SotaPoika wrote:Do you have any finished work? If you've been "tinkering with Source since Half-Life 2 came out", you should be having some maps playable at least. I don't know if anyone can really call him-/herself a 'level designer' if there are no released levels designed, where you could see how well you actually designed it.
Eitherway, welcome aboard!
My apologies for such a bold approach;
I'm still young, and I was younger still when Half Life 2 was released.
I might have been 11 in 2004.
That's just it tho, 'tinkering' as in time spent not so seriously, it wasn't until my second year experimenting with it that I thought my work would be worth posting.
Now having the attention span any kid would, I did my best to learn how to use the SDK.
This was before I knew of websites like this, Half Wit 2 or Facepunch, so I'm primarily self taught.
I don't release maps publicly, but if someone comes to me and asks how I did something, I'd let them use a decompiled VMF for learning purposes.
Currently, I'm doing my best to succeed in college, it's my first year on the video game art development team and needless to say, I'm excited and nervous, but ready.