Half Life: Potential Study Created 14 years ago2010-09-19 16:48:56 UTC by Dimbeak

I've quit portal study completely, I'm changing a lot of stuff in it, but I'm now calling it Potential Study. You play as Jerry Greens, a 23-year-old scientist who got an MIT Degree. He got hired at Black Mesa because of how convincing his theries were. He was put in Theretical Physics, but he still delivers the package and the bullsquid still destroys the platform and all that.
I'm still looking for a model of a standing labcoat for the player's HEV Suit replacement. I've started over again on the training course to get every loose end tied up. I think I have permission with the person who made the scientist arms, but they were an edit of the arms in Blue Shift which were an edit of the arms in sven coop.
I think Skals is almost finished with the opening tram sequence and I'm still working on voice actors. I recommend people help in my mod, my team is recruiting considering its only 2 people right now. Thank you!

theories* I'M SORRY I JUST HAD TO, I couldn't control myself. I am sorry. :/

Sounds cool though. Good luck.

this is less descriptive than my mod idea.

and he gets positive comments? wtf.

yea I gotta say I was blown away at how positive the response to the first thread was.

More power to ya!

I've almost finished the tram station map for him

@Joe: Positive comments? I mocked his spelling and said good luck to make up for it, hardly positive. : P

We love you, therefore we take your mockery as a compliment.

skals way to go on helping this kid out. also gratz on the trophy again.

I need the first and last name of Skals, and everybody else who wishes to join the projects, I've started working on credits this week.

So nobody else is going to start with unhelpful banter and put-downs?

Okay, fine...

What the fucking hell is this mod about?

He's not making a new mod, he's simply changing things from the last so you'll actually have to read the story from the previous one.

And no, i didn't even read the story for the first one so i have no idea.

Anyway, I was going to say that the title is kind of crappy. "Opposing Force", for example, works because it is in equal ways scientific and intriguing, and conjures images of military warfare. Potential Study isn't exciting or intriguing in any way, it's just kind of bland. And not very sciencey either. I recommend distancing your mod from the official games an expansions by discarding "Half-Life" from it. Reason being, it's boring and overused, and ultimately forgettable. I don't know about you, but I don't want people to forget the name of my mod ten minutes after they hear about it.

I mean, imagine if I came on here with a new mod, and it was called "Half-Life: Third Quarter Exams." WOULD YOU BE HYPED ABOUT THAT OR WHAT?

I'm working on finding a good coder to make a few weapon designs I've been working on, and I'll be having a lot of scientists as to where you help them in their studies, such as interdimensional teleportation. I'm also planning on having a lot of scientists you help fix there machines, guide them to safety, ect.

How about, Half Life: Bloody Physics

And I've named the chapters:

BLACK MESA TRAM

DELIVERY PACKAGE

MAINTINENCE ACCESS

TESTLAB SPECIMEN

"PORTALS?"

INJUSTICE

CONTAMINATION

STUDIED PHYSICS

BATTLEFIELD

TACTICAL OPERATONS

DOOMED POTENTIAL

INTO THE HEAT

DOWN THE DRAIN

MILITARY INSTRUCTIONS

"BLACK OPERATIONS?"

ALIEN WORLD

GENERATIONS

LYDA'S LAIR

bloody physics just sounds retarded to be honest

^

Now imagine saying that with an English accent. THESE BLOODY PHYSICS, THEY'RE RUINING MY LIFE!!!

You need something with an odd name. Remember Poke 646? Of course you remember Poke 646. Everybody does. Know why? Because "Poke 646" is not part of our everyday vocabulary. It's strange and different. It's not a series of commonly used words. It stands out from the crowd. Open up a dictionary and find an interesting word. It might just work for your mod.

Also: Maintenance*

You should really spellcheck stuff before implementing it into the mod, where it'll just look silly.

How about Theoretical Disaster?

'Chaos Theory' would be better, though I'm sure an even better title could be found.

Potential study?
so Is there a study or isn't there a study!?

Yea, Everything seems great other than the name..

and blood physics? so I guess depending on how thick or thin the blood type is the faster, or slower the blood will fall? ...am I right?

You should pay someone to come up with a mod title for you! (hint hint)

Ok how about this one;

Induction - the process by which an object having electrical or magnetic properties produces similar properties in a nearby object, usually without direct contact.

(depending on what his theory is about)

induction was already used. lol

chaos theory is taken too. That was a fun mishmash of a mod.
Based on your chapter names the plot seems to parallel that of Half-life.

Well I could help you brain storm a name but I need more um, sneak peeks.

I still like Theoretical Disaster.

you are not really good at names are you?

Hey, he's here asking what we think about the names isn't he? Any member around at least as long as you should be encouraging this, or just not replying.

Here's a few ideas:

Death Cognition
Hell Reverie
Chaos Review
Hellcourse
Maelstrom

Really you could just mix any of those around, although Death Cognition is imho pretty badass. Really if you can't think of a good name for something, take your bad name and grab your thesaurus.

Of the existing ideas my vote goes to theoritical disaster as well, sounds coolest.

I need voice actors... and I need them soon... I'm on a mapping-roll with the tram. I just need some voice actors to get some parts I need, I'm going to have a scientist to get into the tram.

I suggest you leave voice acting until much later. It's not really necessary at such an early stage, and you can get by without it, unless it's going to be very heavily integrated into the mechanics of the maps. Even then, you can always create your own placeholder voice acting with some kind of TtS system until you find someone you consider good enough for the part. There's really no rush for this kind of thing.

Yeah, use placeholders when you need to, and focus on refining the writing/plot and making great maps; when you get media of those maps out, you should be able to attract tons of voice actors, and a refined script will not only get the plot across better, but make your mod sound as intelligent as possible.
(Basically, don't do what I did, do better.)

mmmm map your face off and then take screenshots of the mapping that you've done! Showing people images of the project so far is the best way to get them interested.

Well, NEW FORUM FOR NAME CHANGE!
http://twhl.co.za/forums.php?thread=17234

You know you can just ask a mod to change the name.
With that said, I'm starting a mod too, it's called
"Half-Life: Generic Mod That Won't Get Finished"
and I'm really stoked about working on it.

is it for goldsource?

yes, it is

u sent a pm to me sometime ago asking about a little help with mapping i would help u if u show off some screenshoots

ok, but lets do it on new forum post, I'll get some screenshots.

I just got bored cuz right now im on a comp. at my granparents and they dont have any games.

Wait, what's this? Another mod you're working on or what?

This is the old mod thread, before he simply changed the name (And thread) to theoretical disaster, somebody just bumped it up.