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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Kazan on October 31, 2006, 08:36:01 am

Title: Look what i found
Post by: Kazan on October 31, 2006, 08:36:01 am
going through all my old CDs, and what should i find a backup of - unholy alliance! 

http://alliance.sourceforge.net/files/UA/

Remember folks.. this was canceled and the pre-alpha version was released... someday... maybe... i'll clean it up

i just turned in my readmission forms for college so hopefully just two months

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Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 31, 2006, 09:25:51 am
That takes me back...........Hearing it mentioned i mean.

Nice one fella :yes:

BTW- sig made me snort booger+laugh at work so thanks a lot for  that :lol:
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: aldo_14 on November 02, 2006, 09:00:31 am
going through all my old CDs, and what should i find a backup of - unholy alliance! 

http://ferrium.org/misc/ua.zip

Remember folks.. this was canceled and the pre-alpha version was released... someday... maybe... i'll clean it up

i just turned in my readmission forms for college so hopefully just two months

Readmission?  Doing a postgrad?
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Kazan on November 02, 2006, 09:30:36 am
Readmission?  Doing a postgrad?

no.. i got booted for being lazy before.. i thought everyone knew
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: CP5670 on November 02, 2006, 04:13:00 pm
I still have some of the first missions I made, back in late '99 when I had my plans for a super 200 mission campaign with dynamic branching, like all of us have had at some point. :D

I need to try loading them up some time. They should be fun to play just because of how much they suck compared to my recent stuff. The gameplay is actually not bad but the story and text are downright embarrasing. :D At least I was only 13 when I made them.
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Dan1 on November 02, 2006, 04:16:56 pm
Looks like something to try.  Neat thanks for posting this.
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Dark Hunter on November 02, 2006, 04:18:14 pm
I still have some of the first missions I made, back in late '99 when I had my plans for a super 200 mission campaign with dynamic branching, like all of us have had at some point. :D

I need to try loading them up some time. They should be fun to play just because of how much they suck compared to my recent stuff. The gameplay is actually not bad but the story and text are downright embarrasing. :D At least I was only 13 when I made them.

Really... that's the opposite of the missions I make. My storywriting skills are very good... but I have found that I suck at making decent gameplay challenges...

Enlighten one who was not part of the FS community at that point: what was Unholy Alliance?
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Kazan on November 03, 2006, 12:25:33 pm
what was Unholy Alliance?

it was my huge ambitious campaign+mod project which caused me to write my modding tools to start with

i just noticed this doesn't have the mission files...
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Cobra on November 03, 2006, 01:38:39 pm
UA was good in my opinion. The Shivan allies bit was a nice touch. (So was the gravity bomb. :D)
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Kazan on November 03, 2006, 01:42:28 pm
i just found where i had a complete copy hiding

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Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: KappaWing on November 08, 2006, 09:23:24 pm
Whoever did the "dramatic reading" made me crack up! :lol:

lol I'd go with micro$oft sam in the future
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: asyikarea51 on November 09, 2006, 03:08:58 am
UA was good in my opinion. The Shivan allies bit was a nice touch. (So was the gravity bomb. :D)

Seems like one's never alone when coming up with ideas that pretty much twist FS upside down... And with the name from an RA2YR multiplayer gametype to boot... :lol:
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Kazan on November 09, 2006, 08:29:58 am
the "shivans as allies" idea was originally mine.. oft immitated
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: aldo_14 on November 09, 2006, 08:40:16 am
the "shivans as allies" idea was originally mine.. oft immitated

Are you sure it wasn't Volitions, what with the whole Bosch thing?
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 11, 2006, 06:14:22 pm
the "shivans as allies" idea was originally mine.. oft immitated

Or maybe it's such a broad topic that somebody could have thought it up without even having heard of UA?  It happens; I had planned to do a campaign about a cruiser and some fighters getting lost in some unexplored systems, long before BR had ever posted on HLP.
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Goober5000 on November 14, 2006, 09:10:31 pm
the "shivans as allies" idea was originally mine.. oft immitated

Or maybe it's such a broad topic that somebody could have thought it up without even having heard of UA?

Indeed.  For example, Peter Drake, in one of the first user-created missions for FS1. :)
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Mad Bomber on November 15, 2006, 10:04:48 pm
I got FS2 in October of 2000 and played that campaign in 2001, I believe. I was actually hoping that there would be new Shivan ships in it, but that was before Shivan mods ever existed. When Inferno was released, I think that is when the first Shivan models came into existence.

Actually, Dark's SF Gorgon and SI Nirvana predate Inferno significantly. IIRC the Gorgon existed in '99 but wasn't widely available. The Gorgon is now seen in a couple of campaign mods as well as the FS Port. AFAIK the Nirvana has long since disappeared (but is similar in design to the SI Arachnas, which was in ITDOH).
Title: Re: Look what i found
Post by: Snail on November 20, 2006, 03:00:41 pm
Are there any more pics of the Nirvana? I really like that installation...