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Cat-Life Beta Announcement
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Posted: 2 months ago

Originally imagined in 2003 as a mod for Half-Life, Cat-life has spent a great deal of time on hiatus over the years. After a long delay due to missing team leadership, the mod reorganized under current Team Cat-Life leader BiGToM. Yet the greatest missing component, a coder, remains absent. The biggest single set-back has been the cat's POV code.

However, as has been stipulated before, this mod about a cat trapped and ownerless during the Black Mesa incident has plenty of lives left. Earlier this week, BiGToM announced that an older piece of code from prior efforts had been successfully implemented. The original code had been fraught with bugs such as monsters sinking into the floor. Nevertheless, after a lengthy wait for a new coder [a wait that included a cash reward], the early code was modified and fixed.

Now, with corrected code in hand, Team Cat-Life is able to wrap up other portions of the mod. With this news, the team has also announced a target date for the first stage of Open Beta testing. Expect to be able to download and play the Cat-Life beta in November.

The beta will also include additional bonus content including maps that were cut from the project and some of the original concept.

To help celebrate, I've asked BiGToM for some new screen shots for the BWL gallery.

And for our FPSBanana account, two exclusive screen shots have been added to the media section.

The_Wildcat .

Cat-Life: News Roundup
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Posted: 6 months ago

The search for a Team Cat-Life coder continues. To help, I've now set up a BWL Development profile on fpsbanana. Watchers that have an fpsbanana account should stop by to show their support.

I will also be posting a help wanted profile over here and a job board message over on ModDB.

To summarize our needs:
We are looking for an experienced Half-Life coder. The code demonstrated in the Cat Code video was scripting in the maps themselves... I think it was once referred to as the "Innercode" by the team. But that will not work as the actual game modification. Scripting like that is buggy and inconsistent.

Our coder should be able to effectively change the player point of view via the C++ source code. This can be done by either player scaling or shifting the FOV down to a cat's eye level.

We would also like for Dark-Vision to be implemented. This would be similar to night-vision. In this case, it would be an effort to simulate a cat's natural ability to see in dark places.

Additionally, we would prefer to feature modified jumping, sprinting, and other such cat movements. However, the Cat POV is our primary concern at this time.

BiGToM is indeed offering a reward for the coder. This could be anywhere from $10 to $60 US. Payment would be issued via PayPal. The actual dollar value depends on how long it takes to track down a coder. Applicants need to speak with BiGToM directly about this dollar figure.

Also, you can help raise the reward for our coder by donating to BiGToM's PayPal account. There is a button on the main Cat-Life page at BWL Development. Please note, there is a difference between the Cat-Life donate button and the "Help Us Improve" donate button on the right side-bar. The link on the side bar is for my own BWL Development website account.

In addition to this request for a coder, if you know anyone that may be interested in coding for our mod, please point them in our direction.

BiGToM can be contacted...
...on ModDB via private message
...on MSN via sayrken@hotmail.com
...by email at sayrken[AT]gmail.com

I'm not adding any new media just yet. We really need a coder so our team can record some actual in-game action footage. Beyond that, we don't want to reveal too much of the actual mod yet. Anything we post will be limited until we have some custom source code to show off.

In the mean time, here is a list of all of our current videos from the BWL Development Gallery as they appear on YouTube... including two unofficial clips that haven't been posted here before. [The two unofficial videos do not show any new areas, just FYI]

Original Cat-Life Video
Cat-Life Paw Beta Video
Cat-Life Cat Code Video [In-Game (innercode) Scripting]
Silverfang's Slide-show [Recruitment Video]
Cat-Life: A Look Back [Nostalgic Video Response to our 1-page PC Gamer UK December Article]

Finally today, I want to take a moment and explain the recent [1-month old now :( ] move to a new web host and the change of the Cat-Life homepage.

For those of you that use FileFront for game downloads, you may recall the end-of-March announcement. Ziff Davis Media Group sent out a last minute warning that FileFront would soon close down.

Unfortunately, BWL Development was hosted by hl2files.com... a member of the FileFront network. In response, I set out to find a good cheap host service instead of another free host. In the end, I decided on JustHost.com.

After April 1st, FileFront announced that the original owners had taken over the network and FileFront would remain online. However, via email, hosted sites were notified that the free web hosting service was too expensive to maintain. So, our site was still on the chopping block.

Before this, though, I had already committed to changing to our new paid service anyway. I wanted to expand the site to other games and give it a bigger scale. I consolidated all the old pages, dropping the Half-Park: CCC and archived LOAPS site. I moved our downloads page to our forums. And compressed GargArena and Cat-Life into sub-pages rather then "hosted sites".

As a result, the old Black and Orange version of the Cat-Life homepage has been dropped. Honestly, I wanted to make a distinction between our own projects (Cat-Life and GargArena) and our hosted site(s) (Special Forces: Source/SF Studios).

None of this means that Team Cat-Life is under new leadership or has changed in any way. It just means that it's web page has been integrated with the main website and that BWL itself moved to a premium web service.

The_Wildcat .

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Cat-Life: GoldSource Code (Cat-Life)	6 months ago	Inhouse

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BWL Development Comics, Stories, RP, Gaming, and More
Membership: On Request
Game: HL
Genre: FPS
Type: Single Player
Game Profile: Half-Life
BWL Development began as Friendly Garg's Stories. After years of difficulties and a life outside the internet, Friendly Garg decided to pass on his website to someone else. I (The Wildcat) had already been working on a site dedicated to art, creative writing, and gaming. When the time came, I assumed control of the old story site and changed it. We are now bwldevelopment.com a site dedicated to comics, art, creative writing, RP, gaming, and other forms of creativity. As of today (the 28th day of April, 2009) BWL Development has two mods, both for the original Half-Life. Garg Arena is a multiplayer mod that was released in beta form. The team itself is no longer working on it, though I have some ideas for eventual maps and a new team leader could always volunteer to recreate the mod from scratch (perhaps for Source). The second mod, however, is Cat-Life. In production since 2003, this mod has seen more then its fair share of delays, setbacks, team problems, and other issues. Yet now it is nearing completion. And that is the mod we are focused at this time.
Inception: 6 months ago

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Coder/Scripter

BWL Development is seeking a C++ coder for Cat-Life. Cat-Life, as featured in December's PC Gamer UK, is a Half-Life 1 survival modification starring a scientist's pet cat. - Lower the player POV to cat eye level. - Dark-Vision, ability to see in dark... like night-vision. - Modify jumping, add sprinting/dashing, player movement tweaks The cat POV is our primary concern. PayPal reward is available for our coder. Applicants should contact BiGToM through MSN messenger (sayrken@hotmail.com) or by email (sayrken@gmail.com).

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16 days ago

The_Wildcat

I'm...

...working on some source code. Expect a short video in the not to distant future.

Bananite

1 month ago

The_Wildcat

The interview with Podcast 17 is up.

Check their site for the full show or the interview alone.

Bananite

2 months ago

The_Wildcat

Expect a Cat-Life press release this weekend.

Bananite

6 months ago

Posted by iconic

Lol, thats cool to get a different perspective. It's to bad it so old now :P

But still it's intresting and i will test it, when it comes out.

And good luck for finding coder.

Loved by everyone, hated by everyone

6 months ago

iconic

Lol, thats cool to get a different perspective. It's to bad it so old now :P

Om nom nom

6 months ago

The_Wildcat

Answers to many questions will have to wait until I finish setting up the profile.

The short version is, Cat-Life has been around since 2003, just not on FPSBanana. The basic story is that you are a scientist's pet cat during the Black Mesa incident.

We're using GoldSource because one of our past mod leaders switched back to GoldSource for easier modding and player scaling.

Our current leader kept it because he began making the mod single-handed and was more comfortable mapping with HL.

Bananite

6 months ago

iconic

What exactly is this mod about? Why are you using hl rather then hl2?

Om nom nom

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