MechWarrior 2: Resource Forum

Mech 2, of course. It is, after all, the best game I ever wrote.

That image was used for the cover of an issue of Computer Games Strategy Plus , if anyone remembers that magazine. Things you can't see in that resolution are the "NO RADIO" sticker in the windshield, Blair's signature on the toe (he caught a world of ********** from management when they f...

http://blairwolf.com//portfolio/vgames/mw2/cover/madcat_a.gif Blair Wolf did a lot of the early geometry, textures, and publicity shots. If you flip the image above left-to-right, it's the Mad Cat from the original MW2 box. Besides being a hotshot graphic artist, Blair's a good friend of mine; we w...

Unfortunately, it looks like Smith & Tinker (Weisman's new outfit) isn't planning on a new Mechwarrior game Anytime Soon. They seem to be angling toward an MMORPG, probably Shadowrun. The only technical position they're seeking to fill, so far anyway, is for someone proficient in C# -- which wou...

Wetback wrote:Although I do recall playing MW2 under DOS on a P75 [. . .]

I recall writing MW2 in DOS on a 486-50.

It's running under Ubuntu. When it gets ready for the light of day, I'll post here.

It has to be kept somewhat quiet, as Activision would likely take a dim view of such a thing.

Beautiful. Chunks and everything.

This is from a new executable, translated and updated from the original mw2 source, and running under Linux.



It's not yet complete, but quite a bit of it is working.

Hello, all. I came up with the original concept for Mech 2, and I was the lead and senior programmer. I wrote the engine, all the tools, and did some of the sounds and art; this is all backed up by my online credit. The saga of its creation is a long, weird, and bloody one; someday I'll finish writi...