What was the actual FIRST map created for HL2?

[Eeyore]

Okay I see now. I appreciate everyone's replies. But I want to derail my own thread for a second, when did vavle cut the whole dried seafloor idea?

[Spicy]

Okay I see now. I appreciate everyone's replies. But I want to derail my own thread for a second, when did vavle cut the whole dried seafloor idea?

 
I believe around late 2002

[Eeyore]

Ah okay. But, that doesn't explain e3_seafloor.

[Spicy]

Ah okay. But, that doesn't explain e3_seafloor.

They probably reused the concept just for e3, then again i could be wrong.
The coast maps around 2003 are pretty unfinished and don't have much water if i can remember. They probably cut it around early 2004

[Mister.K]

Maybe demo_arctic?
Or c1a3 to test out the technology?

[Dredilefan4489]

i dont understand this, city_test03 and demo_arctic are nowhere near the first maps made for hl2.  there is alot more maps dated earlier in the WC mappack, theres maps from 2000 in there.

[Frying1Pans]

City test 3 is from december 2000, demo arctic is from some time in 2002

[lockyblock75]

what about the map from 1999 with combine and brush based buildings? forgot its name :P

[taucannon3000]

what about the map from 1999 with combine and brush based buildings? forgot its name :P

free tvs?

[TheRealManwich912]

I like to think it's the Borealis as it's such a simple concept that would only require one artist who knows how to make environments. The earliest were probably whatever Brotherhood of Arms had. So simple and abstract, I genuinely wonder if it's even HL. I genuinely believe HL-2 came to unofficial production from a dream Marc Laidlaw had about that damn ship.

Why is this in storyline discussion?

[VALVe_installer]

Why is this in storyline discussion?

Because, you see, in the very early stages of development, Laidlaw didn't decide much. When he began to sketch out the first drafts of the script, he was told that: “This is all good, of course, Mark, but step aside, professionals are working here!” That’s why all the early maps were created for engine tests, at least the Arctic map (Not the same as demo_arctic) was created for testing the chicks, and only then it was added to the game