First off , Happy new year to everyone.
Secondly , we are indeed very sorry for delays on our end , over and over again things have gone wrong during development of certain things , and what has been in development has been very slow , unfortunately modding for Halo is not a quick progress and as you know for the past 3 years its been abit slower due to the fact that most of the team is either at highschool (for the majority in the US) or at University for most of the older people in the dev team , myself included.
I cannot really excuse the slowness of the progress , nor can i promise the world , as that would not be fair , but what we are doing at the start of this year , is getting everything polished off while we can , to be fair , when everyone comments saying "its not gonna be released" or "its not gonna be finished like they said" thats fair , we can take it , mainly because its untrue.
To us , modding is not a hobby , its a way forward as most of us want to try are hardest to get somewhere from this experiance , in the video games industry , even though that sounds stupid to some people , its like a dream to others.
We have worked alot , and taken a break since SAGE 08 in July up until Dec 17th , mainly due to Uni and highschools pressuring us with work , those who look at the teams youtube page will know i have been working my ass off none stop with hardly any sleep since september , in one case i was getting 3 hours of sleep a day for 6 weeks straight to get a project done , which then got rejected anyway and i ended up burnt out and almost failing the project because of my tutors lack of judgement , but anyways , thats enough personal details that you dont need to know about.
We have been set back by a patch that was forced apon us by Bungie , Halo CE 1.8 which effectively took away all the cool stuff from our mod , the 3rd person application will not work with it , so we where trying to find ways around that for ages , trying to get people to code us a new 3p camera , but in the end we got progress when "Open Source" was released , an C++ application that allows us to do abit more in the way of modding when it comes to CEs engine , unfortunately that has only just been released near the beginning of Dec 08 so people are still experimenting with it , but we managed to pull 3p back.
Aswell as this , we started developing a dynamic camera system for CE also to give a Unleashed style feel , but it did not work out too well , so instead we are going for static cameras placed around the levels aswell as the normal 3p cam , to give a nice experiance.
And finally , i started a dev blog to keep people up todate easier , which is working out well , the teams using it , and also theres alot of progress being made , we have prioritized everything so eventually we hope to get the remaining stuff done before summer , then its just the levels that need to be done.
Thanks for your time to read this , hope some of you are still interested , things just take time unfortunately.
-Moody
BTW , i am uploading ALOT of content to this site , just incase people dont visit our other sites , these are the links for all of them to keep up todate completely , you`ll have to visit them all.
Our Dev Blog : Genesisoftheazurewind.blogspot.com
Our Youtube : Youtube.com
