Fantastic work, Rob. 
That map is looking supernice Psy! And very cool timelapse too 
Considering how much time you put into "Dear Esther", you probably have a good idea where you are going with this by now. Do you work on it for your portfolio, for fun, something else?
Just something I need to get out of my system really. I always wanted to make a mod/game entirely solo, firstly to prove to myself I dont need some art director or producer picking over every detail to be able to make good visuals, and secondly to create something unique and emmersive that will (hopefully) be remembered for a long time to come!
I didnt realize you were doing that mod entirely all by yourself. Truly inspirational, awesome work.
Did you make the "first" version of the mod as well? I remember playing it some time back, but afaicr that was made by someone else?
The first version was made by Dan Pinchbeck (http://%7boption%7d), a teacher of experimental game design at Portsmouth uni, and a couple of his students as an experiement. The first version was pretty rough to put it mildly, but I though it had great potential and asked if I could take the design and develop it into something which was deserving of this.
Basically I started from scratch, and apart from the audio, am rebuilding everything from the ground up.
Ah okay, I'm definatly looking forward to testing the game again with better visuals and more polish =)
finished up the little XNA akuma game. Was a fun project, looking forward to doing something with original artwork.
Hey Im new here and I was lookin for some feedback on my map (house).
This is my first real attempt at creating a realistic level, before Ive just done GG and DM levels.
Any criticism is welcome, obviously
Ive been workin on my map some, .. and if u cant guess its militia themed
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The exterior is solid, but the interior needs some work.
Almost 3 weeks of constant layout revision via sketches allowed me to produce capture point B of my ABC TF2 map in hammer.
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And an early sketch of the area:
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hmm sketches 
asshole mode: that took 3 weeks? 
I don't like those giant circular towers as they seem to ruin the flow in the area.
I'm with Rick on this one, you need to spend some time picturing your level in your head before you lay it out in brushes like that or else you'll go over it and over it and over it again and suddenly three weeks have gone by and you havent even started texturing it.
Quote from Rick_Dasshole mode: that took 3 weeks?
lool, sorry had to laugh to that, made me lool so hard.
I agree with Skjalg on that one, he made a good point.
It took about 3 weeks to create and revise a complete map sketch. I whipped that in hammer in about 2 hours.
yeah I was being a dick, ignore me.
I find that spending a short amount of time gatehring referneces, and drawing a top down layout, possibly with some perspective sketches, and then moving straight on to building in 3d help get better results. You find that once you begin building in 3d the ideas you think worked suddenly don;t work, or that the spaces you envisioned don't work well in actual 3d.
As for your layout, it's hard to comment without knowing fully the flow into the area, but it looks you are going to have a hell of alot of areas to cover for the attackers. 2 routes down below could be stripped down to 1, the middle opening could be a window with minimal options for firing out of (like the end of badwater I think - the pl_ map). The entrance on the far right (in the third pic) seems to be a very easy route into an area that gives a lot of power. It all depends on what you turn those cylinders into, If they were raised platforms that could be protected from bombardment from the other openings then perhaps it would work well.
Of course it's all guesswork, needs to be played! Perhaps tf2maps.net (or whatever that site is) can provide some volunteers for testing?
Unfortunately, after a recent blog post by valve, our servers have been held hostage by the general public, and the contest rotation.
And about the far right path, I wanted it to be a quick path to the point but provide no higher ground for the attackers up in the middle building. Those mystery cylinders are intended to be trees.
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