Dave Prout

LAUNCHING TONIGHT!

Halo Anniversary is the 10 year remake of the original Halo: Combat Evolved.  Microsoft's 343 Industries worked with us (Certain Affinity) for the Multiplayer and Saber Interactive for the Single Player campaign.

Here are a bunch of goodies, all in one place.

FUN FACTS:

• There are easter eggs in the MP maps - look for them!
• Certain Affinity used the Halo:Reach engine to create the Multiplayer experience
• This is our third launch for 2011.  Crimson Alliance launched in September on XBLA, and it's doing very well.  Halo: Reach: Defiant launched in the spring to a great reception as well.

REVIEWS

• Destructoid [9.0] - http://bit.ly/sGeTq6
• IGN [8.0] - http://bit.ly/vPDc5r
• Edge [9.0] - http://bit.ly/sT4n2p

VIDEOS

(Below videos were captured prior to the "finishing" pass on each of the maps)

Multiplayer ViDoc (Certain Affinity)

"High Noon" (remake of "Hang 'em High")

"Battle Creek" (remake of "Beaver Creek")

"Pennance" (remake of "Damnation")

"Solitary" (remake of "Prisoner")

"Breakneck" (remake of "Headlong")

"Ridgeline" (remake of "Timberland")

"Installation 04" (Firefight version of "Reunion Tour" from the original Campaign)

As always, development is an exciting road, and this game was no exception.  Check it out, and post back here with your thoughts if you like!

The curtain has finally been lifted on the project my team at Certain Affinity has been working hard on for the past year.  I had the fortune of working as a Tech Art Lead for this project, and it's been a blast!

Full Article here:

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/14/halo-reach-defiant-map-pack/

Enjoy!

I mentioned a week or so ago that I've been working on a new UDK training session through Eat3D.  It's now headed into production - be sure to check it out!

UDK Lighting and Post Processing - Eat3D

Been head-down for a couple of weeks; I've been earnestly working on some material for eat3D, so I've been preoccupied.  So I thought I'd poke my head up for a simple trick.

From time to time, I have a ton of bitmap files I need to adjust in some way (anyone remember Debabelizer?).  Photoshop has a feature to run an action on all of the images in a given folder.  

Here's how to do it:

 One of those that is occasionally used and often forgotten.  Enjoy!