Archive for August, 2009
PCTales Minor Update…
Aug 30th
Because some of you told him The Bard/Rogue mission (3) in PCTales was a little too difficult, Benton has gotten around to making it easier. In accordance with this change, the mod has been re-uploaded for future players; however, if you don’t want to re-download the whole thing again, you can just grab the fix from here. Enjoy!
Keep in mind, if you downloaded the mod and played it, give us some feedback either here on the blog or at the forums. We’d also love to hear your ideas if you’re interested in seeing this project continue!
Update: The small fix is no longer available to players that downloaded the initial mod before August 30th.
Patriot City Tales
Aug 23rd
So, just to give a little backdrop on this idea, a year or so ago (around the time I was finishing up my Exiles mod or beginning Ultimate Trio), I figured that maybe I should show a little love for the Freedom Force gang and expand their adventures a little more. Initially, it was just going to be me setting up a bunch of stories and hoping others would expand on the idea later. Unfortunately (or fortunately), it didn’t pan out that way because I hit an intense burnout, which still lasts to this day.
Around the time I released Ultimate Trio for the first time, I noted that I had written a mission outline or two in my online mod folder and shared it with a few people. I didn’t have any immediate plans to get started, but talking with Benton obviously pushed the idea up a few days… weeks… months… years. Let’s just say his enthusiasm helped to get the project off the ground despite my burnout status and my now intense hatred of python coding. And within a week’s time, I think I had the first mission up and ready along with a nearly completed mod folder.
Finished with my initial part, I sent everything but the bathroom sink off to Benton so that he could test and add whatever he needed to it. After getting back some playtesting reports, I did my minor fixes, changed some code and lines of dialogue, and I was done. A month or two later, Benton finished and sent off his two missions and Episode 1 was complete, minus some minor setbacks that GogglesPizanno helped to solve.
Now, with the brief history of this project out of the way, FRP2 presents… Patriot City Tales: Episode 1! With work from Benton and myself, and other members of the community, episode 1 picks up in the middle of Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. The Third reich (a midquel, if you will) with the team inactive. When El Diablo notices trouble brewing in the city, he’s determined to get the team back together, especially when he’s suspicious of one of their own. However, he’s not the only one with that idea when Man O’ War, Sea Urchin, and The Bard find villains up to no good in different parts of the city.
So, what are you waiting for? Go download and play PCTales today!
Rumor Has it…
Aug 22nd
Well, rumor has it that a new mod (mini as of now) — a collaboration of sorts — is just over the horizon and is set to be released sometime this or next week. A birdy told me that it just might be released in periodic episodes, granted there’s enough interest to maintain the project, and it involves some characters that every player in the Freedom Force community should know. Sounds interesting, no? Well, we’ll see what comes of that… On the Horizon.
Google Notebook Firefox Extension
Aug 19th
I don’t know how many of you use it, or even know about it for that matter, but I find it a very useful tool for taking quick bookmarks and making notes while mindlessly surfing the net. I tend to get bombarded with ideas and info while idly surfing, so this tool is useful to have around because I’m way too lazy to pull up word, notepad, or to grab a piece of paper when inspiration hits. I just want to click a button, type down my disjointed thoughts, and save it for later when I can think more clearly. Well, I recently found out that Google no longer supports Google Notebook for some unknown–to me–reason, and I just happened to update Firefox yesterday, which broke my plugin/add-on. Luckily, I found out about this site: Clicky and got my tool back in action. Yay for small miracles that continue to allow me to be a bit more lazier throughout my day. So, if you were using Google Notebook before they shut it down to new users and want your firefox add-on to work again, well, now you know how to go about doing it.