What was Halogen?
I gather it wasn’t a Halo mod. Halogen was not a mod of Halo. The second half of its name, “gen”, comes from Command and Conquer Generals, which is a real time strategy game EA released. For those unfamiliar with mods, Halogen was a total conversion mod, meaning that we took the existing Generals engine and removed all of the art assets, then replaced them with our own models, skins and code to create what is, essentially, a new game. How long had you been working on Halogen? I had been working on the mod since April 2003, when it was started. Other staff is newer, but most of our hard workers have been around for at least two years. How close to finished was it? Halogen was actually VERY close to finished, which makes the attack by Microsoft even worse. We had begun to distribute a closed beta test, which is a pretty big indicator we were moving into balancing stages where all of the art assets are already in-game and functional, and release was just around the corner. How many people
