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HoundProtocol

A community-focused organization. We build ambitious projects: AFTERHAUL, our first major project, and two multiplayer mods: Joint Operations, online play for up to 16 in Metal Gear Solid V, and next Lost Planet 2 online again.

HP-01EST. 2026
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Projects

One main project, and the side projects we build beside it. Each has its own team and its own documentation.

Video game · In development

AFTERHAUL

A visceral offroad trucking experience for up to 8 players: a comprehensive structure, a destructible environment, deformable ground and more.

  • Players up to 8
  • Status in development
  • Community Discord
Visit the website →
Side projects02Multiplayer mods, built in the open and free
Joint Operations
Multiplayer mod · In development

Joint Operations

A multiplayer mod for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The host runs the missions, up to 15 clients share the session in the same open world. Windows and Linux. Free and open source.

  • Website 1.x
  • First playable 0.1
  • Players up to 16
  • Road to 0.1
Visit the project →
Multiplayer mod · Planned, not started

Lost Planet 2 Multiplayer

Lost Planet 2 (2010) was made to be played together: a campaign for four players and versus matches for sixteen. On PC its online play ran on Games for Windows Live. Steam sales have been paused since 2021, and an update in May 2025 removed Games for Windows Live, and official online play with it. We want owners of the game to play it together online again, and later perhaps other Lost Planet titles.

  • Co-op up to 4
  • Versus up to 16
  • PC
  • Your own copy
  • No Capcom files or assets
  • Clean-room, open source
  • Not affiliated with Capcom

Sources: Steam store page, PC Gamer, May 2025. Details and planning on Discord.

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How we work

A passion project, not a boot camp. No deadlines, no time pressure. What we ask for is care.

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Solid hierarchy

Everyone knows who decides what. Authority only flows down, and only in its own kind: social, technical or organizational.

02

Open communication

Anyone can talk to anyone, at any level. Questions, ideas and disagreements happen in the open by default.

03

Transparency

Decisions are written down with who made them and why. Roles are public. Work is credited to the person who did it, and to the tools they used.

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Structure

Organized like a unit: four departments, keycard levels from LV2 to LV7, and contractors graded E to S++ in each field.

LV6

Administration

Direction, accounts, community and moderation, recruiting.

LV5

Development

Architecture, code, merges and contract scope.

LV4

Quality

Testing on Windows and Linux, reviews, release sign-off.

LV3

Contractors

Take a contract, deliver it, leave whenever you like.

Careless work and skipped duties earn infractions at every level, leads included. Three suspend, appeals are always open. Full rules: the handbook.

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Join the Hound

Say hello and tell us what you would like to do. More positions open as our projects reach playable prototypes.

3positions open
  • Windows and Proton testersQuality
  • ReviewersQuality
All positions

Start here

Say hello on Discord and tell us what you would like to do. Hand-written and AI-assisted work count the same; AI art does not.

Not sure you have the skills? You probably do: testing, reviewing, writing and research all count. Find where you fit in five questions.