Author’s Note: “This is my first level for Halflife. The reason its called 101 Grunts is because their are 101 grunt enemies in the level. There is also 4 Assassins and some gun turrets.

Author’s Note:“Mark 2 is a vague sequel to my Quake map Assassin, in that you play an assassin in both. In this one you’re off to kill several scientists (as everyone likes slapping scientists round the head with a crowbar). This level features an awful lot of puzzles, and it taught me that people either love or hate puzzles. Nobody thinks they’re just ok.”

You are Gordon Freeman, a scientist working at a top secret government laboratory.

Your team is working on discovering the implications of the Chaos Theory, but so far the results have been inconclusive.

However, you have the feeling that today’s experiment may provide answers one way or another…

I was lucky enough to sit down and chat with Magnar Jenssen, the author of, amongst other things, Whoopservatory and Mission Improbable

We chat about how he got into level design and the industry, his mods, his process, the difference between making mods and retail games, plus a bunch of other things.

Magnar has agreed to follow this post, so if you have questions that I didn’t ask, he may be able to answer them for you.

Enjoy!

Aftermath casts you as a survivor in a post apocalypse wasteland.

As it starts you’ve stumbled on the, seemingly deserted, remains of an outpost of some sort.

Do what you can to survive and move on.

You play Luther Johnson, a Black Mesa scientist on the day Gordon Freeman’s Experiment goes wrong.

Explore the area and get the bad news.

Then do what you have to do to escape.

“You are, as always, Gordon Freeman. After you got that mess the scientists made under control, the scientists and the government have set up a research lab, called New Mexico Alien Reasearch Center. This lab is, of course, secret.

Maybe the questions isn’t as clear as it should be, but what I am asking about is the frequency rather than any reference to “style”. That could be a whole other topic!

To be honest, I play as much as I want as often as I want, in fact, I generally prefer it when it rains, so I don’t feel guilty sitting in front of my PC when the sun is shining.

“In a last-ditch attempt to escape Black Mesa with their lives, a militia of scientists, among them Gordon Freeman from Sector C, swarmed a small airstrip and hijacked the helicopters there, intending to fly them to the nearest major city and safety.
There were many casualties but the plan seemed to be successful – the survivors got the aircraft up and it did not appear that they were being pursued…things looked optimistic.”