Hey everyone, it's me, the guy who worked on this mod. I just want to let everyone know that I'm sorry if I exhausted any form of toxicity on this page. I was a kid at the time I made worked on this mod, or at least tried to. I didn't take any criticisms or hate very well, and I sounded a little dickish back then and because of that, I hope in some way, you all can at least find forgiveness for the way I behaved back then. I know, this mod was terrible, I thought I could get away with making simple maps by just calling it an "alpha" version, and that was literally my mind as a kid, hoping to get attention like any other mod maker out there.
I had this one person make a map for me, GamerDude27 (current name) to help me improve the mod, but even I exhausted toxicity towards them. Sorry dude...
Currently I'm working on an indie game titled, the Ballad of Equis: Blue Star. I'm sure it'll be much more enjoyable. It's a 2D platformer with boomer shooter mechanics. I don't know if that's hard to imagine the way I described it, but that's what I am working on.
Maybe one day I'll take another jab at trying to build a Half-Life 2 mod, but it won't be... whatever the heck I was planning with this thing (I'm pretty sure somehow already made a mod called, Rebel Story). For all we know, I might use the Source engine to make a Ballad of Equis sequel when that day comes.
You may be wondering, what exactly made me come out today to write this? I don't know, maybe I just matured, or maybe I heard of other developers who didn't take criticism well and instead of using it to their advantage to improve they just blew everything off because they thought they were superior. The way critics described those people made me reflect on myself from back then. I haven't touched game development in so long until recently. I went through middle school, high school, and now I'm a college student. Because I'm trying to get back into this as a hobby to turn in a potential career, I felt it necessary to clean up my past so I can move on and do work without any burden on my back.
I really hope at least a lot of you understand, and I hope to look forward to an awesome future.
