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| 2d Halo Platformer = hot jesus! | |
| Posted By: _ib <preferring@nottobespammed.com> | Date: 3/28/04 2:47 p.m. |
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News'd over at BGH. "Today, Chanasawa made a post on our forum about a new project he is working on called Halo: Blood Covenant. The screenshots look great, but sadly the site is only in Italian, but you can also translate it with Babelfish or another translating software. Can't wait to get more info." http://www.consoletroopers.com/public/hbc/hbc_frameset.htm The site's Italian, but an English translation is supposed to be up soon. (In the meantime, use Google Language Tools or Babelfish.) When I heard about this, I pictured the typical 2d "fan-game", badly done graphics and all. But this... jesus. This honestly looks more professional than any other 2d game, freeware or not, I've ever seen. From the slightly understandable babelfish translation, I read that it's being done in Flash MX (the graphics done in Photoshop by a Canadian guy that's doing the English translation). It's all 100% pixel-pushing, no renders. The feature list boasts wide areas of movement with scrolling, dynamic lighting (for stealth?) vehicles and enemy AI similar to that of the game. One thing that Babelfish didn't garble was the release date: "Availability:
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| 2d Halo Platformer = hot jesus! | _ib | 3/28/04 2:47 p.m. |
| Holy fark, that's awesome! :O *NM* | BOLL | 3/28/04 3:16 p.m. |
| Re: 2d Halo Platformer = hot jesus! | Ecko | 3/28/04 5:37 p.m. |
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