Mod of the Year! news

We want to say a HUGE "THANK YOU" to everyone who voted for us, to those who have stuck with us throughout the years, to our donators, contributors, streamers and our players. We value all of you greatly. What a ride it has been and what a way to end the year.

I also want to (again) personally thank the EZ2 team. Since release, the Boys™ have been hard at work putting together patches and updates for EZ2. This work has mostly been handled in my absence as I have been tied up with work commitments. A massive thank you to you guys!

We have a few things we would like to share with you, in light of this award.

Developer Commentary

This month we started working on implementing developer commentary for EZ2. This won't be your average Source game commentary. This was something we knew we wanted quite a while back in development. Blixibon became the champion of this cause. During production, he vividly explained his vision for commentary in EZ2 to us:

He ran with that thought, and throughout development Blixbon spent time making improvements to Valve's existing commentary system. The new system sports features such as: developer specific nodes, text nodes, cut content nodes and image nodes. Audio nodes are still a thing and we'll be recording a lot of our commentary so it isn't all text. Here are some examples:

We're still figuring out how things are going to be presented and how personalized commentary is going to be. I don't have any timescales yet - but we're excited about it, we're working on it and it's really neat!

Hopefully through our commentary, we can shed light on what we got right, what went wrong and generally give players and modders a thorough run-down on how we built EZ2. Watch this space.

Production Goodies

To compliment that announcement, today we're cracking open a shared drive folder full of production screenshots and videos dating back from the very first day of development in 2018, all the way up to release.

There's a LOT of content here, completely context free for your viewing: CLICK!

EZ3 When?

I get asked this question on the daily. In the spirit of being transparent:

For the most part since release, a lot of us have become busier. The guys have their commitments. Mine changed just after release. I'm also working on something myself separate to Half-Life and Source. We've been taking a lot of time away from the creative EZ2 space.

However, sometime between October and December, I drafted several ideas for a continuation of EZ2. My personal interest in the idea of a continuation, comes from wanting to see more of Bad Cop and Wilson and I know that sentiment is shared by many players. One of these ideas is brilliant and we're very excited about it. We've played around a bit, but it remains to be seen if we can use what we have as a springboard into a new production. Right now, anything could happen - so I can neither confirm or deny a continuation. I'm sorry that I don't have a more definitive answer to that question for you.

These things. They take time. If it's going to happen, you'll know about it.

For now, please continue to enjoy EZ2. We've been loving the workshop content and look forward to seeing what else can be done. We're also very excited for Entropy : Zero Uprising, which should you totally check out if you haven't already.

Thanks so much!

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