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Overview
Black Mesa, New Mexico...
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Features
- crap
- dump
- toilets
- military
Media
Labrotorium - click to enlarge
Map Improvement - click to enlarge
Map WIP - click to enlarge
Cat Food - click to enlarge
- For more visit the official site or the ModDB profile.
Team Cat-Life
Team Cat-Life has changed considerably down through the years... here is the list current as of the 18th of October, 2008
Michael (aka BoX) [Team Leader, Mapper, Basic Modeler] Evan (AKA Zithra) [Team Leader, Ideas, Writing] Open [] Open [] Open [] Open [] Open [] Open [] Open [] Open [] Open [] Open [] Open [] Open []
External links
- [www.site.com Official Site]
- [www.site.com Forum]
- [www.site.com ModDB Profile]
History
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Discussions on the Garg-o-holics forums quickly turned to delaying further progress to make use of the Source engine, slated for a late September release. Unfortunately... Half-Life 2 was delayed. And delayed. And delayed. And delayed.
Therefore, Cat-Life remained a GoldSource project. The Garg-o-holics managed to produce a fair amount of new planning in the early days. A "faked" concept image or two were prepared. Forum polls appeared regarding the name of our cat. Special cat moves were discussed and diagrams were prepared. For a time, there was even an effort to produce the Half-Life version of the mod prior to Half-Life 2's ever-changing release date.
Those hopes began to fall apart as Friendly Garg faced a number of issues ranging from real life problems to an attack on the website and its host server during early 2004.
The January 30th attack on the Garg-o-holics host, hlgaming/EdgeNetwork, proved disastrous.
Every project homepage was gone. The main page and forums were gone. Even the story scripts were overwritten. Ultimately, Friendly Garg felt that his hobby had become too much of a full time job and that perhaps someone else would be better suited to administer the website and lead the mod teams.
In March, after more then a month of down time due to real life, he posted requests for volunteers to assume control of the website and restore it. Further, he posted requests for new team leaders for both mods. (Cat-Life and GargArena)
On the 2nd of May, Friendly Garg finished restoring the basic functions of the Garg-o-holics website...loyal forumites were thankful merely to have the site restored after three months.
It was at that time that Friendly Garg began a fresh recruiting effort for Cat-Life. The original team had collapsed under inactivity and an entirely new Team Cat-Life would be needed... The partial team that formed hoped that the Source engine would offer revival for the mod.
In August of 2004, pre-loading of Half-Life 2's content began via steam.
Regrettably, Team Cat-Life did not experience a new surge of activity. After all, modding for HL2 was a relatively new experience and a lengthy hiatus had done nothing to bolster interest in what was effectively still a fledgling mod about a cat.
There were also continuing issues with the Garg-o-holics host server. Additional minor attacks on the forums, which had become the life’s-blood of the mod, virtually nullified Cat-Life discussion. At one point, the question of maintaining the GargArena and Cat-Life sites arose. Was it really worth the trouble?
The forum members remained hopeful, and so Friendly Garg updated the mod pages and retained the Cat-Life forum. In December, the entire Garg-o-holics Portal changed host services. Now hosted by hl2files, planning for Cat-Life resumed.
Subsequently, for the first time, Cat-Life found a new team leader...A new art style was proposed and interest in the mod grew.
Regrettably, that was the limit to the new updates...the mod sank back into hiatus. Worse however, the Garg-o-holics Portal suffered a series of setbacks and fell into disrepair.
For nearly a year, there were barely a few news updates posted on the home page. The site was stricken by inactivity and there was no forum community to keep Cat-Life alive... until June of 2006.
June brought a revival of the website under new leadership. The Garg-o-holics Portal was wiped away and Bored With Life settled in its place.
Friendly Garg posted one more request for a new Team Cat-Life leader in July 2006. The response was nearly immediate.
(The new team leader) announced that the mod would once again be developed for GoldSource...He also introduced the mod as a comedy. The storyline drew mixed reactions and the cat became known as "Hitler Jesus cat".
Alas, the latest manifestation of Cat-Life lasted slightly over a month. Little more then the new story ever appeared.
This seemed to be the final death throw for Cat-Life. There was no mod team. No leader.
Despite pleas from the community, no volunteers were found. BWL moved on, but the leadership maintained the Cat-Life page and forum in hopes that some day, some one would save our poor cat.
Another year passed...
And then... on the 6th day of October, 2007 one of the loyal original Team Cat-Life mappers made a surprise announcement.
BiGToM (aka sayrken) assumed the role of Team Cat-Life leader with deliberate intent. He started working on the mod single-handedly. He dropped the humor storyline for something more moderate. A serious story of a cat trapped within Black Mesa, but including comedic moments and allowing the story to grow organically.
Recruitment began anew. And suddenly screenshots appeared. A video. Real progress.
Almost five years after this mod formed in the minds of forum regulars, we may finally see the cat clawing its way to freedom one headcrab at a time. The recent press release seeking new Team Cat-Life recruits has had a pleasant degree of success. BiGToM indicated that he has received several emails from people that wish to join.
Unfortunately, Cat-Life's greatest shortfall is the want of a coder. We've had several... but none have lasted very long. Most recently, Cat-Life secured a coder for some of the more basic "inner code". But the team still needs a coder for the major components... adjusted field of view, debugging, player sprinting, attack damages (from claws, bites, etc), and dark vision (similar to night vision).
If you can help, don't hesitate to contact BiGToM at sayrken@hotmail.com He most recently announced that he will pay $15 to $20 (US) and a donation button is set up on the site homepage to help increase that dollar amount.
The mod, after five years of development is 75% done. Hopefully, we can find a little help to wrap this project up. BiGToM also plans to release the source files after release so other members of the community can convert it to Source, make a deathmatch mod, and other such 3rd party projects.