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I've started a crap ton of mods over the years, and finished none. The Core looks to be the one to change that, but I decided to think back to mods I've started and put them up here. Thought it might be interesting to see what you guys have done in the past as well.

I'm no coder, so a lot of them were simply map packs with new skins and models.

Mod: MCF
Details: This is the only one I can remember working on before I even game to TWHL. Set in a fictional city in the UK, the Morris Chemical Facility (MCF) was Gordon Freeman's next assignment by the GMan (This was long before HL2 was announced). During his first experiment with the MCF, a chemical leak was to create a series of mutant creatures which Freeman had to eradicate.
Reason for cancelling: No modelling ability, texturing with MS Paint. Then the mod Chemical Existance came out and shat all over my attempts at mapping. Just kinda gave up.

Mod: Kinetix
Details: Set in a fictional city in the UK, the Kinetix Labs were hastily established after an alien craft crash landed in a park. Under the guise of a simple plastic manufacturer, the underbelly of the complex housed the alien lifeform known as Kinetix. The player was to control an unnamed security recruit on his first day who was sensitive to the alien's telepathy. The alien would guide the player to him in an attempt to be released from his chamber. On top of this, the city was to be assaulted by a hostile alien race who were pursuing Kinetix for an unknown reason. There was even a terrible attempt at a trailer for this one. Following the release of The Core, this is probably the only past project I would consider revisiting.
Reason for cancelling: Started working on OiFH.

Mod: Half-Life: Off it's fucking head (HL:OiFH)
Details: A collaboration between myself, Tosse, Espen180 and Daubster under the label Demonic Puppy Games. This was simply a spoof mod with no real plot and ridiculous features. The very kind of mod I have come to loathe after a few years on moddb. The top 4 videos in this search for OIFH on Youtube are related
Reason for cancelling: Team kinda just fell apart after a while. Tosse and I considered starting a zombie mod in Source but this never got past the planning phase.

There are many many more but that's all I can think of at the moment...

can somebody just please e-mail Valve themselves and aske them about the lighting model used in GoldSrc so we can get this over with?

It's cute that people think Valve still care about GoldSource...

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As did I...

Loltatoes

In 2017 - 2018 I'll have a 2 - 3 year old to look after... I'm probably not going to be able to make it.

Goldsource?

Ha!

Sledge.exe
File -> New
DE_TWHLManor2015

Congrats Jessie. That's awesome.

Blew my resolution out of the water.

And what a fine reference it is too.

Happy New year you bastards. Here's part 3.

New year passed by as I was editing CS tournament footage. It's the year of the baby Urbling and The Core, all being well.

I understand that people like to mix things up with different game modes like awp maps and surf maps, but that's not why I bought counter strike, so any tournament involving them can count me out.

That's looking mighty fine Lajron!

I know a lot of kicks in racetown were due to team killing. Spectating is a mystery though...

Haha, painful job of thinking is an awesome name

Cool.

Another. Image and album name worked so well together! Might amuse Archie that this was the original image

The racetown footage is... something else

The very dominant American squeaker is Dimbark.

The louder, nasal British voice that isn't mine is Scoots. He's the snc gamer standing in for Archie.

Tetsu0 is the more mature reserved American voice.

The one who sounds like me is me.

That band and album name makes me picture a rock band with a real "Fuck the man" attitude.

Aha! Nice.

Got another. I dunno what it is, but I like this ones simplicity.

Also, if I had to make an additional edit, outside of the rules, I would imagine this album having a "Parental Advisory" sticker...Also... just realised that I can't actually see JeffMOD's image

I'd listen to the North American Flags

Behold the glory that is part 2 of the tournament highlights.

...or don't

This is one for the designers, or aspiring designers or anyone with too much time on their hands. Did this once before on TWHL and some people really got into it. Sadly, the images have long since been swallowed by their hosts.

Results can be genuinely awesome looking or downright hilarious.

1 - Go to Wikipedia's random article page
The first article you get is the name of your band (unless it really doesn't work)

2 - Go to the Random Quotations page
The last two to four words of the last quote is the album title. These seem to randomise only when using the button at the bottom. Refreshing does nothing...

3 - Go to Flickr's 7 Days of Photos page
Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover

Put it all together to make your album.

Either crop it to CD cover size (12 x 12 cm / 340 x 340 pixels), or just use the raw image itself... the only rule is you're only allowed to add the album title and artist title. Style and position the text any way you like.

Aaand... here's my first:

Of course. Doubled the funnies.

In other news, it's 1:42 AM and I should have gone to bed like, two hours ago as I have work in the morning.

But I stayed up to edit and render part 2 for you bastards. I'll start the upload before I leave in the morning.

Editing Part 2, there are some moments I forgot about that have genuinely had me in stitches. Should be up before Christmas.

Do you use free background music from incompetech?

I do.

It was WAY too busy to actually 'cast' as such. I was just there for a good time in the end.

Well, here's part one of likely to be three.

Glad you guys chose multiple parts now. This video alone took nearly an hour to render and six hours plus to upload...

Hahaha.

I don't believe it will

I... don't get it

Hey guys. I've edited the footage from 2 videos so far and the total run time is at 17 minutes so far. It's up to you whether you want one long video before the new year or multiple parts uploaded over the next two weeks.

For those who missed the Tourney, and for you guys waiting on the video, here is a little teaser.

I am shockingly high on this board...

Three hours twenty minutes of footage...

Highlights reel will be up at some point in the not to near distant human future.

I ain't judging Tet, just curious. <3

Yeah. Speaking to Dimbark last night... What is it with you yanks and time? Not to mention your issues with the 24 hour clock...

I'll be recording tonight for a highlights reel so the more the merrier on TS

Holy nuck fuggets! 12 hours? I ain't casting that long.

I'll still play a few rounds though.

This thread has made me realise that most people here are much smarter and far more successful than I am...

Currently working as the Helpdesk Manager at a Shrewsbury based Web Design company. Basically I handle all the incoming calls and support tickets and either solve them myself or pass them on to a second level development team for more complicated issues. I also do all customer training and it's my voice on the automated phone system too. That will have been my role for two years in January. Used to absolutely hate it.

Skills I use:

Customer interaction skills (Just being a friendly guy with a sexy voice)
Web design stuff (Photoshop, HTML, CSS, jQuery, blah blah blah)

Started out as a design integrator for the first five months, and that was my role at my previous job of three years. That was basically using the "Web design stuff" mentioned above.

Before that I was at Morrisons as an administrator. That's the customer interaction again and a crap ton of data entry. Snore.

On the side I work on The Core and I am still attempting this "writing a book" crap. No other exciting projects to mention really...

I nominate all the CS1.6 maps I've put out there.

Works for me

I could not get into the original fallout games but I've read up on them a lot. I started with Fallout 3 and I fell in love with the FO Universe. I only hope that Fallout 4 gives players the level of freedom that the originals gave. Fallout 3 seems very dumbed down by comparison, as is sadly the case with most games these days...

Holy balls that's purdy... What kind of game is it? RPG?