Blogs - theNintyFan

Wow... that's happened.

Thought the rumors were all bullshit but....here we are. I'm really excited to see how the game turns out, although I probably won't play it for a while seeing as though I don't have any VR equipment whatsoever. Nevertheless, I'm big hype.

WOOT I finally made it to level 13.

like this SERIOUSLY took a while. i'm not making this blog past to brag about the fact that I got it, I wanted to mention that I was on level 12 for 2+ Y E A R S .

like, if 12 took that long, this...this is gonna be painful.

anyway, useless blog post end. <3

I've been gone for almost three months. This is because of a lot of shit that, well, I would rather not talk about has happened.

But anyway, I'm back. I am determined to finish Cold Shift. I don't care whether I end up finishing it in two years or ten, I'm going to do this.

But before I start back on that, I'm going to work on a small mod called Mini Half-Life (or Half-Life Mini. I'm a quite indecisive person). This is as simple as it sounds, every chapter from the original game will be remade with smaller and shorter but completely original maps. I aim to finish and release this mod around the middle of next year.

And that doesn't mean I'm going to completely stop on Cold Shift. I'll still be working on it, just maybe not as much. However I'm going to push the projected release date to 2020. I honestly won't finish it in 2019, it's just not humanly possible at all with someone as lazy as me. I understand that some of you might be pissed off about this and...well, sorry but I think my mental health is more important than a video game modification.

NintyFan out.

Hey y'all. Just saying that I'm going to be taking a break for a while from working on Cold Shift. I'm just not in the best shape at the minute both physically and especially mentally so I'll be slowing down on the interwebs for a bit. Also I'm going back to school in just over a week (yay...) so that'll also be a damper on CS's progress. But I don't expect to be gone for long, just need some time to think.

NintyFan out.

Wow. MOTY already? I could of sworn last year's was later in December. Well maybe they change it up every time, I've only been here for the 2016 one.

Development on Cold Shift has been going really smoothly compared to this time last year. I've enjoyed the past 6/7 months of mapping. Even though I stopped a few times I've gotten quite a few maps started on.

When do I think it will release? Definitely 2018. When in 2018? I'm not sure. Hopefully by the end of summer. I'll be releasing a lot more screenshots and trailers/teasers from here on out though!

So a while back I mentioned that I was going to do a deathmatch map pack of sorts for HL1. Well the first map has already been completed and I have uploaded it on TWHL. It's called pooldm and, as you can probably guess, is a swimming pool map. It's by no means perfect. Well, it's bad but you can check it out if you want.

Well that's one map done. I think I might include 5 or 6 maps in the map pack but that'll be a while away, I'd say 3 months at least. As for those other maps I'm thinking a school map, a Black Mesa Facility style map and...that's it. I'll go now, gotta start thinking of ideas.

Holy shit the stupid Jeman thing was January.

That was 8 months ago...wow.

Anyway yeah its still technically going on since ActiveNintyfan291 is complaining about the size of boxes in a video game map because they can't fit through a door in the same room even though the door was put there so I could A. Take a screenshot and B. Close up the map so it wasn't fullbright and test the lighting.

And he says he isn't pathetic.

Y'know, sometimes...I don't know why I bother.

I just REALLY don't.

Well today I went to the Cold Shift just to check if someone had posted a comment or something like that. That's usually what I expect to see. What I DON'T expect to see is that my mod has been DELETED!

Gone...that's it, it's just gone!

Well luckily my friend GamerDude27, who helped with improving CS''s mod page, is trying to fix this. I'm still pissed off though, why is sh*t like this happening to this mod? Does creation itself have some sort of vendetta against it?!

Ever since the beginning, Cold Shift has been through some hard times. As you may of heard, I am no longer going to be the mapper for Cold Shift and I will be focusing my attention towards other HL-related projects. Of course, I still hope to contribute in some way to CS.

First up, I have had an idea for quite a while now about a HL1 Deathmatch map-pack. I have already had ideas and even full designs for some of these maps for a while now e.g: "dm_graves" A map set in a graveyard full of hills and underground paths and "dm_n64" which is pretty self-explanatory. I want about 4-6 maps in this collection but we shall see how things turn out.

Next, a mod for either Hl1 or HL2 (I've heard Source mapping is quite difficult so it'll likely be a HL1 mod). I won't spoil anything major about the story yet but I will say this: It takes place in an alternate timeline after HL1. This mod will probably be released 2018/19 since I want to practise mapping more and get the aforementioned DM map-pack out of the way.

Also, I might release a Doom 2 mod one day, mapping for the Doom games is really fun and easier compared to GoldSource mapping and I've just in the past few days remembered how fun it was mapping for that game.

NintyFan out!