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It is again that time, where we look at the things done on this year.

2022 was very busy for me in real life, but I was able to do things in the end.

As usual, first goes my work on Obsidian Conflict. Most of the work has gone to programming, but also did a fair share of work on maps, textures, models, animation and even some slight sound edition. While this year we couldn't begin the closed beta, sure the next year we will!

Then in February, I entered "The Layout" map compo from Map Labs, with my Nal Sidian entry, an homage to A Place In The West.

While ultimately it didn't make it to the top, and ended being only 60% completed, people liked controlling a Vortigaunt and using beam attacks.

In June, I published on the Black Mesa Workshop, a "Pre-release Bullsquid" model recreation: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828455720

Made with the SDK 2007 mesh, the 2006 leak eye meshes, and the uncompressed textures from the portfolio of the original artist, with also several fixes and tweaks, and even a retexture for the gibs.

I always liked this one over the retail version.

While it wasn't made on this year, my map done for Jabroni Brawl 3, Datacube, was released together with the mod.

To the surprise of everybody, it ended being a very popular map, due to the verticality and ease of movement (and being played in full servers, when it was originally intended for no more than 10 players).

Later down this year, I did for OC a new Mortarsynth NPC, but I released it for everybody as well: https://github.com/MaestroFenix/new_mortarsynth

It has so many improvements, and was done fully from scratch without leaked code, that it would have been egoistic to keep it all for ourselves only:

Well, and that's pretty much the most "relevant" stuff. I also helped other mods and projects around, but there's not much to talk about, or straight up can't talk about them yet, but well, this is how life goes.