Notewell Lyons
Level Designer
She/They
Notewell is an independent game developer from Ontario, Canada. With experience in Source, Blender, and Unreal, her mission is to create fun, engaging experiences and tell memorable stories.
One of the founding members of PSR Digital, Notewell is currently engaged primarily with Peer Review, a free fanmade reimagining of Half-Life: Decay, as well as various other small projects in Source and Unreal.
CURRENT FOCUS
Level design from paper to implementation, production, 3D art, programming and narrative work on PSR's Peer Review, a fan-made reboot of Half-Life: Decay in the Source Engine.
Blueprint-based systems development, art, and animation on Jiaozi (Working Title), a first person "Half-Like" in the Unreal Engine.
PREVIOUSLY SHIPPED
Level design from blockout to implementation, 3D art, and choreography implementaion on PSR's Hazard Course, a recreation of Half-Life 1's training level for Black Mesa.
Sole developer on Stojkeholm, a singleplayer map for Black Mesa based on a previous level for Goldsource.
Sole developer on ss_stojke, a Goldsource level made for TWHL's Secret Santa gift exchange in 2011.
Sole developer on Colony 42, a(n unfinished) goldsource mod that was the first major project I ever worked on.
PROTOTYPES AND OTHER STUFF
Sole developer on Breakin (Working Title), a prototype stealth game inspired by Thief and Dishonored featuring a real-time lockpicking minigame.
Sole developer on Half-Life Report, an attempt to fix and expand the functionality of Half-Life: Source by recoding the game logic from the base Source SDK using the available Half-Life SDK as reference.
Level designer for various Actionblock maps for Half-Life 2, for possible assembly into a future mod.