Caltrops - Half-Life II ???





	[quote name="Creexul :("][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote]This is an uniqe modification. It takes place in 3 different epocs. World War II, Today and Future. You can choose yourself with kind of epoc you wish to play.[/quote] I love them. We all do, but really: their optimism in this state, at this age is adorable. This kid has no idea what an epoch is, no idea how to spell it, not even the faintest idea of how to make a square 3D box for Gordon to run around in, much less how to implement the whole of World War II... but none of that matters. Having accumulated a heavy box of unsold text adventures, I have single-handedly recreated the Interactive Fiction crash in my bedroom closet. Knowing C++ reasonably well, it was time to try my hand at a DirectX game and <i>push the envelope.</i> I always thought a Mr. Do! game that took up the entirety of a 800x600 screen (as opposed to the MAME version which uses about 60% of the screen due to the fact that the original arcade CRTs were placed on their sides) and had co-op over TCP/IP would be a neat little venture. Imagining that game was my Epoc of Courage. But motherfuck, it's all I can do just to integrate joystick control <i>of nothing</i> with full screen. It's been four days and I'm not even there yet. The perfect game in my mind no longer has ghost-monsters chasing two gay clowns around a garden while delightful J-Pop plays in the background. The ultimate game that I can conceive of right now is a blue PNG cursor on a black screen that moves around via a USB gamepad and has the exciting gameplay of printing "OK" on the screen at any time that button 1 is pressed. I would be prouder to simply produce that specimen of nothingness than I would anything else I've ever accomplished in my life. These HL2 kids have the benefit of fantasy, and I love them for it and envy them. I love their alternate timelines, dinosaurs, jobs that pay well enough. I love their average conflicts, naval assaults and comic-style visual effects. I love that they haven't ruined their hobby for themselves by sitting down for even a moment and striving for even a modicum of competence within it. (I'm going to call the blue cursor, when I finally get it to move next week, "Senior Woo!") the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey![/quote] Have you considered coding for a Half-Life 2 mod? How do you feel about fairies?[/quote]