Catch Up

Posted: November 7, 2009

Over the past month quite a few things have happened. First of all, Nightfall was submitted to the TF2Maps Annual Contest #3 along with everybody else’s entry. Voting begins November 5th so best of luck to everybody that entered – there are some fantastic maps!

Keeping within the same area, Nineaxis has also created a mini-site for the contest which features Nightfall as the banner and a matching in-Hammer screenshot.

In other news, I’ve also begun making a new Stage 3 for the map. This will be my third attempt so it should (in theory) turn out great especially when it no longer revolves around the rollforward mechanic and has been built from the ground up in order to compliment a more standard Payload Race. With any luck, this should be ready for playtesting next week.

I’ve also written a tutorial all about areaportals within Source. Hopefully I’ve cleared up a few things as a lot of the members of TF2Maps don’t seem to understand how they work exactly. You can read that here.

I also got a present…

Thanks Valve!