put the links to resumes and such directly under the header.. being off to the side there looks tacked on and disorganized. download links should be bold or somehow brightened so they're easily visible. and like kell said, greytones aren't going to sell you or make you remembered, add a single color to the style. SPELL CHECK.

get rid of your older crappy maps, a portfolio is only as strong as the weakest thing there. get rid of the sentance "Technology doesn't come in the way of creating sound design.", sounds too much like you're trying to justify to yourself. just the first single sentance works fine. add your later q2 maps, and don't be afraid to throw any screenshots of in progress q3/d3 stuff. variety is a big selling point. 

Yeah I didn't know if I should include the crap maps or not. I should of also mention the plans for the rest of the pages.

Theres going to be q2 page, a lost maps page (with possible source to maps I gave up on), and a in progress page were I'll be showing my d3 stuff I've been working on. Also a button here.

Anyways what maps should I dump from that list? 1,3 and what else? 

What the others above said, except:

I'd say keep all the maps, the earlier ones don't look bad at all in the shots. In fact all the maps look pretty good at least, but yeah you need bigger shots.

Make the download link more obvious, have the normal underlining business on it. In fact, put the download link next to the title, or make the title a download link.

Just put Quake, not Quake One, the latter is gay.

Also, "crampt" is spelt "cramped". In fact, don't write cramped at all, write something more positive. That map looks damn good in the shots. Oh and it's "confrontations" too :P. And "players" not "plays"...lol. 

Hmm, no one else mentioned this, so maybe it's just me, but all your shots seem to have a bit too much contrast... Did you touch them up on photoshop or something? =\

Otherwise, yeah, what everyone else said.
Oh and the design at the top if fux0red in firefox, those 3 grey bands keep repeating across the page... 

I think it would be better if you picked a few less Quake maps and just picked the ones you're proudest of. On a minor note there are some fullbrights in the screenies of Say it ain't so. Maybe taking shots with a pretty engine like Darkplaces might be a good idea too, with a tiny bit of bloom and detail textures etc.

And perhaps you know this but in Firefox 1.0 the layout is screwed... the bar thats supposed to be at the left appears 4 times in parallel at the top above the text.

And yeah, it'll look better again when you add your q3/d3 stuff, your work-in progress looked pretty cool. 

There's no apostrophe in r�sum�. 

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000633029624

Sounds like ION is now closing down for good :( 

some people might have heard something about ION storm closing maybe possibly perhaps. 

some people might have heard something about ION storm closing maybe possibly perhaps. 

How come I press submit and the form clears without making a post? 

Those are his three attempts at posting we see (or rather, don't see) above here. 

RPG, did you get my email? 

Only include your best works or put more focus on the best and downplay the others but leave a link to them so that the one looking at your portfolio can look at them IF they want to but not having them take much space and detract from your recent stuff. 

what's the deal with that?
iirc, it started with morrowind -- you can't actually build any geometry, only place in prefab meshes for corridors and such.
and farcry is like this as well. no brushes no nothing, just prefab objects.

and then painkiller. you can't even build maps with the editor at all, you need to use a 3rd party program to create the geometry.

what happened to the good 'ole brush? is it better the make games without brushes?
but d3 and hl2 still are brush based... so what is going on? 

1) A lot of companies prefer to use a industry standard like Max/Maya/whatever so they don't have to maintain an internal editor and train people for it. It also allows an artist and designer to work concurrently.

2) Older engines (and some new ones like Doom3) preferred a solid representation so that they could generate a bsp and other things. Most modern engines just use trisoups that any package can generate.

3) Arguably, brushes are more trouble than they're worth for high-poly environments, especially ones with lots of organic detail. 

Necros: Brushes were hacks to allow quick building of 3d by people who didn't know 3d modelling. It's really only a few steps above building Doom maps with 2d shapes.

Newer games more and more often require more detail and with 3d modelling programs like 3d Studio Max and Maya becoming availible for even hobbiests, brushes are slowly going the way of the dino.

From experiance, I can say working on a game and having modelers do all the architecture bits in 'prefabs' while I build gameplay is a very quick way to build maps rather than having me build damn near everything and having modeller's skills be put to use only with a few neat objects here and there and characters. 

i'm just really annoyed with the lack of freedom in these games.
i'm not bothered by the fact that PK requires a map to be built in maya or 3dsmax since everything is built in there, but i couldn't understand why some games used brushes while others used poly modelling. 

Scampie: if brushes are hacks, why do HL2 and D3 still use them? is that just laziness on id and valve's part (which i find unlikely)?

From experiance, I can say working on a game and having modelers do all the architecture bits in 'prefabs' while I build gameplay is a very quick way to build maps rather than having me build damn near everything and having modeller's skills be put to use only with a few neat objects here and there and characters.
but doesn't it bother you that you don't get to do any of the geometry building anymore? 

In the words of Tyler Durden, "It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything." 

d3 is just an extension of id's older engine, I suspect they just got grandfathered in. I'd bet if Carmack were to make a fully new FPS engine, everything would be built with models rather than brushes... though id may then also with that go ahead with a new editor that does model editing directly in the program and they're instanced from the .map. It just doesn't make sense to make worlds out of blocks when most often, you only see one face of the block.

In terms on what I do here at work, no it doesn't bother me I'm not making geometry. Then again, I'm not working on a FPS game. I'm working in a tile engine, this is just a natural evolution of old 2d games that used only small sets of 10x10 2d graphic tiles to build the world from. I still build the layouts, and get to put input into what things should look like, and what objects I'll place around the level. I'm still the one who gets to decide alot of how the level will look and feel and play, just the responsiblities are broken up in a smart way. 

long ago, BSP was useful for a whole bunch of reasons, like fast tracelines for physics and lighting, visibility management, sorting polygons for correct draw order, dividing world space for various culling operations, etc.

Most of these aren't necessary anymore, but if you get rid of BSP, you still need a solution for each of these -- octrees to divide world space, manually setting up the showing and hiding of world chunks so you don't draw everything, z-buffer to handle draw order problems, etc.

It's possible that dev teams that still use BSP in their engines do so becuase the team is used to it and it still works. 

talking about func_submit buttons...

[19:34] <metlslime> and there should be a "spell check" button
[19:34] <ProdigyXL> Yes, add that. 

goddamn die already 

Fuck You Preview Button

yesyesyes 

I downloaded the source just to take a gander, not that I'll completely understand it but I'm curious about the AI and can't yet find any AI code, or at least any file that is obviously AI. So if anyone knows, where is it stored?