I got a letter this morning, I feared the worst and I got the worst, cancer of the lung, my punishment for all those years of non stop chain smoking. That was the problem with the NAM, they handed those things out like candy on a regular basis, probably would never have coped so well if it wasn't for smokes. I guess my best years are behind me. Regrets? Sure, there are many... but you can't change the past so what's the point in dwelling on it? Anyway, there's no rest for the wicked, I've got work to do, some kid ran away to a place called Pinewood Creek and hasn't been heard from since, now her father needs me to go there and find out what's happened to her. It seems the authorities aren't giving him any answers, claiming they've never even seen the girl, I guess I'm his last hope. Maybe if I find this girl, God will give me a chance for Redemption.. you know.. if there actually is a God. Well.. I guess I better get going, I want to be out on the highway before dark. Pinewood Creek here I come...'
The Forgotten is a single-player third-person survival horror game for Half-Life influenced by the likes of Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Forbidden Siren, Clive Barker's Hellraiser / Tortured Souls and Blood among other things. As private detective Jack Dawson, you will travel to the town of Pinewood Creek to investigate the disappearance of Claire Benton.
> Venture through the town of Pinewood Creek and the surrounding Diamond Lake, non-linear layouts encourage freedom of exploration.
> Interact with complex and interesting characters, find out what they know.
> Solve puzzles and riddles to gain valuable information and items and delve deeper into the history of Pinewood Creek.
> Graphic novel sequences help the deep storyline to unfold.
> Fight off hideously disfigured creatures from another realm, creations beyond your wildest comprehensions.
> Highly detailed environments bring the experience to life creating some of the most advanced areas ever made for the Goldsource engine.
> Your journey will take you through areas like Nate's Motel and Pinewood County Police Station through to Jack's own personal nightmare.
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3 comments by D3ads on Aug 16th, 2008 digg this super bookmark
We now interupt this program for an urgent news bulletin...
The Forgotten needs YOU!
I need someone or some people to design drawn layouts for certain locations, they need to be realistic and laid out neatly so that a map can be created from them (TF will feature a fully working map system). Graph paper will help as it will help lay things out in the editor or you can draw it in photoshop if you're that good. I currently do have someone meant to design layouts but he's MIA and I haven't spoken to him in ages. With him not producing new layouts for me to work from, it's making it hard to design the environments at present.
Areas I need plans for are;
Nate's Motel
Pinewood County Police Station
Linhares Manor
Urkham Asylum
Pinewood Creek town
Layouts for The Elderworld and additional locations I can produce myself but when it comes to making plans for maps I am not so good. I've already made a rough plan of the town but I need a fully detailed drawing of the town with buildings, item locations, key areas etc.
If you can help me out, drop me a PM or reply here. In order for you to be accepted onto the team, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO SHOW ME YOUR PREVIOUS WORK, in addition to this I will also set you a task to complete. If you wish to offer help in other fields of designing the mod, contact me and we'll discuss it further.
On top of this, as you may now know TF is no longer a one man project, the team is:
Me - Creator, Storyline, environment design, texture/skin art, layouts and general being of extreme awesomeness *cough*
Minuit - Coding, model rigging/editing/compiling.
Shad Haque - Character/creature/prop modelling.
Coozins - Animator, model compiling/editing.
Magnussen - Layout design.
Antti Lehtola - Music.
Daedolon - Music.
Look forward to hearing from any of you :D
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dude how is your guy supposed to fight off monsters with lung cancer? are the monsters like stationary or growling inatimate objects. cuz this guy doesnt stand a chance in hell if he is chased by anything.
Hey Deads is your character gonna have new animations? ( I mean im sure he will but I just want to know just incase because I hate half life 1 default animations x-x )
Yeah, most of the animations will be new or modified, there may be some HL animations but they wont be that noticable.
The forum link is now on the main page and on the offcial site link.
I think there is some confusion over what the news post is about, I'm seeking people to design drawn layouts that I can construct areas from myself, not actual mappers.
I've edited the news again.
Cool... I'm drooling all over.
It's unfortunate that the game is delayed("for now"). But That won't stop a developer like you, D3ads. Nah-uh.
It's ok it's not delayed that much now, as I fixed the problem :)
WOOHOO
Ahh that sucks what happened D3ads, keep up the good work though!
awsome i cant belive i havnt seen this yet, i wanna play it !