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You play as a citizen who wakes in the canals behind his apartment. You don't remember how you got there, but the empty bottles around you give you a good idea of what happened. You aren't sure how to get back home, but sitting in the mud won't help. The canals of City 17 are known to be infested with headcrabs, and headcrabs mean zombies. You know that the Underground Railroad is nearby, and probably willing to help get you back to your home safely. Unfortunately for you, City 17 is about to have a visitor who is going to make your trip through the Canals just that much more difficult than they were already going to be. You are about to be fighting through a lot more than just a few zombies.
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The Canals: 'Weekly' Update
Today's Date: February 26, 2017
Week 13 of development
Hello everyone, and welcome back the The Canals! Or should I say Canals, now? I decided to streamline the name simply because trying to work a sentence around the 'the' part of the title was becoming pretty tedious. Anyway, that's trivial stuff.
You have probably noticed by now that I have updated all of the graphic design for myself and this mod. They simply needed an update. This new stuff looks a whole lot more professional in my opinion.
Alright, let's get to talking about development for the past month and a week. To begin, this was probably one of the more rough periods of development I have faced so far for a couple of reasons. The largest struggle was definitely the loss of dozens of hours of mapping because of a corrupted file. I always make use of saving multiple versions of each map as I work on them in order to minimize loss when a map gets corrupted or something doesn't work out. For whatever reasons, that didn't work this time. The first map I lost ended up getting everything shifted off the grid when it was partially complete. This led to compile errors and the inability to really add more the the map. I attempted to fix it all by hand, but it just continued to fail to compile. So I started that map over, but that also didn't go as planned. After I had finished the layout, the map mysteriously vanished form my computer. The version I had save online and on an external hard drive had been corrupted somehow and so I lost all of that work.
Life goes on, though, and I continued to work hard despite being quite down on morale for the project. Don't worry, though, the current map is coming along very well and I'm quite excited for it. I also had a strange run in where all of the configurations for my Source SDK got jumbled around as well as many of my steam files. I'm not sure what caused this, but I remember spending at least two days of development trying to fix it. Troubles aside, I'm sure you just came here to see some new content, so that's to follow.
New Content
So by now you have heard that I am working on a new map, which means that the first is complete. You'd be right to assume that, and though it isn't in it's completed form, the first map is, for the sake of development, completed. There are a few more images that I would like to present for you that come from that map as of now. I also went ahead and updated the images that you already saw of the map to showcase some better lighting and minor details. It may be worth your time to give the images another look-through. Without further procrastination, below you can see two new images of the first map.
As well as those, I have two images of the next map. I am rather proud of this map already, and it has already impacted the first maps' look. I ended up going back through the fist map and reworking its lighting simply because the look of this next map is so pleasing to me. I hope it looks just as good to you. Images are below.
Well, that is what I have for now. Hopefully having those alpha files makes up for this rather small update after five whole weeks of relative silence. This reminds me, I haven't heard any feedback on that download yet. I would like to take this moment to say that I would really appreciate some feedback.
I'm just going to place this here if you happen to be interested.
Anyway, Thank you all for your continued support in 'Canals'! I look forward to seeing your feedback and interacting further with the community. Please have an excellent day.
Thank you,
Reeze The Vampire
Try Some Alpha Files
News 2 commentsA small pre-release of sorts containing three vmf's for alpha maps.
Weekly Development - Week...Eight?
News 7 commentsI have returned to bring you a lot of content on 'The Canals.'
Delays in Development
News 1 commentJust a small announcement to mt followers about the coming month.
Weekly Development - Week Five
News 2 commentsThe week 5 update. Featuring a second map and completed first map.
Files
Alpha Maps
Demo 4 commentsA few little .vmf's for everyone to try out just to get an idea of The Canals.
Hospital Shootout
Singleplayer Map 3 commentsThis is a little level that I created just for fun and to make sure my Source skills stayed sharp.
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Any more updates?
Really hope this will be completed one day.
Just met this little lost gem while visiting your profile. Definitely following this mod!
See you commenting a lot on SEUL ;p. Really interested in this mod the maps look lit! If you need any help regarding engine enhancements feel free to contact me out.
I may take you up on that offer. We will see where things go in the future. I'm currently working behind the scenes to put something together elsewhere, so maybe I'll get some help there.
wow, I have been gone for awhile and i see some great work keep it up.
Very good job on your mod :) The build what i can see on screenshot is very amazing.
I love the idea of the mod but I have one question will there be any unique features in this mod (try not to spoil anything) thx :)
What exactly do you mean by unique? There will not be any custom content, if that's what you mean, I am somewhat limited on what I can do, being a one-man-team and all. I hope to get some original music, though. Other than that, again, being one person, I am just trying to keep this mod somewhat basic. I'm hoping to just create a map with great mapping, pleasing visuals, and fun game play. I will be writing up an article soon that better explains what I mean by this.
Thank you for your interest.
What I meant by unique was if there gonna be any features for like the hud saying like the hud would look different and visual effects. I was just going to comment if you were gonna use any custom made music in your mod well my question has been answered.
Depending on whether or not I get help, there is a chance that the hand models will be different, for obvious reasons, and that there will be a unique HUD.