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SOTT Update!

New Health Vile effect is more suiting.

After doing some work with SOTT, using full source code of the Torque Game Engine. I have a few things that I can port back to this MOD version.

New Features:

• new Health Vile Particle Effect (they spin around the outside of the vile giving a nicer effect)

• new Team Scoreboard, now you can see who is on your team.

• Menu fixes

• Gatlin is no longer Energy and Ammo based - more powerful and useful
  

Unfortunately things I couldn't port over:

• Show same team player names above head at all times
  

• AI practise mode

• Advanced Arrays for scripts (if anyone has had a go at scripting would have noticed a lack of dynamic arrays)

To combat this some advanced AI scripting has been put in but, its not really great at the moment so its there but needs to be activated.

So to activate AI bots:
get the console by pressing: '~' tild key
type in as excatly shown without quotes "$AIPlayer::TeamCount = x;"
'x' is the number of Bots per side, I recommend no more then 2. If you want more try putting it on another computer to host and handle the bots.

At the moment only "Stronghold" and "Frozen Hell" have the mission capability for AI. (just copy the "paths" in the missions and move them to the correct places you want bots to spawn at)

Download at the normal location or here SOTT 0.1.9.9

Anyway back to TSE for me, Enjoy!

P.S. It should be able to Run on Linux and Mac Systems, and download the other binarys required from: GarageGames demos section

Broken Laptop Blog

Getting some revenge for selling a broken laptop...

http://www.amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com

Sam and Max Lives!

Well after talking about Sam and Max...
At this years E3 there was a video on the very two :-).

Check out the video and website at:
http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax/

"Telltale Games is working with Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell to create an ongoing series of episodic Sam & Max games. We've partnered with GameTap to distribute the first season of games and share in the general revelry. (Dan Connors also got a nice t-shirt out of the deal!) Season 1 will debut this fall at GameTap and on Telltale's site with short, punchy episodes released in rapid succession, each telling a self-contained story, all the while feeding into a grander season-wide arc."

It seems that episodic computer games are the big thing at the moment! With "Bones" being one of the first by the same people (TellTale) . Also the FPS's "Sin" and "Half-Life episodes"

Shame its not Freelance Police but I'm still happy :-).

The website it self is very ncie, with a fun make your own comic :-). I was no good but others are much better:
http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax/comics/5145108

Enjoy!

Save Sam & Max!

Sam and max's second game(Sam & Max Freelance Police) was cancelled about 2 years ago now. They we're a funny couple, a rabbit and a dog fighting crime in a wacky fun world. It was one of the very popular adventure games of the time, along with Monkey Island and Indiana Jones (all LucasGames).

It seemed to of been cancelled to make way for even more Star Wars games. Also because they also stuffed up Monkey island 4 - lack of there attention to the games story. So they now only make what they know they can and only they can do, Star Wars... you'll notice on there website that they have a huge amount of games but only one isn't star wars... All others are in the classics section (most not even there), which because of these games they became noticeable(more then just games of their films...) in the beginning...

So what can you do? (Stop buying Star Wars games (there awful new films too) and...) See www.savesamandmax.com

They are no longer called "LucasGames" but are just "LucasArts".

Easter Egg Blunderbuss on Easter land!

SOTT 0.1.8.1 Released

Now Easter land features its own new weapon to
fling easter egg goodness around the world...

Thanks to everyone who tried this map and suggested something other then the normal weapons, so here! :-)

Its a replacement on this level for the submachinegun so its key number '2'. The only other weapon that remains on this map is the starting pistol and later hyper-pistol.

The new blunderbuss gives this map a better feel, its still easter monday so not so late to add to it :-). Only thing it lacks is a good pop sound and egg crack sounds ;-). And maybe a fancy egg skin (texture) on the blunderbuss. But I think though things can be left up to others who may havea better idea than me.

Download here SOTT 0.1.8.1

Enjoy!

Happy Easter - SOTT Special Edition

A nice treat above is "Easter land" a small new map
shows its not all doom and gloom... :-)

I decided to quickly make an Easter special map for SOTT with nice rolling hils and easter egss as far as the eye can see.

With easter eggs falling from the sky and many large ones embedded in the green hills its a treat. Along with a happy sun its a welcome sight to anyones day.

It can be downloaded here at the normal location SOTT 0.1.8.0 plus Easter Pack

Enjoy and I hope everyone has a nice easter!