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Beyond Black Mesa Released

Fuzzy — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:38:55 +0000

Following from the rather excellent teaser trailer from a few months back, prepare yourself for the full release of Beyond Black Mesa. BBM is a short Independent fan film Inspired by the Half-Life Video Game series centering around Adrian Shephard and a band of resistance fighters struggling to get out a warning about the impending invasion.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOrH5tfWorg

Independent short film -- 2 years in the making -- Endless hours of post
1 Canon HV20
7 Friends
$1,200 budget for the full short film.

This film is not HL,HL2 or Opposing Forces. It’s a short fan film that takes place in the Half-Life world. Also, as a completely independent film, we wanted to have a creative voice in the movie and make it a movie that we would enjoy shooting. We took artistic freedoms and liberties, unfortunately most of those decisions were determined by our limited resources.

Check out: BeyondBlackMesa.com

New Black Mesa Media

AzzX — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:36:23 +0000

Not content with having an exclusive PC Powerplay preview with a recent build of the mod, Project leader Cman2k has begun updated the Black Mesa wiki with a heap of new media and content.

The anticipation for this mod is approaching boiling point. Here is a selection of the new media to wet our appetites.

Black Mesa won’t be released in 2009

AzzX — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:09:44 +0000

A little bit of dissapointing news from Black Mesa project leader cman2k. I can’t blame the team for pushing back the most anticipated mods of all time, they are following in Valves footsteps after all.

Hello Black Mesa fans!

We come to you once again with an update. It’s now the end of 2009, and we know many of you have literally counted the days down until this fateful month. We are floored by the level of support you have given us and are very excited we’re so close to reaching our goal.

Unfortunately, to our great disappointment, Black Mesa will not make a 2009 release.

Cynics may now rejoice, bets may be collected, and I think a mod team member has to eat his shoe, but we hope our loyal fans will forgive us and realize that the delay will translate into a better final product that’s (hopefully) more easily available to everyone.

Once again we apologize for what has to be very disappointing news. We placed a 2009 deadline on ourselves to motivate us and bring this 6 year project to a close. And while we didn’t quite make it, we have come very close, and you can expect a complete, polished game to hit your hard drives in the near future. We’ll be sure and update if anything changes. Until then, hang tight, it’s coming!

Black Mesa Gluon development

AzzX — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:35:33 +0000

The infamous Gluon gets the Black Mesa treatment in an impressive display of development at different stages of progress. Will Black Mesa make a 2009 release? It appears the mod could already be in the hands of Valve so a release around Christmas would be a great present for all fans to enjoy.

The Black Mesa Wiki has also been released.

Gluon development

The Gluon was a tough weapon to get right, and has gone through many iterations.
Shown here are most of them from beginning to end, except for the final version,
Disclaimer: This is still a work in progress, not final.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXmXzLfdZ0

Happy 11th birthday Half Life!

AzzX — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:08:15 +0000

The game that redefined the FPS genre and generated a massive legion of dedicated fans turned 11 today. Let’s hope Gordon Freeman does not arrive late for the party at the Black Mesa Research Facility.

Some statistics:

Regarded as one of the greatest games of all time.
The Half Life universe has sold well over 20 million units.
Half Life 1 sold 9.3 million copies as of 2008
A collated average score of 96% on review collection website Metacritic
Half Life won over 50 PC Game of the Year awards.

New Black Mesa Dev Vids

Fuzzy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:17:22 +0000

Black Mesa have gone Twitting and added some new dev videos to its Youtube Channel.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn6Tky7nK3A

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-JyLNBw_E

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgtyBqnR2uc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCo_8023H4

Black Mesa Alpha Gameplay videos

Fuzzy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:54:52 +0000

I missed these when they were released last week; The Black Mesa Media youtube page has been updated with some early alpha gameplay / test footage -- Note is does not reflect the current state of the mod.

This one is probably my favourite half Life map:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-kyqwyzLms

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoFSLfWafH0

Black Mesa Website Down

AzzX — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:30:33 +0000

Some potential bad news, especially if you were an active part of the Black Mesa community. Black Mesa is a complete re-creation and total conversion of the game Half-Life, utilising the Source engine.

http://www.blackmesasource.com

Dear Black Mesa Supporters:

Our website shall be down for a unknown amount of time as we have just suffered from total hard drive failure, which also includes our backups. At this time the Black Mesa website and forums are unreachable. We have our old drive in a USB enclosure, trying to at least retrieving some data such as the community forums SQL database.

We are breaking night and day, drinking stockpiles of Redbull to get the lights on (website that is!). Please bare with us.

FAQ:

Will this effect the release of the mod?
Answer: No.

Does this mean the forums are gone? Including my posts, topics, ect.
Answer: At this time, it does not look so good.

We wish them all the best getting the site up and running. Good luck lads.

Edit 3-5-09

The forum is backup but the old stuff may have been lost.

Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to recover any of the previous databases or backups. We’re still actively searching for anything we can rescue, but it’s looking unlikely that we’ll be able to recover anything from the old forum.

Black Mesa Developer Banter

AzzX — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:11:22 +0000

MODDB has some interesting insight into the mod Black Mesa in a sitdown with devs Anthony Stone, Jean Paul Jarreau, Ben Truman and Mike Hillard.

Developer Banter, the only show you need for an insight into mods and indie game development. This time in the hot seat is the Black Mesa team.

Listen to it here or download it – It’s an hour long.

Black Mesa Goes Orange

AzzX — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:08:55 +0000

Even after 3 years, Black Mesa remains as one the most highly anticipated mods for any game engine available.

While known by some hardcore Black Mesa fans, we’d like to officially state that we’ve upgraded to the Orange Box build of the Source engine. We’re also excited to announce that we’ve dropped Counter-Strike: Source as a requirement for Black Mesa, and from now on, the only thing you’ll need to play the mod is a Steam account with any Source engine game installed! Black Mesa is now running completely off of our own content and base Source shared content, and we felt the vastly increased user base more then justified creating all the extra assets needed to make this switch.

Hopefully moving to the Orange Box build won’t delay the game too much longer.

Some Black Mesa multiplayer images: