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Hello and welcome to my personal website, my name is Jack but I’m better known as Jack of Black Phoenix or simply Jack Phoenix. I’m a nerd, level designer, video editor, music composer, virtual photographer, web designer, writer, cheese lover and a certified cappuccino enthusiast (the certification may be made-up). Below you can find my latest releases and catch up on the videos and blog posts, if you’re interested in finding out more about me and my work, then I invite you to explore further by checking out my portfolio. You can also take a look at Virtual Gallery, or find out how to contact me for business inquiries.

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LATEST MAP RELEASE

Canvas

Counter-Strike 2

Art-loathing terrorists have entered a gallery exhibit in order to destroy what they perceive to be a threat to their cause: some shapes and colors. Counter-Terrorism unit has been tipped off by an anonymous phone call and are en-route to stop the criminals from blowing up the campus.

Canvas has been a little side project I’ve been nibbling on for a little over a year. Designed for Wingman mode of Counter-Strike, it served as a way to explore modern architecture and see how far I could push the stock assets from CS2. In the end, there are some self-made textures but 99% of the map is made with things already present in the game’s asset pool. Also available for Deathmatch mode.

LATEST MUSIC RELEASE

Title Theme (Element 64)

Half-Life: Element 64 Soundtrack

LATEST VIDEOS

LATEST BLOG POST

Look Back at 2025

Word of warning right off the beginning: this is a personal log and retrospective so be wary of sombre and unhappy tone it might take. I will start by saying the quiet part out loud: 2025 has been the polar opposite of great year, I'll go as far as to say it was the worst one out of all 30 years of my life so far - and I do not use those word lightly. There was always this feeling in my bones, that year 2025 would somehow be significant one. I never knew in what way or how, but I had just a feeling, a premonition that this one in particular would yield some things... and it did. Few of them good. Most of them bad. I'm not going to disclose everything because some of them are extremely personal but I think it's worth to take a sideways glance...