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Audio Interview with Magnar Jenssen (Number 2)

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

With the recent release of Mission Improbable and let’s not forget Whoopservatory, Magnar has cemented his position amongst the great SP Source modders.

In this second audio interview (the first is here), we mainly discuss the changes and new additions to Mission Improbable

Magnar has agreed to follow this post, so if you have questions that I didn’t ask, he may be able to answer them for you.

Rick Underhill’s site is called EditPoly.Net

This podcast was live-streamed to the Podcast17 YouTube channel and is available as a video on there.

Enjoy!

5th August 2012 16 Comments

Audio Interview with Sam Combs

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

I got the chance to chat with Sam today. Sam is the author of Station 51 and A Brief Detour, he’s also made other maps for other games.

But let’s be honest we only care about SP for Source!

Sam has some of some of his portfolio over at Carbon-Made and is currently working at GameLoft.

We talk about game and level design, modding and a bunch of other stuff.

I mention that Station 51 is top of the Readers’ Recommendations for Ep2 and Sam mentions the 7 Day FPS Challenge.

Anyway, Sam may drop by, so if you have any questions you want to ask him, please post them in the comments.

9th June 2012 17 Comments

Audio Interview with Yves Richard

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Today I managed to spend some time with Yves Richard AKA Richman, the author of Hazardous Course 2 amongst others and we chatted about the mod and its difficulty etc.

We also talked about the kind of Half-Life players left around and the problems of mapping for Source.

Yves said he would drop by, so if you have any questions, please feel free to post them as comments and hopefully he can answer them.

5th May 2012 8 Comments

Audio Interview with Miikka Erkkilä

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

I’ve probably posted more of Miigga’s maps on PP than anybody else.

Well, I finally managed to arrange an interview with him and here it is.

We chat about his mapping, his maps, his map names and even why there seem to be so many mappers from Finland!

Hope you enjoy it.

If you have any questions of your own, please post them as comments and hopefully he will be able to answer them for you.

27th March 2012 18 Comments

Audio Interview with Tero Knuutinen

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

I sat down with Tero a few days ago and we recorded this fairly impromptu interview.

We talk about his most recent release, Last Zombie and then move onto his previous release Water.

Apologies for my constant “uming” and “ering” and for Tero’s mic noise.

I hope you enjoy the interview.

23rd February 2012 5 Comments

Audio Interview with Jim Partridge

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Just a few hours after the release of Daylight I was lucky enough to sit down and chat with Jim Partridge – its author.

We chat about his modding history, his blogs and of course the mod.

In fact, we go into quite a lot of detail about each main section.

I hope you enjoy the interview.

17th December 2011 7 Comments

Audio Interview with Ed Vincent

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Got a chance to sit down and have a short chat with the author of Random 17, which was his first mod!

We chat about the mod’s production and a few other things.

Ed sad he would monitor the comments and answer any questions you have.

10th December 2011 2 Comments

Audio Interview with CosmicD

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

I was fortunate to get in contact with CosmicD, the maker of The Core for a chat.

He’s not shy and once you get him started he just keeps going. Which is great, because you get to hear his views and ideas on a number of music/mod related topics.

We start in typical English fashion by talking about the weather! Stay tuned though because we do get to modding!

He makes mention of an update to The Core and I am happy to present 2 exclusive images from the new room that is being added to the mod.

Please forgive the seemingly abrupt ending, it really did end like that.

16th October 2011 7 Comments

Audio Interview with Magnar Jenssen

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

I was lucky enough to sit down and chat with Magnar Jenssen, the author of, amongst other things, Whoopservatory and Mission Improbable

We chat about how he got into level design and the industry, his mods, his process, the difference between making mods and retail games, plus a bunch of other things.

Magnar has agreed to follow this post, so if you have questions that I didn’t ask, he may be able to answer them for you.

Enjoy!

8th August 2011 5 Comments