Pardon the intrusion here.
I am Quirel, project lead over at Recursion Studios. We are currently starting up our first project, which will be a new multiplayer experience for Halo. To tell the truth, it's going to be a full conversion for Company of Heroes.
OK, I'll admit, it feels kinda sleazy going onto a forum dedicated to Halo:CE and Halo 2 Vista to hire for a non-FPS mod. But, hey, I was wondering what the community would think.

At the moment, what we need are modelers and texturers. Being a coder myself, I can't vouch for how different this job will be from what you already know, but the poly counts for Company of Heroes are themselves are pretty high.

Anyway, if anybody is interested, give me a call. If recruiting for another game engine isn't koscher... well, my apologies in advance.

Contact me at I_am_quirel@hotmail.com .
Edited by Quirel on Aug 23, 2011 at 05:41 PM

Is this a studio or a modding team? If it's a studio what's the pay and where are you guys located?

I am a bit confused

So far, sounds like the goal is halo..

Suddenly, "different from what we know".. if its halo, it will be the same.. And then the poly count shouldn't matter since your asking for modelers instead of rippers.. So, your post completely ditched the halo idea?..

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He's making a Halo game off CoH it looks like, so the Yaz's post would be irrelevant due to the fact that it would be illegal to sell.

Which Halo mod are you working on? Or have you not posted a topic on Relic News?

Har har.
It's a mod team, but "Recursion Studios" sounds a hell of a lot better than "Recursion Mod Team".


No.
In my opinion, modding a Real Time Strategy game so that the factions from Halo are in it would be a 'New multiplayer experience for Halo', particularly since the focus is on multiplayer and skirmish, not a campaign.

As for this project being different from what you already do, I've known some modelers who can't possibly design a gun with less than 5,000 polies, and I've known a few who prefer to stay low poly and leave it at that. I had assumed that people who modeled for an FPS might have to adjust when modeling for an RTS.


Our working title is "The TTP Project."
You frequent the Relic News forums much?

Halo Wars.

You will note that I said "Real Time Strategy", not "Rush, Tech, Spam."

Hmmm recruiting *reads join date*... *sigh*

If you want to get some respect around here in this crappy community (yes Im part of the crap) then you need to show some previous work and prove yourself first.

Also Halo Wars was a good game, everyone just says it sucked because its not a rush gernade spamming fps. As a console RTS it's one of the best.
Edited by MatthewDratt on Aug 23, 2011 at 09:19 PM

It's relatively easy to set the standard when there are few games in your class.

I still enjoy Halo Wars. I would say something else but I'd get to much hate for it.
And even if he isn't around here. He still needs to show work. Most people don't pick up anyone good just saying 'come do work for me'.

Umm, I think that making halo mods for other RTS games was forbidded. I've seen this attempted in Dawn of War but it said that there were come copyright stuff so it was cancelled. I think it's because you're replicating halo wars in a way, I dunno. just what I saw before.

Ahh, I see. So, we can begin making Halo mods for other engines RTS engines now right?

Yes. Going through some of the threads here, I got the feeling this was that kind of forum.
No problems. That's what me and a bunch of other guys turned the Halo Wars Forums into, back in the day.

I've asked one of our modelers, Cyrusepion, to get screenies of the Warthog and the Marine he's been working on. Aside from that, all I have to offer is concept art done by Ringleader from Halo: Starside Intercept.


Quite wrong.
It came out in 2009. Visually, the graphics were on par with WarCraft III. Storywise, the campaign would have been a hit on Fanfiction.net, but nothing spectacular. As far as gameplay goes, it had the tactical depth of the typical Tower Defense flash game.

Yes, it was one of the better console RTSs. Unfortunately, since console RTSs are almost universally butchered shadows of what an RTS should be, that's not saying much.

At least it was addicting. Again, like a flash game.

That's one of the reasons I came through here. I figured that, with a community this old and still this active, there had to be a lot of experience around here.
Also, I had a friend who used to hang out here. Guy named L0d3x, quiet kind of person, think he was working on Lumoria last I heard.


*Cracks knuckles*
Well, we've got a Marine, and the Warthog and Scorpion are WIP. It's not a lot, because this is a pretty new mod.
I can assure you, though, we've got some talent and we are ready to go the distance. One of our modelers is the guy behind Halo: Starside Intercept.


Halogen.
There was another one, a DoW mod called "Retreat & Retaliation". Essentially, all they had were ripped models. Nothing impressive.


Heh. If you like the simpler Tower Defense games, you'll like Halo Wars.


That's about the long and the short of it.


More or less.


To my knowledge, there's currently two serious attempts at a ground-based RTS, using the Command & Conquer engine and the Star Wars: Forces of Corruption mod engine. Neither has been given a C&D letter.

Though, every time I bring this up, somebody asks about Halogen. It really impacted the community.
Edited by Quirel on Aug 25, 2011 at 12:37 AM

you might want to fix your link there reguarding Halo: Starside Intercept.

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http://www.moddb.com/mods/halo-starside-intercept
Edited by ally on Aug 25, 2011 at 12:04 AM

Gah.
Thanks for the correction.