Star Wars: The New Era was the first large Star Wars modification attempt made on Source Engine. It was produced by Invision Games, a group of over 60 modders and Star Wars fans that have evolved from the Movie Battles 2 community and a mod team working on "Star Wars: Source" before. Star Wars: The New Era was supposed to become a class-based multiplayer experience featuring objective-based scenarios. The project was abandoned in 2013 after all of the remaining team members dropped due to time constraints after starting to study or working in the industry. Initially, the latest state of the mod was planned to be released under Creative Commons license to allow the community to continue the work. Unfortunately, getting in contact with many former team members in order to open-source their work did not work out, so the decision was made not to release any assets without express permit by the respective authors.
Anyone following the mod certainly knew this already, but you guys at least deserve a writeup covering the cancellation of the project and what went wrong...
postmortem
Project management is a vital asset to the success of commercial games. Due to the hobbyist nature of mods, it is often underestimated, even though we...
project management, part 1: managing your team
New interview on our team history, organization structure and goals for the upcoming release.
halfer.net interview
You ask, we deliver: After portraying several key artworks of the game, we can now show you the first action shots from the current pre-alpha.
first action footage
You've decided: Concept #2 of the last community vote will make it into the mod. Time for the next vote!
community vote #2
Wolfclaw just recently joined our team as a new concept artist, and just at the right time. While the Star Wars universe supplies us with lots of amazing...
community vote: imperial stimpack
Rebooting is sometimes necessary on your computer, and sometimes the same need occurs for a project. In our case, it was a tough decision last year to...
the large reboot
This week William and Emanuel talk about $25 Mil L4D2 Campaign, Gabe and Erik meeting Joe, Age of Chivalry CR3, Radiator 1-3, Randy Pitchford on Digital...
transmission 17183
After months of silence we reveal what's been going on behind closed doors and the decisions that have been discussed and debated on. With gameplay changes...
status info, gameplay changes, request for more coders
"The eye sees better when the sound is great" - Steven Spielberg knew exactly of the impact of music when he made this remark. We at Invision Games share...
orchestral music for star wars: the new era
It's been very silent about us in the past. Now it's time for a big media update!
maps, maps and even more maps
We have begun using our showcase forum for TNE team members to post work in progress updates of their projects for the public to view/comment on. Today's...
routine work in progress reports from us now in effect
Due to popular request, Zaswed and Jeantyu have worked on the first of a series of video developer diaries. In this diary, you can learn about the different...
first video diary and new models
After having returned from FedCon - Europe's biggest SciFi convention, we orginally planned to release the mod right after. But like so many, things didn't...
a little fedcon summary and status update
Invision Games announces the releasedate of Star Wars: The New Era as an event during the biggest Sci-Fi convention in Europe in association with Shuttle...
release event in association with shuttle
We are happy to introduce our first batch of player models to you. Today's update covers the player models from the era of the Clone Wars...
clone wars player models
We are nearing Christmas and Invision Games already has a couple of presents for you now. Our level designer Fazzer and texture artist Shadow have been...
a tour through jabba's palace
Invision Games will be attending the Kultima Festival in Paris from the 2nd to 4th November 2007. The Kultima is a fair for all kinds of fictional arts...
invision games at kultima / paris
After a while of silence, Star Wars: The New Era is back with some wallpapers for your desktop. We have been working silently in the past few months to...
stormtroopers invading your desktop
After some silent work for the past two months, we decided to give you something new to watch. As static screenshots start to get boring after a while...
a teaser for the new era
Well , Things are rolling here at Invision Games and we would like to welcome not 1 not 2 but 3 new team members * ShadowFFVI from Canada - he is joining...
new team members
Our apologies for the lack of media updates lately, some of us have been working hard on new material to show off. The third officially announced map...
more screens of the new era and a call for more team members
Hi all! As you may have noticed we had a few slow months with no updates as well as a website failure for a while. Well I am pleased to announce that...
new pictures for the new era!
We here at InvisionGames are very sorry for the down time of the website but we've had to change webhost and domain since there was a major problem...
new webhost new domain!
A warm welcome to Chibi that just joined the team! Which means new weapon models to show! 3 of his samples which are yes Lightsaber Hilts have now made...
new modeler! new media
To all you vader haters out there, We'll blow your Half-Life2 up... The team that was behind 'Star Wars : Source' for Half-Life 2 and from...
star wars : the new era
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