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Forging ahead…
I’d like to begin by offering an apology of sorts to the Warsow team for being a bit incendiary in my critique of their recent release. I’ve played it quite a bit now, and feel that my assertion that...
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The hypocritical critic…
Over the years an interesting thing I have noticed about Alien Arena is that our fanbase has been accused of being this rabid, foaming at the mouth bunch of lunatics who will shout down anyone who...
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Random thoughts…
The next release of Alien Arena(7.51) is right around the corner. The big news for this release is the dramatic increases in performance due to some major optimizations. The numbers are simply...
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POSSCON 2011
POSSCON 2011 ended on friday, March 25th, and it was one of those experiences that I wish didn’t have to end. This was amazing from the start, and while the attendance seemed to drop on the third day...
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More random thoughts…
Quake Expo ended not long ago, and it left me pondering quite a few things. One thing for certain is, that the Quake community, while still alive to a degree, is certainly far less active than it was...
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Alien Arena – Past, Present, and Future
It’s hard to believe that Alien Arena has been in development for eight years now. The initial work began way back in December of 2003, as an offshoot of the CodeRED series of games that COR had...
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Alien Arena – Reloaded and Ready to Rumble in 2012
In 2008, Alien Arena received a major facelift that forever changed the look, as well as the tone of the game. Gone were the completely campy characters(many of which were poorly constructed for...
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Fast paced FPS genre dead? Not so fast!
The word is on the street is that the fast paced arena shooter genre is dead. It’s difficult to argue with the pundits when you look at the empty Quake 4 and Unreal Tournament III servers, the sagging...
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Hold on to your blasters…the Martians are landing!
Over the years of working on Alien Arena, some releases really got me excited. 3.0 in 2004 with the inclusion of Capture the Flag. 4.01 in 2005 with the Linux port. 5.0 in 2005(Alien Arena 2006)....
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The Great Renderer Rewrite, If you Can’t Beat ‘em, Join ‘em, and the return...
Sometimes when it comes to engine coding, it pays off to revisit some things that you previously tried(unsuccessfully). Other times it pays off to throw the old code away, and start from scratch. It...
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Can the arena FPS genre make a comeback?
The year was 2000. Y2K. The Pentium III processor ushered in a new wave of high powered PC’s, and a new generation of graphic adapters provided the horsepower for 3d FPS games to run fast and smooth....
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Busy Bees…
I have obviously not been updating this blog very much over the past two years, but rest assured, I have been working so heavily on the Alien Arena reboot(Generation 3) that I’ve just had very little...
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Warriors of Mars…
I finally have come up with a working title for the new Alien Arena game. After years of using the year of release, then “such and such” “edition”, I’ve settled on Generation 3’s title to be “Alien...
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Arena FPS games making a comeback?
Some time back, I posted about the decline of the Arena FPS genre, wondering if it had a future, and if it could ever see a revival. A lot has changed since then, some things have not(the more things...
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Powerups!
As you track down your foe, racing behind him towards a bobbing alien artifact, suddenly, as he beats you to the spot, a bright green light erupts and everything changes! A wild looking mechanical...
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Evolution.
It’s been 13 years since Alien Arena debuted as a demo in August of 2004. Since then, the game has twice received extensive artistic and content overhauls, dividing the timeline into 3 distinct...
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New Tech – The Wasteland
While many of Alien Arena’s new arenas are revamped concepts that were deemed to be the “keepers” or the “best of the best”, the new technology that we developed afforded some opportunities to make...
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I believe…we will find our niche.
As I write this, Alien Arena: Warriors Of Mars is drawing near completion. Three months ago, began perhaps the most intensive personal investment I have ever made in this game. I have spent tireless...
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It’s Beta Time – Stating Our Case
Finally, four years after beginning this massive project, Alien Arena: Warriors Of Mars has reached Beta stage! We will be releasing it via our website very shortly, and are requesting as much...
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The Martians have landed!
Four years ago we began the monumental task of rebuilding a game from the ground up that had taken twice that long to reach the level it had. This Friday, November 3rd, at long last, after seemingly...
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