12/5/04 - CrackerJack

Whoa.. long time since I have updated the site... Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to all. Exams this week WOOOO!~ and I finally beat Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic which was an amazing game. Tons of fun. At the moment Im currently working a personal project and a project for Wasteland Half-Life 2. Im sure you guys will see/hear about it later from me. Anyways here is a pic I have wanted to post for quite some time.

12/5/04 - CrackerJack

You been stuck in the HL2/ Halo 2 madness too?! Hey welcome to the club .. :0. Well anyways i have been mapping my ass off lately, got into Savannah College of Art and Design. TM_Abandoned beta 3 (i think the final version) has been sent to The Specialists team for play testing. Go_Abandoned final version has been sent off to the Ghost Ops team for playtest and release.

In other news HL: Nightwatch has a released another Media update. I have new shots up in Chapter 2. Thos can be found on the Projects page, here on my site. I will be entering the Valve DM contest, i might be partenering up with people i might not be but shots will follow shortly. Till the next update :D

BTW, how awesome is HL2?!!?!?!? I absolutly love it, i cant wait for some of the mods to come out, im quite tired of CS:S i need something new and exciting like Natural - Selection or The Specialists on source... thats would be nuts!

10/11/04 - CrackerJack

Well you might be thinking... wtf took you long enough to update the site. And for those of you who might be thinking.... I agree. Life is busy, and the body is lazy. Would that be considered an excuse? Actually the real excuse is that I got a new computer, which is quite amazing, never seen compiles run so fast. However, i didnt have my site on this computers hard drive, so just this weekend, I transferred it on over. So this is why i am finally posting.. good enough for you >:O

Anyways, to the news and what the hell is going on. Ghost OPs is nearing completion and all the animations are done. I am now heading their mapping department and creating a guide/faq for mappers who decide to create custom maps. In Nightwatch news were working diligently, i think everyone has hit a mappers block, or somethings going on thats causing a bit of set back, I have alot of new screens, but nothing i feel is worth showing yet. As for the Specialists, were currently half way through the beta and pushing through at a nice pace. tm_abandoned is finished and coders are fixing hte teamplay problems using my map as a basis to test.

CS: Source, is it now on everyone website? Anyways if you havent played.. play it.. i was originally not a CS fan, but the source engine, as many have said, brings it to a whole new level. HL2 should be quite exciting. But this doesnt mean ill be jumping right into the engine, i still have tons of HL1 stuff left to do. As for my D3 map, thats on a serious hualt till NW is finished.

Updates should appear more frequently now, sorry guys.

08/09/04 - CrackerJack

The Doom 3 frenzy you might ask?.. Well indeed I was apart of it.. managed to run it on my 1.3ghz P4 with a radeon 9700 hehe.. quite funny actually. Anyways that game scared the shit out of me and I started to take note on how exactly they did it. Great design in the game, the gameplay was real smooth but a bit a rough in parts (drug out some). But still, thats another game to add on to my favorites list :D. I apologize I have no pic updates for you now, I would imagin you will just have to wait for NW to be done. Oh the horror. There is another project I took up recently, helping the TS redesign some of their old maps. Right now me and PhilipK (some of you know him as Blazeeer) are currently working on rebuilding Panzibar. Its a slow process atm because he is currently in the army program and can only come back on weekends. So expect updates in the weeks. :D

07/13/04 - CrackerJack

Well guys, Big Update concerning the site. tm_abandoned, dm_ominous have been moved to the maps area with download links to both :D PX_Nebula and CTB_Monkehfrenzy also have their download links posted. You find all this in the Maps Link. I also added one new .jpg to Abandoned. Here it is. Enjoy.

::TM_Abandoned::

Also I added the HL: Nightwatch Chapter 7 to my projects. Enjoy

::HL: Nighwatch Chapter 7::

06/18/04 - CrackerJack

Wow. Its been quite sometime since I have updated the page. I apologize to all you who check the site almost everyday.. its almost been a month.. eeek!

Big news. Abandoned has gone official for The Specialists mod and will be a Capture the Flag style map. There will be editing of the outline of the map to get the proper game play some one team is not biased. I will be working with Vino, The Specialists coder, to properly get that working.

Keep checking out HL: Nightwatch for updates.. A big one is soon to come, not sure if any of my shots are going to be posted but I guess we will all have to wait and see.

Next I will be going to Italy and will return June 29th. So expect maybe one more update before I go :D

05/20/04 - CrackerJack

Hey guys, another update ;). Abandoned is in Beta 2 stage atm, were doing some editing in lighting in parts and such. It is comming along very nice, expect some updates very soon.

Nightwatch level designing is probably the most fun I have ever had, very few limits and awesome texures equal a great time. I wish I could show you some images but unfortunatly its not going down like that. Heh. : P

In other news, 2d_Chris and Nay have released Custom CS maps, De_Dam and Cs_Pipeline. Some of the best CS maps I have seen in a long time, you can check them out here: http://nay.cscentral.com

In more news, I have joined the Ghost Ops mod, it is futuristic HL1 mod, they have asked me to help in the mapping department so I of course said yes :D. I was playing through the alpha today and was quite surprized about alot. The special effects (Particle system rendering of water shooting up as you shoot it, night vision and texture sounds for bullet ricoche.) Just amazing check out the mod here: http://www.ghostopsmod.com

05/12/04 - CrackerJack

E3!!!.. Wow, the new videos from Legend of Zelda, Doom 3 and Warhammer, really knocked my socks off. They are quite impressive. Zelda being on of my favorite games, I will be sure to buy that and most likely pre-order it hehe. Though I do have XBox I will most likely get the PC version of Doom 3. Well get this, while going through and reading E3 coverage I came across a Playboy game that is being demonstrated at E3... enough said. I have also updated the Quick Links section (only on index.htm, to lazy to update the others.) with some mods that I have been working on lately.

Well in level designing news, I have joined a great mod, HL Nightwatch. It is a Single Player modification for the Half-Life engine. Some great people over there, I would deffinitly go check it out. Abandoned is comming along quite nicely and is now in.. BETA stage!!! About time it got there heh? Alright well you can expect to see lots of updates comming up with the completion of Abandoned ;)

04/18/04 - CrackerJack

OH man! It is 85 degrees outside and it's the end of Spring Break... A crisis indeed. It is sad that its finally comming to end.. but so does everything.

On a gaming and mapping subject, I just witnessed the Unreal Engine 3.0, it is absolutly amazing. I am really looking forward to all these wonderful games comming out HL2, Doom 3, Halo 2 and what ever comes out on the Unreal Engine to 3.0. Uplink is comming along, I need a tiny break so I began working on Abandoned again. You will see more pics of the section 2D-Chris has helped me out on soon, it's quite nice.

I also downloaded the Painkiller demo which meh. Yeah its what some of the new games are going to look like in game but the game play got really boring and I found it to be very repetative. So instead I started playing Splinter Cell again (amazing game), I play this till I can actually go out and buy Pendora Tomorrow, which also looks like an excellent game. The guy from UbiSoft who did the lighting for Splinter Cell, him and I have been talking and look to do something really nice for HL2. Alright guys well I am going to go and enjoy the weather. Enjoy.

04/13/04 - CrackerJack

The updates are rolling in! Alright guys, I have yet another pic of CO_Uplink, I am really taking serious interest in the map and learning alot from it. BTW, If you are skilled in the arts of web design, please contact me at Crackerjack@nuclear-dawn.net. Thanks guys. Here is the new show ;)

04/08/04 - CrackerJack

Hey guys long time no update huh? Been busy playing games and getting the 3rd quarter of school out of the way. In the mean time while I was studying I started on a Combat map for the esteemed mod Natural-Selection. Here is a pic.. Click on the pic for a link to the maps page to see more pics.

03/16/04 - CrackerJack

Its been to long since the last update. I dont have to many picture for you at the moment. Have some various projects that i have been working on and off. Hopefully I will have some updates for you here there. There are some minor updates around the site. Have a look around see if you notice them.

-EDIT: Later today I found that my contact info has changed. So please take notice at the changes. For those of you having trouble contacting me, here you go.

02/07/04 - CrackerJack

After being absent for quite some time.. I am back.. I have been very busty lately so I havent had to update.. But now its time to keep everything on track. And have usual updates. I just went to Brazil, which was an experience to remember alot awesome looking chicks and great beer. Not to much more i could ask for. I suggest you should visit it sometime soon. Im currently working on a mod that I really can't tell you about this is all i can give you:

http://www.nuclear-dawn.net/

Here in the shack of the Crackerjack I have been fondling my Hammer and popped a few things for The Specialists mod. Here I will only show one of them. Preview:

8/12/03 - CrackerJack

Hey guys i just got back from California and let me tell you that was a crazy trip, I had so much fun but i was gone for like 3 weeks so i missed everybody. Anyways expect to see some new pics up here and a huge update. At the moment im to busy fixing up a couple maps. Then you will get to see some eye candy. I really apologize for the lack of updates but expect to see them pic up. Thanks guys.

pics will go here in the next two days I promise

7/3/03 - CrackerJack

I finally got a picture up of me on the About page go check it out here.