Jobye-Kyle Karmaker

2/8 When working on a csgo map back in 2016, I wanted to do something clean and modern, which at the time was a theme that was still fairly uncommon. Junction was a result of that: Based on Yuuyuan station in Shanghai, Chinapic.twitter.com/GQOvh3UgQi

3/8 I also wanted players to be able to walk around on the subway tunnel leading to the station. Inspiration here came from many places, but I really liked the subway tunnels in the Division (which I was playing a lot of at the time) Of course these are based on NY subways.pic.twitter.com/xBN7OQi2ex

4/8 There was also tons of ref from other games like BF4. Siege of shanghai was a very dope map that inspired a lot of the ground surface design for Junction. (I really liked those red flags adding color to the scene)pic.twitter.com/x1EDEPmyUF

5/8 Another unique location at the time for a csgo map was a oilrig. Working on this, I discovered it's VERY hard to find oilrig pictures because it's actually illegal for employees to take them! I had to study stuff from afar or winged it as I wentpic.twitter.com/g7oVx9nHwg

6/8 Oilrigs are also SUPER visually busy, so it was a interesting challenge to design a space that had iconic callout locations. They're typically a big mess of corridors and pipe work.pic.twitter.com/lELIO2dHE0

7/8 Another old map (also fairly yellow) was Import. A vaguely located shipping dock on a Japan coast. I wanted to design a space that felt very "open" something at the time I felt csgo maps hadn't captured well; which was byproduct of how bsp makes you think about outdoor spacespic.twitter.com/lvJ5DjPSWf