Development update! Where is Ambition right now? news

Howdy, everybody! This is iambread talking, creator and developer of Portal: Ambition.

Before I get into the rest of the article, I would like to thank you all for your patience throughout development. I know it's been radio silence on MODDB and absolutely nothing on discord. Though it sounds as if development is non-existent, the mod, in reality, is doing fantastic. Since the beginning of development in early November of last year, I've been slowly but surely working on my mod. In the beginning, I was a solo mapper, and today, I still am. Though the struggle of making a whole mod by myself while managing my life has been slow and stressful, I am very proud to have carried out a project all on my own. Something about being able to design a project all on my own makes me feel independent and proud. So thank you all.

So, where is the project right now in its state of development? It's not that complicated, some levels need some finishing up and then playtesters will do what they can. I hope that I will be releasing Portal: Ambition in Q3 of 2023. The base levels of the game are down, and all that is missing is polish and full testing. Soon I will be releasing a form where people can sign up for playtesting, I do not think I will release a moddb article for that. I suggest joining the Portal: Ambition discord, where I'll most likely post it. Make sure to be fast too, we are being restrictive and limiting the number of playtesters.

Who are we looking for to join the team? First off, none of these positions are paid, the project is done by a group of people who take the free time out of their day, to make a game. Already been mentioned, but playtesters. Next on the list is mappers for the second part of the project. In the second part, we will be experimenting and creating an environment design style in Hammer which will already be planned by the point we start. Another important person we need is a concept artist, preferably someone who can do environmental concept art. It is described as semi-destroyed and eroded, an example of this is Portal 2 destruction concept art, where it's all/mostly portal 1 aesthetics but overgrown and destroyed. The goal is to still keep some sort of aesthetic feeling to the style, without making it futuristic. The last thing we need is a texture artist, someone who can make environmental textures for brushes. We're not looking for hyper-realistic Ultra HD-, you get the point. Just something that looks decent and also doesn't look like super compressed crap. We need all kinds of rusted, destroyed, eroded, and old-looking textures. You could probably base them off of currently existing portal 1 textures and mess with that. That's it though, please contact me on discord at iambread#4506 or message me through MODDB.

I think that about wraps it all up, remember to join the discord for occasional updates on the game and information on positions for devs and playtesters. Thank you all, and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. I will most likely not be posting articles on MODDB until after.

I would like to thank all of my developers for their assistance on the mod:

• Ciphgowhat (Partial advisory and testing)
• ChansLeChan (Level detailing)
• EvilEMG (3D Models)
• FlashSFM or Flaz (Music Composer)
• and Wolfe Strider Shooter (Level Detailer and Advisory)

And Special thanks to Wonderland_War for his continuous help and criticisms. He taught me how to use Hammer five years ago.

Thanks again Everybody,

- Rye (iambread)