27 April 2009

Interview with Level Designer Chris Kay

by World of Level Design

Chris Kay is a professional level designer who comes from a strong background in multiplayer first person shooters.
Chris started his level design journey with Unreal on his dad's PC, but the core of his experience came from Counter-Strike. After getting completely addicted to the game Chris started his first level using Worldcraft.
Following the success few years later Half-life 2 was released and Chris joined modification teams, Insurgency.
Insurgency is a modern infantry combat game set around the period of the Iraqi Liberation appealed to him and after 3 years of development it released a public beta which remains one of the top modifications for Half-Life 2, it won Modification of the year award over at the popular web site Moddb and has had extensive media coverage. Magazines, television shows, radio interviews and features at IGN, Gamespot and AMD Game. Insurgency continues to expand with patches and updates planned well into the future.
Chris Kay is currently employed by Crytek as a level designer.
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