Archive for October, 2008

Progress Report 10-31-08

Posted by Alexander Smith on October 31st, 2008

Hello everyone! First of all, happy halloween, don’t scare anyone with those little troll faces!

Now, to serious things…

LOTS of progress and some cool news this week. Here’s the list of things I’ve completed for this week:

  • Finished Rocket Launcher
  • Redid how the HUD works
  • Drew another SP map concept
  • Animated fists
  • Optimized player script, removed non-Marathon things
  • Collected more textures for MP maps
  • Finalized majority of weapon scripts

And that’s all I can actually remember. The cool news, is that I bought a brand new iMac Intel, and I am now running it with a dual monitor setup here on my desk, and it’s totally awesome. It runs dim3 REALLY fast, and helps me get stuff done much quicker then usual, because there is practically zero waiting. It’s really cool. As a small bonus, I’ve included a viewport grab of the rocket launcher. Cya next week!

Progress Report 10-22-08

Posted by Alexander Smith on October 22nd, 2008

Whoah! Whoah! Whoaaaah!

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I feel like an idiot for forgetting to post the weekly news update. That was the whole point of this new site. Sorry folks, it shouldn’t happen again. Anyway, here’s the progress report:

Since the last update, I’ve:

  • Modeled, UV mapped, and 50% textured the Rocket Launcher
  • Drawn out the concepts for two new maps
  • Finished basic design for the demo multiplayer maps
  • Redid parts of the hand models
  • Rigged the fists model, and partially animated them
  • Fixed a ton of scripting problems

No pics or things to show right now, but this update came sort of unexpectedly, as I just rememered it.

Schedule for updates is every Friday or Saturday of every week.

—Alexander

Progress Report 10-08-08

Posted by Alexander Smith on October 8th, 2008

Hello everyone! Welcome to the new website. I don’t have much time to write this, so I’ll make it brief. Basically, this website is a big upgrade from the previous one, and as some of you may notice, it was designed after the Marathon 2/Infinity main screen. It’s still somewhat under construction, but only in the way of colors and fonts and things. If you have a problem with the colors, please contact me. I want to make sure this website is completely useable.

Please feel free to share your comments about the progress of Marathon: Infested. I will be doing daily and weekly updates, which is very easy thanks to this this Wordpress powered news/pages system.

There are several new screenshots in the media section, please check them out, and tell me what you think. Yes they are fairly old, but they’re to you, and that’s really the point

New ones will be coming, just be patient, I have to get back into working on the game, and finish some things first.

NOTE: The team tab, download tab, and the forum tab are under construction. You will not be able to accesss the new forum until the next set of screenshots is released.

That’s it for now, thank you for your patience!

—Alexander

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