About Us!
Alaris: n. belonging to the wings of an army; m. pl. allied troops.
Latin Dictionary and Grammar,
University of Notre Dame.
Project Alaris is made of amateur game developers who work on the Alaris game during their free time. Some of us have experience in other games, but not professionally. We stay in touch and organize our efforts via IRC (irc.freenode.net, in channel #alaris) and this website (http://projectalaris.org). Our main goal is to create games that are fun to make and play, but also exceptionally cool.
The original idea of this project was to port the Nexuiz mod Team:Nexuiz to the Quake 3 engine. T:N is a team based fps derived from Nexuiz 1.0 code with several improvements made by avirox. It consists of 6 player classes and several game modes, played in a handful of team maps. Morphed approached evilfrog with the port concept and he gladly accepted. Other members of the then current T:N team joined us and eventually this led to a complete redesign of T:N into what is known now as Alaris.
Alaris aims to be a complete game, with an original background storyline and its own content. It stays true to its T:N roots by keeping the basic concepts of team play and player classes. The game's story helps guide its development and opens other doors for exploration.
Project inception date: April 8th 2006
We need modellers to help us make charcters, weapons, and map objects models. Charcter models are currently our biggest need. Version 0.1 is already out, and we are almost at 0.2. We have a few maps already made, 2 weapons alread done, and a new soldier model on the way. If you check out our site, and come by our IRC channel, we can set you up with an account for our ftp, and you can try out version 0.1. Experience with the quake 3 engine, and md3 models is a big plus. You dont need to be able to skin, because we have a talented 2d artist who can skin for you if needed.
Some pics to get you hooked :
http://projectalaris.org/system/files?file...mo1.preview.jpg
A promo done for us by our main concept artist, Peter Caban
http://projectalaris.org/system/files?file...omp.preview.jpg
One of our 2 finished weapon models, the plasma shotgun
http://projectalaris.org/system/files?file...9.preview\_0.jpg
A WIP map by |S3GA|