Saturday 30 August 2008

Another Map - Our House, in the middle of our street

Another map project, this time a recreation of my village. It's going to be a zombie survival map to be played co-operatively over the internet with up to 4 people (probably through Garry's Mod or something).

It's quite a large map, probably about 1/3 of a mile square. These preview pictures are only of the street I live on.



Obviously set at night, the map should be creepy and full of zombies. Think of it as a very poor man's Left 4 Dead.

Portal's Edge - Mirror's Edge E3 Demo recreated in Portal

I saw the E3 demo level for Mirror's Edge and I was blown away by it. I thought it would be a fun idea to try and recreate the level in Hammer using the Portal configuration.

I got about halfway finished with it and posted a video of it on Youtube:



Much to my surprise it got featured on Kotaku, which then helped it spread to other games websites. A week after posting the video it had about 200 views. As soon as Kotaku picked it up, it went up by 60,000 views in a couple of days.

This new-found popularity spurred me to complete the first section of the map, which I duly did and posted another video to Youtube:



This one's not as popular, but still good to have it there. The video says stage 1/3 which is wrong, there will only be two stages.