City-0-Nexus | Bilal Patel

City-0-Nexus

City-0-Nexus is the level that I created using the hammer editor (used to create source games). I had only twelve weeks of prior knowledge of using the hammer editor as this was used with my other project which was to create a Team Fortress 2 multiplayer level.

I decided to use the hammer editor for FYP (Final Year Project), as I wanted to get more experience with the editor itself and wanted to see how single-player levels were done. I decided I wanted to choose the Half-Life 2 game and create a level for this.

This FYP project took around five months to be completed and to get a hang of the editor itself.

But why did I want to make this my FYP? I wanted to do this because I've always enjoyed FPS (first-person shooters), and I've always enjoyed Valve games, which is why I decided to do this.

Role(s) and responsibilities:

Level Design/Design

Created a playable level - Level starts off by spawning in a cell and the player has to fight their way out of the complex.
Looked at examples of map flows from existing Half-Life 2 maps to help with my map.
Came up with dialogues that appear on the screen to hint what the objective is.
Added sounds, such as breaking class triggers an alarm soundtrack.
Created a clear end goal of the map which is to escape from the complex.
Implementing environment puzzles.
Implementing lighting.