Calrea mod

[Zeikko]

We have started to create a new mod called Calrea. We're going to make a whole new world including: world map, units, nations, pretenders, maybe spells and magical items. Calrea is an interesting world separated into 4 sections. It has both evil and good nations and also some that are somewhere inbetween.

We're trying to offer new things in one mod, so you don't have to mix pretender, unit, nation mods etc. We're also trying to make a logical world with a realistic history and tales assosiated to it. Our goal is to balance the game and give some more gaming hours to the players.

We started this project one week ago and now we have done one complete nation. And lots of designing etc. Our website is on its way, but I think it'll be ready soon.

Our team contains 3 Finnish designers and 2 Finnish modelers, but being honest we need more team members. I think there's room for designers, modelers, writers and mappers. Yes, we are Finnish, but our working language is English, thus I don't think the language is going to be a problem.

There's no coding skills required, or such. you just have to speak English and be active in IRC. We discuss things via IRC and store files on an FTP server.

If you think you could help/join us contact: [email protected] and join #calrea @ quakenet

There's still room for new ideas...

[ May 14, 2004, 06:51: Message edited by: Zeikko ]

[Wauthan]

It's always good to see a team effort in modmaking. I'm sure you can get all the brainstorming you want, and more, by just posting questions and problems in here. I know I would be glad to lend a hand that's fer sure.

While I don't have the free time to offer any really dedicated assistance I could wrap up all the unit sprites, from graphics I found on the net, and send them over if you want them. They're mostly from Doom, Heretic and Hexen so they might be of limited use for you though.

[PhilD]

Not trying to cool down your enthusiasm, but at the moment I don't think you can mod items.

Otherwise - this looks like a mighty big project. Good luck!

[Zeikko]

Yea, there's no way to mod items, but i think items are quite good now and they need no modding. We're waiting for a new patch and new modding tools, i hope items will come sooner or later. The only thing we want to mod on items is to add few of our own weapons and armor i think.

[Zeikko]

Please give us some ideas about new nations, pretenders, spells etc. we could use in our mod. It's not that we are running out of ideas, we just wanted to know what players would like to see in this huge mod.

Alpha Version is soon ready including 2 complete nations and 2 uncomplete demo nations. I think we will publish open beta when we have 10 nations ready or something.

[ March 21, 2004, 11:20: Message edited by: Zeikko ]

[Kristoffer O]

Just curious. Is Calrea an old RPG-world of yours or an entirely new one.

Looking forward to this mod!

[Zeikko]

It's not RPG world but i am roleplayer and i have made few RPG worlds so it'll be like a RPG world.

Thanks to your support.

[ March 20, 2004, 06:41: Message edited by: Zeikko ]

[Wauthan]

This is just stuff that I modded into the game myself so perhaps other feel that it's "missing" as well.

An additional nonundead amphibian pretender available for all nations.

A nonundead immortal combat pretender.

A "bless effect" pretender available for each path of magic. To put it in other words I created a cheap 3 picks pretender for each magic path.

Dragons and werewolf pretenders that don't change shape.

An altered water nation would be appreciated.

[Zeikko]

The alpha is ready now. We had few testgames and everything went ok. We are now working with new nations.

We got some nice feedback for the alpha. Thanks for testers.

[Zeikko]

Here are some screenshots on alpha 1.00 web page

Alpha 1.01a is now released and alpha testers can now download it. It has lots of bugfixes and etc.