Levels

ROCK 24

created by myself and Richard Acherki.

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After a disastrous rescue attempt to free Richard G Newell, a renowned rebel scientist, Dr. Gordon Freeman awakes to find himself locked in a holding cell on a mountainside prison facility dubbed 'Rock 24'. His new mission, locate and free the rebel scientist and escape the collapsing combine prison.

Rock 24 has been reviewed in several magazines, including PC Gamer (UK), PC Zone (UK), Igromania (Russia) and PC Action (GER) . It also has many online reviews/interviews such as Gamespy, Interlopers , PlanetPhillip, Snarkpit and Planet Half-Life. A radio podcast snip can be heard here.

The mod took the two of us around a year to create, many tools were used but the main ones were:

Valve Hammer editor
Discreet 3D Max
Adobe Photoshop
Valve Faceposer
Fruity Loops
Audacity

Mainly Richard produced the first three chapters and myself the last three.

Igromania also took the mod and with our consent localised it to Russian, the Russian version can be downloaded from here.

Two music tracks I made for Rock 24. (Right Click, Save as..)

Prison Cells Intro

After The Storm

Random Rock 24 Testimonials:

midkay:
Verdict: The best all-new-storyline HL2SP mod I've ever played - great gameplay, visuals, flow and design. Something for everyone.
Score: 10/10

Crawler:
Just finished the mod, and I have to say I'm impressed. It was MUCH more than what I expected it to be. Really, with a little more fine tuning, it could have been part of the HL2 Story. The voice acting was really good, and some of the "jokes" (at least I think they were jokes and not part of the British accent...) were funny and added depth to the characters and story.

Biggest surprise was that it WASN'T like an escort mission. Richard was good enough to protect himself and help me out with some of the combines. Overall, it was a great experience, very well made, and both blokes get a tip of my hat (beanie? ... w/e..).

122334
Excellent mod, I had a blast playing it, the elevator part was totally epic, I felt like I was in a movie. Well done!

hen7
That. Was. F*cking. Awesome.
The best mod i ever played.
ROFL PSPs

lillbrorsan
Just played the mod and i gotta tell you it is one of the best well made singleplayer hl2 mods out there right now, i really enjoyed playing through it

nebukadnezar
awesome job guys! this is easily the best hl2-mod i've played so far. +great faceposer-work

AI CHAIN CANNON TEST MAP This test map was produced as a sentry weapon for our Rock24 map but we have since scrapped it soI'm making it available for the community with the VMF for download. The sentry gun works by using a flying scanner to search out the player, upon finding the player the chain cannons will rotate and fire at him. Please bear in mind the map is not optimized in any way and is purely shown as a technical example.

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PHYSICS MACHINE

PH_Machine was built for the sole purpose of experimenting with triggers and physics, the user must pick up a ball and place it on the machine. The machine then transports the ball along various obsticales until it ends up back at the start where it continues. This was one of the first maps I created in Hammer. Please bear in mind the map is not optimized in any way and is purely shown as a technical example.

ph_machine

PHYSICS MACHINE 02

This map is the second physics map I created. Using the skills I learnt from the first one I wanted to try a few things out. This is the result of the test, you can download the level to try it out yourself. Please bear in mind the map is not optimized in any way and is purely shown as a technical example.

ph_machine 02

Baf2099 on 12th Jan 2005
	This map is not only a show of great map making talent but really the intense ability for greatness in half life 2. to watch this system work is absolutely incredible. It would be truly awesome to have some tutorials on how to make some of that stuff. Also a prefab for that crane thing would be sooooo cool!

SCORING SYSTEM Someone in the Half-Life 2 community was having problems creating a scoring system, being the nice guy I am - I decided to try and make one for him. This is the result, using the grav gun - fire the ball in to the net. Everytime the user scores the scoreboard number increments by one up to a maximum of three. I released the vmf (level editor file) so everyone could benefit from it. Please bear in mind the map is not optimized in any way and is purely shown as a technical example.

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