The Dragon and The Tiger mod for Half-Life 2

--Overview--
This project Started a year or so ago with myself modeling a few Ninja weapons and looking for a ninja mod to play. Finding none I thought it was time to start one. Now melee mods always look so great before they come out but on opening day its always like this huge
disappointment. I could name some but I guess that wouldn't be very nice. Anyway I want to
make a melee mod that feels good. Needs a certain flow to combat but that will come in due time with testing and tweeking. Right now we have to worry about building the sucker!

1.) Ninja "CTF" game
- We'd like to make a little spin on ctf seeing as the main part of our mod is making a melee mod
that feels good to play, we chose a staple of online team play. Who doesn't like ctf! however as it can become stale we will have to make a few twists to it so its fresh. Current plan: Objectives are randomly spread out in the map and you need to bring them back to your base

2.) Ninja flavored combat
- There is 2 teams invloved as the name states The Dragon and The Tiger (TDTT) there is the Dragon Clan in Green and the Tiger Clan in redish orange. Clearly they will be ninjas so katanas/throwing stars all that good stuff is a go, however it will be ninja "flavored" meaning the game we are plannning is "semi fantastic" meaning you will see flips and a bit of wall running and even a ninja vanish or teleport like speed at most. You won't see anything about fire balls or flying or DBZ power levels or any such nonsence and heres why ITS RUBISH if you want to play naruto mod go play a naruto mod this isn't anime this is ninjas!

-robust blocking and parrying combat system
-climbing system
-disarming chances/moves
-players being knocked over
-directional combat moves

3.) Player selected Kits
- A kit is someones load out of tools and armor and weapons. At first we were planning dod style class play, however! a player selected kit makes for a much more interesting game style. there can be a lot more options then just 3-4 classes and what not. You're role is defined by you! Players will be allotted points to spend and may chose how to spend them.

KIT LAYOUT
Close Combat slot:
-Weapons to choose from ranging from daggers to massive broad swords
- This is the main focus of the mod we want players to mostly get there hands dirty so close combat will be the easiest way to kill players.

Long Ranged:
-Weapons that shoot used to slow/pin players. Mostly harassment tools such as throwing needles and ninja stars.

Tools:
-Grenades and traps, Caltrops and wire traps etc.

Abilities:
-If this game was Jedi knights these would be your force powers. This is where the game turns from realism to semi fantastic. More concepts need to be made but for now there is things like Stealth and High jumping and stunning attacks.

Weight:
We are planning a weight system to coninside with kit layout as well as effects in game such as movement speeds and climbing speed and how noisy a player is. Also some effects in combat will be seen as to weights of weapons vs each other.

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And now some news, The mod is getting some attention now after a hibernation period but it looks like were back in action! Captain mailed me this morning he wants to get back into the mod also there was a mapper and a player modeler contacting us. So things are looking up!

It seams we have a coder and hes waiting on art >_< nuuu! our plan failed. But the up shot here is we have a coder! :D

If like ninjas and mods we could use your help :D
Heres the current plan to get a test up and running.
1.) player model + 2skins +animations
2.) test weapons +animations/skins (katana and ninja stars)
3.) 1 ctf map
4.) kidnap *Another* coder and make him start working on the mod too