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Cat Life
Half-Life mod | TBD
Black Mesa, New Mexico...
With regular system crashes and over-driven equipment, a disaster must have been inevitable.Deep within the tunnels and carved corridors of the top secret research complex within the mesa itself, the catalyst was introduced.
When your only companion (indeed your best and only friend of this piddling existence) suffered from an untimely death, you couldn't help but feel lost and vulnerable. And when you stumbled into a series of strange and unnatural incidents, you soon realized that no one cared about YOUR life. No one would take the time to befriend you... to help you... to save you.
People were dieing.And your best friend was one of many victims.You were forced to survive alone.To live by any means necessary.And to do it your way.
Of course, it didn't help that you were born a cat.
Cat-Life is an original concept for Half-Life and the GoldSource engine.Players will experience the Black Mesa incident from the view of a stranded pet cat.
Using claws and teeth and the natural prowess of a cat, players will travel through the bowels of Black Mesa.Xenian beasts roam the corridors and laboratories and... surprise... cats are conveniently bite-sized for those in-between-meal munchies.
This project includes...
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Six new chapters
- Over 30 complex maps
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A new training course
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And a team that is still growing
Team Cat-Life:
Sayrken (aka BiGToM) [Team Leader, Mapper, Basic Coder]
Radu IceMan -- 2D artist / concept art
Jan1024188 (leader of Half-Life Ultra) [~INNERCODE~r]
DS (aka Dark Shadow) [Mapper, Concept Artist, Writer]
Ashkandi [3D Artist]
JKBlackNinja [Level Designer, Beta Tester]
d3mon [Mapper]
Djquick [Beta Tester]
Friendly Garg [Original Concept]
The Wildcat [BWL Development]
CXX.LIU [mapper/level designer]
Wizey -- Music Composer
Our Mod-Watchers and Fans [Original Concept, Cat Name?]I'd like to take a moment to thank wavelength for its tutorials and to thank omega, Corvidae, X-Out, XWJ, Badger, Prefect, and BigGuy for their helpful tutorials as they have made editing this source code much easier. I'd also like to thank :SysOp: and Minuit for their support and info regarding the locations of important hull definitions and the like.
Beta Estimates [Amount left before Beta]:
Coding: 100%
Buggy and limited Cat POV code. Newer code is being worked, but we still need a coder / programmer to really do this mod justice.
Maps: 90%
All maps are basically done. Currently tweaking and refining. Additional side maps may or may not be added.
Models: 90%
Sounds: 50%
Decreased from 75% for additional, improved sound work.
Music: N/A
No music in the beta.
Total Beta Progress: 82%
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Latest News: Cat-Life Beta Announcement
8 comments by The_Wildcat on Sep 6th, 2009 digg this super bookmark
Originally imagined in 2003 as a mod for Half-Life, Cat-life has spent a great deal of time on hiatus over the years. After a long delay due to missing team leadership, the mod reorganized under current Team Cat-Life leader BiGToM. Yet the greatest missing component, a coder, remains absent. The biggest single set-back has been the cat's POV code.
However, as has been stipulated before, this mod about a cat trapped and ownerless during the Black Mesa incident has plenty of lives left. Earlier this week, BiGToM announced that an older piece of code from prior efforts had been successfully implemented. The original code had been fraught with bugs such as monsters sinking into the floor. Nevertheless, after a lengthy wait for a new coder [a wait that included a cash reward], the early code was modified and fixed.
Now, with corrected code in hand, Team Cat-Life is able to wrap up other portions of the mod. With this news, the team has also announced a target date for the first stage of Open Beta testing. Expect to be able to download and play the Cat-Life beta in November.
The beta will also include additional bonus content including maps that were cut from the project and some of the original concept.
To help celebrate, I've asked BiGToM for some new screen shots for the gallery. We've now added four new images.
Also, be sure to keep an eye on PHL, TWHL's Forums, HL2Files, and our FPS Banana Account for this press release. I dispatched two "exclusive" screenshots to each of those sites with our news and those images will not be added to the gallery.
Additionally, and this is to clarify previous statements, the team does not intend to stop work on Cat-Life and switch over to the Source engine. There is, however, an ongoing discussion regarding the possibility of either converting a finished Cat-Life to Source or... more likely... making a sequel using Source.
No matter the outcome of that discussion, Cat-Life will begin its open beta in November and we do want it finished before moving to the next project.
And if you are interested in working on a sequel in Source, and happen to know how to code... contact me at the_wildcat@bwldevelopment.com I personally would like to have someone writing new source code long before the team is actually ready to work on a second mod and possibly accelerate the development process.
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IM FUCKING TRACKING THIS
awesome word
up at the top summary it says it didnt help you where bom a cat please fix that
It says "born" (copy/paste of actual text here). The font runs the r and n together.
Of course, it didn't help that you were born a cat oh sorry
Yay 82% Done :D only few weeks or months left :3
Wish it was third person.
You can, there's a HL cheat where you can go in to thirdperson.
Press the '~' key (the one to the left of 1 and above tab) and type thirdperson or sv_thirdperson to use it. (You can replace third with first to get it back to normal).
YAY ALMOST DONE
The Beta will be available here... in November...