Online since Halloween 2007

Well I finally got around to creating a home for this project. Building a website was never high up on my list of priorities, since there's so many other things that really need to get done. But I decided that I probably needed to create a website if people were to take this project seriously.

So on Halloween 2007, this website was born. It's my first attempt at building any kind of site, so hopefully everything works ok.

But this project itself has had an interesting history so far, and it's rebirth began about a year ago. A great deal has been accomplished in that time, considering that I'm currently working alone on all of this. If anyone's actually interested in this project's history, most of the events were documented in this thread at the Transfusion forums. While you're there you could also check out all of the fine work being done by the Transfusion team, in their effort to recreate Blood.

If you don't feel like reading through 40 pages of postings, then I'll attempt to briefly describe what's been accomplished so far.

• all retail levels have been retextured in a Blood 1 type style

• 95% sound and music replacement

• 65% of existing models have been reskinned

• all Fanatics and modern cultists have been replaced with traditional Blood cultists

• more then half of the sprite animations have been replaced

• Souldrudges have become zombies, with a dramatic speed increase

• many models have had their animations and values adjusted

• new damage effects and altered destructability values

• player walking and running speed decreased

• enemy AI tweaked, with much more work yet to be done

• a few new non-animated models have been created

• greater blood spray, and bigger blood splats

• over 2 dozen new single player levels in various sizes and states of completion

-and much, much more

That's a whole lot of work that's been done in the past year, but I'm only just getting started! There's still much work that needs to be done, as I still plan on creating new models and animations, and completely overhauling the game code.

The game code is currently being worked on, and it may take about 6 months to overhaul. But in the meantime, I'd be thrilled if anyone wants to provide any suggestions, opinions, or even volunteer some offers of assistance.

Let me know that there's people out there that may be interested in Blood 2's resurrection, and I'll do my best to create a more worthy sequel to the original Blood.