Greetings, time for your favorite report of the week.
- EH Battle Center
Emperorshammer.net is back, but for now DON'T process any BSF ! Some things still need to be fixed. You can still access the battles through the temp battle center set by VA Drake on http://www.drakenet.tk
- TIE Mission Creation Course
The course notes have been updated by MAJ Philo, at http://www.imperialacademy.org/to/tiemiss/ . By the way, all mission creation courses are available through the TAC Office site (http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac), courses section
- Jedi Knight / Jedi Outcast Levels creation course
The Training Officer is looking for experienced level creators to make an IWATS course aimed at JK/JO Levels creation. You may contact him at to@emperorshammer.org
- New competition: Dark Blades
In order to develop the creation of JK/JO custom levels, a new competition is released, Dark Blades !
The goal is to create a custom single player level for either Jedi Knight, Mysteries of the Sith, or Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. The only requirement is to involve EH ground forces in it (mostly DB or HF then, it may involve other subgroups depending on your plotline), and be EH-oriented. An additional category is open for multiplayer maps (platforms mixed). The awards for each category (JK-SP, MotS-SP, JO-SP, MP) will be (IS-PR,IS-SR,IS-BR) for first to third place (or SG equivalent). In addition all approved submissions will be rewarded with the Medal of Tactics (or SG equivalent). The deadline is set to December 15th, send your zipped submission to tac@emperorshammer.org with the subject "Dark Blades submission".
A good place to check to find editors and tutorials about JK/JK2 level creation is http://www.massassi.net (a good place for custom levels as well...btw, any submission found to be copied from this public compendium will be dealt adequately by the HCI...).
- Totally Games recruiting
as sent by VA IQ Pierce (ret.):
If there are any veteran mission-builders in the EH with serious programming or computer skills, they might be interested in this...
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/jobs_display.php3?job_id=1426
If you can't see the page (you have to register with Gamasutra to see some pages... feel free to do so, since it's free and they don't really bug you), this is a job listing for a position with Totally Games (the game development company which produced all the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games)... a "mission builder" position, specifically, and they're looking for experienced mission builders. I figure no place has more people experienced with building missions for Totally Games titles than the good ol' E.H.
If I were able to move to California, and had done more mission design during my time in the EH, I would be all over this job... getting a position in Totally Games might eventually lead to me helping develop the next of Hollands' great Star Wars flight sims. But I know there's some current or former EH mission-building geniuses who would deserve this job, so I hope you'll point this out to them.
[SALUTE]
End transmission.
Vice Admiral I.Q. Pierce, retired
- Project Segway
MAJ Roguewing is still working on Project Segway; its goal is to make an Imperial conversion of XWA... If you think you have some skills which may help the porject, check the site at http://www30.brinkster.com/roguewing/ or email MAJ Roguewing at roguewing25@yahoo.com.
See you next week.
TAC-PROF/HA Striker/CS-3/SSSD Sovereign