A Story of Madness mod for Half-Life 2

10 comments by Jokerme on Nov 3rd, 2009 digg this super bookmark

A Story of Madness is an atmospheric horror experience on Source Engine. Our main goals as AsoM Development Team are creating creepy and unsettling visuals, support them with good music, tell a great story along the way, and make the player feel the story with different gameplay mechanics. We are working as much as we can to achieve these.

Lately we were working a little slower than we were on summer (it was summer in Europe anyway), but this is nothing we cannot handle. I am sure that we will work more in coming months and mod will improve continuously.

I did some new maps last month, started making a cemetery, a sewer system concept and two days ago I have made hospital concept. I am saying "concept" because it is. Meaning they are things that I made to decide how things will look generally when I do the real maps we will play in. This makes things faster for me, since I simply change the current concept to make new areas. Here are shots from my hospital concept:

Also I started making a cemetery map a while ago. In this shot there are no graves because it is from outside of the cemetery. It is not finished yet but some parts can be considered ready. For example fog looks good and lights feel right if you ask me:

Lastly I made a video for those who want to see how fog looks like when playing the game. I have made really big improvements after I made this video but these improvements are mostly technical, so this video is not far from the final quality:

I hope we will give you some info about the story and the technical improvements we made until now with another article soon.

Thanks for reading and thanks for following our mod. Your support always makes things easier for us. Also if you think you can help us in any way, please contact, maybe we need you ,but you do not know yet.