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Fuck yes, a new pic !

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:09:32 +0000

I can´t believe my eyes!

Hi folks, and welcome to our yearly mediaupdate..
WTF? Sad but true: Almost a year passed since our last media-update on 10/04/06. Some of you might remember the time when we had weekly news-updates. Another big thanks at this point for supporting us by the way .
The good news: Although development went on quite.. erm.. slow.. it did never stop. I am working my a** off in the few spare time I get, and also the 3d department including some freelancers keep on producing high quality game art. Thus we though its time to show you at least a little something after all the last news updates without new media.
Lets start with a brand new vampire playermodel named Spike - modeled and textured by Alessandro Briglia working as freelancer for our team (should it look or sound like any familiar character you might know from a certain TV-Series or the much better spinoff; I can assure you that it's in noooo way intentional and purely accidental.. ).

Also we are hoping to end this long break of media updates and delivery you at least a couple of new pics in the following weeks.
Btw. thank TheFrog4u who prepared the renders and the first draft of this news update (and not to mention re-unwrapped and rigged the spike model). I rather spent the few time I have on coding for nos than writing news updates (and believe it or not but preparing news-updates takes away alot of time).

Let me again shout out a BIG thank you to all the fans and all my team members who are still supporting Nosferatu eventhough I had very little time for it the past months due to the stuff explained in my previous news post.

If you are lucky I (and maybe even some other team members) might even find some time to write some inside scope in my .plan.

So what the hell is up ?

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:39:41 +0000

What the hell is up ?

That is the question everyones asking.
No update since X-Mas, is the game (it's still a game and not a mod you know ) dead ?

The answer is... of course it's NOT.

Did you really think that I am going to let all the work done on this die ?
NO, I certainly won't.

Anyway lots of stuff happened in my life. Finishing school, army, getting a job, breaking up with my girlfriend, moving out into my own flat, getting back together with my girlfriend, being busy as hell and working myself to death at my job, you name it.

Anyway its time to get back to active nos development however the developing concept changed a little.

I learned a lot and thus plans have changed.
I spent lots of time coding uber cool awesome stuff into nos that wasn't 100% perfect or unstable and whatnot. This resulted in a very unstable build with lots of unfinished code junks.

I always wanted to release an awesome first release with 10000 of cool features and whatnot delaying the release endlessly.

Anyway, here's the new development plan:

First of all we are going to release a board internal beta, which will feature the important parts and gameplay elements.
Everyone will be able to participate and test it, giving feedback on what sucks and whats cool. We can balance everything out and test stuff.

Lots of (auto)updates with short development cycles will then be released and tested by you. You should then give us feedback about what needs improvement, what's good etc.

Please note that I am not going to recode all already coded features and elements from scratch but rather merge the code from the unfinished/unstable nos build, then improve/finish the code and release it for testing.

We are then going 100% public once we reach version 1.0 which means a balanced and feature rich version of nos.

So the first beta version of nos will hit soon but will most likely not include awesome weapon sounds, advanced physics etc.

Please note that this doesn't mean that the first board beta will suck

I would like to thank all the people and board users at this point for supporting us for this long, and sorry again for the last months of silence.

Btw. even though I haven't done that much the last month, a couple of team members still worked on content for nos, including brand new player models

Stay tuned

Ghostface

Hm...?

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:40:54 +0000

click me...

Yes! Some real news!

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:34:27 +0000

What the hell ? No, we are not dead, far from dead actually, if you want to know what the reason for the rather long news delay was, follow the last couple of news on the nosferatuthegame.com front page (if you haven't done so yet).

Anyway enough excuses time for some content.
We showed you Frog's thug model before but this time he got a sweet skin to go with, made by the man himself. The skeleton, while not really a playermodel is used for the vampire dieing effect and various other things (map props etc.). To further aid your plessure, I included a nice highres render for each model.

But hell yes, I know that model renders are cool and whatever, but I also know that everyone loves new ingame pics, so after the long wait you surely deserve some. As you can see on the pics of the fnp model, the attachment system is working just fine.

Oh wait, what's that ? Can you trust your eyes ? Indeed, the first screenshots of the thug playermodel ingame (btw. the first public ingame playermodel pics)

Btw. we are targeting a closed beta release around x-mas, and right now the ETA looks pretty realistic.

Finally I would like to say thank you to all the fans who are still with us, even after the quite long summer break.

I am in the army now...

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:40:48 +0000

Well only a couple of hours left until I finally move in.
6 weeks, oh boy, I hope it won't suck as much as I expect it to suck.

In other news I finally got my new notebook (Acer Aspire 5652AWLMi) and a new mobilephone Samsung SGH X680, and so far I am quite happy with both. I can finally start to efficiently develop and code again.
I just hope that I will get some time for that stuff over there (I need to move into another federal state for the 6 weeks of my basic training).

I plan to write some sort of army diary/blog tho in order to vent from all the shit that will most likely happen to me. I'll keep you informed on that matter tho.
I actually have no idea if theres some kind of internet connection available over there so the diary entries might be posted in batches.

After the 6 weeks stuff will move along faster again since the rest of my army life works out just like a job or school (go there in the morning and go home at around 16:00 or so).

Again I would like to thank everyone for supporting the game and the team even in these times where progress isn't as fast as it used to be, but you know real life catches on at some point

See you all soon (hopefully)

A statement from Ghostface

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:47:33 +0000

Ha loggerer posted after I decided that its time to post a status update like that myself. Sadly I haven't had the time to post it before I went to the netherlands (vacation/celebration after my school graduation).

Anyway, 31 july I am going to start my military service (6 months), I will move to another federal state (for 6 weeks in order to do the basic training) which kinda sucks but after that I am going to code stuff for the army

I am going to get my new notebook before the 31. and I am so looking forward to it. It will be one hell of a machine with lots of RAM (oh yeah I need lots of RAM since I am doing a dozen stuff at the same time ).
At the moment I am in the process of deciding which notebook exactly (suggestions are welcome btw.).

Now I am done with school forever and I do not intend to attend a university or something, I finally want to do some work .

I am highly motivated again, even more than before the (quite long) break, and you can be sure that Nosferatu won't be abandoned. Theres some pretty cool upcoming shit which will ensure that the Nosferatu experience will be one hell of a ride.

We all have real lifes, and especially the last months were really exhausting with my final school graduation and diploma project and stuff.
At this point I would like to thank you all for your understanding, and support over at the boards.

Let's hope the army won't mess me up too much

Greetings from the Ghostface

Edit: Regarding the 6 months of military service. I will return home after the first 6 weeks and the it is just like any other job, you get paid and go home in the afternoon. This doesn't mean that there won't be any progress during that time.

What's going on!

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:42:25 +0000

Hi everybody!

Just a little update telling you all what's going on. Ghostface has just finished his exams with flying colours, and after all his celebratig and breaks he'll be back to contine on with Nosferatu. We're very sorry about the lack of updates, but be rest assured that we'll make it worth your while.

Lots of love,

Ghostface is turning pro...

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:10:34 +0000

... but not the way you might think.
In fact I abandoned the whole game developing stuff in order to finally come to my real profession - professional male underwear model.
Yep you read right. I already got a contract signed with Calvin Klein himself, and soon you will see our extraordinary advertisement campaign everywhere.

I am sorry for everyone who was looking forward to nosferatu but this is
my fate
my curse
my destiny

Btw. there will be some people who won't be able to handle the truth thus their head will try to trick them by telling them that the picture shown above is a fake. It infact is not, and the strange feeling you get by looking at it is a security mechanism of your head in order to avoid turning insane because of the shocking news.

More Players

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:07:04 +0000

Long time no update. The bad news are that my notebook is still broken so I am developing on an inferior older notebook (read crap) - Although I am still glad I got something halfway useable to develop on. This however makes developing gfx-related stuff rather hard thus still no new ingame pics in this post. The good news is that we aren't dead (no we aren't undead either ha ha). Anyway on to the media.

First of all Pete decided to redo his shotgun skin and it kicks even more ass now (check the old one to compare here).

Next more playermodel goodness from TheFrog4u. Note that don is based on a concept art, made by our fellow board member don. Check out some of his other concepts and wallpapers in this thread

And now the man himself Mr. Nosferatu aka Count Orlock modeled by TheFrog4u.

If you want more information about progress, what I am working on and what I am going to do about my notebook, check my .plan (omg yes I updated it)

Ghosface's .plan update

Playermodels

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:32:40 +0000

Well to make it short it's the same bla as always (good/steady progress but busy as hell).
Anyway I won't write 2 pages of excuses on why we haven't updated in a while since we don't owe you anything at all (unless you give us insane amounts of alcohol, women or money - preferable all 3 at once).
Enough bla, lets move on to the actual content.

First of all something that hasn't been shown before - playermodels.
The scare is our weirdo vampire modelled by azelito and skilled by LOOM.
Next comes the thug who takes a break from stealing in order to kill some vampires.

Now here's the scare fully skinned, already this week, as a little *cough*excuse*cough* for being a little late with the news.
Oh and since a single pic in the middle of this news seems a little lonely I will just show you Pete's revised USC skin as well.

(in case you don't remember what the old skin looked like click here - Note: the render (of the old skin) was a bit crappy tho <- my fault)

And since I got this nice "wallpaper-portfolio-something" from LOOM of his scare skin, and since it fits so nicely at the bottom of this news post, I will just throw it in with some subconscious job advertising:

Dead Rabbit Software seeking player skinner

Yes Loom is doing one hell of a job as a skinner but we still need some additional support in this department.
So if you think you got the skills, make sure that you have something to show and contact me any way you'd prefer

Btw. the nice socket in the player renders has been brought to you by TheFrog4u, oh and regarding player size: don't complain about the renders they will be all pretty much the same height ingame, even if some of them look a bit taller/smaller compared to the socket). New ingame screens will follow in the next updates due to me having some problems with my gfx-card at the moment.