Huge News Update! - Freestyle mod for Half-Life 2

This is the Final Post here all other news will be posted on our website from here on out!

Ok so first things first, Thanks to Trauma our Web designer we now officially have the pimpest site ever, It might be modified down the road so stay tuned to all of that. We currently have two finished in-game models and we have the finished ski-cabins (used for transporting players back up to the top of the mountain) *tears of joy*. Kickflipkid Completed the first two in-game models and they seem pretty good looking, rough drafts but good looking rough drafts and he is performing touch-ups on those. In the upcoming week we should have a set of accessories for you guys to check out and hopefully a sample player model complete, you guys will be in for a treat.

Behind the scenes we are currently designing "testmaps" to play with the half-life 2 physics and this game is very possible to create and maintain the way how snowboarding "feels" in real life and hopefully within the next month we will have some sort of alpha testing with the new model complete and messing around on the hills, We will be sure to keep you guys posted on the inside scoops if they are good enough.

Also in the Mapping department I am currently making the "testmaps" as stated above but we are also doing researching and development behind the scenes as to how to create such massive mountains with tracks on the limitations that the half-life 2 engine gives us. This engine doesn't seem to hold any grudge to us just manipulating it to do what we need it to do and keeping those r_speeds way down to keep the playable level smooth. View distances will be incredible I kid you not. We also have a few tricks in our pockets to make this world come to life and seem more realistic than playing in a "box" like area. Stay tuned for more mapping details later on this week.

NOW HIRING:

This is the spot where we ask for help from the community, so first off if you guys and gals are interested at all in this modification please come on out and stop by our chatroom #Freestyle.mod @gamesurge.net.

We are currently looking for the following positions to be filled, this list is quite big and the requirements might seem crazy but its for the wealth of the team and hopefully you ladies and gentlemen who apply can take this mod with you to get you those nice paying jobs from those game companies.

Coders- Looking for 2-3 people to help with the coding department (currently have EA games coder helping us out)

Mappers- 3 mappers. Let me say this these maps arent your average run and gun boxed out maps so please bring examples and samples to the table, must also be able to script fireworks and such to happen in the map when jumps are hit and such.

Modelers- 2-3 Modelers. Looking for Accessories/Character modelers, the standard snowboarding equipment and Characters, (Characters and Equipment is not to be applied to characters everything is done as single items)

Animators- 2-3 Animators. Must provide samples of Animation done previously, Animators will be Animating a pretty hefty list of snowboarding moves, to the best they can and hopefully we can come up with some creative combos.

Sound Designer- 2-3 Sound Designers. Must provide samples of Sound effects/Music done prior. Sound Designers will be designing snowboard impacting snow and snow/snowboarding sound effects.

Concept Artist-1-2 Concept Artist. Since most of our accessories and boards we're predetermined before hand we only need one or two talented Concept Artists. Concept Artists will help the Mappers with layouts for maps. and Also with the Character designs for the modelers. Must provide samples of Art done prior.

Please Email Lb11387@yahoo.com or
freestylemod@gmail.com or email both if your afraid we won't see your application or Please feel free to post in our general information on our forums if you feel you want to get in touch with us quicker or come out to our MIRC channel for the quickest response from us since we are pretty busy right now. We will review everyones application and get back to everyone. Please provide attached samples of work or have samples of work when we reply to your emails.