The Half-Life modification Starlabs, cancelled

[Loke]

Though I always thought I'd never give out this news (and have always claimed that Starlabs would be completed), now I know that I was wrong in thinking this wouldn't happen as well as claiming it. Regardless, I'm afraid I have to announce that Starlabs has been cancelled.

Why, will probably be on the minds of a lot of people who regularly visit this website.

The simple reason is that due to problems in real life, I no longer have the time but more importantly, the lust or motivation to work on Starlabs. Asides this, various members of the team have been very busy with real life events as well and while these developments are for the better for most of the team members, cancelling this mod is still a sad event for all of us.

http://starlabs.quaint.info/index.php

This is mostly disappointing of course as the last thing that I could ever think of was this mod being cancelled. I really thought they could get through it and release it to the public.

But sometimes it’s just not working as you’ve hoped. It really looked spectacular from the screenshots, easily one of the best-looking Half-Life modifications I've seen to date. It had style!

Of course, I'm still glad that they will still release the stuff that they managed to finish, so it's not all gone to waste, gladly.

But what does this mean for the contents that have already been created for Starlabs? Well, I'm planning on putting all Starlabs maps made so far (whether they're completed or not) in a sort of demo reel. Completing the mod would be far too time consuming (especially when you don't have the lust or motivation), but showing off what has been made so far should be relatively easy to do. I don't know when I'll have such a demo reel completed (as I'm not rushing it), but I hope that such a demo reel will at least satisfy the tastes of some people who've been waiting for Starlabs material.

A second release that I'm planning should be part of the mod Reissues. I'm planning on including a part of the most completed Starlabs chapter as a playable contribution so that all people who want to get a taste of some Starlabs action, should get it in the form of one (partial) chapter. (Six chapters were planned.) The chapter in question is Chapter 4: "Satellite Trouble".

There are plenty of screenshots from the modification on the website if you wish to see how it looks.

God damn it, I'm crying now...

 

[Ennui]

always sad to see a promising mod go under.