Eternal-silence 2 - Moddb Golden Spanner Award!
Iced_Eagle
Borg Engineer Join Date: 2003-03-02 Member: 14218Members
Borg Engineer Join Date: 2003-03-02 Member: 14218Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Vote for us because we love you!</div> Hello NS community!
Some of you know me, some of you don't. If you don't, take a look at my very sexy custom title and then take a look at my sig and you should get the drift.
Anyways as some of you know ModDB is holding a new contest called the Golden Spanner Award. Now there are multiple categories a mod could win, however our dev team at Eternal-Silence 2 is really pushing for one award we want. "Best Upcoming Mod"
Now you are probably thinking, "Why you guys?" Well I hope the answer would be clear but if not, let me explain.
Our team of developers have been working on the Eternal-Silence concept since the year 2001 (with the dream of it coming even earlier than that!) and there was a BF1942 version that was released back in 2003. We learned a lot, had great fun but alas the engine was just not meant to be. Thus late mid-2003 a revolution began! MadMechWarrior, the leader, did a redesign of ES to make the game more fun and playable and took many suggestions by the fans, YOU! Then in November of '03 ES came out of the design cocoon to show the world!
Skip ahead almost a year now. We have a truely dedicated and talented development team of roughly 16 give or take a few (we just got some new recruits) and thus we know our stuff. Take for example one of the coders, MichaelT... He wrote our very own cloaking shader which NO mod team has done (it was written in DX9 High-Level Shader Language which is very complcated stuff)
In fact, we have the video of it in the gallery yet I believe most of you have not seen it....
<a href='http://www.eternal-silence.net/4images/details.php?image_id=99' target='_blank'>http://www.eternal-silence.net/4images/det...php?image_id=99</a>
Now go like this <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> that's how everyone was once they saw what MichaelT was creating. A work of art indeed <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Then we have the work of Dete, TDA, sveppe, Nazeil, all very talented artists and very well respected. In fact, someone on our team has even nailed a spot in a game development company and is currently creating a full-blown game! We won't say which member, but our member was indeed talented enough to be picked up like that.
For example of some of the work that our artists do OUTSIDE of ES please check these two threads.
<a href='http://www.eternal-silence.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=943&st=15#' target='_blank'>http://www.eternal-silence.net/forums/inde...opic=943&st=15#</a> (he's about 30% done)
<a href='http://www.eternal-silence.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=816&st=60#' target='_blank'>http://www.eternal-silence.net/forums/inde...opic=816&st=60#</a> (very close to being done)
I mean you can see that our artists know their stuff, and we plan to implement same high-standard of art into our mod. Obviously though paying respect to FPS it won't be as high poly as those models <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> Please note that the 2 models I just showed you are NOT going to be featured in the mod. They are way too high-poly and are WH40k things he did for school.
Our team in fact spent 50 dollars the other day just so some of them could get the SDK early.... Yes some cancelled their box pre-orders just to get the SDK and begin the mod-making process.
Now I ensure you that as long as one of us are on the team, the mod will not die. We won't allow it too plus as it stands now, our community won't allow it too.... So the fear of us being one of those mods that sound cool and just quit is just out of the question.
ES2 is here to stay!
Now we wish to enhance our community and our mod further. We aspire to be the best, but YOU guys are the ones that make it happen. So please sign up for ModDB.com and vote for Eternal-Silence 2 as the "Best Upcoming Mod"
However, we know there will be difference of opinion we ask that if you feel that another mod is better, so be it. However please vote for us in a category that we deserve as I believe we do deserve to win in at least one of those categories.
<a href='http://mods.moddb.com/1939/' target='_blank'>http://mods.moddb.com/1939/</a>
Please sign up and vote!
Website: <a href='http://www.eternal-silence.net' target='_blank'>http://www.eternal-silence.net</a>
Thank you NS community for reading this far if you did! Please come visit our forums and have a chat and ask questions! We are more than willing to answer! We also read and discuss every community suggestion. In fact, weapon bashing was an idea that started off as a community suggestion and made its way into the mod. We DO listen to you!
THANK YOU!
~Iced_Eagle
Public Relations
Some of you know me, some of you don't. If you don't, take a look at my very sexy custom title and then take a look at my sig and you should get the drift.
Anyways as some of you know ModDB is holding a new contest called the Golden Spanner Award. Now there are multiple categories a mod could win, however our dev team at Eternal-Silence 2 is really pushing for one award we want. "Best Upcoming Mod"
Now you are probably thinking, "Why you guys?" Well I hope the answer would be clear but if not, let me explain.
Our team of developers have been working on the Eternal-Silence concept since the year 2001 (with the dream of it coming even earlier than that!) and there was a BF1942 version that was released back in 2003. We learned a lot, had great fun but alas the engine was just not meant to be. Thus late mid-2003 a revolution began! MadMechWarrior, the leader, did a redesign of ES to make the game more fun and playable and took many suggestions by the fans, YOU! Then in November of '03 ES came out of the design cocoon to show the world!
Skip ahead almost a year now. We have a truely dedicated and talented development team of roughly 16 give or take a few (we just got some new recruits) and thus we know our stuff. Take for example one of the coders, MichaelT... He wrote our very own cloaking shader which NO mod team has done (it was written in DX9 High-Level Shader Language which is very complcated stuff)
In fact, we have the video of it in the gallery yet I believe most of you have not seen it....
<a href='http://www.eternal-silence.net/4images/details.php?image_id=99' target='_blank'>http://www.eternal-silence.net/4images/det...php?image_id=99</a>
Now go like this <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> that's how everyone was once they saw what MichaelT was creating. A work of art indeed <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Then we have the work of Dete, TDA, sveppe, Nazeil, all very talented artists and very well respected. In fact, someone on our team has even nailed a spot in a game development company and is currently creating a full-blown game! We won't say which member, but our member was indeed talented enough to be picked up like that.
For example of some of the work that our artists do OUTSIDE of ES please check these two threads.
<a href='http://www.eternal-silence.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=943&st=15#' target='_blank'>http://www.eternal-silence.net/forums/inde...opic=943&st=15#</a> (he's about 30% done)
<a href='http://www.eternal-silence.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=816&st=60#' target='_blank'>http://www.eternal-silence.net/forums/inde...opic=816&st=60#</a> (very close to being done)
I mean you can see that our artists know their stuff, and we plan to implement same high-standard of art into our mod. Obviously though paying respect to FPS it won't be as high poly as those models <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> Please note that the 2 models I just showed you are NOT going to be featured in the mod. They are way too high-poly and are WH40k things he did for school.
Our team in fact spent 50 dollars the other day just so some of them could get the SDK early.... Yes some cancelled their box pre-orders just to get the SDK and begin the mod-making process.
Now I ensure you that as long as one of us are on the team, the mod will not die. We won't allow it too plus as it stands now, our community won't allow it too.... So the fear of us being one of those mods that sound cool and just quit is just out of the question.
ES2 is here to stay!
Now we wish to enhance our community and our mod further. We aspire to be the best, but YOU guys are the ones that make it happen. So please sign up for ModDB.com and vote for Eternal-Silence 2 as the "Best Upcoming Mod"
However, we know there will be difference of opinion we ask that if you feel that another mod is better, so be it. However please vote for us in a category that we deserve as I believe we do deserve to win in at least one of those categories.
<a href='http://mods.moddb.com/1939/' target='_blank'>http://mods.moddb.com/1939/</a>
Please sign up and vote!
Website: <a href='http://www.eternal-silence.net' target='_blank'>http://www.eternal-silence.net</a>
Thank you NS community for reading this far if you did! Please come visit our forums and have a chat and ask questions! We are more than willing to answer! We also read and discuss every community suggestion. In fact, weapon bashing was an idea that started off as a community suggestion and made its way into the mod. We DO listen to you!
THANK YOU!
~Iced_Eagle
Public Relations
Comments
No seriously, visit the site, look at the work these guys have been doing, and vote. They deserve it.
And bri/Iced, you forgot your damn spoon <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That would be my favorite media item atm <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I will probably vote.
Maybe you should try promoting the mod tho, it is the mod we are voting for, not the team <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Of course allowing this and I guess the whole mod community can start advertising, sorta like an Oscar blitz on Variety by the Weinsteins. Xciting times.
Oh, btw, NS is eligible for these awards too. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Which means the two aren't exactly competing.
As for advertising, fine then. Don't think of it as advertising, think of it as encouragement to vote for your favorite mod. Whatever that might be. It's a "Get Out the Vote" program, I tell ya!
2nd off: Can fighters launch from the capital ships? If so, I will be making an "All Your Base" machinima. Count on it.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->2nd off: Can fighters launch from the capital ships? If so, I will be making an "All Your Base" machinima. Count on it. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, that is the only way to get off the ship <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> Must take some sort of ship out of the hanger of a capital ship. For machinima, that would be cool, we hope to provide an already cinematic experience and movies are fun to watch!
Thanks for all the votes! Free cookies to you all <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Oh and I think that reading our site, our forums, and our design doc would be a much better way to learn about the mod rather than me telling you <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->