Though I always thought I'd never give out this news (and have always claimed that Starlabs would be completed), now I know that I was wrong in thinking this wouldn't happen as well as claiming it. Regardless, I'm afraid I have to announce that Starlabs has been cancelled.
Why, will probably be on the minds of a lot of people who regularly visit this website.
The simple reason is that due to problems in real life, I no longer have the time but more importantly, the lust or motivation to work on Starlabs. Asides this, various members of the team have been very busy with real life events as well and while these developments are for the better for most of the team members, cancelling this mod is still a sad event for all of us.
I must admit that I've tinkered with the thought of putting Starlabs on hold, I reckon it would simply be unfair to both the team and the people awaiting the mod as I really don't have a clue when my time, lust and motivation will return and the real life events responsible for these problems, will dissipate. Therefor, I've decided to cancel Starlabs instead of putting it on hold.
But what does this mean for the contents that have already been created for Starlabs? Well, I'm planning on putting all Starlabs maps made so far (whether they're completed or not) in a sort of demo reel. Completing the mod would be far too time consuming (especially when you don't have the lust or motivation), but showing off what has been made so far should be relatively easy to do. I don't know when I'll have such a demo reel completed (as I'm not rushing it), but I hope that such a demo reel will at least satisfy the tastes of some people who've been waiting for Starlabs material.
A second release that I'm planning should be part of the mod Reissues. I'm planning on including a part of the most completed Starlabs chapter as a playable contribution so that all people who want to get a taste of some Starlabs action, should get it in the form of one (partial) chapter. (Six chapters were planned.) The chapter in question is Chapter 4: "Satellite Trouble".
And what about any other Starlabs material? In regards of mapping, no RMF files shall be released. The same counts for any voice acting or documentation; none shall be released. Asides these materials, it's up to individual team members to decide what they will do with the materials they've created.
Lastly, it's understandable that a lot of people will want to make their voice heard and they're free to do so on the Starlabs boards. Everybody's free to express their opinion as long as, of course, these opinions are made clear in a constructive manner.
Ending this newspost I'd like to thank everybody who's expressed their interest in Starlabs and to everyone who's contributed to it. Both in regards of thoughts and services, as well as constructive feedback. I've learned a lot in these three (and a half) years of development - more than I could ever learn at college - and that's more then enough to have made this worth my effort, even if it never got finished!
Regards,
- SEThorian
I'm sorry to hear about this, but I'm glad you'll be releasing some of the completed work at least :)
Hi!
To the author:
Maybe you already heard about. I'm Lead of the Half-Life Resurrection Project. We are willing to bring back dead HL mods to life. Seeing your project is cancled due to real life or ressource problems makes me sad.
i'd like to continue your work. we try to keep the storyline and idea as same as pssible. atm we have to projects ogoing. as soon as we finished them. we might work on yours.
what do you think about? if there are any questions, ask them me.
contact me at maverikch@yahoo.de
kind regards
MaverikCH
HL:Resurrection
Planetphillip.com
I will have to dissapoint you by saying that, like stated in the news post, I have no intention of handing out any Starlabs source material. I do appreciate the offer and am familair with Phillip's idea. So I'd like to thank you for the offer, but will refuse to use it. I'll keep an eye on the project. I'm interested to see some of the results in the future!