If you need more mirrors please go to our Downloads section. To tell us what you think of the Mod just write to aavenr [at] 7thserpent [dot] com or come join our forums. We would love to hear about it!
The fine guys over at PrimoTech have just published a Q&A session I did with them over the weekend. It's an interesting article and if you are curious, it sheds some answers on why we did some of the things we did.
On a similar note, Joe Johnson from ModDB.com has done a poignant review on 7th Serpent: Crossfire. He writes some extremely flattering comments about the Mod and we feel he successfully relayed what our Mod is all about. Here is an excerpt from the article:
Production values ooze out of this mod wherever you look. From the great soundtrack, to the attractive menus, to the great implementation of new and old models in the game world: 7th Serpent seems dressed for success.
Concerning the BitTorrent file I posted yesterday, I have taken it down because it unfortunately died. I will try to get another up and running shortly. Have a nice day!
Courtesy of Peter "Dionex" Hu, we are now bringing you the Official Trailer for 7th Serpent: Crossfire! It is a 30MB .WMV file that you can get from two different mirrors at our Downloads section.
We have adecided to celebrate the occasion by making available another full track from the Crossfire soundtrack composed by Chad Seiter. This music piece is titled "Chopper Dance" and comes up at the very climax of the game. We have also updated our right column with six new screenshots highlighting the stylized action sequences that you can expect to find on our recent release.
To wrap up this update I should mention that new mirrors have been added to the mirror list at the top of this page, and more importantly, we are now having a BitTorrent file especially meant for those poor souls still stuck with 56Kbs/s connections. Please seed for as long as you can so that may get it off the ground.
Several years in the making, the opening 7th Serpent chapter is out! On behalf of our entire team, I hope you have as much fun playing this as we had making it! The official trailer will likely be released on Thursday or Friday at the latest. A comprehensive list of Mirrors to download follows on the semi-permanent section above. More mirrors and a .torrent file will be added shortly:
On the last update I talked about our crazy composer, so now it only seems fitting to give you a peek into our Graphic Novel artist. His name is Mates "Avatar" Laurentiu and he hails from Romania. He draws really, really well so when Stenchy -- my partner in crime and Secondary Lead -- and I saw some of his pencil work we were stupefied. I mean, just look at his old material for crying out loud! Is this guy good or what?
So the first thing Mates managed when coming onboard was doing what he does best: character drawings. He sketched up concepts for all our main characters and they came off really well. Taken from our Media section, below you can appreciate some of them:
Right after doing the concept art pieces, Mates started working on our Graphic Novel segments for the first episode. We don't want to spoil much for you before you play the game, but here and here are two early panel designs he started with at the beginning. After finishing the sketches and doing some heavy coloring, you can see what he ended up with next:
Looks like it is time for an update! We are all in the middle of a punishing crunch mode here, receiving all the input from the beta test and doing loads of bug-squashing -- and it isn't nearly as fun as bug-squashing in real-life, that is for sure! But you guys I am sure have plenty of time off so I thought I would send a little update your way!
Allow me to introduce our resident music composer: Mr. Chad Seiter. His website is pretty outdated -- the man is really busy! -- but he has done work on the TV shows ALIAS, LOST, and the movie The Incredibles. Recently he has worked on the soundtrack for Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible 3 and this cool videogame called BLACK. Chad here has been working with us on and off for over 2 years. He has done 11 tracks for us so far and you will be able to appreciate every one of them on this upcoming release, "Crossfire". So as a little bonus, we are putting up one of these pieces for your hearing pleasure -- bonus points if you can guess when on the level it will be played! ;)
If you are reading this then it means our website has just gone live and the project that we have been working under wraps for so long has finally been unveiled! Rest assured, we wouldn't have made this move unless unless our first release was imminent. So stay tuned as this first episode, dubbed 7th Serpent: Crossfire, will be made available very, very soon.
If you want to know more about our project just look around the site. We have got several pages set-up to give you the lowdown on all things 7th Serpent!
In the meantime, to make the waiting just a tad more bearable, we offer level screenshots, model renders and character concept art over at the Media section. Currently we have a high-quality trailer in the works and more behind-the-scenes media is also on the way. You are also encouraged to visit our official forums and post your thoughts there. Exciting stuff!