Stormseeker

I started making bits and pieces back in 1997 for Quake and then Quake 2 on an early version of the QuArK editor after a friend introduced me to custom maps, which spiraled after a while of playing games like Sin and Action Quake 2 and Unreal. Then I had a go at Half Life mapping on the early Hammer Editor. I also did some basic level creation in games like Age of Empires, Command and Conquer and its expansions etc. This kind of trailed off until about 2002 when I started using the Battlecraft editor to make some maps, just for bot playing, in Battlefield 1942 and Desert Combat, then Battlefield Vietnam.

Then in late 2004, I started mapping again in Hammer on HL2, first just a basic deathmatch level, then I tried some Counter Strike Source mapping, releasing my first map cs_xmas in December 2005. I'd also joined a mod team called Dawn of the Dead, which is still probably archived on moddb, and did a bit on a small mod called Birthstar Frontline, which I think they decided to go commercial, which I didnt pursue. When DotD fell through due to lack of interest, alot of the team joined the Black Mesa mod, which I joined in mid 2006 having taken some time out to deal with my second year exams at University. It's been Black Mesa ever since. I'm not currently working for a game company, although I did once get a nice email from a senior artist at Infinity Ward.

I got a 2:1 BSc(hons) in Computing and Marketing and took a teaching postgraduate, but I've not studied game design officially. Its always been a hobby, but I'm hoping there might be a level design, scripter or mission planner job out there. I've picked pretty much all the theory and art theory up as I've gone along (and probably a few bad habits). Hope your course works out well for you :)

thanks, I should really get some pictures up in here of that.

Well the SVN version of the mod is 16.3gb in size, at just over 88000 files. I should think the final version of the mod will be around the 9-10GB range, after we take all the test files out.