ParanoiaPrison - {Dead Project}

[thewalrus]

     Great looking stuff! Love the graphic style. You have great talent in designing backgrounds. I will be looking forward to further updates. Keep up the good work, glad to see the project is back on track.....

[auriond]

The backgrounds look great - very much in the vein of the survival horror games I love

And the plot looks almost like something I would have written!

Definitely looking forward to this!

[Sean]

Thanks for the encouragement, I hope to have something more substantial for the next update which should come within a week or two with any luck. 

[police brutality]

I remember reading this post the first day it was posted. When I re visited the forums, like half a year later, I thought the project was dead,  but now I read this, and I must say, I wish I had your determination. If I start some project, I won't even remember what was the whole thing about 3  months later. Good luck.

PS do you know if it will be ready this semester?

[Sean]

Semester?

I'm British so I don't quite follow the american lingo

I haven't been working on the project for the last year, but It has always been in the back of my head. It's something I'd really like to put out and I eventually will with any luck. I could give you a rough idea of when I think I might finish this, but it'd be totally wrong so there isn't much point!

[EagerMind]

Wow, it's amazing how many people have lost stuff because of dying computers. I'm starting to get paranoid.

Is this is a 1st-person adventure? I know you mentioned designing characters sprites, but the screenies look 1st-person, and I see from the critic's lounge that your using the Unreal Editor.

Anyway, the screenshots looks great in my opinion, and it sounds like an interesting premise. Good luck on getting this finished ... and back up your stuff!

[Sean]

Hey Eager,

Thanks for the crits

I am indeed using UnrealEd, but that doesn't mean I'm making it completely first person!

No siriee, instead I'm going for a mixture of both first person and "third person" (traditional AGS). I find, with AGS games that are First person 3D things are always a bit static. So, to try and avoid this I'll have moving characters on screen, and then first person interfaces where neccessary! Plus, I'll try and make a few animated backgrounds..  just to keep things interesting

Back up my stuff indeed, I've got a 1gb memory card that everything is going on everytime I finish working

[deadsuperhero]

Good luck with your project, Sean.
If you ever need a hosting mirror, I can help you with that.

[Buckethead]

I'm kinda worried how you are going to make your characters. You said you can't model and pixel characters in 3d bg's looks kinda weird.

I wish you good luck though!

[Sean]

I'm kinda worried how you are going to make your characters. You said you can't model and pixel characters in 3d bg's looks kinda weird.

I wish you good luck though!

Yeh, I'm not going with pixels.. I've decided against that. I'll get all my other art out of the way first. Then, I'll start looking around for alternatives.

[Hammerite]

Photographs, maybe?

[police brutality]

Have you tried with Jed's Half life Model Viewer?

You can animate a model frame by frame, screenshooting each, then put them all together in a GIF, import it into AGS, and done...

You don't even need to own Half Life- just download any mod (http://moddb.com/ is a good source) and look for the "models" folder (Or the pak files in case there aren't any custom models in the mod).

I hope it helped.

[Sean]

Photographs, might work.. I'd need an actual "model" to do the walkcycles and stuff and let me film them though, which is an arse

The Half-Life tool is interesting, I've got HL.. I'll install it and check it all out