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SOF Patch and SDK Coming

Jun 12, 2000 10:25am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Rick Johnson made an update to his .plan file saying the Soldier of Fortune 1.05 patch and SDK are done, and will be released late Wednesday afternoon.

Soldier of Fortune Ports

Jun 12, 2000 7:11am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Hyperion Software has announced they will be porting Raven's Soldier of Fortune to the Amiga and Mac platforms. It's due to come out in Q4 of this year. Thanks Blues News.

SOF Diary

Jun 11, 2000 10:07am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
There's yet another Soldier of Fortune designers diary on SOF Center, where Raven programmer Keith Fuller this time talks about physical interaction in games between models, and why you aren't seeing real life physics in games. At the end Keith mentions the release of the game source code, saying it isn't "as simple as uploading it to our ftp site and mailing out the url" and to please be patient.

SOF Articles

Jun 06, 2000 4:39pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
In The Trenches has two Soldier of Fortune articles today, first is an interview with level designer Eric Biessman. There's also an article on mapping in Soldier Of Fortune, which includes screenshots from the upcoming SOF Fortress mod.

SOF Diary Part 13

Jun 06, 2000 10:32am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
SOF Center has put up part 13 of the Soldier of Fortune designers diary where programmer Keith Fuller talks about some ideas for a possible sequel.

Operation Overlord Interview

Jun 03, 2000 4:22pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
There's an Operation Overlord interview on the newly opened SoldierOfFortune.org, talking to utopia of the Soldier of Fortune mod which draws inspiration from Team Fortress and the Assault mode in Unreal Tournament.

SOF Linux Demo

Jun 03, 2000 5:20am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Demo
For all the Linux users, Loki Entertainment has released a demo of their Soldier of Fortune Linux port. You can get it from 3D Downloads or Fileplanet.

On SOF 1.05

Jun 02, 2000 6:41am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Raven programmer Rick Johnson updated his .plan file with word that testing of the 1.05 Soldier of Fortune patch (containing a "pure" server option and fixing sound issues) will start today and should be out shortly. Once the patch is out, the source code will be made available.

Soldier of Fortune Q&A

Jun 01, 2000 6:09am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
There's a Soldier of Fortune Q&A on Stomped, talking to Raven's Eric Biessman and Rick Johnson about the game now that it has been out for a while.

KennH Interview

May 31, 2000 2:37pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
Over at CheckOut, there's an interview with Raven's Kenn Hoekstra. It's mostly Soldier Of Fortune related, so they talk about John Mullins, the violence, the GHOUL tech and SOF2 (ok one question on that).

SOF Diary

May 27, 2000 10:56am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
SOF Center's Designers Diary has been updated again by Raven programmer Keith Schuler, who in this installment talks about the hit-detection and damage systems in Soldier of Fortune.

SOFFortress Interview

May 27, 2000 5:49am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
Soldier-of-Fortune.com has another interview with one of the SoF Fortress team members. The interview includes three screenshots of the Soldier of Fortune mod.

SOF Diary

May 22, 2000 11:31am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
SOFCenter has posted a new installment of the Soldier of Fortune designer's diary, which is written by Raven programmer Keith Fuller. In this installment, Keith talks about the SOF engine and how much was changed from the original Quake2 source.

SOFFortress Interview

May 21, 2000 9:07am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
Planet Soldier of Fortune has an interview with some of the SoF Fortress team members, discussing this upcoming fortress mod for Soldier of Fortune.

Raven Chat Log

May 20, 2000 9:08am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
PlanetSoldier has an edited chatlog of the recent conversation with several members of Raven Software talking about um.. games I think.

Gil Gribb Interview

May 17, 2000 7:12am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
Soldier-of-Fortune.com has a new interview with one of the Raven guys, this time talking to programmer Gil Gribb. Gil worked on the GHOUL modeling system used in Soldier of Fortune, and is now working on a PSX2 version.

Eric Biesmann Interview

May 16, 2000 4:35pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
SOF Operations's Mod Central has a short interview with Eric Biesmann from Raven, talking to him about his Soldier of Fortune and Elite Force work, as well as the mods for SOF.

SOF MAX Files

May 16, 2000 2:12pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Raven has released the entire set of 3dsMAX files for Soldier of Fortune for people to edit. There are 4 zips because of their size.

SOF Chat

May 16, 2000 8:04am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
There's a chat log on Soldier-of-Fortune.com that is from a chat with John Mullins, the "real" Soldier of Fortune and consultant of Raven Software. On May 18, Planet Soldier of Fortune will have an IRC chat with a bunch of the Raven guys, hit their page for all the info.

SOF Interview

May 08, 2000 7:56am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
Soldier-of-Fortune.com has an interview with Raven's Dan Kramer. Of course they talk about Soldier of Fortune.