I have seen your art in the past Arne and I have always been a fan. Great work. I also like to dream up old game redesigns in my spare time. My only suggestion about the Marathon designs is the lack of the "control glands" on the back of the Pfhor heads (sort of a tentacle thing). I forget...

The picture of it on Wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...andoraFront.JPG

Ha, I guess someone has Aleph One on it.

Are you planning on keeping the enemies 3d? Unless I am mistaken, eduke32 allows 2d enemies such as the ones that appear in the Marathon games.
I am kinda assuming that since you are converting the weapons to the Marathon ones, that you might do the same for the enemies in the game.

As far as I am aware, you will not find any voice phrases in the Marathon games. The only wise-cracking person around that I know is Durandal but you never got to hear his voice in the actual game. While it would be great to take advantage of that aspect of the eduke engine, perhaps you might have t...

The game is not Marathon or a revival of any of their past games. This was clarified in a recent interview. It will be a fully fresh and new IP. It's no surprise that Bungie would want to start on a fresh IP right after leaving such a long commitment with Microsoft. Who knows, it might have some Mar...

Big news today is that Bungie is partnering up with Activision who will be publishing their games. I think more information can be found at the bungie website.
Their new games will be available to more consoles than 360 (PC hopefully).

A lot of the aliens in the original game were a lot more creepy because of the dark settings. Not to speak, if it was the first game, you didn't know what was coming next.
In the sequel M2, the game suddenly got bright and colorful, a little too colorful.

I think my brain just died a little. Ouch

Yah, but why'd they renew it now and not a million years ago? Maybe they're just doing it so that they can use it in Reach. Perhaps it is related to the fact that Bungie is no longer creating the Halo games after Reach, Microsoft is. They are (possibly) being safe and claiming the symbol just in ca...

Well that saved me the effort of updating the Hunter's design. Great job on it, overall.
Are you going with the concept that the Hunters are robots or an armored alternative pfhor race?

I am interested in seeing how you handle the atmospheric sound effects. The ambience.

I think the game says the phfor have pale flesh and no body hair. So they don't have exoskeletons like an insect. The multiple eyes and the way their limbs are shaped might imply that their body is somewhat similar in shape to an insect. However I always was under the impression they were more mamma...

Look out the window and wave to Durandal.

Thanks! Hopefully it will be more clear in a future rendition, but that isn't muscle mass -- it's suit mass. This is not at all my perception of what the main character looks like in M2/Infinity, but rather a new design for a new era. Just as all the characters underwent a design overhaul going fro...

Sure is an impressive rendition of the M2/Infinity design of the Marine. I am interested in seeing what kind of project you are working on. His muscle mass might be a tad overdone in my opinion but we all have our own views on what each character looks like in the trilogy. Good luck and I am looking...

Senior of college, 22, artist, etc. I cannot post a topic yet even though I have commented in other sections of the forum.

I would consider helping if I was experienced with 3d modeling. It's something I have been interested in exploring to do but my life has been too busy for me to sit down and teach myself, the same goes for different forms of art and general game creation. In any case, best of luck on your project.

I am curious. If bumpmaps can be used on enemies and how that would look as a result. However I think these look great for the wall textures.

From that quote I can tell that he is saying that Marathon was not as financially successful as DOOM and that there are less Mac gamers than PC. This is wrong how?

I will have to agree that a lot of the textures look bad, but mostly for the characters and monsters in the game. The only one that I can think of that resulted in an improvement was the F'lickta. I thought the wall textures, weapons, etc looked pretty nice though. It was a bit of a letdown to see t...

they seem to have no lips and sharp teeth aswell If you mean by the pfhor, it does have lips technically but they do not push out like that of a human. They however do hide their teeth which I have not decided what they would look like. Sharp teeth are a bit cliche with aliens and I feel as if I sh...

The top part of the spht head is directly influenced by the glass dome/head they had in the original game. The neck however I extended and included optical viewers for them which can move back and forth horizontally along the indentations. The arching and extended appearance is a little bit of a ref...

I was playing around with some designs last night.

Woah, this takes me back. I think I played this one way back in the day when I was playing the trilogy for the first time. Anyone else noticing a lack of sound effects?

I am a little curious. When in map, the game acts as it's normal self and I am wondering if we can get another map mode; A map overlay that will show the lines of the map over the normal gameplay screen. Basically make the black of the map transparent and layer it over the normal first person view. ...