The story so far...


It's Christmas Eve and Dinky is pissed.

After returning home from his last adventure, Dinky discovers that his family have (once again) been kidnapped by the forces of evil. A mysterious trail of toys, tinsel, and wrapping paper leads into the night...

Enraged and with nothing to lose, Dinky heads out to save his family from a grizzly (yet seasonal) demise.

Features:


-Dinky, the world's leading Acrtic Avenger™, returns in a brand new Christmas-themed adventure!
-3d Action adventure inspired by N64 classics like Banjo-Kazooie, and over-the-top shooters like Serious Sam.
-Epic snow-ball fights - with Bullet-Time!™
-Hi-tech Christmas weaponry, including: the Turkey Blaster 6000™, Jingle Ball Launcher™, 'The Mincer'™ (mince pie launcher), and much more!
-Northern Style Polar Bear Kung Fu
-Colourful and crazy enemies including Evil Elves, Killer Penguins, and Santa himself!
-More zany, offbeat humour from the developers of Katana, The Real World, and Polar Payne.
-Over the top voice acting!
-Totally rubbish cardboard trees - presented in RetroVision!


Coming Christmas 2007!

 

About


This project was originally made for university, as part of our game production management degree. The main part of the project (besides development) was to produce extensive documentation, including GDD, APP, and TDD; recruit and manage a small team; and present (pitch) the initial concept and final game. You can view the production documentation on our production wiki. It was made in the spring/summer of 2007, in a time span of under 9 weeks (including pre-production) - hence why the quality is perhaps lower than comparable mods of this size. Since then, I've held onto it, and when I've had the chance, tried to polish it a little.

TEAM

  • Maddieman/Jonathan Hallier - Production, Level design, Programming, Etc.
  • Mark Timmins - Production, Level design, Etc.
  • Wei Wang - Character & Weapon models, textures, and concepts
  • Yogeshwar Lanka - Level Textures, concepts, and 2D art

CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Adam Meredith - Voice of penguins and elves
  • Paul MacGillivray - Voice of santa
  • Steve Royer - Dinky model
  • Kenneth Yeung - Kung Fu
  • Tommi Saalasti - Snowboard Hell mode

 

Other mods by Maddieman:

Katana - Max Payne's Sharpest Total Conversion

The Real World - Max Payne's most faithful 'Matrix' Total Conversion

 


Polar Paradise © Payneful Productions (Jonathan Hallier, Mark Timmins, et al), 2007
Polar Payne © Team Dinky (Steve Royer, Jonathan Hallier, et al) 2003
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Full legal, IP & copyright info can be found at: Legal



Made in Scotland from girders.

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Fashionably late, Payneful Productions present Polar Paradise - A Psychotic Action Parody for Max (freakin') Payne!

Set in the chilling backdrop of the North Pole, you play the role of Dinky, a polar bear who returns to his home on Christmas Eve to find his family have been kidnapped by Santa and forced to work in his evil Toy Factory. Enraged and with nothing to lose, Dinky heads out seeking vengeance!

DOWNLOAD POLAR PARADISE NOW!


FEATURES


  • Festive Christmas parody!
  • Wacky new enemies – with new animations and OTT™ voice acting!
  • 2 Large, colourful new levels filled with icy foes and an epic boss battle!
  • Festive themed toys weapons, including: – Snowballs! Mince-pie guns! Jingle Ball cannon! And the dreaded Christmas Turkey launcher!
  • NEW ‘FPS view’ mode lets you switch to first person for precision aiming!
  • Bear Fu – Stranded on a desert iceberg for 4 years, Dinky taught himself martial arts – Northern Bear style.
  • PolabungaCrazy Snowboarding bonus level included for your entertainment – can you beat Maddieman’s time? We think not!
  • Backwards compatible-ish... During a botched up Christmas Eve delivery, Santa’s elves are causing trouble in New York – only Dinky can stop them!
  • A cracker-full of bad Christmas jokes and puns!

SCREENSHOTS


Polabunga elf

pen kick

run elf2

POLAR PAYNE


If you haven't played Dinky's first adventure 'Polar Payne', the download link is here:

DOWNLOAD THE ORIGINAL POLAR PAYNE!


 

 

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Polar Paradise - Intro video

Polar Paradise - Intro video

Jan 08, 2008 Movies 0 comments

This is the intro video for Polar Paradise, which starts when you run the mod. It is included as an optional download for those that want it.

Polar Paradise -Another Max Payne Total Conversion

Polar Paradise -Another Max Payne Total Conversion

Jan 06, 2008 Full Version 8 comments

It's Christmas Eve and Dinky is pissed. After returning home from his last adventure, Dinky discovers that his family have (once again) been kidnapped...

Polar Paradise Trailer

Polar Paradise Trailer

Dec 14, 2007 Trailers 0 comments

The full trailer for Polar Paradise in high-ish quality MPEG2 format. Includes TRW joke at start.

Polar Payne - A Max Payne Total Conversion

Polar Payne - A Max Payne Total Conversion

Dec 14, 2007 Full Version 5 comments

Set in the chilling backdrop of the North Pole, you play the role of Dinky, a polar bear who returns to his home to find his family mercilessly slaughtered...

Comments  (0 - 10 of 15)
koolkabeer
koolkabeer Sep 27 2009, 5:07am says:

hey this mod is not working on my pc can any body help me out????

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ZodzMaverick
ZodzMaverick Jun 14 2009, 10:34pm says:

Is that the snow theme from Banjo Kazooie in that video?

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Paladin26
Paladin26 Dec 5 2008, 7:26am says:

1 of the best mods ever for this game! :)

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spongebobj7
spongebobj7 Feb 18 2008, 9:45am says:

i love this game so much

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spongebobj7
spongebobj7 Feb 18 2008, 9:42am says:

lol this game has a flamethrower wicked

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spongebobj7
spongebobj7 Feb 18 2008, 9:41am says:

this is a very good game because is has nice weapons and has dead on arrival.

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Maddieman
Maddieman Jan 4 2008, 6:18am says:

Okay, here it is, at last!

Rapidshare.com (Thanks Halloween4!)

Sorry it's a generic host, but I'm not going to be able to upload it to moddb until the weekend sometime. If anyone wants to setup mirrors, they're more than welcome to.

Now about the mod - I'll point out now that you'll more than likely require a fairly decent PC (by todays standards) - especially for the first level. Even then, please pay special attention to the performance section of the included pdf manual for getting the best quality-performance tradeoff. I always say this, but if you think you can get away with AA, think again.

The only thing I'll point out is that this was made for a university game production class, not game design, so don't expect an amazing showcase for MaxED graphics or a masterclass in gameplay scripting. We were on a really tight development schedule of about 6-9 weeks. To make things more interesting, the guy who mapped the second level had never worked with 3d before, so I had teach him everything in about 3 weeks. Of course, I polished it up a little over the Christmas holidays, but I'm not an amazing mapper by any standard. Still having said all that, I think the trees in our mod are amazing, and are sure to give Crysis a run for it's money -- I'm sure you'll agree. :p

Anyway, have fun, hope you enjoy the mod, and have a merry (belated) christmas and a happy new year.

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Maddieman
Maddieman Dec 24 2007, 12:27pm says:

Status update: Turned out the mod needed a bit more playtesting, and unfortunately I'm back on 56k modem over holidays (it'll take me 10 hours just to upload)., so............ the mod might be a day or so late... . :( The new release target is boxing day -- please accept my apologies, but I'm trying to be as quick as possible.

Currently I'm rendering the levels on my other pc, stay tuned!

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myles
myles Dec 22 2007, 7:41am replied:

For some reason i can edit everything, how do I leave this game?

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Maddieman
Maddieman Dec 23 2007, 10:01am replied:

It's because you're associated with lone modders group - you can probably edit Halloween's DOTD as well. PLEASE don't touch anything - it's only temporary thing until I release the mod. ;)

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