New Project Thread

hello everyone my name is mehdi and i wanted to share my modd idea with you guys to see some of your reactions and see if this is something that intrests you, so if you be so kind read throught this and give me some feedback if possible.

so, the mod is called "SHIFT" it is a first person shooter which will use the powerfull source engine to create not only great looking enviroment but to also make the world physical.
Shift enviroments will be similar to Resident evil 5, torn down city envirmoments.

SHIFT story takes place in the future, where you play Mark Madsen. Mark Madsen is somehow the only survivor of a 747 airplane that crashes in an island of BANDPAY, somewhere close to Brazil. The good news is mark was part of the military so he knows how to survive.
While Mark tries to get the hell out, he discoveres that there is a small war within the island between the island keepers and a group of armed soldiers led by Materouz((the armed crew leader)). But why?
what does the armed crew want from these villagers. There land, there soul, or there ........................ancient secrets.........
Now Mark must uncover the truth and report this threat to the closest outpost before bad things start to happen.

Some of the weapons at your disposal are:

Machete
desert eagle
M4
frag grenade
magnum revolver
winchester shotgun

*during your journey you can upgrade your weapons for example for your m4 you can buy a silencer, or a scope attachment.
so there are some rpg elements here and there.
bullets wont be lying aroun so you need to use your serrounding to your advantage, like traps.

so thank you for reading throught this.
Im currently busy making the website for the mod along some demo maps to demonstrate the feel of the enviroment, along some concept artwork.

i can work with maya,xsi softimage, hammer sdk tool, and i can draw conceptual artwork.
So, if you think that you like this mod or you have any suggestion please feel free to post or email me at
mehdi@ravand.ca or if you want to work on this mod as a coder or a level designer also please feel free to contact me.

Wish you all the best...
Merry Christmass!

Mehdi Jourabbaf

Don't mind TKAzA, he is sometimes less than encouragine . However, in many cases, encouragement is not what is needed (maybe this is one of them, but it isn't up to us to judge yet AzA.). You have to know that this will take a long time, and your skills won't cut it. You will need to be actively producing a lot of media, and you will need to be spending most (if not all) of your spare time working on this. Even then, if against all statistical odds (something like 1% of mods listed on Moddb are released) you finish it, you still just have a mod that has been done before. A few people might have run through it once, but at the end of the day, only do this if you want it for the experience.

Think about that, and if it is still worthwhile, by all means, go ahead and make it. PM me if/when you are done, and I'll play it once.

I like the idea. Sounds a bit like a FPS version of metal gear solid 3. Maybe you could couple it with a stealth mode or something, say grabbing a guy from behind and slitting his throat with the machete

so, this is a single player mod? sounds cool

yes single player mod.
thanks alot for your ideas.
it means a lot.

you sound inpired by Lost, the TV series. are you trying to create something like that? a mystical island, with ancient secrets? because i know that things like that are pretty awesome, that is if you get the story straight.

yes it is something like that....

hmm...maybe instead of having the mecenaries harassing the tribespeople....maybe they can have a secret base of operations and are planning world domination?...wait that sounds a bit too much like far cry huh?....hmm just my 2 cents.

thanks for your feedback ...

TKAzA

I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T

Hey. Go for it. Make the MOD. Dont expect people to play it more than once though, unless you somehow make it better than the other similar MODs, developed by higher skilled teams.

thanks for your intrest.
i have about my own ideas that i think will make people play it through at least once.
so stay tuned and thank you again.