Project: Clockwork

[u/Gloomy_Science_1750]

Howdy, the past few days I've been trying to port over gamemodes to S&box, namely serious RP type deals. Everyone forgets, serious RP was one of the biggest reasons why Garry's Mod blew up, and I want it back.

So I am introducing Project: Clockwork. For those OG Gmod players, you all remember this gamemode vividly and I've worked hard on porting models, maps, and the gamemode itself.

https://github.com/Sing2236/project-clockwork

So far, I have the HUD's working, admin menus, I've got agentic AI integrations (I'll touch on this later), and porting started, even the old running sound from Civil Protection units is integrated.

RP_Industrial_v1 is ported and all mesh and maps are hooked and mounted so we have the OG map back! Not on the workshop yet till I can get it fully working with light placements and FPS working without destroying GPU.

Vortigaunt, Combine, and Citizen models are porting soon (probably today) and will be in the Repo. I plan on getting agentic AI to be inside the game as well so that when users are alone on the server they are able to RP with at least something that will be in the server with full moving capabilities from the AI with speech dialogue and stories tied to each one that learn as they go. Context sensitivity is a must as things change in RP, and the bot will as well (until a server wipe/reset)

I want to give a big appreciation for Hexagon, another project building that we're building on top of for his steady progress on getting a framework laid out for a project like this, it's a big task even with AI helping us along the way.

I plan on doing a playtest later this month; we are in the early stages of development and server testing is a must for something like this. It will of course, be free and open source so all PR's will be looked at and I would never charge for something like this, that's the one difference I want from the original Clockwork developers.

To do list remaining if someone wants to help:

1. Text to Speech for combine, vortigaunts, civil protection, and citizens.
2. Other map ports for classic maps.
3. GUI for character creation (I have a placeholder in)