May the Force be with you, Commander.
Presentation
Star Wars: Command & Conquer - Tiberium Empire is a total conversion mod for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars that aims to adapt the popular space fantasy franchise to the gameplay and graphical atmosphere of C&C3. Its story takes place in an AU continuity so as to avoid any discrepancies with pre-established Star Wars lore and spans across three different eras: the Aftermath War, the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War.
Story
Sixty years before the rise of the Galactic Empire, the galaxy suffered a catastrophe of unprecedented scale. In the span of a few days, every single world in every single star system was struck with massive meteor showers carrying a strange green substance of crystalline composition, killing trillions of sentient beings across the entire galaxy. This event is now remembered as the Tiberium Cataclysm.
After the fallout settled, analysis revealed that the substance had been previously discovered in a system near the edge of the galactic ring in Wild Space, and was called "Tiberium". The person who discovered the system, explorer and xenobiologist Tiber Thorne, had apparently named the green crystal and star system after his own first name, ironically convinced that his discovery would change the face of the galaxy when he found a way to turn it into a reliable power source. Around the time of the Cataclysm, however, Thorne mysteriously vanished from the face of the galaxy, which places great suspicion on his involvement in the catastrophe.
Twenty years later, the galaxy is still licking its wounds and feeling the effects of the spread of Tiberium. The Core Worlds, Inner Rim, Mid Rim and Outer Rim have been divided into Blue, Yellow and Red Sectors based on the severity of Tiberium infestation while Wild Space and the Unknown Regions remain a mystery. The Republic placed emphasis on repairing the damage in the Blue Sectors and funding research to find a means to eradicate Tiberium as quickly as possible, but ended up neglecting the rest of the galaxy as a result. Feeling abandoned by the Republic when they needed it most in the aftermath of the Cataclysm, a majority of the people of the Yellow and Red Sectors turned to criminal syndicates out of anger against the galactic government.
In an effort to quell the growing dissention, the Republic has assembled a token task force called the Peacekeepers and deployed it in the most sensitive regions of the galaxy. One young but talented commander is headed to the Mid Rim to rescue a Republic scientist whose knowledge of Tiberium may very well determine the fate of the galaxy, but has been captured by the dissidents for unknown purposes....
Team
For the moment, the "team" only consists of yours truly, Quinn-G. I'm confident I'll be able to handle the modeling, texturing and animation of in-game assets by myself just fine and have assembled a few tutorials on modding C&C3 to help me get started. I also intend to contact the creators of other C&C3 mods such as Tiberium Essence or The Forgotten for additional pointers. I'm a very self-taught kind of guy. :)
That said, even with all the enthusiasm in the world, programming just isn't my forte and I find it a lot less intuitive than the more artisitic side of the project. My programming teacher in art school always said that coding was like building stuff with LEGO, but all I ever saw whenever I coded something was a bowl of spaghetti. >< As such, programmers are welcome to take part in the project if they are interested. ^^
Wanted:
- Programmers (preferably experienced with the C&C3 SDK)
- Concept artists (to have a basis on which to create the in-game models and textures)
- Composer (someone who'll basically be able to "Klepacki-fy" the classic Star Wars themes)
