RyokoTK wrote:Close to 12 years old to the day, and there's still thoughtful replies to the OP.

I don't want Marathon to die, ever.

Subscribed. The world needs more Marathon content.

In my own experience writing a raycaster, SDL is a better fit. You will be fighting the conveniences of SFML all the way. In the end I ended up using rays to determine what to render and using OpenGL planes for the actual rendering. But yeah, the lower level of SDL over SFML will suit you better is ...

Seeing this thread made my day. I'm very excited about this. I know I shouldn't but I'm going to download a preview this right now. I wish I could help (I'm a programmer), but I barely get time to eat as it is and trying to help would probably end up badly for everyone involved. EDIT: Looking very n...

General-RADIX wrote:a point-n-click/visual novel in the vein of The X-Files Game

Sign me up for that.

RyokoTK wrote:

PerseusSpartacus wrote: Also, you do realize that you're just asking for W'rk, irons and RyokoTK to turn on you, right?

I wrote and stickied this thread literally over a decade ago, I don't really feel that strongly about the point anymore.

So, canon confirmed?

I don't care what anyone says (not even the author). Eternal will always be canon to me, unless Bungie come out with a new installment and totally blow it out of the park. It's just too good, it ties so much stuff together... And I love the way it shows (rather than tell) more of what goes on with t...

So, just to get this thread back on track again. Is Marathon 4 coming or not? I think it's safe to say so many years after the whole contract thing, that if the game was ever being made, it got swallowed up by development hell. Besides, Destiny 2 is coming. Got to love that jingoist propaganda that ...

I just want more Marathon. Give more Marathon!

Holy shit, thanks.
Is this translated in-game? I would love to play some more Marathon story scenarios, in 2017 no less.

Is there an ebook version or scanned copy of that?

I've noticed this with a lot of old games (Starcraft, Deus Ex, Marathon, Duke Nukem 3D) and TV films. Perhaps back then there wasn't as much demand for stock audio as nowadays.

I had plans once, back when I made plans, to have an Eternal prequel of sorts with this as the setting, wherein you would play as either Hathor (who was one of the nine Battleroids on the Tau Ceti colony), or as Marcus (the player-character of the main trilogy, and Eternal) in an alternate timeline...

Thank you for your answers. This is that kind of thing you pick up along the way more than you learn about from a tutorial, so I'm glad I got your insight.

Hi there. There are plenty of tutorials and advice about map creation, texturing, lighting and such. But how does one, nay, how do you go about creating a scenario? - What comes first to you, a story or a set of map ideas? - How do you embed the story in the level's terminal? - How do you come up wi...

Here's a direct link that works http://www.rising-studios.com/Marathon/fileball/Fileball%20Archive/marathon/infinity/scenarios/Keep_the_Home_Fires_Burning.hqx That worked. Thank you! Like most scenario ideas this idea requires better technology. The main part of any Tau Ceti game would have to be t...

Whenever I try to save a level textures using the console command ".save level namehere", I get an error saying "An error occurred while saving the level" (or something similar). I can work around it by using a different file name. I have made sure to close Weland before opening ...

Mmhh, the download times out on me.

Overall I don't think it's bad. The lighting is a bit flat, and I don't think the use of multiple texture sets is justified.
Try more variation between floor and walls and between different rooms, interior/exterior, etc.

You actually made me smile. Of course I've thought about it, but there's no way I could pull that off. I've never released a map and I won't delude myself into thinking the first one could be something as ambitious as that. Someone with the proper skill set should give it a go. I think there is a lo...

dustu I'm very happy to hear you plan on making a tutorial of sorts. I've always failed to understand how terminals work. I'll be looking forward to it!

EDIT: I subscribed to your Youtube channel.

I have been wondering why there are no scenarios that tell the events that occurred on the Tau Ceti colony. Perhaps having the player as one of the other cyborgs. My conclusion is that someone must have thought about this and made one, I just can't find it.

Can you point me to it please?

Damage was one of my favourite games when I was a child. I haven't played since, but I remember the squad management being the ultimate form of AI in computer games... I won't play it again since I don't want to spoil those good memories. Also it contained a wolf howl sample that I have heard *every...

Part of a minority.

I don't know if I would've sold it though.

I really want to like it, but Destiny feels so cheap and gimmicky to me... I just watched the gameplay reveal and it made things worse.

I know I'm out of topic, I'll shut up now.