Well, it has been a long and hard way but finally I did it. I'm proud to present the first mod made completely just using Valve Hammer Editor ever. This mod will be the first one of a number of mods made with the same style. I want to show what Hammer Editor is able to do with some hard work and not using any code at all. You can see the result with your own eyes: a completely NEW GAME made with the same entities and stuff that usually we use to do CSS, DOD or HL2 maps. In fact, if you take all the folders in this mod and you copy them to another's mod folder, you would play there too, with some little changes due to differences in the script files, but will be almost the same experience. I know lot of people don't believe BlockStorm is made just with Hammer and the Input/Output System... to check that this is true, try to look for the "bin" folder in BlockStorm's folder... you see? There is no "bin" folder. ;)
Here is a list of all features included in BLOCKSTORM FINAL:
- Two different challenges with 10 unique levels each one.
- Score counter & Combo system.
- 7 different powerups (Multiball, Destroyer, Shield...).
- PONG MODE for 1 or 2 players (In the same screen) with 4 different maps with the first functional options menu ever made with a level editor.
- 5 music tracks.
- Instructions to create your own player for PONG MODE.
- Original VMF maps included (But you have to unlock them by playing ;) )
- New Intro sequence.
Fixes and Possible bugs list in SDK-PROJECT Website
You can download it here, in MODDB:
Thanks for your support and don't forget to comment!
I just got done playing it, I love it! Good job!
N1 Mate :D
Lovely Jubly, see you on the battlefield
OMG Claasic pong, much better
Seems interesting and well done... Gotta test...
nice game!^^
Congradulations, for excellent use of your creativity, this final game release and recreating a classic ...very cool !!!
Good old days... :_)
Great work, Baxa!!!
Amazing work! You got my download!
aye, an impresive job. Going to play when I get home :)
A problem I had (don't know if I screwed it up, or the installer was set to incorrect defaults by mod maker) was that it installed to instead of . To fix this problem, just copy the blockstorm folder installed to and paste to
Maybe only I had this problem, I don't know.
It's my fault.... sorry!
It was the first time I was doing a setup file and I had to write a default path... and well, looks like I didn't write the correct one. Anyway, not too many people install Steam in Program Files. ^^
Thanks for all your comments!
i realy wish I had HL2 installed to check this out. Very cool what current game engines can do, eh? :)
Wow.. simply amazing, nice!
Wow, ummm i dont know what to say.
But i totally have to play it.
Great job, one thing I noticed though you can cheat in 2 player pong mode since you can keep switching the vew with the foward and back key. So you can mess the person your playing up everytime you hit the ball back to them lol.
Great work on the release, been looking forward to playing this one for some time now.
Although I said it's the final version, some problems and bugs are included in this release. Minor bugs, it's true, but they are there. I just want to let you know that I did this alone and just with Hammer. If something doesn't work as it should do, think how the hell you could fix it with Hammer. For example, the "problem" NightSage is telling us about I think was possible to fix, but I forget to do it (shame on me). BUT THE F****** PROBLEM with the ball that I tryed to fix was COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE... ball is moving by Source physics, and make the ball behave like in Arkanoid was extremely difficult. I used the same entity that you can see when you are playing in the Citadel and you throw Combine soldiers to a "force field" or something like that (you can see the soldiers or objects floating like they didn't have any gravity). There was any other entity able to help me to create that movement for the ball... but I really wanted to do this mod! And finally I did it!
Even if is not perfect, i'm proud of it... ^^
ARKANOID POWA
:O This looks so awesome...downloading now.