Vampire: Bloodlines - next week

[zaphod]

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board. ... adid=52734

over two and a half years ago, after diddling around with counter-strike maps, and day of defeat - mikezilla referred someone who had just been hired at Troika Games to consider me for employment. The last 2 and a half years of my life have been an enormous rollercoaster of a ride, during which I have learned more about game development and growing up, than during any other event in my entire life. The 16th of next month marks a personal milestone for me, and wraps up a very special personal experience. Mapcore played a big part in keeping me interested in mapping enough to get to where I had this chance, and it has been excruciating for me to not have been able to show everyone my progress and things I have been excited about making for the last few years.

This post isn't about me, and my personal accomplishments with this game. It's about a little community called mapcore, full of 15 year old immature counter-strike mappers, that made games for fun and to share with each other - and grew up and got jobs in the industry, and as you will start to see more and more in the coming years, started to release professional video games. IT'S HAPPENING GUYS, DREAMS DO COME TRUE! can you tell I'm excited?

[InsaneSingingBlender]

that was beautiful

[Duff-e]

my name better be in the fucking credits....72 font....no need for a title just put "god"

[mikezilla]

[Duff-e]

[Tequila]

You gotta be fucking kidding! The same day as HL2? Well, it'll probably be on the 19th, a friday, here in the UK, which is for the better as I won't be crushed under an avalanche of A+++ games.

Congratulations Mr Z! You're so fucking Lestat!

[Mazy]

RAWKZ0R! Must also be quite special to finish your first game

But yeah, it is quite amazing that a pretty immature community could grow into a source of so much industry talent that it is today, and I doubt that it'll stop here

Anyway, /me flipflops away

[Pericolos0]

congrats man

[Fletch]

HIGH FIVE!!

now give us free copies of your game. pleeeeease.

[Duff-e]

im not one to question your marketing department or anything....but how wise is it to release this game so close to the dates of well known amazing games such as halo 2, gta:sa, hl2....i mean....people like buying games....but most people dont have $150 to drop on games in a couple of weeks

why not release the game during a dry spell like a few months ago...or before doom 3

[zaphod]

I dunno, you should call up activision and ask them. They just paid us to make the game for them, it's up to them to do what they will with it, Troika has no say.

[Tequila]

im not one to question your marketing department or anything....but how wise is it to release this game so close to the dates of well known amazing games such as halo 2, gta:sa, hl2....i mean....people like buying games....but most people dont have $150 to drop on games in a couple of weeks

why not release the game during a dry spell like a few months ago...or before doom 3

Valve have stated that contractually Bloodlines can't be released before HL2. Thus the (infinitely small) difference between their release dates.

[TomWithTheWeather]

There's no better feeling than being able walk into a Best Buy or something and see YOUR game right there on the shelf. Shipping a game is probably one of the greatest feelings of accomplishment I've ever had.

[JynxDaddy]

Wow, I sure wish I didnt suck at everything

Congrats Zaphod, your story is touching.

I cant wait to play

[FrieChamp]

Congratulations Zaphod! I think you did a good job with Bloodlines, I will definately give it a shot (even although I'm not so much into RPG)!

/me hums the international MapCore anthem