DOWNFALL APRIL 2019 UPDATE
Written By: Isaac

OVERVIEW

This month was a slower month for us here working on Downfall. We are taking our time as you’ve learned in the last update. The new team restructuring has begun to settle and now we’re beginning to feel control over what we want to do with this project. We want to make sure everything we make follows a unique style and nothing looks out of place in our game. We have been working behind the scenes in the engine and have made some progress there, however we can’t show you that just yet (sorry!). Instead we can show off some new concepts that Callum and Kern (Our new Co-Art Director) have worked up.
In this Update, we’re going to show off new concepts, talk about our April fools event, talk about the MCC Pathfinders Council Podtacular episode, and introduce a bunch of new team members!

NEW CONCEPTS

This month came with it, the final version of the MA39 Assault Rifle. As of right now this is the version that will be making it’s way into the game. The design is a mix of our own with Halo: Reach’s design as our project is set during the same time period and in the same system. We would love to hear feedback and thoughts on what you think of this design!

MA39 AR - Final
Up next, we have the early concepts for the M74B LMG. This LMG is an original design based on the cut weapon from Halo: Reach. This weapon isn’t your expected mounted turret or ripped turret, but instead is it’s own thing. We would love to hear your initial thoughts of this early concept so we can see if we can make improvements!

M74B LMG - Initial Concepts

OPERATION KANGAROO - APRIL FOOLS!

This past April Fools, we changed our game from Downfall: An ODST Story to Operation Kangaroo. Operation Kangaroo is a halo fan-game with the main focus on jumping. Operation Kangaroo came from the fact that the Downfall team has a lot of Australians on board. We had fun with the whole event and we hope you all got a laugh out of it as well. Don’t worry if we do something again for next years April fools, we won’t leave out the subreddit!

PODTACULAR

We were on Podtacular again recently! This time, it wasn’t about us, but instead was about MCC on PC. We were joined with many others from other amazing fan-games included but not limited to, Installation 01, Project Contingency, Coral, and more! We highly recommend you give it a watch and see what we and others think about MCC on PC and the future of Halo on PC!
You can watch it here: MCC Pathfinders Council

NEW TEAM MEMBERS!

It’s been a while since we last introduced new team members. We have had a handful of new people and today we’re going to introduce them! We have a lot to introduce so in this update we’ll just be listing them.

Kern - Co-Art Director
ImMurried - Programmer
Belle - 3D Modeler
Rt3filmz - Animator
Alexander Tar - Marketing
Scoop96 - Programmer
TBurgers - Concept Artist
MrWigglyWomps - Concept Artist
Sammiee_t - Concept Artist
FissOfFury - Concept Artist
Dax - Concept Artist

These are the newest team additions since we last introduced some! As you can see we have lots of Concept Artists on board.

LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS

As always, we’re looking for new members to join Stronghold Interactive on our Journey in developing ‘Downfall’. We are looking for specific roles at this time.

• 3D Modeling

• Programming

• Audio Engineers

• Animators
  If you or someone you know has experience in any of this four areas and are interested in helping out, please fill out the application using the link below!
  Application: https://goo.gl/forms/Xuf96JmWdrRYmm7k1