Archive for April 2010

Paclife Alpha

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

This is an Alpha release of a conversion of Pacman. It was due to be part of the Arcadium mod I was hoping to produce but unfortunately that hasn’t happened.

It was never designed for public release, as all alphas aren’t, but I am releasing it now, with Joe’s permission, so that in conjunction with the post about the mod, it may gain some exposure and hopefully members of the mapping community will decide it’s worth the effort and take the concept further.

I would like to publicly apologize to Joe for letting him down. Sorry Joe.

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Total Downloads: 1,0119th April 2010
8 Comments and 5 recommendations, 2 say "Play It Now!"

Maze Gift

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Work your way around a maze and find the central waterfall.

Of course, you will find enemies and barriers to your progress, but you didn’t expect it to be easy did you?

Can you reach the center?

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Total Downloads: 1,1509th April 2010
12 Comments and 8 recommendations with no significant bias

Arcadium – A mod idea

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

I’ve started this post about 10 times in the last 3 years and never finish it. In fact, at one time or another it has had its own website! I always stop and change the way I try and explain it because I am never happy with it. Well, this is the last time I start this post because I promised myself I would finish it today.

9th April 2010 8 Comments

Monkey See, Monkey Do.

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

I am intrigued by the use of video games for uses other than entertainment. I’ve heard of treatment for arachnophobia with Unreal Tournament and I seem to remember something about vertigo too.

I have little doubt that lots of people have experimented with games for education, in fact there’s at least one HL2 mod that attempts to teach science and history called DoomEd. If I were 25 years younger this would probably be one area of study I would have focused on.

5th April 2010 13 Comments

Dopusk 31

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

The mod is about a digger who is looking for an old shelter and on his search stumbles upon a secret base where everything has gone crazy. He soon realizes that he must destroy the base and the strange object that has caused all this trouble.

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Total Downloads: 4,0655th April 2010
56 Comments and 17 recommendations with no significant bias

Poll Question 166 – Do you schedule your mod play?

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

This poll question was inspired by Jasper. He emailed me to suggest a poll about the current mod drought and how it affected us playing our favourite mods.

I jiggled it a little to wonder whether people saved mods for rainy days (or droughts!).

4th April 2010 17 Comments

VR Shotgun Battle

for Half-Life 2

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

You play in an untextured room, with shelves in the middle and other paraphernalia around the room.

Seemingly randomly Combine soldiers appear and your objective is to kill them for as long as possible

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Total Downloads: 8663rd April 2010
8 Comments and 3 recommendations, most haven't enjoyed it