If you’re a fan of the completely free, open-source game “Cube 2: Sauerbraten“, then you already know there’s a wealth of user-created maps to expand gameplay – with nearly all of them clever, well done, and artistically impressive. And, if you’ve followed this website, you may have already seen my first attempt at creating an expansion map – “The Land of the Lost Pharaohs“.
Never satisfied, instead of simply crossing off “Create a Videogame” from my list of things I’d like to do, I decided to create another map, and after spending almost 740 hours off-and-on over the course of the last year it’s just about ready:
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Actiontown: With the clock approaching midnight on a warm Summer night, the subway pulls into it’s last stop for the evening – “Actiontown” – a town small enough to be just about anywhere in the USA but large enough to have it own fancy computer store, popular fast food joint, a power plant, water treatment facility, a Union Hall, and even the State’s Capitol! As you enter the town things seem a little too quiet: Better forgo that taco and reach for your shotgun.
The plan is to release the level as a multiplayer game, a “Capture the Flag” version if practical, and finally as a single-player version (which are more complicated to construct).
And the name “Actiontown“? It was inspired by this song.
Update: Here’s a gallery of screenshots to whet your appetite.
Stay tuned, and
Thanks for reading!
