Introduction I’m sure we’ve all experienced something similar to this: I’m playing a game or mod and something happens that the first time is quite cool and then from that point forward the level designer thinks I need to see it at almost every turn.

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Introduction In a previous post entitled Why I Play FPS Games I posted a response to a comment where I mentioned different types of people who could design levels for games. It got me thinking about designer’s lives outside the gaming world. Career Paths Gaming is still a relatively new industry when compared to movies… Read More

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Introduction I spend a lot of time looking for SP mods and maps for the games I’m interested in. However I’m not perfect and I’m sure that my database is missing lots of files. I do feel that the database is the best resource of Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods available on… Read More

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Introduction As with most of my mod stories I will start with the story told in fiction form and then explain the reasoning behind it and also give more details about the gameplay and twists/spoilers. A Rude Awakening All is dark and warm and quite and peaceful. Then suddenly: Noise, heat, light and movement……PAIN……nightmares!

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This post will discuss a possible method for amateur content delivery using Steam that would that improve the replayability of Half-Life 2 and other similar games.

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Imagine you woke up one morning with an itch in your lower back. This itch just got worse no matter how much you scratched it. Then over the coming weeks you noticed a protrusion where your coccyx is. This protrusion got longer and longer.

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A change is as good as a rest We have a saying in English: “A change is as good as a rest”. If the meaning isn’t clear to you let me explain. If you change something about your life it will have the same benefit as taking a rest. So instead of going on holiday… Read More

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I learnt today that a person I occasionally work with is colour blind. As strange as it may seem I have never met or known anyone colour blind before. He has trouble distinguishing between greens and yellows. Not bright yellow or dark green but the lighter shades.

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I’m a little older than the average gamer, not the oldest I know but still at an age where my contemporaries consider my hobby as childish. A typical Monday morning conversation could be:

THEM: “So, what did you do this weekend?”
ME: “I worked on my website”.
THEM: “Oh, I didn’t know you had a website, what’s it about?”
ME: “FPS Computer Games”.
THEM: “You still play games at your age, I would have thought you would have grown out of that by now”.

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I've just finished watching Twelve Monkeys and although I've seen it before I stilled enjoyed it. I was wondering whether the concept of being sent back and retrieved in time could be used in a game. Now I know there have been a few games where time travel is part of the story (and in… Read More

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