Raindrop mod for Half-Life 2

Why am I not surprised? This game has gone from "release in 2011" to "hold until seen fit". No I am not entitled to a free game or a consistent release date, but I hate schedule changes. Not to mention I've seen a lot mods/indies die in past few years due to the developers getting overly ambitious, and this mod has shown a lot of the symptoms. Your game is not dead, but it looks it will be, and I hope you can show me otherwise within my lifetime.

I totally understand, I'm at least as frustrated as you are with where this is right now. The fact is, we all knew a lot less than we thought---about project management, about development in general. This was a first project for a few of us, and nobody was there to keep us in line.

Most of the really ambitious people have, thankfully, left (or in my case, become much wiser). Our current project (aside from my work on OpenOutcast, which takes a lot of time) is a cross-platform point and click adventure game. But we have a much more realistic development/business plan now, and we will continue, eventually moving into Raindrop and other such projects.

Obviously given the circumstances I can't tell you an exact release date, since the whole design doc has to be scrapped and the entire project cycle begun from scratch. Half the levels were there for no reason, and none of the code is reusable with CE3; it really was a mess. But we've got a plan, and we're sticking to it. We'll have some new page once actual development starts (there won't be much art to see but there'll be prototypes of a few features). And in the meantime, between OpenOutcast and the adventure game and whatever other projects we do there'll be something worth playing.

In the meantime though, I strongly recommend that everyone focus your efforts waiting for the next openOutcast demo instead :D. It's coming along /extremely/ well, even despite the CryEngine 3 port and some development setbacks. This is an experienced and highly dedicated team and they need everyone's support.

Cheers.

We'll be here when you're ready to show media. ;D

That's too bad, best of luck guys! Is Arcadia the 'new' project your working on?

Actually, plans are a bit up in the air. Arcadia is coming after Raindrop now, most likely. We'll restart work on that as soon as money starts coming in.

...or something. We'll start a new page fresh over once we have something concrete to show. Until then, keep an eye on openoutcast; good things are happening.

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So is this sci fi project you linked your new project? I'm a bit confused.

Link's broken.