Radiator 1-2: Handle With Care
Jul 13, 2009 Full Version 45 commentsRadiator, vol. 1 issue 2 (July 2009): HANDLE WITH CARE. You're struggling to repress stressful memories while your worthless husband moans and whines...
RADIATOR is a semi-episodic short form single player experimental alt mod for HL2:Ep2 trying to bridge the gaping canyon between Tale of Tales and commercial game design. VOLUME 1, "MORE MATTER," is the FPS without any shooting, the story of Dylan and James in California; stargaze, repress and rationalize. The third part of the trilogy will be released soon. Hopefully.
12 comments by Radiatoryang on Jun 1st, 2010
Some recent interview-ish things I did around the interwebs:
Wired UK did a piece on the state of the mod scene... and ended up only interviewing me and the people behind Desura. Definitely doesn't represent the (much cooler) stuff happening elsewhere on ModDB and places, but I think it's still a cool article in that it kind of tracks current industry attitudes towards modding. Seems like only the big boys like Valve and Blizzard can sustain the biggest mod scenes.
Meanwhile, Jim Rossignol at Eurogamer looks more at the artistic side of mods, focusing on me and Dan Pinchbeck of Dear Esther fame. Apparently we're frontiersmen! Seriously though... maybe we should call ourselves "alt mods" instead of the hastily coined "art mods"?
Progress on "Much Madness" is arduous and slow.
Faceposer is broken in the current SDK build, so I can't edit any of the choreography / lip-sync anything / animate James. (The SDK update in general has been a little less than satisfactory so far, I have to say.) I've been working on other stuff in the meantime, trying to get the first half of the mod working properly, but I keep running into problems with my existing implementations and entity setups so then I have to work on new scripting setups and.. blah blah blah.
This week I also polished off a customized build of "Handle With Care" for an upcoming exhibition at Intermediae in Madrid, Spain, which'll be featured with Dan Pinchbeck's Korsakovia and some other cool indie stuff. I've made some gameplay changes to Handle with Care as a result of Robin Walker's feedback at GDC 2010.
Okay, so right now I'm about... 10 months late on episode three. Eh.
Radiator, vol. 1 issue 2 (July 2009): HANDLE WITH CARE. You're struggling to repress stressful memories while your worthless husband moans and whines...
<<< OBSOLETE, DOWNLOAD RADIATOR 1-2 (it includes a patched version of 1-1) >>> Radiator, vol. 1 issue 1 (June 2009): POLARIS. You're stargazing in central...
Highest Rated (2 agree) 10/10
it moved me, emotionally (a hard challenge for many against me) and you did it. it made me even weep a little, i loved it and hope you get on with the rest, love it and hope more emotional based mods to come...
Aug 9 2011, 10:19pm by maxgame
Wow, this mod was incredible ... You've done an amazing work, good job !
Of alot of mods I found this to be very poetic and heart warming thank you so much Radiatorvang.
Someone had a little fun with color correction.
Don't you want some more fun?
just sad that this is dead =(
So much time passed and no Episode 3 : "Much Madness".
Really enjoyed this.
cool theme, cool song, i want to play through the house/flower area ;D
Pff, this is dead or what? Really sad, this was one of my favorite mods years back, I still want to play the remaining episodes!
(buried)
THIS IS DEAD STOP HOPEING IT COMES BACK ITS D-E-A-D
More or less patiently awaiting a pulse. One of the first and best sourcemods I ever played.