Tutus - Lost GoldSrc-powered Interactive Workplace software
Aug 5, 2022 2:21:31 GMT
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Post by wadmodderpudu on Aug 5, 2022 2:21:31 GMT
Alot of us are familiar with the GoldSrc engine, a fork of id Software's Quake 1 engine that was the engine used to power Valve's 1998 First Person Shooter game Half-Life, which became a smash hit towards the press, and is still widely regarded as the best game of all time.
As we all know how successful Half-Life was, the modding scene for the game has been in full circle since the release of the game's SDK tools and in 1999 shortly after the release of Team Fortress Classic, and still has a dedicated modding community to this, resulting in the creation of popular mods like They Hunger, Wanted!, Poke646, Heart of Evil, The Specialists, as well as two projects that started off as Half-Life mods that were picked up by Valve, those being Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat.
But it wasn't just the modding scene, the GoldSrc engine was also licensed to at least two other game developers. The first being Gearbox Software, which developed the two official Half-Life expansion packs Opposing Force and Blue Shift, the console port of Half-Life for the PlayStation 2 (as well as one that was never released but otherwise leaked for the Dreamcast), as well as the lackluster PC version of James Bond 007: Nightfire which used a modified version of GoldSrc. The second developer being Rewolf Software, which developed Gunman Chronicles which Valve did have involvement with but has never rereleased that game in any form on Steam despite owning the rights to Gunman Chronicles.
However, at least one other developer was also planning to use GoldSrc in a commercial software, that developer being Maverick Developments. They were a British-based group of developers who you might know for their works on three single-player mods for Half-Life, those are Drug Barons, Redemption which was bundled with the original retail version of Counter-Strike in an enhanced version called Absolute Redemption, and the aforementioned Wanted!.
Maverick Developments were to develop a commercial software powered by Half-Life's GoldSrc engine under the title (or possibly codename) "Tutus", which was developed in 2002 and touted as an Interactive Workplace software focusing on Health & Safety training.
Here's a couple of screenshots of this GoldSrc-powered software in action:
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKpc2UYAAf908?format=jpg&name=large
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKpc_VgAEG2mM?format=jpg&name=900x900
And here's a video of this GoldSrc-powered software in action:
youtu.be/O-8QEdGpwWc
Tutus was to probably be sold exclusively on Maverick Developments website and was never to be sold in stores, the estimated cost was to be at least £399.00, as we see in these images regarding the purpose of the software:
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKpdGVgAENYb-?format=jpg&name=900x900
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKp3CVcAIMY1B?format=jpg&name=small
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKpdLVoAAGnuX?format=jpg&name=medium
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKp3LVcAE9BMd?format=jpg&name=small
The software was probably sold on Maverick Developments' website up until the development group disbanded on July 10th 2007. It remains unknown if this software was released outside of the UK or not.
As of today, a copy of Tutus hasn't been unearthed to the general public, and to this day is unavailable on Abandonware websites, and it's unlikely that any CD-ROM copies of Tutus survive in UK collector's circles given that this was the most expensive GoldSrc project to buy on CD-ROM. Given the rarity of this GoldSrc-powered software, we can only hope for a copy to appear on the UK auction listings of eBay or Amazon sometime soon.
As we all know how successful Half-Life was, the modding scene for the game has been in full circle since the release of the game's SDK tools and in 1999 shortly after the release of Team Fortress Classic, and still has a dedicated modding community to this, resulting in the creation of popular mods like They Hunger, Wanted!, Poke646, Heart of Evil, The Specialists, as well as two projects that started off as Half-Life mods that were picked up by Valve, those being Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat.
But it wasn't just the modding scene, the GoldSrc engine was also licensed to at least two other game developers. The first being Gearbox Software, which developed the two official Half-Life expansion packs Opposing Force and Blue Shift, the console port of Half-Life for the PlayStation 2 (as well as one that was never released but otherwise leaked for the Dreamcast), as well as the lackluster PC version of James Bond 007: Nightfire which used a modified version of GoldSrc. The second developer being Rewolf Software, which developed Gunman Chronicles which Valve did have involvement with but has never rereleased that game in any form on Steam despite owning the rights to Gunman Chronicles.
However, at least one other developer was also planning to use GoldSrc in a commercial software, that developer being Maverick Developments. They were a British-based group of developers who you might know for their works on three single-player mods for Half-Life, those are Drug Barons, Redemption which was bundled with the original retail version of Counter-Strike in an enhanced version called Absolute Redemption, and the aforementioned Wanted!.
Maverick Developments were to develop a commercial software powered by Half-Life's GoldSrc engine under the title (or possibly codename) "Tutus", which was developed in 2002 and touted as an Interactive Workplace software focusing on Health & Safety training.
Here's a couple of screenshots of this GoldSrc-powered software in action:
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKpc2UYAAf908?format=jpg&name=large
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKpc_VgAEG2mM?format=jpg&name=900x900
And here's a video of this GoldSrc-powered software in action:
youtu.be/O-8QEdGpwWc
Tutus was to probably be sold exclusively on Maverick Developments website and was never to be sold in stores, the estimated cost was to be at least £399.00, as we see in these images regarding the purpose of the software:
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKpdGVgAENYb-?format=jpg&name=900x900
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKp3CVcAIMY1B?format=jpg&name=small
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKpdLVoAAGnuX?format=jpg&name=medium
pbs.twimg.com/media/EziKp3LVcAE9BMd?format=jpg&name=small
The software was probably sold on Maverick Developments' website up until the development group disbanded on July 10th 2007. It remains unknown if this software was released outside of the UK or not.
As of today, a copy of Tutus hasn't been unearthed to the general public, and to this day is unavailable on Abandonware websites, and it's unlikely that any CD-ROM copies of Tutus survive in UK collector's circles given that this was the most expensive GoldSrc project to buy on CD-ROM. Given the rarity of this GoldSrc-powered software, we can only hope for a copy to appear on the UK auction listings of eBay or Amazon sometime soon.
