Posts by Hipshot

There's actually a few things I already liked better with GTA4 and older 3d-gtas

The cars are too strong in this game, they never gets destroyed from impacts, at least not comparable to the older games and now I'm not even counting upgrading the armor level.

Cops are way stupid, easily avoidable and it takes too much time to raise the star-level

The scope on the rifles are actually worse than no scope (in TPS) - it's just in the way, makes the weapon larger

Ironsight/Scope are worse than hipshooting (in FPS) - cause the white/red dot disappears.

The way you get and find missions takes too much time and it's annoying to have to replay some missions and heists over and over again cause different people host.

I'm really glad that you are still working on this bram and I'm looking forward to a future release =)

In all these pics, I really dig those long shaped orange lamps, I probably need to replica (i.e. steal) them somewhere sometime.

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I haven't been into this for a while, but what about all the pirated software being used to make mods?

I'm cool with using whatever software to create free content, but once you start making money off something having a pirated license is just bad...

While it's technically not Valves problem, I could see it becoming their problem if Adobe and Autodesk decides that it is.

Not to split the thread but, what about all the AAA games being developed using pirated software? Believe me, there are tons of em.

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Well, I'm not sure if this is good or bad news.

At first I thought "having the chance to get some extra money with your hobby could be nice".

But finally I'm afraid, that this will cause big problems...

Even though I'm not really good at it, I love making maps. My dream was to make a (CS) map that I actually could play online. But since the matchmaking system was changed, it has become pretty impossible to find a server hosting specific custom maps. So the only real chance is to get into an operation, which is also pretty impossible for average map creators like me.

And I'm afraid that it's getting worse, when money is added to the workshop. There will be more "professionals" releasing their content. And there will be more assholes trying to make money with their shit.

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I'm also in a state where I'm not sure this is good or bad. And like you I think that adding money into this will spawn tons of "pro" mods/modders that will hog the mod sections - after a while, valve will add support to mod the mods.

Thinking more about it, I'm probably on the bad side, at least for now =)

Everyone, hold your horses, this is the biggest thing that happened to this thread since this thread.

Ok, so this is awesome and I'm really proud, scroll down to the second screenshot there:

http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthre…3-April-21-2015

Now, look at this:

Those are some fancy smancy low poly keys and they are now in an official game =)

The red key, master key is my own design and I'm glad it's in the game, even though not used in a map yet.

These are the keys, but with more high res textures, same poly count. They look kinda bad with those textures, they look better with the low quality version, but it's to show the design.

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It's nice now, we are actually 5 people cramped in a very small office.

2 Art 2 Level 1 Code. We hired two interns so.

The added artist Victor (new guy) is actually a lot of help and now we can have Christian work more on characters and animation and Victor on environment art. I try to help out with art where I can, but I don't really need to do that as much any more, which is good, now I can focus more on design things.

Art is being produced very fast at the moment, but it lags from code with implementation of features, but that's obvious, a lot of things right now are non-gameplay related engine issues. For me and Erik (other new guy), levels are very dependent on code, so we can really only produce layouts and artpass, not do any scripting, open doors etc =) It doesn't matter that much right now though, I know Myran will eventually come to add all features we need in time for the big level crunch =)

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Talos Principle?

Yea, we are allowed to use that stuff, since it was supposed to be a Serious Sam puzzle-feature anyway, but they branched it off as it's own game. As heard in the Talos dev video about SS4.

The idea came up one day, cause we were talking about adding a "lobby game" that you can troll around in when chatting before playing and then we thought about the tetris puzzle from talos and then since we have a reserved slot for "items" in game like the land mine, why not see if we can use the jammer to shut off turrets and jam laser doors, just like in Talos =)

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Random art.

I was disappointed the first time I saw this and I still am.

Where's the singleplayer - where's the coop?

From a perspective, from someone having their own company and are now dealing with interns and employees too.

If I had an intern that I really liked, I would be more than grateful if they would come back for a second term if they needed it.

Eden probably likes you and think you can deliver what can be expected - what more can you ask for. Travel the world, seeking new experiences? You can do that later on, like dux said, it's a no brainer and if it's for 4 months only, that's like no time.

That "safe circle" - that's where you wanna be right now in your career.

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Small video showing the basic movements of our student project "Revenge of Trishna".

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This looks interesting! When will we be able to test it?

Worst thing for me is that I see godus and I really want that to be a new fully working populus. Can someone PM me when it is?

You probably seen that shitty weapon before =)

One told me that it was not written in a very unserious matter to actually be taken seriously. Like I just wrote a second person - to be honest, this is what it is, I'm not looking for anyone that wants to work at Blizzard or Rockstar - I want the "second best" guy, it's so god damn easy to BUILD this, but I need someone that can actually design an idea to fit into the story well, come up with his/her own ideas, but not be to strange.

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I suppose you won't wait 'till June

Well, we kinda need someone "soon" =/

Important before anyone reads, this position is an internship position and probably only extends to people already living in Stockholm, Sweden and attends some gaming school or whatever.

Anyway, we are looking to add another level designer to crackshell, become the 4th person in the team. We are already a programer, level designer (me) and an artist.

The position is to create levels for Serious Sam's Bogus Detour and the level design is top down, these two (1 2) levels are from our previous game Hammerwatch, but the level design build process and such are similar, place premade pixel art props and script the hell out of it visually - easy peacy.

There are no requirements to get this position, no need to have worked with this before or so, but here are a few things that's good (as in REALLY REALLY) to know and understand.

* Pretty much needs to consider gaming in the 90's to be superior to anything released since like 2001

* Have built any level for the Quakes, Hexen, Doom, Daikatana or Kingpin is a huge plus

* Tribes is one of the best game series ever made

* CTF is the best game mode ever

* Never ask why the programmer thought it was a good idea to name the editor hammer like valve did

* Basement development is how it should be done

* People who thinks the input on a smartphone is anything near ok should look elsewhere

* Designed levels are always better than random levels

* Crackshell is a bit like how it was in highschool, a lot of random noise and shit

* 1 Milestone - the game is done

* A level is finished when the game is

* TFC>>>>>>>>>>>>>TF2

* Being able to recite the NYPD miranda warning

* Although we work regular hours or even a bit less now sometimes, non payed overtime will eventually happen. Love it or leave it

* We play games, atm me and Chris (artist) plays QL for 30-60 min each day before lunch then we all play RUSE after work, 3v3 or 4v4

* If you have a funny name you will hear about it, if you have a regular name, you will hear about that too

* I personally drink a lot of beer in the weeks and I have issues with that

* We have our own engine and our coder knows how to do everything*

I've tried, with these few points to describe a bit how the company works - as I see it and what a level designer should be ready for. This is serious business.

Another good thing to know, Hammerwatch have sold about 760k units, that means that we have a small stack of cash around, so if the level designer works out as an intern, it will most likely be hired on a project basis, but if Serious Sam don't sell enough, we might not be able to have people hired any more and needs to scale down when we make Hammerwatch 2 - honest truth being an indie game dev that is not mojang

The goal for the company is this Serious Sam -> Hammerwatch 2 -> Low poly RPG FPS.

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Send me a PM or add me on steam.

*Except change that name

CTF is the best game mode castle.

This looks cool, I never saw this before.

When you shoot those robots up in the air, just like Painkiller =)

I wish there were more quake-like singleplayer games =( =)

I haven't made a CS level in ages, but I have to agree with Puddy 100%. Use a stopwatch and check your timings, bring in a friend early on just to check the basic layout.

I have been wanting to do a Japanese styled theme for years, and I always thought that I would go for the Moon Dragon look, but then I saw Overwatch and added that I'm kinda exhausted by making dark and moody levels, I felt that this look would be really fun to bring into Q3, do the Empire of the Rising sun some justice (Japanese Castles are getting a bit old now =))

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I know Sakura trees don't look like this, but I haven't had time to make a proper texture yet, so I just tinted some old leafs.

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I've made few change (and on the fow blackdog). This is good for me.

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I was thinking, should the lasers go beyond or into the pyramid peak? If the latter, maybe add some kind of receiver at the top?

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i'm glad the q3a mapping competition introduced me to this forum - it seems like a great community. it's kind of intimidating to post stuff here, though, since you guys all make so much awesome stuff! here's my latest quake 3 project using sock's industrial texture pack.

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This forum badly needs more people posting more quake things - so just keep it flowing buddy!

Edit: I mean, just the fact that we now have a banner image that's featuring quake levels shows the suffering that has been going on around here - for like 15 years.