Half-Life Chinatown

Chinatown:

Main

The Story

Screenshots

This site last updated:

18th Aug 2000

"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown..."
Chinatown, Roman Polanski

Main

Chinatown is new Single-Player experience for Half-Life.

It features:

	Intricate new story-line set in the downtown suburbs of Chinatown
	Ability to have conversations with Characters
	New Maps, textures
	New Dialogue, and sounds
	New Characters, friends and enemies

The Story

The commissioner scratches his head. "I'm, worried, Gordon" he sighs. "Something's happened down in Chinatown... ". He waves you to take a seat.

"A Chinese businessman by the name of Li Wai has been suspected of drug running for some time, but now I fear that may be just the tip of the iceberg".

"One of our operatives was sent to investigate Li, and secure some vital evidence for us. We received one report shortly afterwards, but...", the commissioner sunk a little into his chair, "We haven't heard anything from him since. I can only fear the worst".

He looks back at you. "You know.. I'm sorry to drag you into this at short notice, Gordon. But we do really need someone to look into this right away, and I truly believe you're the man for the job".

You shake your head. What's this got to do with you anyway ? It's 10pm, and you were late to work this morning, skipped a shower and you've had a hangover all day. Now you've got to make your way to Chinatown, where someone's probably going to stick a bullet in your head.

Well, at least there might be a bar or two...

Screenshots

The 7-11 in Chinatown... where else in the world can you buy fishballs at 3am ?.

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The municipal market...

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The high street... maybe there's a bar somewhere

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Not here though...

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This guy doesnt look like an antiques dealer

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Progress

Chinatown is currently in development, and there is a lot of work to do. We've just released a preview pack (see Downloads section). The first full episode should be available by the end of September 2000. We'll then probably release further levels in new episodes, as and when they are ready.

If you are interested in working on the project, and have some experience, the following positions are available:

	modeller/animator/skinner for the NPCs (various characters that you meet, talk to, and fight who live in Chinatown)
	speech actors (for the character dialogue)

Please try out the preview, and contact Steve via email ( stevegcook@yahoo.co.uk ).

Downloads

Chinatown Preview (5.5Mb Zip). This is a preview of three levels from Chinatown... download it and try it out and let us know what you think! (requires Half-Life version 1.1.0.0 or higher).

Team

Chinatown Preview

Steve Cook a.k.a. Shadowman
    Director, Coding, Models, Textures, Maps
    stevegcook@yahoo.co.uk
    icq: # 39784019

Ramiro Roman Jr. a.k.a. Dark
Voices
nabaru5@aol.com

Oskar Fortune a.k.a. Albhar
    Maps
    kayu6@hotmail.com
    icq: # 77915884

Dan Backhaus a.k.a. Samurai
    Testing
    reconsamuri@yahoo.com
    icq: # 73790933

Sam Robinson a.k.a. Fragmeister
Textures, Prefabs

Chinatown Development

Shaun Forsdyke a.k.a. Basik
Maps
shaun.forsdyke@ntlworld.com

Jan Halelujah a.k.a. Zephyrus
    Maps
    zephyrus@spyring.com
    icq: # 18400772

Dan Goodman a.k.a. Fiveironfrenzy
    Voices, Maps
    tonker234@hotmail.com
    icq: # 76364094

Contact

Email: stevegcook@yahoo.co.uk