What’s going on?
The last 6 months have been interesting to say the least, after having major surgery last year I was resting a lot and so I took this time to have a break from level design, not because I was getting fed up but because I just wanted to dig into some games and spend a bit more time with my family.
It was at this time I started chatting with a YouTuber known as Bolloxed who gave me the idea of covering the HL2 EP2 beta maps that were released into the wild, here’s the video if you’ve not seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMDt6Ho2MQ
I really enjoyed working on that video, although the quality could’ve been better it was a nice change from working in an editor all the time, so I decided to start working on content for YouTube which has been great and I’ve met a lot of awesome folks while doing it, most of the content on my channel revolves around the source engine and mods that I’ve played but I’ve not really dived back into development videos since the one above and it sucks because I want to make more.
So since the new year I’ve been mapping again and doing YT on the side and finding a balance between the two has been difficult but I feel I’m starting to juggle things around correctly, I’d like to do more development videos so that will be my next plan of attack, in the mean time I’ll continue to stream mods on Thursdays and map to my hearts content when I have a moment, apart from working on OBM I’ve actually started working on a small SP map pack for Black Mesa, it toys with a couple of ideas I’ve had for a while and It will be nice to actually release something for folks to play as the boost to motivation will keep me going that little bit longer.
Anywho, FRAG signing off.
