Prey - SP project "Soul Gems"

[elusive]

Hey guys!

I want to present you a SP project I'm currently working on with my partner "Psychokiller" from the Doom3 RTH team. We've been working on it for 2 weeks now and have some stuff we'd like to show you

Here is a short description of the story:
The "Soul Gems" are three mystic stones. Every stone stands for a virtue and gives the player a specific amount of power. Without knowing it Tommy is the key to these stones and gets into a deadly game that threatens the fate of earth.
The player can look forward to fighting against the aliens again in atmospheric levels with varied gameplay and an exciting story that ties in with Prey.

And here are some screens. Hope you like them

http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/4821/sgemakx7.jpg
http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/9617/sgembyg3.jpg
http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/7704/sgemczr6.jpg
http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/787/sgemdhx3.jpg
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/8500/sgemeys7.jpg
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4917/sgemffx3.jpg

If you have any suggestions or puzzle ideas don't hesitate to ask

[CameO73]

Nice! Especially the last two shots are impressive ... I'm very curious about that ship coming through a portal in the Land of the Ancients...

Oh, and I guess you're not going to tell what power the gems give, are you?

[elusive]

They will be useful for you to solve different puzzles and to influence your health and spirit And the third stone ... well it'll help you knocking down enemies
I'll post a screen of a huge room I'm currently doing soon

[wayskobfssae]

My only recommendation I can give for this is, unless these maps take place on the Sphere (or ANOTHER Sphere, or the homeworld, which I find unlikely and would figure that the Sphere WAS the holeworld), you might want to add some custom textures. As cool as it looked, after running around that thing for so long, I want to see something that looks considerably different from the Sphere.

I LOVE the LotA pic though, with the large ship coming through the portal.

[Michael Hesse]

thx alot guys (Psyschokiller here)!!! I'm sure there will be some new textures but not that much because we have a rough deadline.

[Telee]

That looks fun! I hope it doesn't die, good luck with it.

[Steve]

Wow. Can't wait!

[lauwie0]

Look great

Hope you will add 1 or more new weapon(s) to the game

[Orochi Avlis]

Awesome. That is all.

[Sayantan]

@ Elu & Psyscho:

Listen dude, you guys are n00bs. You guys suck to the core. The mapping is awfull. All the textures are overscaled. The lighting is plain ugly. You guys should go to a kindergarten school rather than whining over here.

[Mr. Greg]

Looks awesome.

[lauwie0]

Originally Posted by Sayantan

@ Elu & Psyscho:

Listen dude, you guys are n00bs. You guys suck to the core. The mapping is awfull. All the textures are overscaled. The lighting is plain ugly. You guys should go to a kindergarten school rather than whining over here.

lol, your an idiot. I havent seen any mod from you jet. You better make a perfect "Im gonna buy prey to play this mod" mod or your the biggest lozer in this forum.

Give them some slack, i think their doing great. An even if they are a first time modder, you got to start some time...

Keep up the good job guys

[Orochi Avlis]

He's kidding.
They work together on the mod Recall to Hell.

[Sayantan]

Originally Posted by lauwie0

lol, your an idiot. I havent seen any mod from you jet. You better make a perfect "Im gonna buy prey to play this mod" mod or your the biggest lozer in this forum.

Oh my .... yes ..... you openned my eyes. I realized it so late. Now what am I going to do with a reputation of releasing "no" mod??

Give them some slack, i think their doing great. An even if they are a first time modder, you got to start some time...

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Edit: BTW, I dont really know if you are new to forums or not but .... Try to READ smileys. They are more than just ornamentation of your post on a forum.

[hiob]

wow that looks very promising, keep up the good work guys

[elusive]

Thanks for comments, guys! We really appreciate that!
And yeah Sayantan works with us on the D3 RTH mod so we know his jokes

[alexgk]

This really looks cool. Good work elusive and Psychokiller!

[d3ad connection]

Very nice. I'm looking forward to it!

[Mannak]

Here's some suggustions...


Mabye we can have Tommy in Norway or Celtic Ireland (since Runes/Gems play a
rule in Norse/Celtic mythologies)

and what about designing new enemies?

[elusive]

True I also like that mystic stuff. As the story deals with the Cherokee legends like Prey does it would be difficult to combine it with celtic elements. Although the Irish and celtic mythology is pretty interesting as well.

I wish I would have enough experience in modeling and animating to do new enemies We would have to find someone who's got enough time to model the enemy and animate it. The UV map and the textures also need time.
But we want to finish it until the ned of September because I'm moving from here to the University. So I won't have much time for mapping any longer

[wayskobfssae]

Spreading out to different religions and cultures is a cool idea, but it could easily become far too Stargate SG-1 if you go too far with the idea.

It might be better to stick with the Native American concept, but perhaps just choose a different Tribe to derive ideas from?

[Zixinus]

Please tell me that the game will be in english

[avatar_58]

Originally Posted by lauwie0

lol, your an idiot. I havent seen any mod from you jet. You better make a perfect "Im gonna buy prey to play this mod" mod or your the biggest lozer in this forum.

Give them some slack, i think their doing great. An even if they are a first time modder, you got to start some time...

Keep up the good job guys

Hahaha...that made my day

Anyway that 5th shot looks really cool. Good work.

[lauwie0]

lol i didnt see you where a modder too sayantan

lol i fell for it, I AM SUCH AN ***

[Sayantan]

Cmon man .....chill already, not a problem. Anybody new wouldn't even know. And I have a bad habit of throwing serious-sounding jesters. My team members know more than anybody.

@ Elu: Need props?? I prolly shouldn't, or else Legion will bury me alive.

[Michael Hesse]

You better get well soon Satan to go on modeling Larry's lowpoly or Legion will bury you alive^^

@Zixinus: Ofc the dialogues and text's will be in english. The only problem left is how to make Tommy's and Enisis voice.

[The_Shadow]

My only concern is with that large portal the ship comes through.

Is that a proper portal with a missing camera target or a floating texture? Because if it's a portal, it'll play hell with the framerate for people who have shaders enabled. Think of the bending space effect used....

[JudgeDeath2]

awesome work elusive & psycho...... when you guys get this done, I can host it for you, lots of b/w.....

[skyfox7]

awesome mod, where do u get ur inspiration? coz i get as far as creating a room, and texturing the walls, ground and ceiling then become stuck and dont know what to do next, iv got no level design sense :S

[Michael Hesse]

Thanks!

About inspiration: You can get it from movies, books, games just from everywhere... but you shouldn't rip off other peoples ideas/ copy them.
Try to get an idea what could happen in each room and draw your level on paper to get an overview. Practise and time will make you more experienced.

[wayskobfssae]

Originally Posted by skyfox7

awesome mod, where do u get ur inspiration? coz i get as far as creating a room, and texturing the walls, ground and ceiling then become stuck and dont know what to do next, iv got no level design sense :S

Best to think of a theme or a plot first. Just come up with something a bit more in-depth than "I'm a guy in an alien environment killing things" and you'll find level design will come a lot easier.

[elusive]

Originally Posted by wayskobfssae

Best to think of a theme or a plot first. Just come up with something a bit more in-depth than "I'm a guy in an alien environment killing things" and you'll find level design will come a lot easier.

Yes. Story comes first. Then think about 4 or 5 important story related events that happen in a map and then start creating the level around it. A very rough explanation but it's the way I usually create levels.

I want to show you something I created 4 days ago.

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2...ot00046bh7.jpg

[Theonewayman]

Very professional is all i can say .

[M-Jay]

i just read a news on a german site for all id games and doom3 engine games www.doom3maps.org that this project is still in the making and a few more screenshots were released!

for example this one: http://doom3.planet-multiplayer.de/i...4_soulgem3.jpg

more about it can be found here (on english/ yes, this is a site for a doom3 mod):

http://recalltohell.d3files.com/news.htm!

just scroll down in the news!

[hiob]

Looks great, hopefully it wont be too long before we see more of "Soul Gems".

[Michael Hesse]

Hey, Psyschokiller here.
Thanks for posting this here M-Jay.
I'm still working on it and I hope I can release it in 2 months or so.
Stay tuned

[samthaman]

you dont seam to realize but the is in the total zero is not continuing it. has been a year or so.