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The Making of Flesh consists of four compressed folders; notes, playtest, images and sound clips. AT the time of writing, Thursday 20:30PM only 7 other people have downloaded the file, which is a shame because it may make interesting reading for other developers.
Link: Making of Flesh on ModDB
Half-Life Sandpit is a mod similar to Garry’s Mod for Source, or at least it’s trying to be on a much more humble scale. It describes itself as a Sandbox mod. I haven’t tried it myself, but then again I don’t relly enjoy that kind of gameplay anyway.
Link: Half-Life Sandpit on ModDB
To be honest, I’m not 100% sure what this is. I think it’s a model pack, but it says that you should have the High-Definition pack as well, so I’m not sure any more.
Link: Blue Shift Extreme on ModDB
Will be released BEFORE the end of 2010, at least according to Nate D Great3 on their forums.
Link: Black Mesa Forums
Learn how to create a portal effect in Photoshop.
Link: WebDesign.org
There’s a new mode called Alyx, where she will try to hide Eli from the other three players, while they try to find and kill him to win.
Link: Human Error on ModDB
A nice update article talking mostly about the two new mechanics: The Waterwalls and The High Powered Fan. Definitely looking forward to this one.
Link: Blue Portals on ModDB
Just a couple of Portal beta chambers. I haven’t played them because I rarely play betas anymore. Let me know what you think of the them.
Link: ISOC Test Chambers Beta on ModDB
An interesting SP mod called The Story of Madness has been put on hold. Looks like the author wants to improve their skills. Gives me an idea for another article.
Link: ISOC Test Chambers Beta on ModDB
A forum thread about a map made for a Polish Map Battle. The map will never be released, which is such a shame. Looks fantastic to me.
Link: WorldOfLevelDesign.com
World Of level Design is running an 11-day design challenge. looks fun, get mapping.
Link: WorldOfLevelDesign.com
Claustrophobia is a newly announced mod set in space. After waking up on a spaceship alone and with cybernetic implants you must face the aliens that caused your ship to malfunction and killed the crew. Sounds a little cliched to me, but let’s hope they release it eventually.
Link: Claustrophobia on ModDB
Portal Awakening is a Portal mod with ambition. Their writer has taken too many happy pills because they promise Memorable Maps, Petrifying Puzzles, Eccentric Easters Eggs, Charismatic Characters and a Powerful, Emotional and Enganging Storyline and let’s not forget that you are a sweepingly talentful architect! Aah, the youth of today with their funny speak!
Link: Portal Awakening on ModDB
“In this single player level for Half-Life 2, Gordon Freeman (the player) finds himself on the sea shore with a terrible hangover. He is surrounded by empty beer bottles a few Headcrab corpses and a bicycle. Does not remember anything about how he got there or what happened there and the night before. Sets off to find out and as usual gets into a bunch of “fun” activities along the way.” Interesting start, let’s see what happens. The screenshot used in the title image is from this mod, BTW.
Link: Hangover on ModDB
OMG, the “let’s make a mod from beta stuff” has finally reached Half-Life. I think it’s crazy but good luck to them.
Link: HL 1997 on ModDB
Another beta remake. Apparently there will be an alpha released soon. Why bother? Just work hard until you have something serious then create a proper beta testing phase.
Link: Project Terminal on ModDB
A Half-life mod. Anybody tried the other betas?
Link: Residual Life on ModDB
The 1187 teams continues to work hard and this update shows that. I just can’t get the feeling that all the real world place seem so plasticy. That’s the only thing I don’t like.
Link: 1187 on ModDB
Loving the look of this. It’s old news (May) but It’s new to me. Looking good.
Link: The Infected on ModDB
Fearlezz, the developer of this mod, continues to tease us with false release dates. I know he is working hard, so expect something soon.
Link: Factum Solus on ModDB
What the heck is this? Even Google couldn’t make sense of it. Can you help? I am assuming it’s a translate of the brilliant Azure Sheep mod into Portuguese but maybe it’s more.
Link: Azure Sheep Brasil on ModDB
A newly announced SP mod. Not much to see yet.
Link: The Lost City on ModDB
SA is an Opposing Force mod, which looks pretty cool. Hopefully a pre-2011 release. Fingers crossed.
Link: Soldiers Adventures on ModDB
TFR posted an update to their mod. Not sure if I am interested in this or not.
Link: The Fourth Reich on ModDB
Not sure I should be posting this but it’s out there already. The Alpha 6 has been made available. I recommend you ignore this and wait for the final version.
Link: Playground.ru
Robert Yang has written another wonderful piece about a mod author.
Link: Radiator Blog
Some character models and request for help.
Link: Prison Island on ModDB
Interesting article on game narrative.
Link: Gamasutra (Free registration may be required to view this article)
There’s a bunch of great articles posted and instead of just regurgitating the news and links I thought it best to just recommend you go there when you get time.
Link: LambdGeneration
Well, there you have another round up, it’s bigger than last time because it’s moved to later in the week. So, see you in a week and don’t forget to comment on some of this week’s releases.
5th August 2010
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6th August 2010
I know a lot of people have become tired of waiting for Black Mesa, arguing that it’s a defunct concept anyway, but it’s my most eagerly awaited mod. 2010? Well, we can but hope.
Blue Portals looks great too.
6th August 2010
I don’t really need these “around the community” things, but I like them. They allow me to use PlanetPhillip as a onestop for all my modding updates, while still keeping the focus on single player mods.
6th August 2010
Thanks Phillip.
I’ve been tracking a couple of those and paricularly like the look of 1187.
I played the demo what feels like years ago. Good to know it’s alive and well.
Prison Island and the Lost City look promising. When is a different matter though.
It’s pleasing to see that the HL2 modding community is alive and well if reduced in numbers.
9th August 2010
Hmm, hasn’t the BMS alpha 6 been out for ages? I’ve got alpha 5 and there’s an alpha 6 readme somewhere in there…
Oh well, doesn’t really matter. It’s mostly unfinished maps anyway.
9th August 2010
Yeah, I think it has but not everybody knows about it.
11th August 2010
I’m really anti-beta ^^