User profile

satchmo

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Registered:: Wed Nov 24th 2004
Website:: https://www.signalhillrotary.org
Last seen:: Thu Jun 4th 2026
Location:: Los Angeles, U.S.
Occupation:: pediatrician
Languages:: English, Mandarin, Spanish

Logins:: 4
Snarkmarks:: 1809
Forum posts:: 2039
Profile views:: 3924

Profile

I am a fifty-something pediatrician in California, soon to be an aviator. My busy life consists of seeing a lot of patients, learning to fly, exercising, and spending time with my dog.

I have been a gamer since high school (Class of 1991). Some of my old favorites include the original Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Jedi Knights, Deus Ex, No One Lives Forever 2, Medal of Honor series, Half-Life, and Unreal II.

It's been a long time since I last logged in to the SnarkPit. I don't play games anymore, except for Microsoft Flight Simulator. I am retiring from medicine and becoming an airline pilot.

I started mapping in September of 2004, with the original Half-Life engine. I have made a few Source maps since, but my mapping career came to a halt when I turned 50.

Besides being a mapper and gamer, I am also a cinephile, a jazz connoussier, a bodybuilder, a runner, a writer, and an avid reader (mostly fiction).

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett, 1983

Maps

dm_vertico_v2

Version 2 of the original dm_vertico from 2008.

dm_tidal

I converted the coastal level from Half-Life 2 to a deathmatch arena.

It has a large, open area that is divided into four levels. The gameplay is fast-paced and item placement is balanced.

There are seven spawn points.

sp_vertico

After successfully leading the Uprising against the Combine forces and obliterating the Citadel single-handedly, you have been chosen to be teleported into a strategic missile silo and infiltrate into the base.

Your objective is to trigger yet another reactor explosion that will destroy the valuable generators inside the missile base.

This is a relatively short map that takes less than ten minutes to finish. It is adapted from dm_vertico and its main purpose is to orient a new player to this multiplayer map.