Posts by ElectroSheep

Spent only 3 years in this industry right now but I had a lot of different style of work. Started for a small french company, then the biggest, then as a contractual for a really specific work were I was alone (the most difficult that hit my nerves so hard). Made some personal stuff during a period of unemployment then worked for an indie at home and now in a cool medium sized company in south France on a AAA.

All I can say is that I enjoyed all of those work, even if the game was shit, even if the pay wasn't that good. I can't imagined working for another industry as a main job (because games was a dream, now I want to try something else I dreamt too on the side, music or writting). And now I found the great balance between job and life even if I miss the indie vide with the cool scheduldes like Dux said, I'm working with some great people and some of my best firend and I'm starting a new life with my gf in a few weeks, someone who understand the importance of my work and that I need to do personal stuff at home, I think this help too.

And I wish someday I will get more involved in game dev, maybe my own game where I can make the story and a lot of other things than just make levels.

Hope you will find your balance guys, don't want to miss you on the core

Yeah one of the most beautifull game of early 200x

I would honestly try another engine than Source, but I'm not a really good env artist and I can't know if I will have the time.

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If we're mostly working with regards to level design, then it really has to be Source, due to the variety of games that use it and allow access to the editor.

Can't beleive something like this just happenned... WTF !! Can we just update the casualties of this crise now ?

Well well... lots of shits happenned last year for sure..

1 year ago, I left unemployment (the period when I was making csgo maps for operation Bravo ) for New World Interactive where I really enjoyed working on Insurgency for 4 months, those guys are great !! I was in a cool house with 4 people in a city where I had a lot of friends and thanks to "freelance" schedule, I made a lot of partiiiiies ! I also had my driving licence and my first car (at 27 but shhh).

On the same time I signed for a 1 year contract at Arkane Studios. So I moved to a new city called Lyon which is a great one, had my first real appartment not far from my new job and start working with some of my best friends. It's really great but I miss sometimes the indie vibes I had on INS2.

Had some small but very long health troubles during the winter but everything is fine now, also checked my eyes and they are fully operational !!

Also finally have the girl I want since several years and she is moving to my place in a few weeks (didn't expect that lol)

Now I hope my 1 year contract will end on a full time one but I have a feeling that someday I will want to work on a more personnal project, I want to be more involved in game development. I'm less involved in Mapcore since a long time now... but it's more an overall with the internet tbh..

Love U guys !

You can add sidewalks, some metal plate floors that can have some industrial purpose. And also having a blend between clean and dirty concrete could be cool

Nice Tf2 maps Cool to see some maps with the Hong Kong theme.

Since the relase of the new army, I'm loosing like 5 on 6 games wathever I tried. I really thin they are OP...

Then I had a game with the old germans :

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Already intalled it, I want to give it another ry because I really loved it. It's soooo cool to play as a team here.

This reminds me a map called cs_mari from 1.6 One of my favorites.

I really like the game and I'm happy to see new content for it. But, maybe I'm really bad but now as a soviet player with 200h of game, when I'm facing the new german army, I just loose so easily it's becoming disturbing. Also some commander you have to pay are actually a bit OP. As the one which provide you strong infantry at the beginning of a game that beat all the others diring the first 5 min, wich is enough to win a game.

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You don't have to buy the expansion so the base game should still be fine right?

yeah but you can still fight new armies, well you can't chosse to not fight them in random matchs.

Goodbye COH2, you were a good friend... until Oberkommando west come and just shit on you to the price of money. Goodbye good game, hello pay to win.

cs_sport is okay for me.

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Those are some really nice prizes for the winner!

As someone who worked on this project as a designer through the early stages, I have one piece of advice to anyone entering: go wild with the theme of your entry!

As a small team we were relatively limited in the range of environments that could be created, but as a lone designer (or a small team focusing on one map), you have no such restrictions aside from the time limit!

Spencer's roses

I would love to and I miss the time I was working with you guys But 8 weeks is just a big NO

With the succes of Warface, I want to call this article bullshit, but I don't know a lot about Crytek to be honest.

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It's a french porn video provider... well, a friend told me.

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Yeap.

In the begining of WindWaker you also wear blue until an NPC hands you the "hero" green attire, so one can assume this takes place in the first 30 minutes of the game.

Same in twilight and skyward.