hey : ) - not yet, hopefully sometime this month. had to take a break for a little, but picking it back up today!

After the Final Curtain "People buy tickets to theatres, not movies." -- Marcus Loew

also, shout out to afterthefinalcurtain.net They have a ton of amazing photos of abandoned theaters that I referenced for inspiration and textures.

Here's one of the ways to access this area and another little spot as well : )

a birds eye view of a dark and ornate theater. abandoned, there is graffiti on the walls. chairs and tables are stacked up in the corners. headlights from a crashed car illuminate the right side of the large hall as well as a single light behind a dj booth with large speakers stacked on both sides.

a dark and ornate theater. abandoned, there is graffiti on the walls. chairs and tables are stacked up in the corners. headlights and tail lights from a crashed car illuminate a portion of the space. large chandeliers hang from a cracked ceiling. in the back, a warm glow from a bar

a dark and ornate theater. abandoned, there is graffiti on the walls. chairs and tables are stacked up in the corners. headlights and tail lights from a crashed car illuminate a portion of the space. large chandeliers hang from a cracked ceiling. a single light from a dj booth illuminates the main stage, large speakers are stacked on both sides.

WIP, but I made some progress on the dining hall / theater : )

this will be a central hub, so I wanted to leave it wide open for plenty of movement. still needs more trash!

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yea! i finally figured out spritemaker. its nice, since you can adjust the framerate and color, so you can get a little more mileage out of each animation : )

oh, haha, sorry, late night : ) yea, i think it could be fun in multiplayer

in keeping with the tradition of half-life mods. i put my computer in here, lol

the guy i bought it from essentially had a dozen of the same model stacked up like this

oh, that's just the default half life pistol!

for this makeshift electronics repair shop, i combined a bunch of tv's into a single model and made a bunch of animated env_sprites for the screens : )

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rundown hotel room with large red neon sign and a makeshift electronics repair shop. A large rug sprawls out at the end of the room. There is a desk with a computer and large stacks of monitors and tvs behind it

rundown hotel room with red and green light and graffiti on the walls. There is a desk with a computer and a large mounted machine gun. On the computer is a game of solitaire

Still WIP, but yesterday I worked on another hotel room. I wasn't sure what to do, but I think I've settled on some kind of makeshift electronics repair shop - Still needs more electronic clutter!

Not sure about the big gun tho, feels a little intense O_O

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The dining room at the hotel I'm working on has a small stage, so I made a green room that connects to the back. Really happy with how this came together.

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i think that's totally fair! I also think a lot of people would be very excited to find out about your show and archival project (especially those folks digging around discogs for old country albums!)

dark hotel breakroom that someone has moved into and made more comfortable with the addition of a couch, some tv's, a painting and some halloween string lights.

dark hotel breakroom that someone has moved into and made more comfortable with the addition of a couch, some tv's, a painting and some halloween string lights.

austere and dark utility hallways. a red light can be seen glowing at the end of a long dark hallway

a dark and empty laundry room with enormous commercial washing machines

I started work on some of the underground service hallways for the hotel, but got caught up on someone's little hideout in the old breakroom.

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thx! still getting the hang of making a space feel dark while trying to keep things clear enough for gameplay

A half-life 1 screenshot of a map featuring a dark bar with gold, red and teal lights. A sparse number of barstools line the bar and trash is scattered across the floor

A half-life 1 screenshot of a map featuring a dark bar with a bright pink neon sign of a fish and pendant lamps illuminated red leather booths. Paintings by Toulouse Lautrec are hanging on the wall above the booths. A cool fluorescent light illuminates the foreground. The far wall is covered in graffiti.

A half-life 1 screenshot of a map featuring a dark bar with gold, red and teal lights. A sparse number of barstools line the bar and trash is scattered across the floor. The far wall is covered in graffiti.

I made some progress on the hotel bar last night

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that's amazing! - was this difficult to do?

Over the weekend I mapped out the rooms on the right-side of the hotel. Here's a few WIP

I wanted everything to feel abandoned and repurposed, so on the top floor I have the ceiling collapsed with rain coming in, and below someone's collecting rain water for gardening.

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a Dell OptiPlex 7040 with a sticker of a cartoon octopus by the artist Evah Fan and a reflective sticker with a smiling sun

Aforementioned computer : ) I love this little thing

The guy I bought it from fixes them up in his garage He was really nice.

Hey all ✨
3 weeks ago I bought an old computer off of craigslist and have been learning how to map in J.A.C.K. Hammer.

I'm working on a large hotel map for The Specialists mod — I'll be sharing my dev progress here while I learn, so if you'd like, give me a follow : )

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