First public release of Cosmic Eclipse is up if anyone wants to give it a go. It's a space shooter like asteroids but with an RPG, PVP twist sure to be on page 14 or 26 at the time of this posting.
Video to give you an idea of what it's about:
Depressing back story if anyone takes interest in the history of these maps and what's going on with mod making, the trials and tribulations:
Over the past month the desire to continue working on the mod has greatly diminished. We pushed incredibly hard to finish under the contest deadline and in our haste put together much of the games systems and infrastructure haphazardly. We figured we'd recharge our batteries for a week or two, find out we won the competition and in that moment of glory go back and fix everything up for future features. Well we tried our best but there were obviously better mods. But these are the moments that test you right? So some judges didn't like the map, we'll fix it up and see what the public thinks of a well balanced feature complete map. Well, my buddy who did the UI (which would take weeks to figure out just to reach the point of expanding on it) ends up bailing for full time employment. I've spent the past week trying to bring myself to work on it but just can't any more. About 3 months of hard work went into this thing and over a year of brainstorming but if i try to make it into anything more than it is it's going to drive me crazy. With graduation and student loans looming I can't be weighed down by pie in the sky dreams of making my own successful starcraft mod for a map system that hasn't turned into what blizzard promised it would be. This game design business truly is a brutal process at times.
But who knows, maybe the mod will take off and i'll find some renewed purpose in it, my buddy could find some time to keep working on UI or with the new interest in the mod find others to work on it.
Anyway, I fear I'm rambling. Try it out I hope there's something in it's half finished design that you enjoy!
P.S. Impaling thrusters is pretty damned cool and so are the homing missiles but they're a little tricky to use. You gotta press "3" to select homing missiles, hold down right click till it charges and once you fire the volley of missiles, holding left click will fire a targeting laser that will cause the missiles to attack anything the painting laser hits while simultaneously cause the target to cause more explosive damage.
First of all, map only exists on the US server.
First public release of Cosmic Eclipse is up if anyone wants to give it a go. It's a space shooter like asteroids but with an RPG, PVP twist sure to be on page 14 or 26 at the time of this posting.
Video to give you an idea of what it's about:
Depressing back story if anyone takes interest in the history of these maps and what's going on with mod making, the trials and tribulations:
Over the past month the desire to continue working on the mod has greatly diminished. We pushed incredibly hard to finish under the contest deadline and in our haste put together much of the games systems and infrastructure haphazardly. We figured we'd recharge our batteries for a week or two, find out we won the competition and in that moment of glory go back and fix everything up for future features. Well we tried our best but there were obviously better mods. But these are the moments that test you right? So some judges didn't like the map, we'll fix it up and see what the public thinks of a well balanced feature complete map. Well, my buddy who did the UI (which would take weeks to figure out just to reach the point of expanding on it) ends up bailing for full time employment. I've spent the past week trying to bring myself to work on it but just can't any more. About 3 months of hard work went into this thing and over a year of brainstorming but if i try to make it into anything more than it is it's going to drive me crazy. With graduation and student loans looming I can't be weighed down by pie in the sky dreams of making my own successful starcraft mod for a map system that hasn't turned into what blizzard promised it would be. This game design business truly is a brutal process at times.
But who knows, maybe the mod will take off and i'll find some renewed purpose in it, my buddy could find some time to keep working on UI or with the new interest in the mod find others to work on it.
Anyway, I fear I'm rambling. Try it out I hope there's something in it's half finished design that you enjoy!
P.S. Impaling thrusters is pretty damned cool and so are the homing missiles but they're a little tricky to use. You gotta press "3" to select homing missiles, hold down right click till it charges and once you fire the volley of missiles, holding left click will fire a targeting laser that will cause the missiles to attack anything the painting laser hits while simultaneously cause the target to cause more explosive damage.