Zeitlos Design

Gameplay Test

2010-05-08T05:25:00.001-07:00

New hills, new skies

2010-05-06T21:43:00.001-07:00

Restructured Bill's Hill entirely. Added wooden walkways and platforms. Added weather system!! And forests.

Oh hi I forgot you were there

2010-05-02T17:41:00.000-07:00

kind of dusty in here but I'll have to make due

it's been a while and like always out of nowhere I feel like making hills so there you go

new project!: Bill's Hill. Standalone survival map for L4D2.

The Survivors find themselves at the top of an abandoned watchtower outpost on a lonely hill. A small memorial dedicated to a nameless survivor sits at the center of the camp. Who is this legendary hero? Can you defend his honor as the raging horde of the apocalypse seeks to devour you all??

Exciting "hill" gameplay!
Defend Bill's honor! (Only you can!!)
Hill rhymes with Bill!

Production Halt makes File of the Week at HL2Files

2009-08-05T17:18:00.001-07:00

http://halflife2.filefront.com/

:D

Production Halt RELEASED!

2009-07-06T22:20:00.000-07:00

Finally!

L4DMaps Thread
GameSyn Thread
Interlopers Thread

Lollygagging in Photoshop - Movie Poster Revealed!

2009-06-27T19:59:00.000-07:00

Introducing the Movie Poster for Production Halt, courtesy to Adam "Supernorn" Riches for his amazing template at l4d411.

Also, the actual name of the factory revealed! NEWPORT MACHINE MANUFACTURER'S, INC.

l4d_sv_factory - "Production Halt"

2009-06-27T14:59:00.000-07:00

Latest project is coming to a close soon. I'm on the last wave of details. Gameplay, lighting, textures, layout, all of that is pretty much done. I'm very excited. This is going to be my first officially released map. Here are some pictures from the soon-to-be beta version of the newest survivor mode Left4Dead map, "Production Halt". :)

Revised Scenery - Cranes are OUT

2009-06-17T16:43:00.001-07:00

Decided against a harbor/loading dock background. Went for a city-center-scape instead.

Scenery and the Warehouse Campsite

2009-06-16T14:53:00.000-07:00

A new picture of the in-progress scenic view outside. Ships and cranes and loading docks. I threw it all together in one big mess for now.

You'll also see two new pics of the Warehouse Camp. Camps are places in L4D Survivor Mode that hold ammo stockpiles, medkits, and weapons. There are going to be two camps so far in Factory: the Warehouse, and the Office.

The survivors that came before Louis/Zoey/Bill/Francis used the Warehouse as a living space, creating makeshift platforms and bridges on top of the tall stockroom shelves. It offered them a safer place to sleep, away from susceptibility on the ground floor.

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Cranes in the Distance

Warehouse Camp

Warehouse Shelves

More Screenshots!

2009-06-15T20:19:00.000-07:00

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a higher resolution!
Pipelines

Machinery

Sectioning Off

Pumpstation

Cranes!

Lighting Effects/Alternate Arena

Factory themed Left4Dead Survival Map

2009-06-13T10:27:00.001-07:00

pl_Chasm is so last week. :/

Introducing
l4d_sv_factory!

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Office

Lobby

CEO

Entrance

Walkways

Damage

Main Arena

Minigun Nest

Second Level

Chasm Task 5/28 - Prefabbing

2009-05-28T15:01:00.000-07:00

Chasm is slowly taking form. The alternate exits out of BLU spawn have been placed and textured. Minor detail has been added.

The next task I am going to start is decompiling official Valve maps and copying specific gameplay elements out of their maps and into prefabs: payload cart, capture points, respawn cabinets, team-specific doors, etc. I'm going to nab recurring motifs out of the TF2 universe as well: lighting fixtures, composited elements (such as a desk that is made out of brushes and models), "Top Secret"/Intercom doors, glass brush/model frame doors, and others.

This will save loads of time, but feels slightly underhanded.

I could spend the next few months trying to emulate Valve's universe, or simply use theirs as prefabricated entities and use the time saved to work out my own custom additions to the TF world.

What do you think?

pl_chasm

2009-05-25T19:50:00.000-07:00

I'm starting a new project for a TF2 Payload map: pl_chasm.

It will be in a desert themed ravine/chasm with the cart at the bottom of the pit. Natural bridges and tunnels intersecting the two walls of the claustrophobic chasm will provide a vertical challenge to pushing the cart towards its objective.

Demoman, Scouts, Soldiers, airblasting Pyros and Snipers will be vicious competitors of the natural bridges high in the ravine.

Above is a reference picture from another game.

Underneath is the rough first draft for the BLU respawn room.