Aug 21, 2007

Half Life 2's Flipside

Flipside, a properly freeware total conversion mod for Half Life 2, that, as you should have already guessed, is refreshingly not another FPS variant, has been created by 12 university and art school students from Denmark, and it absolutely shows. The mod uses the Source engine to create a stunningly surreal 2D/3D setting for a platform game and then puts the player in the stylized shoes of a mental patient trying to escape the asylum, or at least the version of the asylum he actually sees.

Interestingly, Flipside constantly alters its colors and/or artwork style to portray the main character's mood changes from an almost delirious happiness to a less flamboyant despair. Then again, to actually understand what I'm talking about you should either have a look at some gameplay videos, or -better yet- download the mod itself.

Related @ Gnome's Lair: more Half Life 2 total conversions, H-L 2 & the society of spectacle, GoldenEye: Source

16 comments:

  1. Oooh! Half Life on drugs! fantastic!

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  2. now thats what gaming medium should be doing more of pushing the limits... excellent....

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  3. Hehe, well said Father, cunning and to the point.

    Exactly Mr. Elderly, and it seems such goals can only be achieved when not in the mainstream market.

    Quite a bit funnyman, quite a bit.

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  4. So I hear, but one can never be sure...

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  5. ..true... guess we'll never know.... sigh!..

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  6. nasty cough you got there.. here try this.....

    .. no it dosen't disolve in water .... you sniff it...

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  7. Mmm... issa nice. Happy thing. Lovely... Hehe. Hoho. Hihihi.

    :)

    80

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  8. Gnome please... foaming from the mouth and rolling your eyes back in their sockets... it's not cool... changing your face colour to purple though that's pretty nifty....

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  9. Eeeeeeeeeeeeerghhhh....

    (goes blue)

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  10. ...hold that.. i have to get a photo.. my grandchildren will never beleive this.... a blue Gnome... not original.. but bloody impressive....

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  11. (smiles for historic photo)

    :)

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  12. Snap!.... Snap!... excellent one for the album.. thanks Gnome...

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  13. And now one for the fireplace...

    (dresses a la militair, grabs a pitchfork)

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