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by **MaK** on Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:29 am

Excellent looking campaign so far, especially the first few screens. Don't stop working!

by **Vander** on Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:45 pm

Damnation those are pretty looking. Great effort!

by **Valar** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:02 pm

Hi All,

I'm currently looking for a name for the supermarket featured in the "Dead Echo" campaign in Map #3.

Please feel free to post your suggestions. the name that will fit the most will be taken.
The name can be an ordinary neighborhood supermarket / convenient store name but could also hint on elements in the campaign, in L4D in general and / or be humorist / sarcastic in one way or another.

You can either post back in here, use the Comments feature in my Steam Group

Thanks and looking forward to seeing some ideas.

val

by **Valar** on Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:54 pm

Name and slogan found:

Kill-Mart
Shop Til You Drop

*thanks to Stephan Botha from l4dmods.com and to Obama yo mama for the excellent ideas.

Next up; there is a parking lot in map #2 and it also needs a name

Please feel free to post your ideas.
thanks,
val

by **Valar** on Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:33 pm

by **Valar** on Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:33 pm

Quick update.

The campaign's title has been decided on - Dead Echo (after much debate, seems people are taking to it better than the idea of "They come".)
I am at the very last phase and will be releasing a first public beta in the coming days.
Please join the steam group is you wish to participate in the beta and to share your -+ feedbacks.

Here is a first draft of the campaign poster. hope you enjoy
val

by **source-maps** on Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:40 pm

maps look great, can't wait to play it but the poster is kinda low res, you stretched the survivors to much
also tag line is lame bible rip off / l4d2 coach rip off

by **Valar** on Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:09 pm

this is first draft as i wrote in my post; the images are indeed over-stretched and will be replaced with better ones.
However, i didn't rip off anything from anywhere. this is all my idea. if it sounds like something else, sorry.
regarding "rip offs" - you may want to look closely into all of Valve's campaign titles. you'll see that each one is a humorist-sarcastic rendition on (usually) a well known saying or slogan. this is a positioning decision that is prevalent throughout the whole game which i simply went along with, keeping things as close to the game's positioning.

by **source-maps** on Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:36 pm

ow hehe didn't ment to offend you or anything

I just thought it wasn't very funny

by **Valar** on Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:22 pm

none taken. just wanted to clarify.
More on the images, by the looks of it I'm not sure i'll be able to find higher res images of the survivors (these are clearly not taken from the digital models but from real still photos of the original actors.
I will experiment with a few filters and resolve it somehow artsy-fartsy : )

by **Valar** on Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:51 am

Quick update..

I was very happy to learn we will be able to use hi-res images of the posing survivors for posters which hopefully will be released with an SDK update sometimes soon.
BTW, hope you like the new tagline, source-maps

i'm never completely happy but i hope that's better than the previous one.
I'm just about done fixing some last minute issues before releasing a first beta. so hope to see some of you in game soon.

by **Chopium** on Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:00 am

Very sexy. I can't wait to see some more images.

by **Valar** on Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:30 pm

some ingame vids by my blessed friend, the TALENTED SG.Heartless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtftSyi3q3Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR4ObroZiJo

more a comin'

by **source-maps** on Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:48 pm

wow I watched the first video and I think this map is fantastic
nice lighting, use of sound and brush work :smt023

by **cheesemoo0** on Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:40 am

Looks good! Get some cubemaps in the first shot. The lighting is off on the pistol.

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