Heart of Darkness Thread

Hey guys, I am once again gathering ideas for a mod. It's been ages since i've actually put time and effort into a mod, so here is my idea. I want to recreate Apocalypse Now/Heart of Darkness. I want the psychological thriller side to it. Lots of planning is still happening with me and one other guy. The mod would still take place in Vietnam and there will still be intense sequences required in a shooter. I am aware Heart of Evil is based on these stories, however, I feel there are my own qualities and story telling techniques i'd like to add. If anybody is interested, please let me know. Yes this will be a war game as well as a dark game that will get you thinking. It will get you going down the journey to the darkness within ourselves.

My position here is as a skinner, musician, and partial mapping (<~~ im not too good at). Thanks for all your time, and I hope some of you will find interest in this.

How original, with a big NOT and the !

I figured i'd have to start somewhere... When i came up with my own mod concept last year no one responded

Im guessing its going to be single player?

Have you considered any engines yet?

Yeah, single player with the addition of multiplayer at some point.

As for engines, i've been thinking of a few, it's hard to decide without a full team yet. Source is what am capable of working with best. Call of Duty 2 would be neat, but I haven't really heard much about an SDK yet.

From early screenshots Call of Duty 2 looks like it could handle some realistic forest area, which would be good for jungle style Vietnam based maps.
Hope this goes ahead.

I'd keep it in the Heart of Dearkness context myself, for originality's sake, ie. the congo.

yeah it'll be great to get this going, i just need all the help i could get!

yeah i've thought about that too spacecowboy. we'll see what happens.

why dont use the cry engine. ??? it works good if it is a jungel fps

First thing that came to mind was a dark version of the cry engine set in vietnam.
All the references to heart of darkness are good, that is good source material.

glad some of you guys like the idea. so much thinking that must be done!

Doom 3 engine perhaps? I found D3 spooky enough ...

it realy can be Great but have you found out what Engine ???. hmmm maybe i can be a little helpful too .modeling mapping consept art. just give me a pm when you have found a engine Kk ???

If you really want to go with the Heart of Darkness theme, then you need an engine that can simulate lots and lots of fog with little slow down. Not sure which one is best for that, but the fog is integral.

If you need any help design wise, lemme know, though I don't have many skills outside of writing and having some pretty in-depth know how towards the book, having gone over it in my college lit classes a few times.

Heartofdarkness.hlgaming.com

Lol, interesting website design. I haven't seen anything like that before. Can't wait for the full site to be up.

Operation Flashpoint would do just fine. Or wait for Armed Assault, which is the remake only easier to mod

Chunky.The.Tree wrote: Operation Flashpoint would do just fine. Or wait for Armed Assault, which is the remake only easier to mod

Already told him that but he doesent want to do it :p