Kacey

My new video on Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (specifically the kinda-cancelled but kinda-still-released version from Ritual Entertainment) is now available!

Over about 50 minutes, I critique the 12 main levels of the campaign, discuss the background and further work of each level designer on the project, and also detail Valve's messy, inexcusable handling of Condition Zero's development.

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Today is to be a rest day, but work is already underway on a longform retrospective on Midnight Club: Los Angeles...

I'm wrapping up work on a video about Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, specifically the single-player-focused version developed by Ritual Entertainment.

Many of Ritual's level designers got their start in the 90's as bedroom DOOM and Quake mappers. I expect to spend much of tomorrow digging for their levels, but these games aren't really my area of expertise, and I don't even know where to start looking. If anyone knows of good archives/resources for old usermade levels or, by chance, knows these guys' work in particular, I'd appreciate any guidance!

I don't necessarily need the files (though that would be cool!), footage is okay.

Names and handles of people I'm looking for:

Luke Whiteside aka weasl

Russell Meakim aka TheCastle¹

Thearrel McKinney Jr aka Kiltron²

Richard Gray aka Levelord³

Todd Rose aka Mr.CleaN

Chris Voss aka kanaeda

1. Specifically DOOM II and Quake series maps. Was involved with modding teams Artemis Software and WireHead Studios.

2. Specifically Quake 3 levels and the fansite 'Mean Arena'

3. GrayDOOM level pack

I love taking bits and pieces of a game's UI and design language and repurposing it for my videos. This box is a recreation of the tooltips that appear in the top right corner of Condition Zero during multiplayer matches.

Mocked this up with some friends yesterday, for a video about Condition Zero Deleted Scenes. I’m really a fan of this, except I wish I could clearly convey that the video is specifically about Deleted Scenes somehow without cluttering it… suggestions welcome.