Kurt Stassen is a level designer for the Counter-Strike Beta. He is the creator of Jail.
Biography[]
Kurt Stassen originally picked up level design with the real-time strategy game Warcraft II, but Duke Nukem 3D was the first first-person shooter game for which he designed levels.[1] He first got introduced to WorldCraft when he tried to design levels for Quake II and his first experience mapping for the GoldSrc engine was with Team Fortress Classic.[1]
Jail, his first Counter-Strike map, also started out as a Team Fortress Classic map but during its design Stassen felt that it would work better as a Counter-Strike map.[2] It was released as an official map with Beta 6.0 but had a quite short lifespan as it was removed when Beta 6.5 was released.
Kurt also designed several other maps, including a hostage rescue version of Jail, that he was hoping to get included officially into future releases of Counter-Strike.[3] However, none of his newer maps were ever made official. He also designed several custom maps for Counter-Strike: Source.
Stassen has also worked professionally with video games. He was employed for a few months by FIX Korea and contributed to the level design of the game Tactical Intervention.[4] In 2015, he published the indie game Spheritis on Steam.
List of maps[]
Official maps[]
| Map name | Game(s) | Responsibilities | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jail | 
|
Level designer | 2000 |
Custom maps[]
| Map name | Game(s) | Responsibilities | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battleship (de) | 
|
Level designer | 2005 |
| Beirut (cs) | 
|
Level designer | 2000 |
| Beirut2 (cs) |
|
Level designer | 2005 |
| Belemb (cs) |
|
Level designer | 2001 |
| Fort (de) |
|
Level designer | 2003 |
| Jail (cs) |
|
Level designer | 2000 |
| Kilo (de) |
|
Level designer | 2003 |
| Kilo2 (de) |
|
Level designer | 2005 |
| Logistic Assault (cs) |
|
Level designer | 2005 |
| Tunnel (de) |
|
Level designer | 2001 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Luts, Mathijs (2000-06-21). "Interview With Bluestrike". Adrenaline Gamer. Archived from the original on 2000-09-04. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
- ↑ Wezer (2000-05-13). "Interviews - Bluestrike McQueen". Counter-strike.dk. Archived from the original on 2000-06-19. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
- ↑ feNekiD (2000-06-24). "Interview with Bluestrike". CS Forever. Archived from the original on 2001-02-09. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
- ↑ Stassen, Kurt (2012-02). "Bluestrike portfolio resume". Bluestrike's Online Hideout. Retrieved 2017-05-20.