As part of a general announcement to the gaming community of Dino D-Day, a First Person Shooter we hope to release on Steam in 2010, we've made an HL2 mod version of the game available on ModDB. We invite community feedback which will be invaluable as we continue to develop the commercial release of the game!
We're making this mod available to the community to generate excitement around the game of course, but also to open the development process up to the mod/gamer community. By way of introduction, let me first tell you all that this is our first foray into this type of video game development. I myself moved to Los Angeles seven years ago to be a filmmaker. After producing some documentary television series I got hooked up with Valve and suddenly found myself thrust into the world of video game development.
Transforming oneself from a television producer into a game designer is no easy task and I give a lot of credit to the modding community for helping the Dino D-Day team (and especially me) make the jump. I didn't have an ounce of experience in modding or game design before taking on this project, yet with tutorials, tutorials, and general modding community support I'm now a semi-competant game programmer and designer.
The mod is basically a "prototype" for the full game. In it we endeavored to go through the process of building and laying out levels, coding some basic weapons and AI, inserting custom models and animations, and giving a basic sense of story. The full game will of course be longer and more ambitious but this should give you a general feel of what we're going for.
Hopefully making this mod available to the community and opening up the development process is a way for the Dino D-Day team to give back. We invite your open and honest criticism. We'll make regular reports on our progress and hopefully make you all feel a part of the development process.
I look forward to your input. Until then, go kill some Nazi dinosaurs!
Abe Scheuermann
Game Designer
Dino D-Day
abe@digitalranch.tv
www.dinodday.com
:O looks sick, downloading now
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looks sick, therefor not downloading now.
even the idea is sick
you are sick ...
totaly agree with the dark vader duck. Yuo are sick
yeah you're sick it looks great.
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What did he said? Cant see any text
it's called pressing "VIEW COMMENT"
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ducky whats up? haha this game LOOKS SICK, lol what did he say anyway?
this game FTW
lets vote duckys comment high! :3
Are you sick? You look sick. Downloading
Great trailer, i'm looking forward to boxing t-rex!
Not another WW2 Shooter!!
J/k Downloading now.
lol :)
Dude, they should totally have put that in the trailer :D
Make it look like just another WW2 shooter, then introduce those dino's!
And HOLY AWESOMESAUCE, boxing with a t-rex? Must try this later today! :D
wow, this came out of nowhere, downloading
I know... I watch moddb daily and this mod literally came out of thin air.
Its called "professionals".
Nice. Downloading now.
I MUST KEELZ NAZI DINOZZSZSZS!!!! O_o
Please tell me this has co-op!
I wish there were co-op too! But there ain't...we'll see how far my coding skills progress as we continue work on the game. Needless to say, co-op Nazi dinosaur killing would be the bee's knees...
You should definitely try to incorporate some co-op, that would be awesome. Im sure that someone who knows the coding would want to join ur team cause its an awesome mod
I DEMAND IT!
FLYING NAZI ROBOT DINOSAURS THAT SHOOT LASERS WHEN THEY ROAR!
would be fun to fight them!
rofl !
It would be steller if there was coop. Rad even. Should definitely implement such a feature, for if I am to run like the dickens and/or engage in fisticuffs with these Nazi Dinosaurs, I'd love to bring a buddy 'ol pal with me.
can I be that ol' buddy ol' pal? D:
Maybes ;D
If only the damn download would hurry up and finish downloading...
dang
this actually looks pretty sick
im defintly gonna try this out
This is based on a real story, right? ;)
Melee a T-Rex..hmm. Something seems...wrong about that. I think Dinosaurs are fun to see in games (let alone to battle them) and I'm looking forward to giving this a spin.
is it strictly single player or are you planning on adding co-op/dm maybe
i don't know about you but i LOVE co-op its like 10x funner to run around with a friend shooting dino's in the face then it is by yourself
There will be some multiplayer modes in the full release, although co-op is currently not one of them. But who knows what mysteries the future holds...
SYNERGY INTEGRATION FTW!!!
Very beautiful presentation :)
what an epic trailer, love it
This is deeply distrubing and confusing, but still awesome!
this is so absurd i have to download
You had me sold the moment those soldiers marching with the T-rex in the background.
This. This is why I love modding. I am downloading this ~so hard~.
Oh man, secret projects of a ridiculous sort that are this awesome, must certainly rock! gotta try this one!
Downloading! Good luck with your commercial avenue with this guys :).
This mod is so WTF right here.
You guys just unlocked a whole new level of epic win, I'm totally going to play this.
Just finished playing this. I'm thoroughly impressed! Thanks for bringing us some Nazi dinosaur action!
epic concept! XD
Why can't there be more stuff here with such imagination?
I agree... this is what makes modding awsum, when fresh ideas like this show up =]
Wow, the best concept ever, AND in capable hands!
Love it.
um, sdkbase work?
Looks interesting, will have to give it a try :D
awesome idea and concept... downloading.. :)
dinosaurs,nazis this sounds goods