We are back from GDC and will be streaming today (Saturday) at 3:00 pm EST, with two of Insurgency’s level designers: Jeroen “Xanthi” Van Werkhoven and Zach “cincinnati” Snyder. Tune in here.
Jeroen Van Werkhoven has been with New World Interactive since before release, and has previously worked at Interwave Studios on Nuclear Dawn. He is the original designer of Sinjar, back in the mod days, and created the remakes of both Sinjar and Buhriz for the current Insurgency. He also redesigned dozens of maps including Market, Revolt, and Verticality. More recently, Xanthi has been preparing Station - the Razer and Gamebanana map making contest winner, originally created by jakuza - for its release as an official Insurgency map.
Zach Snyder has recently joined the NWI team, but has been designing and building maps for Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike: Source, CS:GO, and the original Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat mod. A professor of architecture by day and level designer by night, he submitted Tell in the map contest. We liked Zach’s work on it so much that we hired him.
Today we’ll be playtesting Station and Tell for their official release in our next update. Expect some intense Push combat, with plenty of smoke grenades. We’ll talk a little bit about the level design process and how they got started. We’ll be playing on the beta branch, so be sure to download the beta version of the game and join the server. See you in there. ːsecurityː