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  Games
 Below is a list of the video games, game modifications, and random content I have made over the years. There is also a list of articles from the internet and in magazines about them. If you are interested in questioning or hiring me for work, please feel free through my forum. Registering is fast, easy and free. Afterwards you can send me a private message or post a topic.

  GAMES
  NAME: Classified
  WEBSITE LINK: Classified
  YEAR RELEASED: Coming Soon!
  POSITION: Short term artist. Work Finished.
  WORK DONE: Three weapon models with high res textures.


  GAME MODIFICATIONS
  NAME: The Ruiner
  WEBSITE LINK: Theruiner.com
  YEAR RELEASED:
Q2 2008
  POSITION: Project lead, artist & game concept
  WORK DONE: Web site design, overall concept, light SDK work in c++, gui artist, gui scripting, particle effects, weapon scripting, low poly modeling, mesh editing, new player animations, weapon animations, texture artist (diffuse, specular, bump   and normal maps).
  NAME: HardQore: A Total Contrafication for Quake 4
  WEBSITE LINK: Quake 4 HardQore
  YEAR RELEASED:
Final Release 2007
  POSITION: Project lead & artist
  WORK DONE: Web site design, game concept, particle effects, low poly modeling, mesh editing, texture artist (diffuse, specular, bump and normal maps).
  NAME: Quake: Nails of Chthon
  WEBSITE LINK: Quake: NOC Official Site
  YEAR RELEASED: Possibly 2008
  POSITION: Short term Artist
  WORK DONE: Gui artist, & gui scripting for main menu, & Hud. Work was done in 2007. The first build of the game which does not include work I did is available on the Quake NOC web site.
  NAME: Quake 2: Lost Marine Doom 3 Modification
  WEBSITE LINK: Mean Arena Q2 LM Site
  YEAR RELEASED:
2005
  POSITION: Short term weapon modeler
  WORK DONE: Weapon modeling & textures (diffuse, specular, bump & normal maps). Weapons created; shotgun, Super shotgun, machine gun, chain gun.
  NAME: Doom 3 Last Man Standing Co-Op
  WEBSITE LINK: lms.d3files.com
  YEAR RELEASED: Final Build released in 2008
  POSITION: Short term weapon modeler
  WORK DONE: Weapon modeling & textures (diffuse, specular, bump & normal maps). Weapons created; double barrel shotgun & Wrench. Work was done back in 2005.
  NAME: Castlevania Blood Moon
  GAME LINK: Download the Game here.
  YEAR RELEASED: 2005
  POSITION: Sprite artist
  WORK DONE: Simon Belmont, zombie , Grim Reaper & Frankenstein sprites. Game can be played using a NES Emulator. It is a Castlevania game modification which changes all the levels, new sprites and much more.


  RANDOM GAME CONTENT
  NAME: Machine Gun model
  GAME: Z-Hunter Doom 3 modification
  WEBSITE LINK: Z-Hunter Official Site
  YEAR RELEASED: 2008

  WORK DONE: Model & textures for a machine gun weapon model used by the player ingame. Model was done in 3ds Max 8. Textures were done in Adobe Photoshop CS2. Model uses Diffuse, Specular, bump and normal maps. Vertices: 1760. Triangles: 1418.
  NAME: Maledict Animation editing
  GAME: Fragging Free Doom 3 Modification
  WEBSITE LINK: Fragging Free Website
  YEAR RELEASED: 2007-2008

  WORK DONE: Animation editing & tweaking for a demonic dragon monster called "Maledict." Corrections were done to make the monster more usable and mapper friendly during game creation.
  NAME: Demon Expansion pack
  GAME: Doom 3
  WEBSITE LINK: D3files download link
  YEAR RELEASED: 2006

  WORK DONE: Model & texture editing. Light scripting, Declaration files, particle effects, sound editing. Content pak adds more enemies to fight in Doom 3 & for use in Doom 3 mods. Monsters include; Baron of Hell, Pain Elemental, Dead Soul, Imp Lord, and nightmare imp.
  NAME: Evil Dead content pack
  GAME: Neverwinter Nights
  WEBSITE LINK: NwVault Download Link
  YEAR RELEASED:
2004
  WORK DONE: Low poly modeling, texture artist, Model & texture editing. particle effects, sound editing. Content pak includes props, weapons, and character models to create content based on the Evil Dead movies.
  NAME: Castlevania content pack
  GAME: Neverwinter Nights
  WEBSITE LINK: NwVault Download Link
  YEAR RELEASED:
2004
  WORK DONE: Low poly modeling, texture artist, Model & texture editing. particle effects, sound editing. Content pak includes props, weapons, and character models to create content based on the Castlevania video Game series.
  NAME: New Weapon models
  GAME: Half-Life & Team Fortress Classic
  WEBSITE LINK: None
  YEAR RELEASED: 2000-2002.

  WORK DONE: Low poly modeling & texture creation. Weapons made include a chain gun, rocket launcher, and shotgun for an released Doom modification. Weapons made for Team Fortress Classic include a rocket launcher, and many others not shown. The weapons are no longer available for download.


  NEWS CLIPPINGS
  TYPE OF NEWS: Article
  MAGAZINE: PC Games (Germany)
  DATE PUBLISHED: 01.2007
  DESCRIPTION OF NEWS: Quake 4 Hardqore was featured in PC GAMES magazine. They also included both the beta and final build of HQ in their free DVD inserts.
  SITE NAME: MOD DATABASE
  URL: moddb.com
  DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLE: The Mod DB did an interview with my team and myself about Quake 4: HardQore just before our first beta release.
  SITE NAME: MOD DATABASE
  URL: moddb.com
  DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLE: The Mod DB did an excellent review on Hardqore. They covered the pros and cons of the mod and the overall feel of it.
  TYPE OF NEWS: Article
  MAGAZINE: PC Games (Germany)
  DATE PUBLISHED: 02.2008
  DESCRIPTION OF NEWS: The Ruiner was featured in PC GAMES magazine. They did a great full page feature on the mod.
  TYPE OF NEWS: Article
  MAGAZINE: PC Zone (Britain)
  DATE PUBLISHED: 2005
  DESCRIPTION OF NEWS: Quake 2: Lost Marine Doom 3 modification was featured in PC Zone magazine. They did half a page article. Two of the weapons I made for the game can be seen in the screen shots.
  TYPE OF NEWS: Article
  MAGAZINE: PC Zone (Britain)
  DATE PUBLISHED: 2005
  DESCRIPTION OF NEWS: Quake 2: Lost Marine Doom 3 modification was featured in PC Zone magazine. They did a full page article. Two of the weapons I made for the game can be seen in the screen shots. They also included the mod their free DVD insert.
  SITE NAME: Planet Quake & Planet Doom
  URL: PlanetDoom.com PlanetQuake.com
  DESCRIPTION OF NEWS:
Both of these site have featured HardQore, and Ruiner as pics of the day multiple times. This was always a great and generous thing to do for us because it gave us an extra boost in our web site traffic. Planet Quake also host the Hardqore web site. When ever news is made public about the games, they also posted it as well.

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