Lunar Cybermen! Radioactive ants! Ghastly ghouls! Godless Communist bastards! A cooperative mod idea. Thread

I like the idea of something totally over the top like that.
It's different, and if the producing team have a good artistic sense it could get really awesome.

Then cooperative gameplay is challenging to do, since you have to take all kinds of eventualities into account (most of them having to do with your teammates being jerks) to make the game fun.

Both, in all honesty. You still had some REALLY REALLY good flicks in the 50's/early 60's (Them!, The Last Man on Earth). Plus some of the early eighties were good as well. I think they started declining around the time the 1990s hit.

Oh totally.

Honestly it gives me an excuse to do Art Deco architecture, and I love Art Deco.

And modern Sci Fi games aren't bad per se, they're just all the same thing. Far future space marine goes out and kicks alien ass. Not too interesting anymore. I mean, Aliens came out in what.. late 80s?

I'd have to go with 50's. Mostly for the era and the way the movies were structured. I loved the fact that almost all of them had that "Oh god the world is MOST DEFINITELY GOING TO BE DESTROYED BY (a, b or c) and at the end it has a moral lesson learned part. (IE: Them! "When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.")

I'm not a movie buff because the archives are too huge.

Still, from what I do know about Classic Sci-Fi this sounds fun. When are you going to post some details?

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Ark

Leechmen. :V

And the way I'm structuring the maps, each map series plays out as it's own movie. So, the maplist would be organized like this:

TheMoonMen_01
TheMoonMen_02
TheMoonMen_03
DialRForRussian_01
DialRForRussian_02

and so on. That way, there is no main "Theme" that has to be followed. One could be a black & white horror epic while the other could be a color war movie about a Soviet invasion in France.

In addition to this, the loading screen will display a movie poster for the map (If I can get map sensitive images to load.) that would also explain the objectives somewhat. (IE: "Watch in terror as strange flying object decimate Small Town USA! Cheer as our heroic forces bring an end to the alien massacre!" Etc, etc)

That's what makes the most sense in my head right now, as it is. This way, if you wanted, you could go with a movie from any era as long as the props and textures allow it.

Finally, I'd like to at least get a viewable trailer up before making a Mod Profile and going around to all the news sites going "LOOKAT MEH MAWD!". It's my personal opinion that too many mods announce themselves with only a piece of concept art drawn in paint and an unskinned render.

ps. Zenarion, your art rules.

'cept we're going to need team members to make the mod, which we can't get unless we have something to show that stands out from the rest of the "Hai, join mai team plix!!!!" mods. D=

Ding ding ding. That's why I'm going to announce the mod WITH the trailer. It just makes more sense to me that way.

Oh lawd, is this some bumps?

Yes, yes it is. I just wanted to bring the subject of map details up.

Why is it that so many Source mod maps are do underdetailed it hurts? Of course I don't just mean graphically, though many do under preform in this area.

I mean things like sound effects and, hell, lighting. You make a secluded cabin in the woods and it's dead quiet. Where's the wind? The birds and insects?

One of my favorite game series, Max Payne, is actually putting a lot of influence into this mod (The third person view being one of the biggest). In said game, in case you haven't played it, the maps are INSANELY detailed. Even down to having full length TV series playing in them. Freaking TV shows. Even prop placement feels realistic and the levels never really feel like a "killbox" (To me, at least.). So I had an idea which I really shouldn't be exploring at such an early stage of the mod when I have so much more to do, but what the hell.

What about somewhat simple radio dramas playing at radios in parts of the mod? It could lend itself to interesting community involvement - after all, while everyone might not be able to map or model, most people have functioning vocal cords. And at the very least the older radio plays are either public domain or easy to acquire (The Lone Ranger, War of the Worlds, The Twilight Zone). Throw in some fake ads and we could have a small detail that could grab the attention of the player and at least make him or her go "Hey, that's pretty cool."

Hell, now I kinda want to make a Half Life 1 radio drama. Someone tell me to get back to mapping. :V

Edited by: Redfox899

Awesome, Zim, thank's for the pictures.

Also, since this thread has become somewhat quiet, I gladly introduce pictures of the third person camera and my awesome mapping* Spoiler: not awesome

I think I need a mapper. D:

Edited by: Redfox899

Basically, I love this idea.

Good luck recruiting a mod team!

Your maps are very square, from what I can make out. =P