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This is just a site for me to compile all my stuff into one place and to use as a portfolio, feel free to check out my gmod maps through the links on the My maps and other stuff page.
I've recently been getting into the tf2 mod Open Fortress, a mod which basically turns the game into quake, its pretty great and id absolutley reccomend it. I was playing it a few days ago when I ended up on a beautifully made map called dm_thames. Of course since im british I pretty much instantly fell in love with the aesthetic of the map and thought I should try making my own map using the assets from dm_thames, then I remembered the bridges I made a while ago (look in the post below this one) and now I'm a few days into a pretty intense mapping binge making a probably way too ambitious open fortress map set in newcastle upon tyne.
The map is pretty much entireley set in the area of newcastle upon tyne you can see above. I've been trying to keep the map relitiveley accurate to the real city both because I'm from the area and therefore care a lot about it being accurate but also because this is my first open fortress map and I have pretty much no idea how to lay out a balanced map, so I thought just going along with the real city would be a good starting point, because of this don't expect the map to be particularly balanced lol, though I am hoping it'll at least be fun to play on. A big part of the challenge of making a map like this is squashing down the locations into a compact map, so far I've struggled a lot to get everything I want to fit into the newcastle side of the map but I'm very happy with the result. Below you can see some comparisons between the locations in the game and in real life (shamelessly taken from google earth lol).
You can probably expect the first release of the map in a few days once I finish the basic layout of the map (the gateshead side still needs a lot of work). I'll put a blog post on here when it's done, until then thanks for reading and checking out the website!
I haven't had much time to update the site recently, I have a few ideas of things to add though so hopefully there should be more stuff coming soon. Thanks to everyone whos checked out the site!
I've always wanted a gta style game set in the uk. imo there's a severe lack of open world games set in the uk (the only ones I can think of are watch dogs legion and forza horizon 4), It's especially wierd since theres so many open world games set in modern America. Anyway this (wip) map is the result of that, I'll post a higher resolution version once it's done.
just some bridges based on the Tyne bridge and High level bridge in Newcastle upon tyne, I might make a newcastle inspired map at some point once I finish the maps below this
A scrolling train map (similar to gm_trainride by iosif, its a great map you should check it out), the map is based on the wasteland from the hl2 beta which I always thought was pretty cool. Unlike gm_trainride this map has the background scroll along in the 3d skybox, instead of using scrolling textures, this lets me have more detail in the background but its kinda a pain to set up (the entire background needs to be rotated on its side for it to work lol)
the map will be released for gmod when its done, no idea when itll be done though.
This is my next big project, a map set in the fallout universe, focusing on the area in and around shady sands around the time of FNV. You can see a bunch of screenshots of it below.
Hi, this is just a thing I put here so the blog section dosent just stay empty, I actually wrote this a while ago which is why the date is a few weeks before the site was made, anyway enjoy my incoherent ramblings about the album.
Everywhere an empty bliss is kinda like an alternate version of eateot, it experiments a lot more with vocals and mixes parts that sound like both the early and post awareness stages, kinda like an inbetween between stages 3 and 4, the tracks with vocals are especially creepy but some other bits are pretty creepy too. the album cover is pretty cool, it feels like the more you look at it the more you see (I swear there's a woman on the left), at first it kinda looked like a distorted city with the way bits flow into eachother and the gaps to what looks like a background kinda like a river or something idk. I guys you could interpret it in a bunch of different ways like maybe its a collage of all their memories or something. either way pretty cool and creepy album would recommend.