Picture of the Week

No Lara Croft chest? :(

Sweet, looking forward to more pictures :D (even though there are no Lara Croft chests....:P)

Some nice looking renders, that is for sure. Glad to see some new stuff from ZPS.

WTB Lara Croft chest upgrade. :-P

No Lara Croft chests?! WTF?! Lol, just kidding. I think it looks great! :)

By the way, that pistol is my new best friend.

No Lara Croft chests? I demand a DLC pack for that, or allow modding!
The forums has spoken.

This is how I want my female marines to look like:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2mhs841.jpg

I'm pretty damn sure it's the same dude in both suits. Haha.

Nice to see some new concept art and whatnot.

Keep up the good work guys!

@Siepher

I may or may not have downloaded that picture.

No one is happy to not see huge bare breasts bouncing about?

This game is somewhat centered on realism, so I find it refreshing that the female models are appropriately attired and ready for combat. As they should be.

@Saijin_Naib I am pretty sure they are joking around ;)

Cool pistol and the other picture are also good

No Lara? zmog need modz

jk.

Still like the pistol though, very sleek

@forgefire

I'm joking around. But I can only speak for myself lol.

Love the idea of picture of the week! I shall look forward to this.

I don't know what you guys are all up and about with the absence of Lara Croft modeling/concept.

I personally would much rather have the feel of realism and would honestly let my face enjoy a good ol' palm if I find myself gunning down sharks and a female marine runs by in a bikini...

Cant wait to see more looks great guys!

this looks sweet and the pistol looks interesting but I hope it´s useful in combat because it looks too good to lay all the time in my pockets. (p.s. the suits are cool and the shark crature is impressive I hope that you get it so creepy that I get a cold shiver down my spine everytime I see it)

HELL YEAH!! NEW PICTURE OF THE WEEK EACH MONDAY!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

I absolutely love the art style on the concept sketches.

Who draws them (if it is indeed only one person)?

So, since there's clearly a male and female marine, are we going to get to 'make' our own characters? Switch up the face or armor designs, similar to Halo: Reach? I want a skull on my helmet! :D

@mman36:
We'll give you plenty of options to customize your marine! Its important to differentiate each player in a coop party as well as allow for some cool bragging incentives. Keep it clean! :)

@Saijin_Naib:
Most of our older concept art was created by our beloved concept artist Andreas Von Cotta (unfortunately he works at CCP at moment) .. check out his sites where he've posted more IM concept, which we'll be sharing here later! :)

http://voncotta.com
http://voncotta.blogspo
t.com

/ZPSHicks

AWSOM! but the only way your tarring me from halo reach is a map editor

@ZPSHicks
Wow, the concept art is quite nice looking on his blogspot.
http://voncotta.blogspot.com/2010/08/mo
re-old-stuff.html

And then the ton of images on his site under the concept art section. You can pretty easily tell which are IM, and which arent. Images I've not seen anywhere. Really awesome and pretty stuff. Thanks for the links!

Nice pictures. Now i've got somthing to look forward to each week

Up top it says ITO AI "SATA"

Do you mean ITO AI "SARA"

Couple errors in newest pic text.

ITO AI 'SARA' has Genetic Research under complete security lock-down, trapping all survivors and allowing all virus infected scientists to kill everybody still alive on-board orbital research station X13!

fixed :)

And... just realized the greater implications of said text. Virus-infected scientists you say? Interesting...

@Aevaris,

I know, the plot thickens...

The concept art is very good kudos to the artist, but if i may, i don't know if i like this new plot bit, it is very RE like. IMO you guys should stick to genetic research on dangerous animals (don't use sharks only) and leave the Virus, zombie stuff.

@Argoon Well, tbh, the most dangerous "animal" are microbes. And microbes are FAARRR easier to manipulate than full blown animals. And faaarrr harder to defend/defeat. But I do agree that it is a subject matter that, if followed, needs to be somehow unique. Else we have nothing more than a fancy L4D mod.

Yes you are right that virus are the first critter that any good scientist messes about and it is logic that the scientists on the IM universe would make use of virus and stuff, but that is the problem, aggressive zombie making virus is used to much on other games and movies, i have seen that before, what i never saw in any game or film was landsharks and thats why IM is unique to me in that regard. Maybe they could use the virus in other unique ways them zombie, like virus that can corrode metal at a very fast rate (destroying guns, armor and the titan walker) or even kill a person (in some bloody way) in seconds, etc. To me if they can make a shark walk on land they can make any mismatch of any big and dangerous animal.

But this is only my opinion and i believe ZPS will give some kind of twist to the scientist zombie plot.

Since ZPS has been revolutionizing in many ways with almost everything they have been doing I would not be suprised at all if they take the virus plot and make it unique. And who knows it might not even be zombies they're referring to, and if they are why not zombies are cool. And if ZPS does do zombies Im sure it would be some of the best zombies around.


Also when are we going to see Phase 2 of FPS evolved? IF there is going to be a Phase 2...

Yeah, it might not be zombies. Maybe the virus actually makes the host stronger, faster etc without turning it into a mindless zombie. Anything's possible with a virus. GREAT concept art though!

looking better and better each week!

Indeed. Although bordering unrealistic, viruses can do more than anything else. I mean, were talking more than radiation, bacteria, humans, etc. Viruses could potentially cause true mutations, unlike any of the others because viruses can introduce new DNA and, maybe, remove old DNA. Which nothing else can do.

Thanks for the "shiiit-filtering" of the text Aeveris, its now changed and thanks for all the great comments everybody.

Keep it tight!

Holy shotgun!

Sniper shotgun?

yay! I love shotguns :D

Awesome! The concept artist is very skilled, no doubt about that :-)

@Astalano

More like a fixed range AGOC type extension which gives the player a representation of the effective range of the slug rounds.

Lovely shotgun!

Very nice concept art :)
I know it doesn't have a buttstock on right right now but i do believe I wouldn't use a scope without one. Otherwise the recoil would send the shotgun into my face.
Are we going to be able to choose what kind of shell we fire? Such as choose whether to use pellet rounds, slug rounds, or mix and match them?

Shotgun with a scope? i wasn't expecting that. Looks nice.

Nice concept. I don't like the idea of a scope but still looks very nice. A holo or Iron sights with cats-eye would look good on it also.

@dracogas I believe we will be able to select ammo type

now said shotgun needs a sixteen inch bayonet oh and will there be explosive rouds for the shotgun??

@Aevaris thanks! I was hoping that'd be possible :)
@MadMule haha you sound just like Chesty. The first time he saw a fllamethrower he said "Where the hell do you put the bayonet?"

thats a scary thought someone using a flamethrower in the corridors of a ship or space station

holy cow! That shotgun...... I think I fell in love with it!

@madmule and dracogas It is actually a scary thought. Because of the high oxygen content, a flamethrower would just explode down corridors. They would be extremely effective weapons on a space station.

Good thought/comment.

Just for fun i decided to model the shotgun, is a WIP so be gentle with the comments. :P

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I forgot i can't attach images use this link to see the WIP ( Work in progress) of the shotgun.

[IMG]http://i275.photobucket.com/album
s/jj304/Argoon/wip_IM_shotgun.png[/IMG]

@Argoon
that looks fun to shoot people with :)

@dracogas I agree, except... wait... WHERES THE TRIGGER?? just kidding. It looks good so far Argoon ;)

@ aevaris would there be a possiblibily the flame from the flame thrower might get too hot and start burning parts of the users body and/or clothing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dmE-emrrAs

The Marines of World War II didn't seem to have that problem haha. Although, it is true that because of the higher oxygen content in the air(assuming most of the air in the space station/ship is almost pure oxygen or recycled), there would be a bigger flame. I would think a flamethrower is still usable though, seeing as the flame is projected away from the user regardless.

true and i wonder what type of fuel the flamethrowers would use since the fuel they use now is a mixture of gas and diesel

@MadMule I am not 100% sure, but I would expect that the flame would still be useable, just more dangerous a weapon. And with the proper tweaking for space ship/station use, it could be quite a deadly little bugger :-P

hehe the ultimate pest control :D

unfortunately, you'd need a lot more firepower to control pests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xk9mzYLcTs

Nice shotgun!!!

@dracogas well it depends on the size of flame thrower but with that type of pest a flamethrower may not be a good idea

Looks great guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great picture for POTW 0008. Kind of like I said on Facebook, it tells a bit of a story lol.

Picture of the Week 0008.

Gå ind i Mega Megalodon, 1st person.

Loving the phrase.

Awesome artwork guys. Some more detail and it could be a comic :P

Maybe instead of making the IM: Prologue slice playable, have it as a comic. Tells a story and is probably cheaper. I'm sure we'll have enough slices to know what gameplay is like by the time we hit Prologue.

First IG picture. Very nice looking, although it is a bit dated. Is that on Unity or Unreal?

The last picture, is it in game footage? if so then the blood on the walls looks awesome =)

@dracogas I've been trying to make an Interstellar Marines comic cover for fun! It's not done though... but interesting idea you have there.

@Aevaris It looks to me like the Unreal footage but it could have maybe just been the same HUD. I kind of was disappointing they got rid of the slight fog in the helmet when you run, I hope they put it in later.

ooooo i like the potw number 9

@Adidas25 & luthreidrome After doing some thinking, I realized due to the age of that picture (note the 2007 copyright), it must have been the Unreal engine. So, to answer your question Adidas, it is ingame footage, but a different engine. As such, the exact game will not necessarily look exactly like that, but will look either identical or very similar. Especially static images such as blood on walls and such, I don't expect that to change at all.

Observant Aevaris, never thought of looking at that. from what I've seen of the features of Unity''s new update, Unity 3, it's going to look even better due to all the new features. Physx, beast lightmapping, etc. Here's a link for those that haven't checked it out.

http://unity3d.com/unity/engine/

Motion blur and bloom included in screenshot. >:D im sure theyll be able to do that on Unity 3.

Just know, better engines mean more development time :P

Hi everyone
When the game is released?

Thanks

Hi pgomid and welcome! The game is still in development and the release date is TBD (to be determined). For now, you can play the demo's/alpha's of runningman and bullseye. The next slice/demo/alpha will be released soonish.

Hi
Whether the project is heavy?
Or is difficult to work with Unity?

Sorry if my English is a little weak.

Thanks

The project is being developed by a 4 man team, so you can expect updates and more 'demos' or slices.
The team knows what they're doing with Unity, however, since the team is small, slices take several months to make.

Indeed, as dracogas says the team right now is only 4 people, as this project got hit a little bit when the economy crashed this year/last year and the team had to drop from 20ish to 4. However, they are fundraising and getting investors currently and things seem promising. Once they have secured investors, the team we will re-expand back to their old 20ish people in size and things will be booming as far as development goes.

I dunno how hard the unity engine is to work with. I know the recent release of unity3.0 made the teams job ALOT easier. Because unity2.0 was missing alot of things that the team had to makeup for and code by hand. However, unity3.0 has these missing elements and so the team does not have to code a lot of the special effects by hand and can go back to concentrating on the game itself.

Thanks a lot and good luck.

No problem. While we wait until the next slice comes out (sometime between now and later), you can join us on the forums, we have quite a bit of fun if i do say so myself. Sit back, have a laugh, good way to waste downtime :-P

Aevaris, the Master Greeter strikes again!

careful i hear he is a rare breed of land shark

Maybe. But you can sure he needs no poll to know the color of your underwear.

Oh i see, it still sais "CLIP", where it should say "MAGAZINE".

I'm pretty sure the game will be success. Reverberation and echo from environment - this is amazing, quick reload in zoom - great, gameplay to date is amazing, all this little pieces make a game.
I wish you guys from Zero Point software best luck and can't wait for updates. =)

Alex Danko

Great picture!! Even if it's not obvious, it's a big step forward. Thank you for posting :-)

3 hours for the bake!! The emissive materials must be the culprit there.

IMO If you guys have to wait 3 hours to see the light setup of every level them is better if you use dynamic light only, Unity has a deferred shader render (as you guys know) so you can use as many dynamic lights as you want (if they aren't shadow casting lights there is) with clever lighting placement you can have 1 or max 4 shadow casting lights per room and use the rest to simulate bounced lighting, this was how Frictional Games lighted their Amnesia game and it looked very well lighted, Real time Ambient Occlusion is also a very good way to minimize the need for shadow casting lights, and the best is that you don't need to sacrifice low end GPU's with this lighting method.
But you guys are the ones that are making the game so if 3 hours for light baking is something that you are able to accept them go for it, who am i to say other wise.

@Argoon

I like you style and trust me in terms of our long term ambitions regarding the light of IM, we've already made several attempts at creating "staged" dynamic global illumination which makes your fantastic feedback right up our ally.

Toggle and fade-able lightmaps controlled by the amount of light in a area, fake GI (pre-placed and dynamically spawned lights near emmisive and illuminated materials, electrical system which groups light-sources and power-boxes as well as a few other cool tricks and features .. its still early days but damn light is FTW! :)

Keep it tight,
ZPSHicks

Shoulder lamp like in the Aliens... :-) I'm not much into collectible items but this one looks really good.

I want one of those!! Guys please make some more!!! They look awesome.

Hello everyone
Why a little crowded areas can not?

Whether this game, also has a beautiful cinematic sequence?
If I may provide more video enthusiasts to share.

Thanks a lot all

Hey pgomid3000, there are a lot of videos in the media section if you want to check those out, but no, there is no official trailer for the game yet.

As to your first question, I don't understand what you are asking about, so could you restate or give more details of what you are looking for?

Hi and thanks for your reply
My first question

Why does the environment the details?
I'm hoping to be able to, get what I mean!
My English is a little weak.

Do you mean to ask what are the details of the game's environment? We will just have to wait and see mainly. But, the little we've seen was that there is a level aboard a spaceship, a level underground, and a level in the shark breeding facility. As to what else, that remains to be seen.

If I still missed your question, I apologize, I am trying though :)

Yes, my question was exactly the same.
Thanks

Nice picture again this week!

(I think treats supposed to be threats XD, unless were talking about strangers with candy, then it would be treats of the unkown. But careful they arent rufos :-P)

Interesting view into possible future story plots!

Homer Simpson: "Ho ho! Merry every one!" :-D

Yeah, this merry interstellar christmas picture looks cool. I like all this details and lights.

i wonder if there are any moar easter eggs besides the shark and the awsome gun

I found the black corridor but it was too dark to see anything. Still looking for that gun.

Oh, you have to collect all the presents first.

Waiting for the end of the week :)

Hhmm.. Mr. Desklet!

Please do not get your hopes up .. We're just re-releasing the Christmas level publicly so everybody interested can experience a little used xmas spirit. :)

/ZPSHicks

BEAUTIFUL rifle! cant wait to... use it.

looks evil . love it . looks like the tool spec ops would use in the future . great to see something new :)

Smooth looking rifle.

Wow. That is a sexy looking rifle <3

Nice, i'm looking forward to customizing my marine.

Same here bro.

Concept art of the Marine seems really awesome.

Glad to see these ZPS, Keep it up!

Marine power!!

hmmm i wonder if it is possible to have different classes of armor like they do in mass effect and alot of rpgs

Most likely not. Perhaps in multiplayer they may have cuztomizations and whatnot, but as for the campaign, im pretty sure they'll keep things standard.

cant wait to customize the shiit out of my armor "D"D"D"D"D:D:D:D:D:

cant wait 4 multiplaya

hmmm but once you think about it having heavier armor for a certain situatoin might be helpful

Wow, new pic looks sweet. Helps you imagine what ITO would be like if it was real in the future.

oooo i see white and....... SHINY!!!!

i really like the one to the bottom right

That new one is awesome. I wonder where in the game we see a medical center.

I love the design of the space carrier, i can´t wait to see this monster in action hehe.

Marines to power!! :P

Nice looking space carrier, i wonder if ITO has other ship classes.

@Antonio38425144

You bet the AIV class carrier comes in both Special Forces and a newer Interstellar Marines class version and we have AJV Falco (Not gonna tell what J stands for) which is space technology lightyears away from the AIV class carriers! :)

/ZPSHicks

Wonderfull, time for me to learn Unity...

Just found out about this game, can't wait to see more.

I hope guns can be given a personal touch too, so wanna be able to pain skulls on my shotgun to mark kills ^^

Fantastic stuff!

I think it would be weird with a female body and a male voice, but it's nice to know we have the option!

Nice pic.

I love the PoW 5. Feb. !
I can't explain exactly. It's difficult. :D
I like the style. No sexism, no nudity, no curves emphasis dress, like in most Fantasy games, but hell! it's just so erotic because it's so 'normal' o.o'

I love the look of the weapons in this game, they look amazing!

I'm really, REALLY looking foward to the customization. For me personally, customization is something I'd love to see more in multi-player/co-op a games. I can't wait to see how far you guys go with it!

She is beautiful, she is beautiful!!! So would propably say Andrew W.K. about last picture.
And I can only agree with him. =)))

P.S.: Hope she had got a nice voice.

@TehGreyKnight:
Then BRINK is something you wait for? :D

The new textured female marine model looks terrific, but shouldn't the chest area of the amour, be moved forward a little, it looks like the breast is being compressed, and in real life that can't be comfortable. Of course i need to see the model from the side, but in pic 0002, the chest area of the female seems to be the same as the male.

Do you mean that there is a special formed armor is necessary which gives the breast more place and more wear comfort? I personally don't think there is such a difference. Just Google for "Woman Bulletproof Vest" and look some pictures. :)

I just seemed to notice, the shark creature's textures looked a little symmetrical, try not to use a lot of symmetry for that will kill the realism. I am trying not to complain but I just want this game to be the very best it can be, keep working, it is looking great!

Also, when this is released, it will be exclusive to the Sony Playstation 3 system correct?

It comes out on PC first then consoles maybe after.

Many comments about the pics of women marines o_o

But anyways, cool pics! I like the pieces of tech.

Is there going to be any other things to shoot than a shark that can walk

But other than that the screen shot looks great :)

wow guys your artwork is cool if we will keep going like this you will make a very awesome game!!!!nice and i played the 2 scenarios and the are awesome 2

Good work guys! Keep going forward!

Like it, glad to see Coke still exists in the future :P

Maybe we should buy stock.....

Coka-Cola! :-D I wonder if they have made a new kind :-D Like with moar shugar! :-D

You know in the future.. :-p Where we are playing.. And stuff.. :-p

hmm i wonder if it would be beneficail for unity to set it up to make a game engine for you guys from what have seen the unity webplayer has the potential

what do you mean madmule? Unity pretty much is a game engine... :)

yeah that is exactly what unity is, a game engine

Picture of the Week 0020 looks awesome!

meaning is there a way of using unity outside of a web browser game

Fantastic.

I love the new female marine images!

looking forward to the nextgen of the bay.

Regards.

Yes, Unity does exist outside of a browser, its just the slices released so far have been web-based due to accessibility. The final game will not be web-based.

Waiting for the Bay. When it's done, can we have it like we had the Christmas map thing (a downloadable preview in the Briefing Room)? That'd be awesome.
For some reason, pic 0014 makes me think of thousands of possible mini-screamers in such dark corridors D:
Also, I didn't know we still had Coke in the future. Maybe it could be used as bait, to get rid of Shark Creatures...? Dunno, just sayin'.

Either way, can't wait for next Monday. Have a good week, guys!

Ha Ha, good job putting this on Kongregate, thats how I found out about this game! :D

yes! I freaking love coke. and yeah, I like the idea of making it interactive like the christmas map too.

Where is the picture of the week 21?

@Desklet at the top of the page? XD

hey can the shotgun and pistol be put in the bullseye cause getting the mods for the sub-gun it good but using different weapons would be awesome.

hey nice game.amazing pics.

Picture 22: Seems as if they are wearing some sort of Rain Suit. Actually I thought that you wouldn't need something like that with the "normal suit". But somehow it looks as if there would happen something bad the next few seconds...

Nice, my favourite picture in a while. ^^

awesome ! picture (4. march 2011) finally some story :)

Concerning PotW #0022: <3 the reference to Nordic Mythology, and, I was wondering, is there anything just visible in the shadows waiting to pounce on the marines? Just wondering if I missed anything, cheers on the awesome pic.

well, i didn't belive it when i found out this was made by a 4 man team! nice work guys. very nice work.




i would join spearhead, but i don't have a credit card, and my parents won't let me. :(

@ nokama welcome to the ranks of the interstellar marines Aevaris will be by shortly to greet you

i think

Pretty cool

Haha, thanks for the intro MadMule, for the sake of the comments here (and the fact they dont allow hyperlinks), I can only do the full greeting on the forums (which I highly encourage any new folks to check out, its much more lively there :-P)

But indeed, this new pic is absolutely awesome and welcome to all newcomers :D

Awesome looking map! Great job!

It's good to see a female character in a game wearing practical armor and not suffering from, as the doctors call it, football boobs.

Will there also be a option to play as different races?

is it finle her now

The pictures are very detailed, it seems those who make 3d models seem to be some specialists. It seems that the whole team is a specialist team

when dose it come out.,

Picture of the Week 0019 is the reason I decided to support Interstellar Marines, and sign up. (: It means a lot.

may 16 im going to serve on one of those HUrah!! Xd

That old LED HUD is coming back right?

Because it's amazing looking.

czy ktos z was fps swirusow pisze po polsku???

amberrr that nice looking body

far cry 3 nice work ubisoft ;)

Man when is the next sample of the game im dying here need egleast pic.

What?The pic didn't come out yet but it's a new week whats going on?

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Hi guys,

Pistol looks awesome!
It would be way cool if you could use it in running man.

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