Team Credits: Starship Troopers 

A non-commercial production 2004
(not to be confused with the releases of the 'Starship Troopers' video games by Blue Tongue Software 2001; and Empire Interactive and Strangelite Studios 2005)

As a group without a programmer. we chose to build the game utilizing the Doom3 engine and finished the project before the D3 SDK was released. Technically this game is a mod, but due to the shoddy reputation of mods in general, we felt it was necessary to itemize the work and stress that we used no defaults, no pre-made components, and no existing art assets.

Our team started from scratch; creating all new maps, models, players, custom rigs, animations, all textures, the lighting, particles, queue decals, physics, rag dolls, sound fx,  cinematics, and we wrote all our own scripts for the AI and the above.

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Disclaimer: This was a not-for-sale or profit or paid distribution project. This  a hobby project not 
intended to infringe on copyrighted materials. This is a n0n-commercial re-creation of portions of the movie "Starship Troopers" (1997) Directed by Paul Verhoeven Writing credits (WGA) Robert A. Heinlein (book) Edward Neumeier (screenplay). This mod was created by the artists for their personal interests or as a practice exercise for their craft. 

Itemized Credits (2004)

Tamas Bates                                                       www.promiscuousbullet.com
Level Design, Scripting.
   Base construction and brush geometry
   Lighting
   AI scripting
   Physics and Rag Dolls
   Particles
   Projectiles   
   Animations: Arachnid Death (b), Pain, Dodges
   Rigging: monster skeletons
   Blood textures
   Bullet holes, scratches, dent decals.
   GUI’s
   Modeling
        Corrugated box, ammo crate, barrels
        Tower, ladders and stairs.
   Video recording
   Sound fx

Jess Bates                                                              www.jessbates.com
Artist,  Producer
   Lighting 
   Environment
   Sky box
   Modeling
          Terrain models
          Arachnid
          Guns
          Tents
          Boxes, crates, railings, misc. objects
          Rigging and skinning: Arachnid, Flier, small Beetle, Weapons
   Animation
          Arachnid leap, climb, monster dance, attack, gallop.
          Flier, all
          Small (outside) Beetle, all
          Weapons, all
    Textures
          Arachnid
          Beetle(s)
          Flier
          Tents (one texture sheet)
          Base panels, floor, misc.
          Terrain / Environment (one texture sheet)
          Title screen player
          Weapons
   Title and credit graphics
   Demo Reels

Eric Blondin                                                          www.ericblondin.com
   Modeling: Beetle
   Animation: Large Beetle cinematic sequence
   Texturing: Beetle uvw and normal map.

Anna Brunoe                                                        www.annabrunoe.com
   Modeling: tower supports, player arms, hands.
   Animation: Arachnid walk, trot, passing pose, idle, beetle walk.

Anthony Brunoe                                                   www.anthonybrunoe.com
   Modeling: Turrett gun, Rocket Launcher.
   Texturing: Turrett gun

Nathan Weikert                                                   www.nathan weikert.com
Modeling: Flier bug

Skitzo Calypso                                                     www.skitzocalypso.com
Soundtrack . 
‘Last Time’ Premeditated Acts of Stupidity, Bipolar Recordings, 2000.

BenchMark Video Productions                         www.videobenchmark.com
Video editing and compression.



Timeline: 2004
We made this mod in six weeks; spread out over several months.

June 21         Tamas just got out of school and after visiting Valve we were talking about doing a Half-Life mod, but heard that Doom3 would be released in time for QuakeCon. We already has our tickets for Texas, so we changed our minds and drew up a fast plan.

July 5            Started project.
July 31          Basic art assets and level design completed 
Aug 2           Back-ups and file organization
Aug 3           Purchased Doom3 !! played all night.
Aug 3-10      Ported materials, test. Unsuccessful!. Disaster.
                            Alternative: Record .avi’s for a video trailer
                            Format GUI’s. Unsuccessful!
                            Alternative: Create mock graphics, finish the video
                      Up all night before Quakecon editing the video trailer.
Aug 11-14     Quakecon. Awesome. Gave away some video CD's
Aug 15-21     Prep portfolio files for all the artists who helped us.
Aug 23- Sep 19 Went to Finland, came back and Tamas had to go back 
                      to High School the next day.
Nov 25-28     Complete the project  over Thanksgiving weekend?
                      Unsuccessful! Melted Tamas' Video Card.
Dec 7           We get the e-mail from Sony that says 'Please don't release your MOD".
                     Depressed, we decide to finish it anyway, but not release it so we won't 
                     get our pants sued off.
Dec 25-31st   We finally finish the MOD over Christmas break!
Jan 1, 2005    Tamas gets his college applications done. 
Jan 2-4          We are sick of playing the mod, but we have some friends over and watch 
                      Them get killed by Arachnids.    
Jan 5-15        Recorded and edit the final video trailer from finished playable..

Tamas Bates

Is a student
in Bellevue WA (near Seattle). He mostly plays games and sometimes wears a Utilikilt.

Jess Bates


Is an artist. from the Bates Motel.

Eric Blondin
Is an Artist from Yakima WA

Anna Brunoe
Is an Artist from WarmSprings OR

Anthony Brunoe
Is an Artist and sculptor  from Warm Springs OR

Nathan Weikert
Is an Artist from somewhere. He kind of comes and goes

Skitzo Calypso

Is a band from Baltimore that we've never met but always lets us use their music.
(thank you!)

Umm. Did we tell them what we were using it for?

BenchMark
Video
Is a full-service videographer and editor based in Seattle WA