Monday January 29th Check out CSRADIO!!

HI! Well I just finished talking live on CSRADIO. It was way cool. It's still going on live right this second at 9:46 EST. But you can catch the recorded version tomorrow so check it out and listen to my voice :) CSRADIO

Cya, Half-Pint

Saturday January 27th Half a Million Hits and counting!!

Hi All! I just wanted to thank everyone who likes this site. I hit Half a million hits since the middle of August, which is pretty crazy. I would also like to mention that I have added several servers to the server listings for CS_THUNDER, so if you got that map check out the listings to join up and play a real game on the map.

In other news I would like to let everyone know that I will now be working on DE_INFERNO. I actually just started putting it into 2D yesterday and it seems to be going along quite well. Hopefully inferno will be in 1.1 and hopefully I will have it mapped before its release in 1.1.

As a final note I would like to open a section showing off tactical maps. These would be tactics that you have come up with and either used my maps or someone else's to display them. I would like to create a sort of tactical gallery. If your interested send me your work and I will post the submissions up. Please note (The map must be in GIF, JPEG or BMP format. DO NOT ZIP IT! Zipped submissions will be deleted).

Heres an example of what I did for Italy.

Thanks, Half-Pint 

Tuesday January 23rd CS_ THUNDER in 2D and 3D!!!

Hi everyone! Well today I have several treats for you all. As things have turned out CS_Thunder will not be appearing in CS 1.1. However I made a 2D map for Thunder anyways. I am also releasing CS_THUNDER for all of you to download. So head over to my thunder section and check out all this plus an interview with famed CS mapper Narby aka Barney creator of ES Frantic, DE Aztec and CS Thunder. The interview includes some interesting insights to Aztec, Inferno and Thunder.

As always you can download an updated collected works PDF file (1.9 Megs).

Tuesday January 9th I'm back and I have new versions of every map!!

Wohoo I'm done thank god. Sorry for taking so damn long but the holidays really sunk my free time for my website. Ok so here's the deal! I have redone every single map, that's right, every single one! So just go download the GIFS and PDFs of my maps. For the most part I used new symbols on the maps but CS_SIEGE and CS_ASSAULT were completely redesigned. DE_VEGAS was fixed, some of you may have noticed I forgot the tunnel under the terrorist spawn point that goes up to that radio tower.

The biggest change is in my PDF files. I unfortunately found out that Adobe Distiller doesn't automatically embed fonts. Many of you may have noticed weird ascii characters in the PDF versions of my maps. Well it's all fixed now. I highly advise you download my new Collected Works (1.8 MEGS) which contains all the new PDF files. You can also grab them separately from their respective map pages.

Whew! Not done yet. Awhile ago I passed an idea by Kuso over at Logoville ( an amazing source of custom spray decals) of making a spray of one of my maps. I'm not too sure how useful this concept is but it works and Kuso did a fantastic job making it. Tell Kuso what you think! Now you'll never get lost in DUST again :) See here for what it looks in game and download it here.

I have also received many questions over the months on how to add tactics to my work. Here is a sample of a tactics plan for CS_ITALY I made for the clan I'm in (Real American Heroes RAH).

Oh what the hell I'll just tell you my secret project so you can look forward to it. I will be making a map of CS_THUNDER in the next week or so before its 1.1 release. If I can manage it I will also be mapping out the 1.1 release version of DE_INFERNO. I will keep you posted of further developments on this project.

Have a great week! Half-Pint