Week 2 news - Jastian Summer mod for Alien Swarm

In the last week, the Jastian Summer team has expanded from a programmer to a group of five! Here what we've done in the last week.

Writing

A good bit of our time has spent on writing. Slowly, the story of Jastian Summer is falling into place. However, not too much is set in stone right now, and we don't want to reveal that much anything - so this is about as much as we can tell you!

Programming

Our resident developer has been working hard as well. In this week, he's improved NPC marines' choice of weapons, prevented them from running out of ammo, and implemented a new combat method known internally as flashlight combat. In this mode, the player is surrounded by darkness and given a flashlight and one or more marines. The marines can protect the player, but only if they can see their enemies. Furthermore, we've given the clones (make of that what you will) a new model - though the textures for it are still a work in progress.

Music

Some of our time has been spent on composing music. One track has been released, Green Summers, which will be the song played over the title screen. Currently, multiple compositions are being worked on, so stay tuned for more tunes!

Casting Call

As I said at the beginning, our team has increased from a single person to five - but there is still room for more! If you are a modeller, animator, texture artist, musician - anything! and are willing to work for free, then let us know in the comments and we will be in touch.