Blogs - Butterblade

Hello interwebs!

Thought it might be time to post a blog. feels good. bubblewrap good.
Anyways, thanks to 3kliksphillip on youtube, I have recently begun mapping! I have been working on a post-earthquake style map for CS:GO (think BF3 Aftermath), with lots of tight areas and routes. Also, it does away with buyzones, instead asking the player to find their tools of death on the map itself. Of course, snipers will be up high and hard to find, while pistols will be easy to find etc.
However, since I'm new to mapping (and Counter Strike in general) I could use some help working out how to do certain things, and how to make an all-round fun and balanced map.
So that's where you come in!
Just leave any tips you have in the comments below.
Have fun!

So, I finally get around to installing Source Filmmaker, and what do I get? A big ol' memory issue all up in my face. See, my laptop only had, like, 13 GB of storage, but what happens? It needs 15 GB. But then I remember i have a few hundred GB set aside for movies, etc. So yeah. Learn something new every day.

Anyhow, last week I got access to the Gmod 13 beta (I only had Gmod for like, 2 weeks, but yunno, Valve time and whatnot) and it lead to a couple more discoveries. #1: Gmod 13 looks a whole lot better than any other Gmod I've ever seen (plus). #2: For the time being, there's plenty of good-old-fashioned, hug your parents, rainbows and kittens, vanilla sandbox servers (plus). Then what do i get when i open the props menu? 50% tools. Not more. Not any new. Just less. And what else? They warped the prop selection system. Fan-friggin-tastic.

Well now that the steam sale is over, I thought I would share all the goodies that I was able to grab. Their combined cost was only £11:50, and there's only 3, but I think I got a good couple.
-Deus Ex: Human Revolution- 75% off
-Garry's Mod (finally!)- 50% off
-Half Life 2 (again, finally!)- 50%
I look forward to playing these once my PC is done being butchered, and I'll probably start a forum so you can share your finds!

On another note, I recently starting thinking of a horror mod of Half-Life 2. It's working title is 'Presence', and it's set on a manor in the English countryside in 1910, starring a middle-aged couple being menaced by unseen assailants. Development has not yet started, because of reasons stated above, but have been eyeing out voice actors etc. for the project.

Signing off, hgnhfseae

Well, as many of you may know, Source Filmmaker saw it's full(!) release recently, and I have been VERY excited for this day. I previously only knew of SFM through Valves Meet The ____' series, and while I thought it looked badass, the idea that it was pretty closed meant I didn't bother looking any further.
But now it's released, I think I'm going to try my hand at some filmmaking badassery. I've got three ideas in my head: a brutal fight scene, a apocalyptic setting and something scary. Until then, YOLO.
(God I frigging hate that saying.)

So, after wading through the sea of spam in my email inbox, I decide to check out what StumbleUpon had mustered up as my suggestions for the week. So I went through the list (crappy movies, not-really-art art and yet MORE fonts...) until I found something that looked good. So I clicked on it, as you do, and discovered Seaquence. Seaquence is a bizarre music forming project, totally free, that is so addictive in nature (cue hours spent creating minecraft-esque tunes) that I had to post about it. Well worth checking out.
Link: (if it doesn't work please tell me) #mce_temp_url#

*The following is a dramatisation of my first experinece with the half-life mod, USS Darkstar*

- Sees that it actually works- :0
- Gawps like a complete derp at that fancy intro (ohhhhh, look at dem textures...)
- Spends 10 minutes mindlessly walking about the spawn area, LOLing at the bizarre voice acting.
- After shit hits the fan, repeatedly fail at killing those two zombies (damn you incinerator...).
- Goes postal on literally EVERYTHING once getting the glock.
- Plays baseball with some headcrabs.
- Walks into the cage room, sees the Gonach, has a mini heart attack, hides in a corner, and procedes to get pwned by those goddamn baby headcrabs.
- Quits game.