Survival (Dare I say 'Zombie') Mod Starting Up

MetalPiranha

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I am starting up a single player mod for HL2. The mod will basically be another game - a total conversion. Dare I say it - It's a zombie mod, but with a twist. If I revealed it - the mod wouldn't be very good :D
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Heres the storyline so far:

One restless night. Crack. Sharply awaken by his nightmare, he jolted from his bed in shock. What a hopeless night. He had work the next day and had settled down in his bed after a night of heavy drinking. Later, he awoke several times to hear the noise of banging outside. Just kids? Perhaps. Tossing and turning in his bed, the banging returned at the pace of every heartbeat. He got up, looking out his window to the world outside. No light. Scrambling through his sleepless mind, he thought of a powercut, with workmen outside fixing the powerlines. That’s what that deafening bang was. No… that was just a dream. He went back to sleep, but once again he was awoken. This time he heard the banging, along with a few distant groans. Furious with the noise, he groaned like the voices outside. Voices they were now, becoming louder and louder, closer and closer. He took some sleeping pills soon became intoxicated. He slumped onto his cold, damp bed.

The morning was silent. Upon walking down his stairs he noticed there was no sound of the early morning cockerel. Dazed, he went to his breakfast table like usual.

There were bloody handprints on the glass window by the table. Shocked, he ran back upstairs to safety. A few dark crows scattered from the street outside and suddenly, a slow moving creature came from the alleyway between the corner shop and another house, similar to his own.

Steve must escape from the horror of suburbia and survive. This is his journey from 182 Westgate Street to the trainstation. Sound normal? I don't think so.

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I am currently working on a few maps which will be part of this. At the moment, we need a Modeller and a Texture Artist. I am a mapper and I can write the storyline. Anyone willing to help is welcome - Just add me to msn ([email protected]) and we'll have a chat.

Map example (UNFINISHED):
cornershop2.jpg


C&C Welcome too.
 
Sound normal? I don't think so.[/B]
But if you don't reveal it, it sounds 100% normal. I gurantee you there are thousands of people who would be interested in your mod who do not go to halflife2.net and if you told us what makes your mod so special, wouldn't ruin it for them and would actually make some people here interested. Else I don't think too many people would be...
 
Its nothing that special. Just basically - As he escapes from town he picks up clues and discovers what has happened. Its not a 'There were these mutant monkeys who were infected with a rage inducing virus... Rarrr!' kind of thing. Its a radioactive explosion which affected everyone in the blast radius.
 
Sounds like a 50's horror movie, then.

Doesn't matter where the zombies are coming from, they're still zombies.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Angry Lawyer said:
Sounds like a 50's horror movie, then.

Doesn't matter where the zombies are coming from, they're still zombies.

-Angry Lawyer
Angry Lawyer, don't you get tired of writing

-Angry Lawyer

at the end of all your posts?

Isn't that what the signature is for? Or your name, above your post?

:p

That doesn't seem very original, by the way. :/ If you're a one-man team now, why don't you just try to join up with an existing zombie mod?
 
Erestheux said:
Angry Lawyer, don't you get tired of writing

-Angry Lawyer

at the end of all your posts?

Isn't that what the signature is for? Or your name, above your post?

Nahh. I'd prefer it appear above the signature line. And when I type posts, it makes the post feel finished.
Perhaps I'm obsessive-compulsive, to a degree. Bad things will happen if I don't sign my name.

Or not.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Try it, Mr. Lawyer. Just once ;)

Let go of the signature.
 
No, honestly, it'll feel really wrong. I'll end up just going back and editing the post to make it right again.

-Angry Lawyer
 
or you know what would be neat is if you aimed to make it like a 50's horror movie. use mat_yuv 1 and stuff(black and white) and maybe even make the same cheesy type monsters. maybe that would be fun. i dont think i have seen anything like that before.
 
If you need any support with sounds and music contact me :) ill be more than glad to help out.
 
Ok GrapeJuice could you PM me your msn addy please :D

Deleter - Cool idea. Definate possibility.
 
Sounds good... People say there are too many zombie mods, but if they bring something cool to the table, then each one will have its own group of followers.
 
yeah, and playing in a 50's horror movie could be quite cool. TBH it would be nice to something like this, i don't believe i have ever seen a black and white game (excluding arcade games). It would be different to say the least. :cheers:
 
It'd only be a good 50's horror mod if you had to fight a giant black blob. Or hideously oversized ants. Or bigass spiders. Or King Kong.

Then again, most of those are older than the 50's, aren't they?

-Angry Lawyer
 
How bout combine the two... Zombie oversized ants! It could work

or not.

Make your mod different, i wouldn't like black and white, but i would give it a try. Uniqueness is key here.
 
MetalPiranha said:
They're called antlions lol.
POWNED!! Nah, really.

Yeah, you should try starting this up. Get a band of hardy ruff-skullians, and you could kick some arse.
 
Antlions aren't nearly the scale I'm thinking of.

In old horror films, they were Strider-sized. And lay beatdowns with radioactive death ray eyes (before they started calling them lasers).

-Angry Lawyer
 
Angry Lawyer said:
In old horror films, they were Strider-sized. And lay beatdowns with radioactive death ray eyes (before they started calling them lasers).

They're called Antlion Guards... lol.

Just kidding yas.

I'd really like to get this started but noone has really offered properly - any mapper, modeller, texturer, coder PLEASE post in this thread!
 
Antlion guards are only the size of a car. Cheesy old-fashioned horror films had ants four times the size.

You already have a mapper/modeller/texturer/coder posting in this thread, but I've already got my own mod to tend to. That, and your mod sounds a little...Well, cliche'd. If you were proposing to do something groundbreaking and new, I'd probably give advice.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Fraid not. I am going to get it up at easter as soon as ive done my band's site.
 
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