By Alec Meer on January 7th, 2013 at 11:00 am.
With Black Mesa Source somehow now actually released, maybe we need a new impossible mod dream to dream. How about this Jurassic Park-themed mod for Half-Life 2, now six years in the making without any danger of issuing a release date? That’s how PC gaming rolls.
It does have some great footage to show off, though. Clever girl.
The team behind Jurassic Life have broken cover with the below video after almost a year of silence, and while they’ve got good stuff to show off it’s pretty clear that they’re a long way from the finish line on this. They’re also after a few more amateur devs, details on which are here.
Here’s the footage, replete with island jungles, assorted dinos to mow down with the HL2 arsenal and that theme tune.
If you believe I primarily posted this because the music made me feel a whole lot better on this first working Monday of 2013, you’d be absolutely right. For nostalgia’s sake, here’s how it was used originally.
Jurassic Life will be out when it’s done. I’ll guess that means years rather than months.
These developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
07/01/2013 at 11:03 smoke.tetsu says:
They will release next year that is if the lawyer’s don’t kill them first. I don’t care much for lawywers, do you?
07/01/2013 at 11:15 P7uen says:
Will this work on non-Windows versions of Steam, like my Mac system and my other one, I forget what it’s called.
Oh, it’s a Linux system, I know this!
07/01/2013 at 11:29 Cinek says:
Li…what!? Who cares. Most important thing is that it actually works. On a normal Half-Life 2. That is: Windows one if some fanboys of alternative OSes are unaware.
07/01/2013 at 11:44 The Random One says:
Look up there! It’s a plane! It’s a bird! No, it’s the joke!
07/01/2013 at 12:25 roryok says:
I do hope there’s a White Rabbit Object somewhere in the game. Whatever it did, it did it all
07/01/2013 at 11:52 yogibbear says:
Look what the lawyers already did to that last youtube clip by FORCING the creator to do his own cover with a Harmonica! Oh THE HORROR!
09/01/2013 at 16:14 dcguy78 says:
I don’t …really know any.
07/01/2013 at 11:03 DarkLiberator says:
If I can use a gravity gun to toss a T-Rex at a horde of raptors, then YES!
07/01/2013 at 11:05 OrangyTang says:
I still do not understand the person that says “I know what I want to do for the next few years – I’ll work on someone else’s IP for free!” It’s not like Jurassic Park is particularly unique or innovative a setting.
Still, at least it’ll be easy to reskin when the inevitable C&D arrives.
07/01/2013 at 11:19 f1x says:
yeap, I think if you avoid the use of original logos, names, etc, just for the dinosaurs and the park they cannot use you,
but of course this guys want to benefit from the popularity of an established IP like Jurassic Park is, obviously,
07/01/2013 at 11:38 Ninja Dodo says:
I think it’s more like an advanced form of fan art. If you really like a particular story or world these things are fun to work on, and good practice.
07/01/2013 at 12:36 f1x says:
Yes I dont see any problem with that,
I expressed it quite incorrectly, what I meant is if they took out all the “jurassic park” brand it would be definitely less interesting even if it was safer in legal terms in case they wanted to make profit/selling
07/01/2013 at 17:19 Urthman says:
I suspect it’s not something you can explain to someone who uses the word “IP” without irony.
07/01/2013 at 19:28 f1x says:
As said, I explained myself in a really poor way, perhaps because of my sometimes limited knowledge of english
I’m not talking here about copyrights or whatever I was just thinking (out loud) if this game would have the same appeal if its was not using the whole Jurassic Park aesthetics
and I was thinking that because someone mentioning reskinning it in case of a C&D
07/01/2013 at 11:06 The Smilingknight says:
I bet you guys didnt know that Raptors were actually as big as chicken.
07/01/2013 at 11:17 P7uen says:
And chickens were actually as big as an ostrich.
07/01/2013 at 11:33 The Smilingknight says:
No, Raptors were actually as big as todays chickens.
But those couldnt reach the door handles you see… so…
07/01/2013 at 11:52 The Random One says:
Also men were as big as men, women were as big as men, and children were as big as raptors. Those were the days.
07/01/2013 at 11:22 Crimsoneer says:
Chickens are actually pretty closely related to dinosaurs. Relatively.
07/01/2013 at 11:28 Cinek says:
Comparing to humans. No doubt.
07/01/2013 at 11:31 The Smilingknight says:
No, chickens actually are dinosaurs.
Birds ARE dinosaurs. They didnt go extinct.
Well, only the big ones did.
07/01/2013 at 13:00 Mollusc Infestation says:
I delight that this is indeed true. Chickens are literally dinosaurs. Literally.
07/01/2013 at 16:21 Matt_W says:
My 5 y/o daughter, seeing a flock of pigeons roosting on some telephone lines: “Daddy, look at all the dinosaurs up there!”
Knows more dinosaurian cladistics at age 5 than 95% of adults. My work on that front is done.
07/01/2013 at 16:58 ucfalumknight says:
That’s why everything tastes like chicken! A marvel of modern science!
07/01/2013 at 17:03 Joshua says:
When Paleantologists want to see how the dinosaurs which move along on two legs walked, they take how a chicken walks and extrapolate.
07/01/2013 at 18:46 SuperNashwanPower says:
So now we know that dinosaurs walked like they were in a minefield
EDIT: With extrapolatedly big mines
07/01/2013 at 19:33 The Smilingknight says:
@Molusc
It is a true delight, yes. A flock of birds, a simple pigeon pecking crumbs next to your feet, a sparrow, a smart raven or a crow – is a wondrous sight to behold.
They live! And it is real. :D
@Matt_W
Youve got some smart kid there. If that doesnt deserve an icecream i dont know what does.
I love to tell this stuff to the kids, watch the realization dawn, mouths and eyes going all :O.
Great stuff.
07/01/2013 at 11:46 Ninja Dodo says:
JP raptors are more like Deinonychus, but that’s harder to pronounce.
07/01/2013 at 11:52 Bauul says:
Ultra pedant mode:
True, but the “raptors” in Jurassic Park are actually Deinonychus, not “true” Velociraptors. At the time the book was written, Gregory Paul had recently reclassified Deinonychus as “Velociraptor antirrhopus”, albeit based only on his own research. Crichton used this classification, with one character stating “…Deinonychus is now considered one of the Velociraptors”. Hence they were known as “raptors”, although really it’s probably because “deinos” just sounds silly.
Edit: Darn it! Ninja Dodo ninjad me to it!
07/01/2013 at 12:21 Ninja Dodo says:
“Even Nedry knew better than to mess with the Deinos!”
07/01/2013 at 13:40 Mad Hamish says:
But Utahraptor is where it’s at.
07/01/2013 at 14:53 gekitsu says:
utahraptor comes with extra wives.
07/01/2013 at 16:18 Matt_W says:
And, having had feathers, probably looked a bit like a chicken as well, or at least more like a chicken than a lizard:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Velociraptor_dinoguy2.jpg
07/01/2013 at 18:09 Brun says:
Indeed, and in Jurassic Park 3 most of the raptors were retconned into having feathers.
07/01/2013 at 18:28 CheesyJelly says:
There is no “Raptor” dinosaur. If you’re talking about Velociraptors, you are correct – about the size of today’s chickens. Obviously this isn’t particularly scary, so they made them much bigger for Jurassic Park. However, after the film was released, a new dinosaur was discovered: the Utahraptor. And guess how big they were – yup, about the size of Jurassic Park’s raptors. So the name is the problem, not the size.
07/01/2013 at 19:37 The Smilingknight says:
Thats all very fine and dandy but JP had Velociraptors. We just use the word Raptor – because we are lazy scumbags.
07/01/2013 at 19:35 Andy_Panthro says:
Here’s the appropriate educational video about dinosaurs, with a section devoted to Jurassic Park:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vSY_rB928c
07/01/2013 at 19:45 The Smilingknight says:
:lol:
great minds think alike.
07/01/2013 at 21:30 Syra says:
Ah yes, but did you know that ‘raptor’ is the nickname given to a whole group of dinosaurs, and indeed still exists among some birds :)
I’ve been heavily ninjad but yes, the incorrectly named Velociraptors were more likely approximate to Deinonychus or Utahraptor in scale.
07/01/2013 at 11:07 Morlock says:
A mod 65 million years in the making.
07/01/2013 at 15:37 Donjo says:
You win :D
07/01/2013 at 11:21 Didden says:
Wheres the goat? WHERES THE GOAT!??? *Glass water quivers a bit*
07/01/2013 at 12:25 roryok says:
it’s just the power trying to come back on
07/01/2013 at 11:29 Ninja Dodo says:
Somewhere Jeff Goldblum is making noises.
07/01/2013 at 18:43 SuperNashwanPower says:
And vomiting into a very sugary cup of coffee whilst apologising
09/01/2013 at 13:27 Ninja Dodo says:
I am confused by that sentence, but I was making reference to Goldblum’s peculiar laugh in this film. Never mind.
07/01/2013 at 11:31 The First Door says:
So, I feel like I have to put this here:
http://youtu.be/-w-58hQ9dLk
Mostly because it’s slightly ruined that scene in Jurassic Park for me now and I feel compelled to share that feeling!
07/01/2013 at 12:15 Man Raised by Puffins says:
Also, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il85E-ms-44
Because if I can’t get the words out of my head when I hear the song, then neither should any of you.
08/01/2013 at 04:04 tengokujin says:
Sorry, I prefer these lyrics :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5_OSsawz4
07/01/2013 at 12:04 Felixader says:
Well that explains why the second video isn’t blocked by the fucking GEMA.
Does anyone know a Add-on for Firefox that prevents this from happening.
Prox-Tube doesn’t seem to work anymore.
07/01/2013 at 12:50 Zorn says:
There is an addon called Stealthy. It may be a bit slow at times, but usually it’s working.
07/01/2013 at 13:01 phuzz says:
The sister of a friend of mine had the Jurassic Park theme played at her wedding. Even more odd, the quartet playing the music had already learnt the piece for someone else’s wedding…
Her husband was in the room at the time and didn’t seem hugely enthusiastic about the music, but perhaps that was just his experience of marriage as a whole…
07/01/2013 at 14:10 Magnusm1 says:
Well, screw that guy.
07/01/2013 at 13:24 Nihil says:
The other day, I was playing Far Cry 3 and I was about to shoot a tiger. ‘Ok..’ I said to myself, then I laughed and added ‘I’ve got her’. Because that’s how cool I am.
With literally perfect comedic timing, a bear bursts out of the bush to my left and mauls me to death.
I was laughing for about half an hour, and in my mind, the words ‘Clever bear’ are now immortalised.
I feel a bit sad now, since I very much doubt any video game experience is ever going to top that.
07/01/2013 at 13:38 Stan Lee Cube Rick says:
I hope it works on Unix systems.
07/01/2013 at 14:14 Jenks says:
It can’t be better than this. I’m not even sure the actual movie is better than this:
http://jurassictourettes.ytmnd.com/
http://jurassictourettes2.ytmnd.com/
07/01/2013 at 16:33 Oak says:
Crossing my fingers so hard they’ll probably fuse together.
07/01/2013 at 17:33 Skabooga says:
Some may think it will never be released, but video games find a way.
07/01/2013 at 23:49 F3ck says:
I knew someone would, uh, find a way to shoehorn this joke in.
07/01/2013 at 18:10 Brun says:
I keep saying this in dinosaur-related game threads, but seriously – where is the Turok reboot/mod that I know everyone wants so desperately?
07/01/2013 at 18:37 SuperNashwanPower says:
A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking, and in Seattle, you get Source Engine 2.
Just ask the Black mesa team about mod rebuilds … that is, i mean to say, HURRY UP or people will be enjoying their flying cars too much to play ;)
07/01/2013 at 18:43 Synesthesia says:
hahhahaha that melodica cover is the best thing that happenned today yet. Thanks a lot!
07/01/2013 at 20:16 Dirk Beefhammer says:
I lol’d so hard
the mod looks pretty ropey so far, but quite pretty