Design Blog

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Major Website Update

It's been a few weeks since graduation and I've been working hard to make some important changes to this portfolio site. This update will be the first of several which aim to improve the accessibility of the site as well add content that has been previously unavailable.

One of the most notable changes is that the website is now larger and speced for 1024x768 resolution and above. I and several others felt that the website was a little too small to properly show off the work I've done. This means, LARGER pictures. Most of the galleries have been overhauled with much higher quality pictures and the high quality download packs also have higher resolution images (1920x1200 for several of them).

In addition to this change I've also added more of my work in the Half-Life 2 Source engine. The first one is Dead-End Freeman: Reload, which was a directed focus study map I made at the Guildhall. In addition to this map I've also added a section devoted to my Masters Thesis Project, which also involved a Source map. The map for my masters thesis was originally intended to be the prequel to the focus study map and is called Dead-End Freeman: Dead Angle.

I've removed the "Extras" section from the site since I found that the majority of the information was better suited to other sections of the website where it is more relevant. For example the design highlights mini-portfolio is not located in the same section as the project it highlights.

The last major addition this update is this design blog. Here's where I'll talk about my current and future plans in game design as well as updates for this site. I'm looking into adding videos of several of my levels soon, so check back every now and then.

posted by Saikyo at 4:18 PM