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Matt K
Dark Trooper Phase 1

Joined: 27 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 09, 2008 15:21    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
I'm still around.

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 09, 2008 18:09    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Sweet! We've got Matt K back!

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Fish
Gamorrean

Joined: 29 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 13, 2008 19:01    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
I have occasional pauses (like David Bowie between his goodbye-concerts), but usually I'm here.

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 14, 2008 05:48    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
All right! Fish is still around. You still working on Lava Planet?

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sheepandshepherd
Trandoshan

Joined: 01 Apr 2008
PostPosted: Jul 14, 2008 12:26    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Dude, I would definitely look forward to lava planet on DarkXL . . . the new dual adjoins, vertical adjoins, water depth, things like that, would really make that an awesome level . . . if you're still working on it, of course . . .

Fish
Gamorrean

Joined: 29 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 15, 2008 18:15    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Burning Gundam wrote:
All right! Fish is still around. You still working on Lava Planet?



On-and-off, frankly. What I have initially planned and drawn a thousand years ago proved to be a bit too ambitious in scale - at least then I didn't take in count that I'd get older and have a job now. Very Happy But I'm considering releasing its first part, which is more or less finished, after a bit of polishing. The trouble is, as such it does not have a complete, sensible storyline. Yet.

I'm looking forward to DarkXL as well - in fact, it's a good motivation booster to get these thousand-year projects finished before 3200 AD.

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 15, 2008 18:25    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Fish wrote:
Burning Gundam wrote:
All right! Fish is still around. You still working on Lava Planet?



On-and-off, frankly. What I have initially planned and drawn a thousand years ago proved to be a bit too ambitious in scale - at least then I didn't take in count that I'd get older and have a job now. Very Happy But I'm considering releasing its first part, which is more or less finished, after a bit of polishing. The trouble is, as such it does not have a complete, sensible storyline. Yet.

I'm looking forward to DarkXL as well - in fact, it's a good motivation booster to get these thousand-year projects finished before 3200 AD.



Ditto

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Barry Brien
Dark Trooper Phase 1

Joined: 26 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 16, 2008 18:31    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
I'm still around. Finished college now, so hoping to follow in Patrick's footsteps and get a career out of this.

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 17, 2008 06:01    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Good luck with that Barry Smile

I just wish you were still doing projects for DF and you've always been a phenomenal help to me.

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Geoffrey S
Gamorrean

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
PostPosted: Jul 17, 2008 10:48    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Ditto.

Have you released anything for other games, by the way? In which aspect of game design are you looking for a job?

Barry Brien
Dark Trooper Phase 1

Joined: 26 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 19, 2008 13:48    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Not much at all really. A bit of JK and a tiny bit of JO, none of which was released. I'd love to get in to level design. Architecture and stuff. Maybe texture art as well.

Geoffrey S
Gamorrean

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
PostPosted: Jul 21, 2008 21:27    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Sounds neat, hope it goes well for you. Best of luck!

Fish
Gamorrean

Joined: 29 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 22, 2008 11:10    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Barry Brien wrote:
Not much at all really. A bit of JK and a tiny bit of JO, none of which was released. I'd love to get in to level design. Architecture and stuff. Maybe texture art as well.



Good luck! Actually, I'm considering a gaming industry career as well (soundtrack production, specifically), and have offered it to a few development teams, but for now, nothing to report. It seems that the competition in this field is über-fierce.

Regarding the Lava Planet, I've written a tiny status report about it:
http://www.avion.hr/testovi/test_layout/lavaplanet.htm

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 22, 2008 15:27    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Hooray!! Very Happy

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sheepandshepherd
Trandoshan

Joined: 01 Apr 2008
PostPosted: Jul 22, 2008 19:35    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Yay, soundtracks! I can't wait to hear them. Fortress Quadrigon's music was amazing, along with the awesome architecture in it. DarkXL will make it even easier to implement decent soundtracks into your level Smile

Fish
Gamorrean

Joined: 29 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 22, 2008 21:49    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
sheepandshepherd wrote:
Yay, soundtracks! I can't wait to hear them. Fortress Quadrigon's music was amazing, along with the awesome architecture in it. DarkXL will make it even easier to implement decent soundtracks into your level Smile



I am looking forward to that opportunity too. Of course, there will certainly be a "classic", Dark.Exe-friendly version with good old VOCs as well, and that one is still a priority. As someone here well said (Fenwar, I think), adapting the level to run well only under DarkXL would miss that classic gaming point.

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 24, 2008 21:52    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
After my extensively long hiatus from this website in 2005-2007, I never knew you got seriously sick! Shocked

What happened to you? Did you get really bad pneumonia or something?

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Fish
Gamorrean

Joined: 29 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Jul 25, 2008 06:59    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Burning Gundam wrote:
What happened to you? Did you get really bad pneumonia or something?



No, actually it was neurological in nature - I was progressively losing muscle control. It looked pretty grim for a while as it forecasted paralysis, but fortunately, it turned out to be simpler and entirely curable (though quite slowly). I'm healthy now, have set myself up again (job, home, etc), so I can resume the mission. Smile

Ye Olde Schoole
Trandoshan

Joined: 07 Apr 2004
PostPosted: Jul 31, 2008 18:42    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hello.

Patrick Haslow
Trandoshan

Joined: 25 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Aug 05, 2008 23:11    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Barry Brien wrote:
I'm still around. Finished college now, so hoping to follow in Patrick's footsteps and get a career out of this.



Awesome! You're a natural, and guaranteed a reference from me.
I check in here maybe a couple of times a month.

Fish, damn! Glad you're OK!

sheepandshepherd
Trandoshan

Joined: 01 Apr 2008
PostPosted: Aug 05, 2008 23:48    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Patrick Haslow wrote:
I check in here maybe a couple of times a month.


Awesome! Have you checked out DarkXL yet? We're digging up DF's grave again Smile

Patrick Haslow
Trandoshan

Joined: 25 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Aug 06, 2008 04:59    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Yeah I have read about it. Its what CDark had aspired to be. Hope its more fun to use than WDFuse.

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Aug 06, 2008 06:47    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
No Patrick, not an editor. An actual custom engine to run the game Very Happy

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lucius
DarkXL Developer
DarkXL Developer

Joined: 17 Feb 2008
PostPosted: Aug 06, 2008 10:05    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Burning Gundam wrote:
No Patrick, not an editor. An actual custom engine to run the game Very Happy


I think the confusion comes from mentioning editing tools coming in the future. Just to be clear, DarkXL is a custom engine made to faithfully run Dark Forces in modern OS's with hardware acceleration and improved control schemes (mouse-look), similar to modern Doom sourceports such as JDoom (Doomsday). Optional additional features will be added, some of which will be designed for new levels (slopes, dual adjoins, etc.). You can read about it more in the forums.

Where the confusion comes in is that in order to make Dark Forces editing easier and to enable the new features for those that want to use them (with a way of running in "classic" mode for those that don't), a built in editing suite will be implemented. But this won't really see much work until DarkXL can run much more of Dark Forces correctly.

I'm going to be honest, compared to modern sector editing tools - such as the Build editor and modern Doom editors - WDFUSE isn't very user friendly or fun to use. I can use it ok, but with a proper editor levels can be built much more quickly and the process can be much more enjoyable. So eventually we'll get modern features - WYSIWYG 3D editing/preview mode, much better sector editing/creation tools, instant testing from anywhere in the level and alot more.Smile

Anyway enough rambling about DarkXL in the Roll Call topic... If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask.

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Patrick Haslow
Trandoshan

Joined: 25 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Aug 06, 2008 19:45    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Right, right. Actually CDark was both an engine and editor, although I only had access to the editor portion. Anyways, good show!

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Aug 07, 2008 00:27    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Oops, I didn't know too much about CDark, except for the notorious person who was creating it...

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klasodeth
Trandoshan

Joined: 03 Mar 2008
PostPosted: Aug 07, 2008 03:13    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Burning Gundam wrote:
Oops, I didn't know too much about CDark, except for the notorious person who was creating it...


Now *there* was a debacle. Fortunately, unlike the unfortunate soul working on CDark, it appears that lucius has not succumbed to the Dark Side. Smile

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Aug 07, 2008 06:19    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
That's really not the reason I said that, I had a few issues with the guy back in the day... Unfortunate as it may seem. And as much as I tried to understand him, there were a couple times where I would lose my temper.

Oh well, It's in the past now. Although it would be pretty ironic if it was Mattias working on DarkXL (I know he's not... I hope... Razz . That would be the biggest kick in my arse).

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lucius
DarkXL Developer
DarkXL Developer

Joined: 17 Feb 2008
PostPosted: Aug 07, 2008 06:59    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Burning Gundam wrote:
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Oh well, It's in the past now. Although it would be pretty ironic if it was Mattias working on DarkXL (I know he's not... I hope... Razz . That would be the biggest kick in my arse).


Well hopefully its pretty obvious that its not.Smile

Actually that whole debacle is one of the reasons that I waited until I did before originally mentioning DarkXL. I wanted to show that DarkXL is more then another attempt doomed to ruin...

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Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Aug 07, 2008 07:01    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
I think you've more than proved you're up to the task at this point in time, Lucius Wink

(and it is pretty obvious you're not Mattias, I don't think he'd EVER reside in America no matter the circumstances)

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