crummy role for a FPS, but in this period of the future, the tax collector is a hardened vetran of battle. He is constantly threatened and attacked by people who are, for obvious reasons, not willing to pay their taxes.

As of right now, this will involve one episode in a rural district in middle-of-nowhere New England. The story begins with a simple band of rebels not willing to pay their taxes...but ends up involving much, much more.

I'm looking for: coders, modelers, animators, mappers. If you have another skill and are interested, sign on up. I have almost all of the game mapped out, with level flow charts and the like. This will be a bit intensive as I plan on having real actors play the roles of the town folk. When we have enough people together, I'll get a TeamSpeak server that we can all meet on.

Here's the url for the forum I have set up, the Dev Team areas are locked until I actually get a team together:

http://www.createforum.com/phpbb/?mforum=deathandtaxes

Cheers,
Bill Mitchell
[email protected]

 

[crackhead]

that is a fanatastic idea. and also a great title. i wish you the best of luck.

 

[armanguy]

awesome idea if you need any concepts im not that busy ill be glad to help out.
as a contributer.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

I read the title and thought you were converting the legendary film "Meet Joe Black" to Source. I was wrong.

Unique concept, though.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[MightyMiyagi]

Thanks, and here's the better forum address (if that other even worked):
http://www.createforum.com/phpbb/deathandtaxes.html

Feel free to post any ideas/feedback as more info gets posted.
Cheers

 

[MightyMiyagi]

In fact, what I really need are talented coders. I want to rework the AI (Valve has said in the developer docs that HL2 didn't take full advantage of the AI offered in Source) and I would like to at least discuss possibilities with someone who's played around with the Source AI script so when we get a coder on board, I'll know what can/can't be done.

 

[MightyMiyagi]

website

Still looking for a mapper, coder, and maybe even another modeler.
If you are well versed in model skinning, that would help too.
The script is almost at its 1st draft completion stage (soooooo close), models of our actors are in the making (screen shots to come soon), and we have a website (that needs work...I know):

http://www.deathandtaxes.freeservers.com/

The ABOUT section contains a very detailed bit of "history" around the game.

I'm going to get an ad-free domain when I get paid this week, so imagine it without the friggin' ads.
Also, if someone out there wants to create a better website, shoot me an email and I'll tell you what we need/what I would like to do:[email protected]

Cheers,
Bill Mitchell

 

[Puzzlemaker]

Very unique idea! Best of luck to ye!