Posts by DelaZ

  • Your Top5 game developers

    Orgasmatic

    I didn't remember that it looked that good.

    If that architecture was build on Source, it wouldn't look much better now.

    It still looks better then alot of retail games coming out right now in 2005, half of them still can't handle shiny floors lol.

  • Your Top5 game developers

    Valve for HL1, HL2 and mod support.

    Blizzard for Starcraft and WoW

    ID for Doom and Quake series

    Epic for Unreal 1... I loved the graphics back then (the shiny, reflecting floor of the castle in the intro )

    Microprose (Geoff Grammond) for the Grand Prix Series, specially GP2... man I loved that game, imo no other racing simulation (F1) has beaten GP2. I also liked Indy Car Racing (2?)... but that was on my 486.

    Nintentendo for the Zelda and Mario Bros Series and other games... I had the best time of my life when I was a kid and I couldn't even understand english when playing Zelda (SNES)

    What can I say I'm a FPS lover and Blizzard learned me to appreciate other genres.

  • Finding a mod team worth your while 101

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    I dont join something if it just looks good and pro, they need playable releases prefferably. Too many mods release great art work or maybe a playable demo but they never seem to find the time and effort after that anymore to actually make an entire mod out of it..Since the last year or 2 its getting increasingly common to act like a company while theyre actualy just a mod. Absolutely horrible, last thing on earth Im going to join is a group of wannabes...

    I agree that's the hardest part to do, make a mod out of the artwork. And even harder is make it playable and enjoyable without annoying bugs or unbalanced gameplay. At the moment Insurgency is actually in a transition were we are making a mod out of the artwork. Implenting all the gameplay/features stuff. But features don't make a mod/game. You still have to have the gameplay that glues all the features together to one mod/game. And from what I saw, it's very hard, but we're getting there.

    Your second quote is hmm almost one of the problems. You don't want wannabes or guys acting pro and you don't want noobies. So what do you want? Something in between. They have to be a cool (small?) group of people making this mod. Preferable friends or people who know eachoter. And I'm sure thats possible but its really getting harder. If you want a total convertion using 100% custom content you got to have at least some organisation and at least some planning, and even with all that it's still hard. The Insurgency team was build up member by member. It's not like we suddenly had 40 members all together and no one knew eachoter. It's like a big group of friends that started small and got bigger.

    To be totally honest I don't think Insurgency is working with a straight plan. It just gets build brick by brick and we work on it day by day. Certainly we have plans but those are stored in the back of our head. We all enjoy making this mod and we get motivated by seing other devs work.

  • Finding a mod team worth your while 101

    First of all people with talent that are looking for a mod nowadays rate mods by there quality. Models, textures, levels... But also by the organisation. They want a good looking site, a perfect organisation, quality. There are 100th of mods out there, and people want some security when they dedicate their time and work to a project. They want to see some proves of what the team is capable of and they need to be confident. That's one of the main problems. People aren't confident in the mods anymore, and thats mostly because of the amount of mods that never saw the light and died. They want to know how things work, who is leading what etc.

    I would say it's the not the mod teams but it's the guys looking for a mod team that expect this kinda things of the mod team. They want to work in a "proffesional" atmosphere... Also with the amount of mods it's sometimes difficult to find the right talented people. Lots of mods see eachother as the enemy and concurrents. If you want to attract some talent you simply need to have some nice looking presentation email or people aren't interested. Well that's what I have expierenced in the past when recruiting for Insurgency. Also with the amount of work becoming bigger and bigger we just can't work without somekinda organisation and departments. There is so much to be done and the quality has to be up to the expectations of the public and the guys looking for a mod team.

    I have an example of someone on this very forums, who acted like really arrogant first time I emailed him... He wanted to know about our workflow? etc Who leads what. He expected us to change things in the team how they worked now... Actually he was asking us to change things for him. This is totally nuts, but sadly it's reality. People are so demanding. It actually became a bit crazy.

    I don't say every guy I recruited was acting like that but I could perfectly name a couple of them. What I noticed is that real professional people who already work in the gaming industry are much kinder and less demanding then the wannabe ones (in the case here above that was no true )

    Modding isn't just about the gameplay anymore. You almost need a real PR stuff going on. And this is kinda sad, because what really makes a game is the gamplay behind the graphics and the presentation.

    I agree about the NDA and contract stuff though. I'm glad Insurgency doesnt have that bullshit. Although I got to be honest it was planned in the past. Because of security reasons. We already had someone hacking the ftp etc. I don't think it's very funny to have a guy leaking/deleting all the stuff and effort a whole team made.

    Another thing, although we've had some of these things going on, the Insurgency team is one the closest team I ever worked for. We are all great friends and we never had any problem with any of the members. It's a really great atmosphere to work in and everybody knows everybody... And nobody get's bossed around. The "leaders" are mostly there to ask advice and to keep things moving when needed. It's not like they have more to say then someone else on the team. We have about 40 people in the Insurgency team, 20 of them really active. And I'm not saying this to attract more people or whatever, cause at this moment we don't need any more talent.

    The two hardest things to find in a modteam are coders and animators. Without a good coder you're basicly screwed.