Alien Swarm - New non-FPS Valve game out Monday!

Psy

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So I heard murmurings about this in chat. Alien Swarm is a new game out for free on Monday that has been developed by a mod team hired by Valve much in the same way as Portal came about. Check it out here. Oh, and they're also releasing an SDK update!
 

NovaSilisko

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Everything I have ever known is now a lie.

I want it.
 

Urban

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Looks awesome. Me want. And the best thing about it is it's free!
 
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Left4dead in space, basically (which isn't a bad thing in any way or shape, quite the contrary).
But it's... free ? OMG, dowant.
 
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Can't wait to dive into the source code!
 

Penguin

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I love that Valve can just make games and give them out for free with no ill effects on profits whatsoever.
 
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I love that Valve can just make games and give them out for free with no ill effects on profits whatsoever.

I don't think that the game is really a Valve game. Its sort of a level up from a mod. Like a level up from Narbacular Drop. I don't know much about it, but I think that the game was mostly made before the guys were hired by Valve.
 

Terr

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I wonder if there's any overlap with the L4D/L4D2 stuff in terms of theory/code for spawning enemies out-of-sight and using an AI director to manage enemy hordes...

FINALLY they put steam cloud in source sdk. now i dont have to use this stupid flash drive to transport my maps from one computer to laptop every day.

I'm pretty sure they mean that they are releasing the code (based on the Source SDK code) that is an example for storing achievements/settings in the Steam Cloud.

Not that they are rewriting Source SDK to store your personal mapping files in the cloud for free.
 
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Porkchop

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I wonder if this is the project that Icefrog guy was heading.
 

NovaSilisko

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I wonder if this means we'll be able to access the full dynamic lighting code that portal 2 uses(and apparantly this too)
 
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I'll definitely be getting this. not a big fan of top down shooters, and the co-op factor doesn't seem to match L4D's.

but hey its free.
 

lana

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This has been in development for how long?