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Madze's new maps | Thursday, September 20, 2001 8:57 PM |
Madze sent me some screenshots of the new map he's working on. He hasn't told me anything about it, but it looks like an urban map centered around a hotel. I also took some shots of his construction site maps and included those as well.
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Downtime and Autolaser | Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:23 PM |
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If you're reading this, our network is back up. The honest to God truth is that the downtime is a somewhat indirect result of the attack on the World Trade Center. Our network's point of presence is located in New York City and our service there has been running on a generator because of a power outage... up until Wednesday, that is, when the generator went down for some reason. So if you're seeing this, it means that SpeakEasy got the power back up and our connection is live once again.
In lighter news, Shadowfire sent me this model screenshot that he's finished for the upcoming Autolaser. For those of you who have desperately begged for a rapid-fire beam weapon, this should be the answer your prayers.  |
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A national tragedy | Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:14 AM |
| I don't think I even need to say what a horrible event this has been. It boggles the mind. My sincerest condolences to the friends and families of the victims of this cowardly attack. |
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The work goes on | Tuesday, September 4, 2001 7:42 PM |
| Even though things have been pretty quiet around here for a while, believe me, the work still goes on. The truth is, I've been swamped lately and it looks like I'll have little time in the next 3 or 4 weeks. But hey, even though I do nearly all these news postings, I'm not the only guy on the team! (Really!) So while I'll be occupied, Madze, LouZiffer, Silver Ibex, and Tim Todika are all working on a whole mess of maps for our next release. Shadowfire, The Lamb, Matt, and Darkliege are putting forth a lot of effort in their work on models and skins. So things are still chugging along towards the 1.0 release. It looks like I'll just have to play some catch up when I get the time. |
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Mod makers... pornographers? | Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:11 PM |
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Bad Mojo alerted me to this news article linked from Blue's News. Basically, it describes the views of some people who don't have enough things to restrict. Ya know, people have too much freedom, and all that. The gist of it is that they think violent mods for violent games are horrible and the idea that kids can make them or get them over the internet is the worst thing since Nazi Germany. "There ought to be a law," as the usual refrain goes. Of course Senator Lieberman's staff seems more than happy to oblige them. Mark Rein of Epic makes one of the few points of reason in the article, that the mods are useless without the games, which already have mature ratings on them.
How do you expect game companies to limit access to mods they didn't write? How can you limit who writes mods for a game when even a mature rating can't stop kids from getting it? Even if you could, what does the hell would that do? As if writing mods for Quake and UT is the only way a kid can draw or make 3D model a gun? The very notion is ludicrous. Not that that matters, in the end. People don't pursue these kind of inquisitions out of logical reasoning. Sorry, just had to blow of some steam there. Feel free to discuss on the forums. :) |
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