Alterius is a modification for Unreal Tournament 2004 being developed as a senior capstone project by a group of EMAC majors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Alterius will be a single-player action/adventure set in a world dominated by biotechnology. Gameplay will feature a mix of stealth and fast-paced action as the story moves between two time periods telling a tale of betrayal, revenge, and political figures with shady pasts.

One of the major influences for Alterius is the game Deus Ex, which the Alterius team feels was uniquely successful at exploiting the opportunities for non-linear narratives present in computer game design. In a similar spirit, our goal is to let the player decide how to proceed in the world and who they wish to side with. The principal characters are not clear-cut, black-and-white good or evil, but rather, each will have moral ambiguities that the player must investigate, and in doing so, arrive at his own conclusions.

Hello, and welcome to the Alterius website! This is a sample news post to show what this site will look like once in use. To that end, I'm typing sample text to fill up this space so I can see if I need to change anything. I like the way the welcome box looks, so hopefully this'll look pretty decent too. We shall see.

Let's try a two-paragraph sample post, just to see how it looks with a decent amount of text in here. Do I need to change line spacing? Should I be putting dingbats between paragraphs, or just between posts, or what? Well, I'm not sure yet, but I think this is enough sample text for now. Time to take a look at it in action.