I’m making a new map for Team Fortress 2. What’s interesting this time around is that I am working in collaboration with my friend IrishTaxiDriver. We’ve set up a shared Dropbox folder to keep everything in sync, and so far it’s working really well. The only problem is that he’s at least 5 hours behind me (timezone wise), and his sleeping pattern is worse than mine, so it’s a bit difficult to communicate at the moment.

This project is also giving me some more experience with using instances in Hammer. There are 5 control points in this map, and each one is instanced, allowing for easy editing and positioning (lots of angled geometry) in the final map. Continue reading →