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Added new map today!

FY_TWO_HOUSE MOUNTAIN

http://www.iwannamap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2366

This link sadly is an unorganised media release requesting for a modeler to assist me.

Although this is good for you...You can see my concepts

"Shadow of the Colossus ? The Untold Chapter (Current name ? Due change if needed)

Inspired by the Shadow of the Colossus game featured only on the Playstation Two comes an all new modification on the Source Engine based on that particular game.Epic Rising Studios was founded by myself and another man known as ?Psycho? on the Internet. The aim of Epic Rising Studios is to release a mod that hasn?t been done before and to tell you the truth I myself am a little tired of First Person Shooter modifications and felt a new adventure mod would be entertaining.

For those who have no idea what Shadow of the Colossus is well below is a short description:

Shadow of the Colossus is an epic game released on the Playstation Two format and features sixteen gigantic creatures known as the Colossi. The main character who we know nothing of is given the mission to kill each of these creatures one by one and in return the mysterious voice known as Darmin will revive the young lady that rests on the altar. The game itself is simple...With the sword in his hand you are able to shine it to find where each Colossi is and then ride on your horse all the way through an epic land that to be honest is so beautiful to look at. I won?t spoil the ending for you but as Darmin said...?The price for killing the Colossi will be great?.

IMPORTANT

At the bottom of this post is a list of video links to show you what the gameplay will consist of.

IMPORTANT

The Epic Rising team which features me as:

Habboi - Project Manager, Lead Level Designer, Lead Environmental Artist, Advertising and Media Arrangements.

Dimitrios Kounios (or Jimmy) - http://www.dimitrioskounios.com/ - Concept Artist

Zyk0tik - Programmer / Coder

Anssi Rajaniemi - http://kotinetti.suomi.net/rajaniemi/ - Concept Artist

Currently we are in great need of a modeler and it has made me rather depressed that I have no choice but to write this request and publish what was going to be part of a huge media release. The plan was to draw out the three main concepts, have them modeled, coded in as static and placed in customized levels.

Sadly without a modeler this cannot be done and although I had a modeler at the time he changed his mind due to that fact his interests lie in the futuristic section.

Below are the three main concepts drawn out by a man (Dimitrios Kounios) who I can?t thank enough for spending countless nights doing this for me:

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3363/manconyo6.jpg
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7949/dogconfv1.jpg
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4620/birdcon2tf8.jpg

If you have been following what I have written then you know my plan is to get these modeled and programmed in.

So in other words we are looking for a talented character modeller who can model those concepts from scratch. We have a top skinner if you can't texture very well.

Before you consider joining I would like to tell you (the public) a little about myself and the skills that I contain:

Some of you may know me as Habboi?I prefer to call myself Sir Habboi and to run such a project may make you wonder if I can handle it...Well in the past I?ve worked on such modifications as the legendary City 13, Nightfall and Gang-Life?They all have something in common...They have all died (Although Nightfall is climbing back up slowly). Now I have witnessed many reasons why modifications die and this is due to bad planning and lack of enthusiasm.

Now I have planned this out for almost a month and arranged jobs for people to do so far. Please don?t let the lack of a website put you off because before I even consider purchasing one I want to know that this can be done?I have huge support behind me from fans of the Shadow of the Colossus game, my team and close friends.

I?m hoping that after reading this you will be interested in working for a team who wish to make players happy and show those who have not heard of the Shadow of the Colossus game what a brilliant game it is. If you?re interested in applying please add me on MSN at:

williamnicholls@hotmail.com

Or on Xfire:

Habboi1

Thank you for reading this because if you help this mod get going then you will be part of a proud team whose success is imminent. If you want to post feedback only then please do add me to chat because I like to hear it.

Here is a list of pictures and videos of what we wish to re-create mostly?As director I have a working script with completely new ideas so don?t assume this mod is just a recreation of the already existing game. The only similarity is the world that game revolves around.

Pictures:

Colossus 13:

http://www.jeux-france.com/Webmasters/Images/1456520050820_205217_6_big.jpg
http://ps2media.gamespy.com/ps2/image/article/658/658966/shadow-of-the-colossus-20051017033226242-000.jpg
http://www.playfrance.com/images/ps2/326,46429/zoom/1839.jpg

Colossus 3:

http://basalt.deviouskitty.com/random/shadow_of_the_colossus2b.jpg
http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_29108.jpg
http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_29103.jpg
http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_29102.jpg
http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_24214.jpg
http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_24213.jpg
http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_22210.jpg

[Good Quality]

http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_29109.jpg

Colossus 15:

http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_29107.jpg
http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_29106.jpg
http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_29099.jpg
http://games.kikizo.com/media/shadowofthecolossus_mar05/11.jpg

Colossus 2 (Good Quality)

http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_24216.jpg

Colossus 2:

http://www.serialgamer.com/screenshots_jeuxvideo/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Shadow_of_the_Colossus_24215.jpg
http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Reviews/Playstation2/shadow-colossus/shadow-colossus-3.jpg
http://www.dailygame.net/Articles/media/screens/shadowcolossus/shadowcolossus4.jpg
http://my.opera.com/Seiter/homes/blog/shadow-of-the-colossus-20050927025333795.jpg

Videos

The entire Colossus in one big video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGaw5TXb244&search=Shadow%20of%20the%20Colossus%205

Colossus 13 Gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kki8LhtnRw&search=Shadow%20of%20the%20Colossus%20

Colossus 3 Gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgsSHhKp84A&search=Shadow%20of%20the%20Colossus%20

Colossus 8 Gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3nbCXN9-u0&search=Shadow%20of%20the%20Colossus%20

Colossus 1 Gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_elU-IwGh4&search=Shadow%20of%20the%20Colossus%20

Contribution Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6c_Uz1EaBk&search=Shadow%20of%20the%20Colossus%20

3rd Colossus (The Bird)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-620813857637119811&q=shadow+of+the+colossus&pl=true

11th Colossus

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-198708390241668317&q=shadow+of+the+colossus&pl=true

Best one:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1491403135535396731&q=shadow+of+the+colossus&pl=true

Good Trailer showing everything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM5IntLA8V4&mode=related&search=Shadow%20of%20the%20Colossus%20

The best fan made trailer yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rc_as0cE1Y&mode=related&search=Shadow%20of%20the%20Colossus%20

Enjoy."

Some good replies!

This is an extremely ambitious project... I don't mean to naysay, but I doubt it will live up to the original game. I'm rooting for you though; if this mod manages to deliver anything close to the experience I had with SotC and I'm able to pull at least 20 FPS, I'll bow to you as gods among men. smile

wow, extremely ambitious indeed. i wish you the best of luck. looking forward to this.

Wow... this is pretty cool... Just wanna say good luck with this.I think this would be one of the greatest mods to hit half-life 2 in its lifetime!

Good luck ... I am saying this because I have big doubts that this mod will ever see the daylight. Source simple doesn't work out for this sort of gamestyle, unless your gonna redo the sourcecode ... look at the facts, source isn't suitable for this.

Would be a refreshing mod but again ... its becoming a failure before you even start modding.

good luck getting that to work on Source Very Happy
you'll definatly need some 3d skybox work.

This is ironic; just a few weeks ago I was working on the very same concept, adapting the gameplay style and art direction of Shadow of the Colossus to Source. Most of what I had accomplished was in a conceptual phase, although there were some small progressive steps towards a working fur shader and research on the recently announced Landscape and Flora Rendering. Unfortunately, I abandoned the project because it was too grandiose for me alone, and not enough information was available to me yet. Originally, the concept was to release each Colossus in a pair of maps episodically (one map for the travel, and another for the actual battle). In this format art direction could be focused on tightly, and with each new level, hopefully, there was a greater chance of more that could be accomplished over time (both art and tech wise).

Habboi, it's a very difficult proposal you're making, but I wish you the best of luck and you've got my support.

Yay for positive feedback!

Status update for all my projects:

FUBAR - Pretty dead. Would still have a long way to go if I wanted to complete it. I played through the whole thing one time, and realized how much the gameplay sucked. I might release an unfinished version, though.

de_pine - Not working on it anymore. I just got tired of the whole theme.

de_stucco - I haven't worked on it in a bit, but that doesn't mean I won't pick it up again. The whole style of it suits hostage rescue gameplay better, but I got complaints about those from my last Counter-Strike map.

Who knows, maybe I'll release all of these in one big pack of unfinished crap someday!

Wow.

21st October 2003 (1000 days ago)

A thousand days at TWHL. My how the time flies...

Congratulations!

I just had a close call with death. not accuall death mind you, but computer death. my computer craped out completely the day I bought Prey.

nothing I did was showing any signs of even getting it to boot. It seemed as if the processor had fried.

then the next morning I took it apart, examined every component, took out a few unneeded fans, put everything back together, and made sure every heatsink was well seated.

and what happens when I press the power button?
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My handcrafted bastard PC boots as if nothing had happened

w00t! People seem to like my texturing work I'm now involved in a freeware 3D project. Ancient Evil, a 3d RTS based on the warcraft series by Black Dawn Games. http://blackdawngames.bravehost.com/index.html

check the credits page, zomgzomgzomg! my name is there!

Internet at home still is the suck. I'm thinking about getting a service for something cheap so atleast i'll be connected pernamently. I need to look into it so i can finish with Muzzleflash and talk to Saco on MSN. Yeah, that would be nice.

...and penguins.

Joined on 14.07.2006!

Hello Dorian27! This is your 400th login.

What? No message? I feel cheated =(

Im back, and I placed 100th something for sporter division air rifle in the US, out of about 300 compeditors.

Gotta leave back to England because my auntie is showing signs of breast cancer and we dont have health insurance here but we do back in England. So we're moving back for an undetermined amount of time.

...

DAMN!

Hello Habboi! This is your 3666th login.

666 No wonder I'm having such a shit day...

Edit

Stupid 24 hour posting...

"Ok so I had another driving lesson...
My 9th I believe except you see it was an hour and a 'half' so that adds on as my 10th (Well half) so now I have to pay extra for another hour and then I can pay for another 10 lessons after.

Today?s lesson was very pleasing...I am getting better and now that I think about it...I realise now why he got stressed today...Sure I made mistakes but the flipping car doesn't even have air conditioning so it was blazing hot and I stalled the car in the middle of the road...

He introduced roundabouts and that failed so bad...You wanna know why? He fails to realise I'm not confident with clutch control yet so he had a huge go at me like a stressy father...

Anyway after the stress died the journey got better and at the end he tested me by making me drive on, stop, start up again and repeat...

This was to see if I could control the clutch and I did...Very well I might add.

Apart from that it was good...Funny story I was turning right but I had to stop to wait for an opening...This guy offers me to go and because I take ages to get into clutch bite I thought shit if I don't hurry up he'll leave so I desperately let go of the clutch and by doing so the car jumped forwards and scared the hell out of the driver who let me go...

Oh well

In mod news...More progress...My concept artist is nearly done with the three drawings although he could be a bit faster...His work however is good quality to the amount of time it took...I got a few changes to mention to him and no I'm not going to show you them because the next media update will be a huge one...yes that's right, I'm going to have them modelled, skinned, compiled in, placed in custom levels and below will be the website name, a request for people to help and pretty much good joy

So look forward to it...It'll be a while but it'll be worth it for sure!"

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=ask+a+ninja&search_type=search_videos

Man, you gotta try the vids in that link. Kick ass stuff.

Argh! My internet at home has been knocked out for 4 days! Sorry if i haven't been on msn or twhl as often as normal. I hope it turns back on soon. Tis missed...

SUBJECT:
War At Black Mesa
STATUS:
Mod Development Terminated
POST MORTEM:
C:>format C:
THIS WILL...bla bla bla...
(YN) - Y