What kind of Single player mod will it be? Yaknow, a single player mod is a really difficult task wehn you do something completely new. You need a team a really good one too. I also have/ahd some ideas for various mods, but I´m not a modder, so no work was done ever. Also, take a look at the Mod Database and see if your mod isnt exist already or in the making. There are hudrets of HL2 singleplayer mods in progress at the time and many ideas have been already coverd more then one time.

A good example are the various mods that feature Adrian Sheperd or Barny or stuff like more weapons for regular HL2 and all these things.

..I've been mapping for games since Doom, bud. I've been modding since Quake 2. Your grosse assumption of my inexperience is insulting.

I´m not assuming anything, I just pointing out that there are already more then one single player mod out there. If you think thats insulting to tell yu to be carefull and take a look what the others do, then I´m sorry.

The thing is, that I saw many good mods going down the drain and the people doing it had experience and where modding since forever, but sometimes unexpected things happen you cant control.

Mostly, the problems come up in the team. People with diffrent opinons and ideas come together and there are always discussions how to make it.

I dont know what maps you made and at what mods you ever worked. Its all good and fine that you tell me you map since doom and mos since quake, but if I never ever saw what you did I cant tell how experienced you really are.

Also, I´m not a modder, I see it form a more general viewpoint. As I said, at my side, nothing came beyond the idea or the concepts at all.

I was contemplating taking this journal down simply so I don't have to be reminded of your remarkably arrogant attitude.

Listen, buddy. I'm sorry you're too unmotivated to actually do some damn work to impress upon others that you actually can hold it together to get a team up to get one of your mod ideas off the ground, and I'm real sorry you can't take the time to learn some of the skills required to give it a decent go on your own, but here's the deal.

As much as you might like to believe that, despite your complete LACK of experience, you are an officianado, you do not possess any authority on the subject. The simple fact is, you know precisely: jack shit, of which you speak, and it is clearly demonstrated in your words.

Here's a little stunner for you. For every project that starts WITH a team, two more start with a single person's work. Furthermore, and more importantly, some of the best mods for HL2 out right now, not the LEAST of which would be without a doubt, Metastasis 2, was producedly ENTIRELY by a single individual.

Furthermore, again, I clearly denoted, the project is solo -at this time-, while I lay out the general map design and base configuration scripts for a functional demo, you royal jackass, so that when I am ready to seek additional contributors, I will actually have a functional demo of the mod ready to present them with. But of course, if you had bothered to actually read, you would have already seen that.

And even then, if you had actually payed attention to what was said, you wouldn't have had an excuse to vomit out this bullshit to bolster your own ego by trying to stand on someone else. But here's the kicker - you chose the wrong person to try it with.

Now, unless you're done being a bloody moron, shut the hell up.

Ehh...no idea what happend, but I guess I choose the wrong words again. I´m not trying to bolster any egos nor did I intended to insult you. If I may have sound rude, wihch I clearly have looking at your reaction, I´m sorry. I apalogize me if I sounded like a moron. I regulary tend to sound like one. Maybe its the language barrier.

Goodluck with that mod of yours.

What are you planning to do? I assume since you've stated it's a single player mod it's going to be storyline based, would that be correct?

Are you able to give out specific details or are you keeping it tight lipped until you want to reveal more? I have to say you're piqued my curiosity on this =)

I will write out a proper breif on the modification later, but-

Yes, it is a story-driven modification. The inherit genre direction is "first-person survival", the gameplay and flow is compromised of sporatic conflict between puzzle-solving and general survival progression.

The modification's atmosphere and stylization direction is influenced primarily by Silent Hill and Doom 3 with a fondness for McGee's "Alice" mixed throughout.

Put simply; it's a psychologically-focused atmospher first-person survivor.

That sounds really interesting! You're doing a nod to Alice's style too? That'll be fun to see, something slightly off-the-wall.

I look forward to seeing more of this as it progresses. You never know, it might be good enough that Valve want to buy it and charge people for it =P

Nah. Even if it was (hey, it could happen lol), I'd insist it be a free independant release to be included with a future release (like Portal with HL2: Episode 2), or simply distributed charge-free through steam.

I can see your point, but I think if it was me and the chance came I'd like to earn a little from it. I wouldn't sanction them to charge rediculous prices for it, just something like £5 or something...

But either way, good luck with the modding. Are you planning on putting WIP screenshots into your gallery during development?

I'll be submitting some WIP materials here, like renders and screenshots, but the bulk of the media will be reserved for the project website when I establish it later.

I'm going to coax my spouse (furball) into doing a mock box-art image, which I'm sure she'll want to post here anyway.

Awesome. I'll stay tuned and keep an eye out then =)

Highly curious and looking forward to it :3

Good luck on that, Dev! Sometimes i wish i had some of your technological knowlege in areas like this.

Good luck and have fun with it.

*Grins* Sounds like fun. Can't wait to hear more ^.-.^ Good luck ^.-.^

Cool, devx. I wish you the best of luck