City17: Episode 1
City17: Episode 1

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City17: Episode 1

Intro


Today marks our final major update for this month, and the day we enter 'crunch' mode, where all of our content is locked down as we make our final 'push' to complete the mod. We've saved the best for last though! This update is bursting with juicy map media!

While C17 still doesn't have a concrete release date, we'd like to officially say that it will likely see it's release before Summer. This means that we're still aiming for a Q2 release


Map media









Improved eye textures


We've redesigned our eye textures to give them a much more realistic presentation. To achieve this, we completely revamped the eye textures to be much higher resolution, and we've spent some more time tweaking our shader parameters for the eyes, which involved harvesting actual pure baby eyes.



The eyes on the left of this screenshot feature our updated texture. Both eyes have the shader improvements applied.

We've actually borrowed much of this technology from Team Fortress 2, but saying we got them from babies pleases the Heavy greatly.


New team members


To get City17: Episode 1 out on time, Gear has taken on a some new team members, including a few voice actors, a couple modelers, and another programmer! A list of all current Gear members can be found below.

  • MrTwoVideoCards: Project Lead, Head Mapper, Particle Artist, Texture Artist
  • Mess: Mapper, Composer, Sound Engineer
  • Zipfinator: Mapper, Particle Artist
  • 1/4 Life: Lead Programmer
  • Sam Za Nemesis: Lead Modeler, Animator
  • Sortie: Programmer, Distribution
  • .Cyberkave: Programmer
  • diwako: Texture Artist
  • Sn1pe: Animator
  • Bites: Modeler
  • Da Big Man: Sound Engineer
  • fps_NoobKiller: Composer
  • VESS: Concept Artist, Voice Actor
  • Anachron: Modeler
  • Phillip Marlowe: Voice Actor
  • Leo Leonidas: Voice Actor
  • Edli: Voice Actor
  • KG: Lead Bug Tester
  • Pelpix: Artist

Updated ModDB theme


City17: Episode 1 now has a custom ModDB theme, thanks to Malkin of Malkin Medias. Let us know what you think in your comments, and be sure to check out the summary page as well!


On the horizon...


That's it for this update! Stay tuned; in the coming weeks we'll be releasing a gameplay video, and some videos demonstrating FaceAPI and it's benefits to immersion and game play.

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Comments  (0 - 10 of 463)
Jike
Jike Jan 31 2010, 11:15am says:

Hey, did you remake the fire particles? It looks different from the normal Orange Box one..

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Stoudemire15
Stoudemire15 Feb 6 2010, 3:25am replied:

Because, to let Valve know that something that can improved more than that and hopefully they were use this to develop Episode Three or another new Installment of franchise.

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MrtwovideoCards
MrtwovideoCards Feb 6 2010, 4:31am replied:

Wait, wat?

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MrtwovideoCards
MrtwovideoCards Feb 1 2010, 12:36am replied:

Yup, we did.

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Mess
Mess Jan 30 2010, 5:40am says: Online

hey we can't really pinpoint a specific month at the moment, but we're in serious crunch mode getting the game ready for Q2 2009 :)

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jjawinte
jjawinte Jan 28 2010, 9:22am says: Online

That's a hell of a team you've got there. I hope you don't have to feed them all ! lol

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Seabandit
Seabandit Jan 28 2010, 8:20am says:

Please tell me which month is gonna be released ?

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Stoudemire15
Stoudemire15 Jan 29 2010, 6:27am replied:

Currently ever better than the remake of Original Half-Life (Black Mesa: Source)

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hanging_rope
hanging_rope Feb 1 2010, 12:14am replied:

Yes, it is more popular than black mesa, but black mesa seems a bit dead. This Mod is still updating with awesome updates regularily.
EDIT: They updated in december, because they could not release whithin their time limit. I take back that it is dead, they just haven't released any media for ages.

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jjawinte
jjawinte Jan 28 2010, 9:23am replied: Online

Now that's some real optimism right there !

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