1.1 Overview
A Gate, two Birds and the beautiful Sky is a modification for Ritual's Elite Force II. It adds an all new single player adventure to the game. The story centers around Illia Ericcson, a former agent of Section 31, the Federation's most secret intelligence agency. Illia's final mission proves to be her most dangerous one yet, as she faces impossible opposition in Romulan space. You can read the script containing all the dialogs, stage directions, etc. below.
The development of Gate-Birds-Sky is coordinated by Stefan „Argyle“ Hudelmaier and Lars Tiefland who brought you the award winning Elite Force 1 mod Colony7.
1.2 Development
Gate-Birds-Sky is developed in an unusal way for a game modification (mod). It's completely open source. Not only after release, but also during development. That means that someone interested in the mod can always check on the current progress and play both the maps that are already finished and those currently being worked on. Also, you can open the maps of the mod in your Radiant (Radiant is the program EF2 maps are created with) as they are provided by us in .map format.
Everyone is welcome to help. There is work to be done in many areas: If you have a good microphone, you can record the lines of one of the characters. If you have experience at mapping, you are more than welcome to create one of the mod's eleven maps. Our characters need individual faces and clothing, so if you are good at editing and creating graphics you might want to help us in that area. Music is an integral part of the atmosphere and the intensity of the gaming experience, so we are very interested in anyone willing to contribute an mp3/wav of his or her self created music. Programmers can find employment at Gate-Birds-Sky as well, because the maps have to be scripted (movement of NPCs, cameras, etc) using a language similar to C++. Even if you are neither an experienced mapper, skinner (that's someone who modifies or creates the faces and clothes of NPCs), a musician or a programmer you can help us by testing the existing maps for bugs, offering suggestions or packing files together for release versions. Those were only examples. If you can think of something else you could do for us (create trailers, improve the homepage, create cool screenshots, or something else entirely) that's great as well and we'd appreciate the help.
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