{"id":259,"date":"2006-05-01T07:46:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T07:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasselaursen.com\/projects\/icon-set-selection-via-human-computation-2\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T08:07:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T08:07:42","slug":"dolores","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lasselaursen.com\/projects\/dolores\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dolores is a total conversion modification for Half-Life 2, released in March 2006, as part of the Danish academy for digital interactive entertainment<\/a> (DADIU) graduation project. A team of 11 individuals were given a month, and some loose change, to put together a playable game demo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The educational curriculum of DADIU was in its infancy in those days. I – and the team of willing guinea pigs – were effectively prototyping the venture into establishing a curriculum centered around game development. Selecting Half-Life 2’s source engine to serve as the basis for the playable game demo was – in hind-sight – probably not the best choice. Sufficed to say, Half-Life 2’s source engine is incredibly complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, picking this over-complex engine for a simple playable demo probably ended up mirroring the actual game development cycle fairly accurately as the team was quickly faced with crunch-time as well as the difficult choice of what to cut, and what to keep as the delivery deadline loomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given it’s pioneering status DADIU retains no on-line record of this production, or any prior to 2011 for that matter. Since most of the on-line resources for this project are quickly disappearing, I’ve done my best to showcase Dolores here, lest it be lost to time forever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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