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This was wonderful to read. It reminded something that happened to me: During early 2000s me and my friend used to create custom Counter-Strike maps because we
by ZuLuuuuuu 3y ago
This was wonderful to read. It reminded something that happened to me:
During early 2000s me and my friend used to create custom Counter-Strike maps because we enjoyed mapping. We created several maps but almost none of them got played on internet servers because people liked to stick with more known maps like de_dust or cs_assault.
Maybe 10 years later somebody asked me via some messenger or email if I still had the .bsp file of a particular map of ours. I was very surprised about this message because it was so random at that point in my life, I already moved on to other hobbies than mapping. But apparently the map was a hit among Turkish internet cafes and people were looking for the BSP file to play it after internet cafes lost their popularity and everybody had internet at their homes.
- Sarkie 3y agoDo you remember the name? Might be fun to play!
- ZuLuuuuuu 3y agoThe map was cs_filistin (Palestine in Turkish). Note that I wasn't even 18 at that time and had no idea about politics. There was an official CS map named cs_iraq which looked unique to me and I just wanted to create something similar. I put all the maps I worked on to my web site with some screenshots, comments from me and my friend (in Turkish) and download links. You can find cs_filistin here: http://www.canol.info/maps/counter_strike/cs_filistin/ http://www.canol.info/maps/counter_strike/cs_filistin/ (I need to install an SSL certificate, I haven't updated the web site in years) You can find my other maps here: http://www.canol.info/maps/counter_strike/ http://www.canol.info/maps/counter_strike/
- rob74 3y agoAnother aside: I only recently made the connection between the ancient Philistines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines) and Palestine when a speech by Erdogan supporting Palestine was shown on the news and it had a slogan with "something something Filistin" in the background...
- froh 3y agoo-O thank you for pointing this out. wow and duh. it's kinda sorta obvious, in hindsight.