So, I'm making a custom Left 4 Dead map...

Mainly to flex out my game development muscles and work on a interesting project to keep me entertained.  It's going to be based around my high school senior project where I recreated my high school using the hammer editor and the source engine  

So, I'm basically bring a zombie apocalypse to my high school.

Now I know this is a recipe for a disaster, considering I do believe there's a large amount of people who would think negatively of this, which is why I'm not going to release this publicly.  There was a case not that far back where a kid actually got arrested and wasn't allowed to graduate from his high school due to him creating a replica of his own high school in counterstrike.  The police actually called by his mom, who was paranoid and worried about her son going crazy and murdering people (and potentially helping the counter-terrorists rescue the hostages).  The police came into his room and found a "weapon" which was a hammer, which is kind of ironic since the map editor itself is named hammer and he was jailed.

I don't think that would happen to me (since technically, I've already graduated) but still, paranoia is a dangerous thing and I'd rather avoid releasing this to the world because if there just happens to actually be some crazy homicidal freak who plays on this and goes and does something horrible, I'd feel like shit.

I still want to show it off though and I think the safest way would be through here. It's not finished yet, but think of this as a development blog.  I'll try and share design and art decisions and all that through here.

So what about after this?  Am I going to work on another Left 4 Dead map?  Of course!  And I'll release that one publicly because it would not be based on a real world area and it would be much more fun to work on.