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Then my life is complete.

Hai der Mr Stu. Still feeling funky?

I should hope not. I lurk every few months x)

You can still donate at any time as we're now a part of the humble bundle indie group and support paypal

Just letting you know there's 30 minutes left till it's over, if you want the rewards, now is your last chance!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonaskaerlev/a-hat-in-time-3d-collect-a-thon-platformer

24 hours left, and we've almost reached 4 additional Grant Kirkhope tunes!

In these final hours, we at Gears for Breakfast want to thank you guys so much for your help and support!

A lot of you have been asking if we are ever gonna be supporting Paypal; we are happy to let you know that we've been speaking with the folks over at Humble Bundle to set up a Humble Store for A Hat in Time, which supports Paypal, Amazon and Google Wallet! We hope to bring you this feature on our website soon, so even if you missed the Kickstarter you'll still be able to get in on the action!

And one last thing... please consider voting for us on Steam Greenlight! I know we bring it up often, and we wouldn't if it weren't really important!

Oh I have enough money for lunch, yours specifically will goes towards a new scratching post for my cat

Thanks, we're pretty chuffed at the response ^^

Haha yeah Tet, we'll be old men soon

And yeah he played it last night, here's the post I'm just pasting around.

We're in the final 57 hours! We met all the stretch goals and raised a massive $200,000. From now till the end, every 15,000 will add a new Grant Kirkhope song to the game.And if you want to see more of the game including challenge levels inspired by Mario Sunshine then go here and watch this 3 hour stream by a well reknowned speedrunner, CosmoWright. He really pushes himself to beat that ghost hehe.

http://www.twitch.tv/cosmowright/c/2479445

How's your game coming along anyway Rimrook? You're working on a 2D game if I recall, I don't come here often anymore! When am I gonna get to play 6D!

Yup, it's serious business...which is sad because indies are all about avoiding the AAA rubbish Seems we've sorta gone from indie to...semi-AAA @_@

Appreciate the comments none the less, every other place I've posted has got nada >_<

What does that even mean!?

You can relax, it's getting taxed and then split between 7 people which isn't a lot for a game like this >_<

Hey guys, new update. We have only 8 days left till our kickstarter ends and a lot has happened since I last updated you. First of all check out this recording of Awesome Video Games playing our prototype which we built with a 0 dollar budget in our free time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etQFRH94NKw

We also took it to a Student Gaming bar as seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQSOPbgH5w

These are the winning t shirts that the backers will receive!and the badges:As also added more stretch goals:Showed off the Banjo styled mumbling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPslFZXt6vY

We explained the Wii U situation and the attention we've received from publishers.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonaskaerlev/a-hat-in-time-3d-collect-a-thon-platformer/posts/510837

We showed off the physical box which was inspired by the N64 design:And a concept of the HUB world, Hat Kid spaceship!Finally our director did a developer walkthrough of the Subcon Forest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crpLShhRw7g

New Update, we reached 95k which means full voice acting! And we also posted this video as thanks.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonaskaerlev/a-hat-in-time-3d-collect-a-thon-platformer/posts/501553

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainekLRaFQk

Finally we made these, which one do you like?

The game isn't ready for that kind of exposure but we are working on something to satisfy the fans and thanks Strider / Don.

Just letting you know that:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonaskaerlev/a-hat-in-time-3d-collect-a-thon-platformer/posts

Just to make it clear, the huge stretch goal isn't all for him, rather it's to make the game even better. He's offered to help us with a special single song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjej-yuJPnI - An example of how we could use it. But first let's reach the goal

Small update, we've ported some of the character models to Source Film Maker in case anyone wants to make a fan film or something

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=149671258&searchtext=

You never know. Indies could be the future after the success we've had

In just 2 days we've reached 200% of our intial goal. The people wanted it and they got it, co-op will be officially added to the game as well as developer commentary.

As a reward we released this music teaser to give you a taste of the music in the game. Enjoy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_WBjtyZj8o

Back when I first used UDK I admit it was a little strange to get used to but back then I was using UE3, even bought the game during a sale to learn it. I was planning on learning it to get a job heh so I ended up watching a certain good set of tutorials. I can't remember what they were called but it was a video series where two guys talked through all the stuff. They were pretty funny.

Anyway I moved on to UDK once I learnt what UDK actually was and basically fiddled around with it for a long while before deciding to take the plunge and just make something pretty and thus my corridor scene was born. I then moved to the next one, a sewer based on some ideas I had back in the day, the idea was to learn Zbrush sculpting and so on. Didn't come out so great

Then around that time I was desperate for a job and tried to do one last project, one I knew would get me lots of exposure. Project Zeal was born, I had learnt a lot about UDK's systems and tools and had no trouble making that.

But I'll tell you what WAS weird, going from UDK back to Source. Learning the shortcuts again and so on. So that was 8 months on Cistern and then here I am back on Hat. Took me a bit to get used to UDK but now it's natural to me and I swore I'd never ever go back to Source! UDK is just so good.

Heh I know I rambled on there but I'm in a good mood.

Good news, we got featured on Kotaku!

http://kotaku.com/it-looks-like-wind-waker-and-plays-like-super-mario-64-510553007

Don't look at me, I wrote it that way but my leader wrote it the other and so I just went along with it :<

Thanks a bunch Trapt, good to see you're still around TWHL...with your christmas avatar

Neat!

Well, to our surprise suddenly our aim was met and passed because a guy bought our most expensive reward, the $5000 one ;O Colour me surprised!

Thanks dude, the more help the better How's my favourite TWHL crew doing these days anyway? People still mapping for HL1?

Hello my old friends from TWHL, it has been a while. E3 is coming up and the team and I believe we are ready to start raising funds to bring our game, A Hat in Time, to the public. The game is currently still in early development.

Yesterday we launched our kickstarter page and already we've raised over 50% of our target. Of course we are hoping the stretch goals are met as we would love to put all the love we can into the game. I mean who doesn't love split screen / online co-op in adventure games?

Kickstarter Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonaskaerlev/a-hat-in-time-3d-collect-a-thon-platformer

Therefore I introduce to you, A Hat in Time, a collect-a-thon, platforming adventure game in the spirit of the old N64 games you once loved, Banjo K / T, Zelda MM, Mario 64 and Donkey Kong 64.You control Hat Kid, a time traveller who is collecting Time Pieces in order to fix time. Along the way you'll run into Mustache Girl who wants to use the Time Pieces for evil! You'll travel to new worlds like the City of the Mafia Cooks or the Subcon Forest with the shamed inhabitants who hide behind masks.

We consist of a small team of 8 people from around the world and we are in dire need of funding so that we can put our full focus into this game. Right now we either have full jobs or are students or in my case, unemployed The game is being developed on the Unreal engine and is currently for PC / Mac only however we have had talks with a publisher who might be interested in bringing it to the Wii U. We can't promise this but it's an aim we have in mind.

The game will also include lots of hats! Something we found amusing and it seems to have charmed a lot of people. Of course this game will feature lots of places to explore and things to collect but we intend to add story and character to each one of them so that they don't feel like a shopping list of stuff to collect.

You have the power to make this game a reality, we just need your help to spread the word! Polycount has helped me so much in the past, I'd like to thank them by giving them a game I'm proud of!

Please watch this video to get a glimpse of what we have to offer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPnyZ5txtmE

Thank you!

That wasn't part of our deal Dimbark, it wasn't paaaaaaaaart!

Here you go Dimbark.

http://www.habboi.co.uk/images/colisumpresentation.jpg

Should always back stuff up my man.

Could try editing the VMF in notepad and removing any lines referencing light_environment. Otherwise go back to an older VMF.

Since people are probably gonna decompile it and find a huge ton of error models and pink textures I'll most likely release it officially in a seperate rar with the textures and models. I'll discuss it with my partner.

Thanks for the feedback. The bomb issue is something Stoke said and I left it as it is for now. Water cubemaps, well I think that's a problem with the fact source cant handle multiple water brushes at different heights. It's a problem I had to fight by using cheap versions of the water.

Oh and I made a document you can read here detailing all my design thoughts:

http://upload.habboi.co.uk/makingofcistern_final.rar

Hey Daubster, the maps pretty balanced though we're concerned it doesn't run too well on some PC's. Like for example I get 60 fps in bomb b and have an average PC but my friend with a powerful PC gets 25 fps in the same area.

I've had to replace most of the fancy effects with lesser ones and we changed several things but other than that we're probably gonna release b1 today. I may end up making an SE version for smooth framerates and keep the pretty one for the portfolio.

It's unlikely it'd be accepted as a tournament map because they're very specific about prop placement and framerate. They want a bland map with clear lighting, no dark areas and 300 fps.

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Ok dudes, de_cistern_b1 is out for the public to play. Enjoy!

http://gamebanana.com/csgo/maps/171828

You know me, I look at stuff and think that's nice but I don't always comment on it

Madcow if you leave, I leave.

Pretty cool, what's it for? Practice or a level?

Thanks, I should hope it makes some men wet after the work I put into it I've received some fair criticism over at mapcore though my time is running out, I only have till end of year to do any more work on it. This is my last project assuming I don't get a job in the industry soon, I've spent so many years towards that goal and it seems it's too advanced for me so for this last project I gave it my all. I hope people enjoy it though and I owe Smoker for advertising for help, I wouldn't be working on it if not for him.

Cheers. Yep, that's the trouble with multiple monitors. While it may look nice on mine it could be too dark on someone elses or too de-saturated.

Hey guys, nearly finished de_cistern. I've spent I think 5 months on it or more though it wasn't 24/7 so I'm really just guessing. Either way it's been a long project and I'm glad to see the end of it. I implemented caustics, moving foliage, flow maps and I attempted an experiment to make cloud shadows cast across the map however it proved negative though I've written up my findings and will post them along with the release of the map. I have to wait till my partner comes back from his Christmas away from the PC.

More pics so as not to spam this thread:

http://upload.habboi.co.uk/cistern_05.jpg
http://upload.habboi.co.uk/cistern_06.jpg
http://upload.habboi.co.uk/cistern_07.jpg
http://upload.habboi.co.uk/cistern_08.jpg
http://upload.habboi.co.uk/cistern_09.jpg

Bonus.

I think the vents are a bit too chunky and take up too much space. Rather I'm assuming you didn't use a reference? If so I would make them thinner and have beam supports holding them up to the ceiling.

And if you have spare erm...HL poly's? I haven't mapped for HL in a long time then I would have one or two ceiling panels exposed.

I also appreciate it's early WIP so take my comments with a grain of salt. Otherwise keep it up.

Got no crits from me although it might look nice with lots of green aka grass, vines, overgrowth etc.

That's cool. Got a Perfect Dark vibe from it for a second. Probably the duel wielding.

I used to use that before Hunter told me it doesn't always load for people in certain places.

gasp I can see the nodraw null under the Keep Upright crate.

That bass was so loud it made my pants fall down.

I thought I was cool hanging out on Habbo Hotel and it needed a username / password so I came up with the amusing Habboi instead of Habboy and then I just started using it everywhere else including TWHL where I spent many years posting and making a name for myself and I've kept it since.

Yeah I guess I keep forgetting to mention that. I've been working on textures and models for months however the lighting was a quick copy/paste to let me see how the textures looked in real time.

I'm not 100% sure anymore what we're doing but we were going to do night themed lighting but my tests at making that weren't so great. I found it made everything dull so I reverted back to the sunset one.

As for why it's purple. I wish I knew. I spent a whole day breaking it apart and as far as I can tell it's two things. It's the light_environment and FULL compile. It doesn't happen with the other expert compile options and full seems to bounce RAD twice. Either way I'll be nuking the purple dont worry though I have to admit it works quite well in the outdoor section, just not indoors

Actually Urby you should try them with friends. They can be quite funny and I know how much you and Hunter love to co-op stuff and do goofy things that end up being uploaded to Youtube.

Ah just like the old days when me and Hunter would make brush boats and sail them in gmod...:<

Anyway to make this post less pointless here's a collage of that CSGO map I'm working on. I'm getting real close to finishing the details and then it's the SUPER FUN "copy pasta particles" EVERYWHERE! stage and then hopefully release day.

Warning EXTREMELY large.

http://upload.habboi.co.uk/progress20.jpg

Yeah my younger self used to be like that then Hunter and I think Penguin slapped me silly on a chair with a tie in my mouth and now I try to keep it empty and boot stuff on the side.

I used to use a sidebar but Windows 7 dropped that ability. I used programs to emulate it but they gave me hassle and I stopped caring although I keep the programs to the side still.

Yes yes messy desktop. I like to keep references on it due to my crappy memory.

Thanks Trapt, I've come a long way since de_boshi eh?

And useful crits Nef. I did work on a sort of pipe support for the red ones based on a screenshot from Black Mesa. I only placed in a few because I had to work on more important parts of the map but I will probably re-examine how pipes are supported.

http://puu.sh/17aY3

And as for the bottom right you're probably right. I didn't actually notice it because it's not a place you stand in very often.

I might have to think about adding supports there or maybe sky windows. I'll look at my ref folder for ideas but thanks for giving me a fresh insight. The only one who crits it is my mapping partner and I think his involvement makes him also blind to mistakes and stuff.

I think that can be arranged. cough radio

Some more progress on the map. I recently finished this area which is bomb a and I need to fix some glitches etc etc and then I can move on to the lesser areas and finally FINALLY get some real lighting in it cause right now it's using some freaky sun that casts "purple" around everything it touches. Really weird.

I can't say that at any point the quality of the mapping drops any considerable amount. It's consistently great.

I felt the start of Blast Pit was extremely poor. I may have been tired but I swear I saw pipes made with brushes when they had all those fancy models to use. But the opening is by far the best mapping in my opinion. I just wish the tram wasn't so fast so I could look at it all