Part 6.

I hope all of you are doing well in your respective lives. If you remember me from LP and want to catch up, or play some games feel free to add me.

Best,
Horner

Part 5.

After that, I lightly followed the progress over the years. Polaris learned to program (and became damn good at it), and did some cool things that I saw. I tried to come back and help multiple times over the years, but we could never make it work. I think life just got in the way for Polaris, and I can attest to the fact that trying to do a project with the ambitions Polaris and I had by yourself is incredibly difficult.

It's sad that Life Project ended the way it did, and I take the responsibility for it on myself. To see how big RP has gotten over the course of ArmA 3 and now with GTA 5 mods, one can't help but wonder if Life Project could have been a behemoth in this space. We were certainly going in the right direction.

Part 4.

I started working on 1.0 with a similar vigor, but after a while I began to burn out. I guess I felt like I was working on things in a vacuum, and without the positive feedback loop of pushing stuff out to you guys and getting good feedback, my motivation was sapped.

Progress slowed to a halt, I went back to public school, got a social life, and stopped using my gaming PC basically altogether. Polaris tried to get the source code to 1.0 from me for several months, but honestly I had completely disassociated myself with anything to do with gaming. I ended up getting it to him, but this was super ♥♥♥♥♥♥ of me and I apologize profusely for delaying progress more than I already had. Despite all my other shortcomings over the history of the project, this is the one thing I believe Polaris has never forgiven me for.

Part 3.

The second mistake was that I decided to shut down the ArmA 2 server whilst we worked on a minimal version of 1.0 to ship on ArmA 3. My reasoning for this was that I did not want to have to continue supporting the beta while also working on 1.0. This mistake hurts me even more because not only was it stupid, and quite frankly, borderline non-sensical as I could have just stopped working on the beta altogether (bugs and all), but it was also arrogant in the fact that I thought I could achieve all we hoped for in a relatively short period of time.

To build the beta for Life Project, I think I was coding a solid 60 hours a week. I would code for like 10 hours straight at times. During the beta, I did take some time to actually play the mod, but ultimately I would get bored and go back to working on new features.

Part 2.

After a few months, the ArmA 3 Alpha released. You see, our plan since the beginning was to make a mod for ArmA 2 in order to cultivate a player base, and then to make the premier life mod for ArmA 3. Our aspirations were large, with ideas that had never been done before, and even some that I have never seen done since (albeit I have not followed the scene closely). This latter project was given the moniker "Life Project 1.0".

Now here is where I made two idiotic mistakes. The first was the decision to build 1.0 from scratch. Those of you who are Software Engineers may be cringing right now, as this is infamously known as one of the dumbest things you can do. [www.joelonsoftware.com] However, being a teenage, self taught programmer, I simply did not know any better and thought it would be easier to build all the new features we wanted on a clean slate.

Part 1.

Hey guys,

It's been a long time since I've addressed this community. Probably somewhere close to 9 years at this point. I really just wanted to say how deeply sorry I am that Life Project 1.0 never ended up happening. The other night I downloaded Taviana for ArmA 3 and gave a quick drive around and the amount of nostalgia that filled me was incredible. I figured I could take a moment to come here and explain to you all, from my perspective, what happened.

I know it seems like ancient history, but the Life Project beta officially launched at the beginning of 2013. Due to our development and admin team having an extensive history in the life mod community, we released with a lot of anticipation and a solid initial player base. Over the few months that the beta was live, our player base grew quite rapidly and all was well.

Release is soon! XD

Can't wait for release!

Its already dead since about 5-6 years. Unfortunately no progess was ever shown to the community.

I had big hopes for this. Sad to see this die.

It's disappointing that this never became a thing.

Unless i see a comment/update from Polaris personally, i have no hope.

i realy hope its not dead and hoe he is just takeing some time off

Because things change. The last post reflected that the future was unclear for what would happen. It's not my place to tell people the mod has ceased development completely, but rather to keep the community generally informed on the progress.

Things are the same as they were in January, but it's looking brighter and that's all I can really say.

And how do you come to such a statement now?

There hasn't been an official update in about six months. Things are looking a little brighter now, but nothing is set in stone. Regardless, there will be another update - at least.

@Faru No update from Never in at least a year, I agree, it's probably dead.

Dream is dead...

Hm, thats sad. I hope hes just very busy and will come back with the mod some time.

No. I haven't spoken to Polaris is easily a month now so I'm assuming things are over. I can't say for sure as I know his private life is busy but it seems over.

Any news about the status of the mod?

Ah ok thank you!

It was taken down so that when the official voice server comes up there won't be any confussion.

What happened to the discord group? Its gone for me

Not currently, no. It'll be this year but any release window would be pure speculation at this point.

so.... possible to get an estimate of when in 2018? Ive been waiting for years!!!! cant wait

There is alot cooking, all we ask for is time! Not that you guys havent given us alot of time already. The main goal is to maintain the best quality possible, and that takes time.

I been wacthing this project for years now, must be somting good cooking

Oh boy... can't wait.

oh wow! :P

:) #2018

ah i my eyes could not believe it when i loaded the LP website ! Something changed ..........................

LifeProject is still in development and progress is being made still. With the ambitions of modification and the quality we're going for, we can't just rush it out to the community in a state where the development team aren't satisfied with it.

Any further news will be posted on the Steam page until the website has been updated. Feel free to add myself or Ormond if you have any other questions :)

Not RIP. Refer to my last post.

RIP

These things, they take time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6yBHDvKUw

yo get this ♥♥♥♥ going! :D we wanna play!

!! New Life Project Announcement !! Check it out!

Happy New Year!

I dont know if you know it but they want 30$ from you to play from what i know

What a bunch of ♥♥♥♥♥!

The Project Life mod has NOTHING to do with Life project. I think its made by the guy who failed with A3L. Just the name is similiar.

Whats with the other mod named project life that psisyndicate made a video about, is it the same?

There will be a development update in May burghUK

Is there going to be any information released or has development stopped?

Well how about you try Life Project when its out? Or why else did you join our group then :p

hi I am looking for a nice police community that I could become a cop in. I am a 27 that respect other. I have arma 2 operation a.h and ts3 with a working mic. if any body know any community who will welcome me beside tcg island life who abuse new members or city life because in wont let me register I will highly appreciate it. thank you.

hey ray

playing some altis life trolling police? ;P

Yep, glad you noticed babe <3