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New Alien Critter Revealed – Space Spiders

Hello once again. I’ve got the animated model done for the first of three critters I will be doing. It is essentially a space spider. If you’ve read any posts by me in the past, then you may know of my slight insectophobia. Hopefully this phobia helped me to create a more scary and creepy…
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New Alien Species Revealed – Transitorians

Hello there. I’ve completed the character model for the last standard alien species I am going to be doing. I’ve decided to call them Transitorians. They are a hodgepodge of different themes and styles. They have some east asian and middle eastern attributes. They have a techie look and they are going to be kind…
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New Alien Species Revealed – Cerebturans

Hello again. I’ve completed the model for my next alien species: the Cerebturans. They can effectively be described as a friendly/smart alien species. They are going to have dialogues that showcase their intelligence and will be vital allies if they happen to be in the same local space (they will assist you with defeating enemy ships in…
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New Alien Species Revealed – Malnurans

Hello out there to the internets. I completed the character model for the alien species I am calling the Malnurans. To sum them up – they are the bad guys. The other alien species I have completed will have vices but the Malnurans will be the ones that you could definitely call evil. And I…
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New Alien Species Revealed – Machinulans

Greetings m’lords and m’ladies. I just thought I would write another post for Y’all on m’website. Got some new aliens for you. I’ve called them the Machinulans. Which might sound a bit weird – but just try to say it a few times. It starts to roll off the tongue. Most of the names I…
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New Alien Species Revealed – Insecturans

Happy Martin Luther King Day!!! (his birthday was on the 15th but it is celebrated on the third Monday in January) For anyone out there who read my post last week, my wisdom teeth extraction surgery went well enough. It was a slightly more complex wisdom teeth extraction than normal (I had five wisdom teeth –…
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New Alien Species Revealed – Mendacians

Next up are the Mendacians: The Mendacians were first encountered by a trading expedition that passed near their territory. The expedition bartered with a Mendacian commander for some samples of their advanced shielding technology; trading their jump drive schematics in return. Trusting the seemingly friendly Mendacians – they installed one of the prototype shield modules on their ship…
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New Alien Species Revealed – Bellumturans

I’m currently doing the character models for the seven alien species that I want to have. The first of which is the Bellumturans: Bellumturans are a warlike species believed to have originated in the Gallanteas region of the Goma nebula – although their current territory expands much further than that. Large serpent-like reptilian humanoids wearing powerful…
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What do I think of the id Tech 4 engine?

Obviously I am a little biased – but as one of the last people to create a game using the id Tech 4 engine – I feel I have some authority to speak about it from an overall perspective. I think the only other person(besides myself) who is still using the engine and who is…
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First Video – Prototype Gameplay:

I just uploaded my first prototype gameplay video to YouTube: Check it out and let me know what you think.