This was initially a total conversion mod for Half-Life 2, when Greenlight came around I decided to give it a try. Eventually The Forgotten Ones got greenlit and I was probably as surprised as you reading this right now. It was a major achievement for me, so here I'm years later releasing the source code of this long project.
The game takes place in Germany during the 60's, you play as a detective whose name is Grobuskna Vladinov. His family suffered deep tragedies during the holocaust and he has been on the hunt for the person(s) responsible ever since.
The game has been on Steam for over a year now, the code is quite stable. However unused stuff such as the Custom Story code might be a bit unpolished. I have also compiled this on Linux Ubuntu and Mac OSx Yosemite without any issues.
All the game code is under:
- game/client/
- game/server/
- game/shared/
For only The Forgotten Ones stuff:
- game/client/tfo/
- game/server/tfo/
- game/shared/tfo/
I've edited most of the original SDK 2013 files so there's edits pretty much everywhere. You'll find the most advanced features in the tfo folders tho. Like the inventory stuff.
I'm using the FMOD API to allow music during level transitions and in the main menu and an updated version of Steam API.
You're free to make pull requests for bug fixes.
- A custom GameUI and VGUI structure
- Loading Music
- Custom HUD
- Inventory System + 3D rendered items which you can inspect
- Dialogue System
- Bleeding System
- Custom loading screen which reports the actual loading progress
- Custom NPCs
- Custom Weapons
- Blood rendering on viewmodel when taking damage or if blood splats on you
- Note System
- Achievement & Stat handler
- New VGUI Controls
- Custom Console
- Slot Saving System
- Boss Health Bar
- Thirdperson animations and thirdperson support in general
- The player can be rendered in mirrors while in firstperson
- Radius based glow outline effect which helps the player find important items
- Film Grain
- Dynamic Scope Support
- Ironsights
- Improved vehicles
- Scriptable NPCs
- High Modding Support (including the unused Custom Story code which was removed in V2.9)
- Cross-Platform friendly code
- And much more...
Most of the documentation provided is examples on how to link the scripts with the Hammer World Editor & GUI, for example if you want to add a new inventory item.
I'd appreciate if you'd credit me if you want to use my work.
This project started in 2011, I was a rookie at the time so there might be some untidy code here and there.
For V2.9 I refactored and went through all of my code to polish it as good as I could, some parts are still a bit hard coded but it'll do for now.