Comments - neod101

All the videos will be quite old.

Thanks, that's the very first texture I made for Solitude.

We update when there's something worth updating on. If you want more little previews, check out our developer diaries once the forum is back up.

What the hell is that jargon supposed to mean? Don't they control how much gets used?

I'm getting the same problem with the forums, and so is a friend of mine. Looks like the host is messed up.

I'd guess the Northern hemisphere. I doubt it'd take us 6 months to release the beta.

If it's good enough, we can release it in map packs included in updates. These packs will be the best fan-made maps that we've chosen.

We'll also release our own maps that we make.

Funny... I was reminded of the Myst IV theme when listening to this.

We dropped it ages ago. We have to make sure we're legal.

I noticed it on the sniper rifle, too. We've still got some animation tweaking to do before release, so I'm sure it'll be fixed.

We've got the proper crosshairs, they're just not in the game yet.

The game likely won't have the gore when it's released.

I just checked the size of the game folder without the art source(files we use to make the stuff before it gets Quake-ified) and it's around 50mb. That's without an engine, though. But it shouldn't be much bigger.

I don't think it's decided whether gibs will be in the game. If they are, we'll have to change them to actually look like chunks of Spartan, not the main guy from Quake. :P

Right now it's 253mb, but there are various things in there that won't be in the released game. We use a system which basically lets us share a folder, update it easily, etc.. We share source files(.psd's for example, the Photoshop format) so that the other members can easily go and modify our stuff. I'm not sure how big it'll be at release. Not too long ago it was 50mb.

Wow, we've had over 50,000 views to this page!

Hmm, looks like a comment was removed, so it looks like I'm rambling at myself...

Again, the muzzle flashes WILL be changed.

The shoulders. The new one is closer to the original, and has my texture. I'm just waiting for my modified UV map to get put onto the model.

It says right in the video that nothing is final, in fact most of it will be changed. I thought the untextured weapons would make this even more obvious?

As just about everything says, nothing is final. Especially the sprites.

Aaaargh, it's still the old version!

We're using Quake(as you know), so no bump- or parallax-mapping. I think there might be a PSP game or two with the former, but I'm not sure.

If you want a "making of", you can check out our developer diaries over on our forums: Solitudegame.byethost6.com

Finally, people can stop hounding us for an update, or a gameplay video. I noticed the video uses the "Halo Solitude" logo, though...

And you should really have made sure the credits worked properly.
Just so people who aren't from the forums know, those names are PsychotropicPineapples and Number1SuperGuy.

Well, just because we had a huge spree of updates, doesn't mean we have to keep it going. There's an update scheduled soon, but we don't have an exact date.

Nope. It's a free game, we make everything ourselves, and there's some Microsoft thing that lets us copy their stuff legally as long as we don't make money from it.
Sami knows the details.

Look out for a list of included maps as we get closer to the beta release. Seriously, it's more than a month away, we don't know which maps we'll have.

Hmm, that's probably because they're trying to direct to mods/solitude instead of games/solitude.

That would be making money off a franchise we didn't create. Which is against copyright.