Galactix is a lateral arcade-type overhead space shooter. Think of Raiden. You fly around picking up powerups and destroying enemies for points, in hopes of making the high score.

Visit the [url=http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/984/]Galactix page[/url] on Moddb.com and check out the screenshots & description.

I plan to add more attack patterns and spiff up some graphics and such. For example, I'll be using a ship model from one of CheapAlert's mods for the player's ship. After I add some stuff and tweak, I'll add more screenshots.

Unfortunately, the screenshots don't show how fun the mod is. But that means, fortunately, the mod plays a lot better than it looks.

The mod is scheduled for release durring QExpo in June, 2003. See you there. 

That url for galactix is http://mods.moddb.com/984/

Gotta get used to that... 

an overhead shooter mod for quake 1?

excellent! first one i know of... if you need another beta-tester i would be happy to help. 

static _ void @ hotmail . com 

i know what ya mean...

on one map. it takes me half a minute just to find the place where i left off the day before! 

What about clayer? 

TeamShambler - Dead (for a while too)
Ethereal Hell - ?
Religion Quake - Was never living to begin with... what's the status on this guy?
Ten Four - Alive
Retro Quake - Dead
UWF's Site - Alive

are those right? am i missing any? 

so anyone doing a map with these :

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/rorshach/textures/textures.htm 

not at the moment, but they are very nice looking ones. i am thinking about using them for something after i finish up some other stuff. 

clayer is not a quake mod, it's programmed from scratch. 

oh yes clayer, forgot that one.

necros, it would seem me and ten four are the sites doing active Q1 reviews at the moment.

I hope retroquake makes a comeback, i thought it was a good site. 

can you make large clear font instead of quake`s ? and some variety in backdrops 

Yea, what you're looking at is an ugly demo of the mod. There's no skybox yet but I'm open to any that would look good. Large clear font? I'm not any good at replacing the graphics in quakes wads, but if anyone has a pre-made font I'd be completely open to it. It would fit the theme better to have some tech type font or something.

BTW, here is the Starwars Dogfighting mod that was just put up. Its development is halted and it's got some crippling bugs but the screenshots are beautiful. http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/992/ . FrikaC and team should be proud. 

Extract the GFX/CONCHARS.LMP file from OUM. That's a relatively techy and clean typeface. 

where's Xenon's site? 

Has anyone played Unreal 2 yet? Gamespy only gave it a 76. 

I finished it a couple of hours ago. decent levels. some infuriating design decisions. a few bugs. probably manegement fuckups - my guess is they had a project lead who couldn't stop the feature-creep, hence the lack of polish.

The drakk levels were the worst. mostly due to bad texture-choices. 

is it as pretty as it looks in the screens (especially those gorgeous skins)? and how's the gameplay, all the reviews dont seem to like it too much but they dont hate it either? 

I'm a bit jaded. I personally get more excited about the aesthetics rather than the execution itself. ICO is a good example - it's not the prettiest game technically speaking, but the visual design comes together to make every single frame absolutely fucking beautiful.

The gameplay is your basic run of the mill stuff, with some defend-the-perimiter type missions thrown in to break up.

This is a solid buy for $20-$25, not so solid at full-price. 

I found the gameplay far too linear. The defense bits aren't particularly amazing, but they do at least give a little variety.

The boss combats suck (as ever).

The graphics are gorgeous although there are some bugs in places. Some amazing scenes (the very first scene, when you walk out of the general's command room and you're standing on top of a tower overlooking an entire island :)

I do think some amazing things could be done by the mapping community if they tried. 

guys, looks like I should wait till I upgrade then :)

wrath, what's ICO? 

The boss combats suck (as ever).

Indeed, why do developers persist and insist on these boring boss combats, all they can ever be is dodge, shoot (repeat until bored fuckless), i dont think i have ever enjoyed a boss combat, honestly. 

That is exacltly the type of computer I wanna buy for this coming april. And I'll get that remote control for the DVD player. Now good question here; I bought the monitor PF795 Viewsonic Professional Series 2-3 years ago, it is a flatscreen monitor 19inches CRT and dot pich = .25 center, then .27 for corners. I went to a friend that had recently bought also a kickass computer and his monitor is a Samsung with .20 for dot pitch. Now I'm worry to have blur all what I will see with my new computer in april IF I keep my PF795? What should I do? 

the cyberdemon rocked. 

and chton too

as for the unreal2, i'm playing thorugh it now.
well indeed, visuals are the best there. they crammed bazillions of polys there, and every poly does its work. and it seems developers were too busy adding polys and forgot about proper gameplay. too much intermissions that break your immersion into the gameplay. the missions are short. indeed, some designs look uber pretty, but true atmosphere is only in certain places/maps, not in the entire game. (remember u1, it was fully atmospheric game)
and what i disliked the most is jump puzzle room with broken lazers. this is the most stupid place i encountered so far: arseloads of polys (ie lower framerate), and you have to jump with high precision over lazers and melted metal. this just plain sucks. it's clear that developers wanted to increase playing time via such silly attempts.
anyway, have to finish it yet, maybe there will be more good things in the game i hope...