Quote from SpronyOn 12/15/2015 at 9:14 AM, Sprony said:
Kieran "Bastion" Hogben - Assistant Level Designer
I'm a bit of a lurker rather than a poster now days.
But I was promoted to Associate Level Designer recently!
(could my nickname on it also be changed to Kafe please 
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Adding a basic thunderstorm event on repeat in my map, why?
Because I've been stuck on making this map look nice to release for ages and I needed to do some scripting to stay sane.
Quote from Vilham9 hours ago, Vilham said: So I had my last week at Splash Damage and my last week for now as a lead, start as a level designer at Arkane next week. Time to get immersed.
Miss you already 
Felt the same sentiment when I was playing New N Tasty recently.
Although I think I am finding that is less because the game has not aged well, and more because the remaster feels like it's several gameplay preservation passes short of release ready. - Number of times I am dying to landmines that the environment art and lighting keeps concealing with foliage, darkness and bloom.
Quote from Radu2 hours ago, Radu said: @Bastion you tell us, man. How's it going at Splash Damage? Do you have any gmod maps to show us?
Splash has been an absolutely great experience, almost hit my 2nd year, time flies by real quick.
And in regards to maps, Yes I do
Here are some pieces I had done for gmod sandboxes, mostly as favours for mates.
Handy thing about these maps was that I did get to try out a good range of themes and ideas i've been wanting to check out for a while, even made antlion sandtraps for the first time.
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And some blockout type things, not many on here since I'm just sharing images I've already uploaded, got more to show when I get home
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Also some hl2 SP scripting to make things play a bit differently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohlrj73RJsk
Was kinda curious to see if I could make civil protection not be suicide chargers. had to cheat with scripted sequences, but it's kinda functional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOkc1uKacVA
Alarms were cool as I set them up to also trigger reinforcements to arrive, so there was some impact to getting the alarm sorted early
Now that I am out of gmod sandboxes, I'm checking out a different area I was curious about.
That would be Synergy mapping, figure some HL2 Co-op maps would be a fun experience to get into, and not seen all that often.
I have wandered back over after pulling myself out of the pit that was garry's mod sandbox maps
How's things been?
I think people really wanted to get to play this map because the entire steam workshop has dropped to a snail's pace after the release for me.
Not sure why these appeal to me so much, but they're some of my favourites
A revival of a old thread I could not find anymore.
No time to explain - remastered
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=VwUbGyu8xTpfVM6s
Kholat
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=AWteCAebXeYXvwxW
Grey Goo
Quote from Beck12 hours ago, Beck said: Could people just stop sexually abusing other people already?
You'd hope that people would know this basic rule already.
new hard drive for my pc, handy to replace the one my system has been warning me about for the past month.
Only now though did I check which hard drive was being considered in bad form, it was the one holding my OS. So my sunday night is just me cloning my operating system over the new hard drive.
Yay...
update
all went perfectly, which makes a massive difference from the usual 'everything breaks' situation.
Not every game needs thousands of players spending hundreds of hours on a game for years to be a success.
Portal 2 is a bad example too as it's a puzzle game, they don't have massive amounts of replay value and Valve screwed their chances with it anyway because they decided to have monetisation focused on cosmetics rather than new puzzles. Which was the completely wrong approach.
Quote from Sprony28 minutes ago, Sprony said: Whatever happened to Source 2?
Still exists, although pretty much only serves Dota 2 at the moment, and even then only parts of S2 are used for it.
Not really had much urge to play it for the same reason as I have little interest in quake live or UT, just not a fan of arena shooters, prefer maps designed around specific objectives to play towards, rather than maps that need to fit multiple game-modes at once instead.
Stuff I saw for Lawbreakers didn't scratch any of my itches.
Quote from Beck9 hours ago, Beck said: Yeah commuting sucks but when you have an awesome job it's not so bad. My commute is about 1 hour 15 by car each way. Took me nearly 2 hours today though since there was a crash.
I guess the good thing about a train is you can get yourself a laptop and work on something if you can get a table! I've sometimes contemplated moving to the train (2 hours each way) and getting a laptop so I can work on a level or something.
Glad you're enjoying it though! Can you say what you're working on?
I honestly prefer to stand on the train for the full hour each way, I'm sitting down for 9 hours at a time so I feel like I need it.
But yeah, I've been considering a laptop, although that'l have to wait a few months so I can afford a competent one. could slap some decent singleplayer games on it or just do a bit of random writing.
rename it to "The thread of never-ending disappointment, regret and suffering"
Had my first couple days at my new job, and my god. Fucking amazing.
Only downside is the trains, left at half six tonight and got hit with delays going home, took me nearly two hours when it usually takes one.
Final image of my weekend project I swear.
Was a good mapping jam though. they raised over 4 grand for charity and I actually got something done.
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And again
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Still a bit early, only applying textures at this stage
