{"id":231375,"date":"2026-02-15T01:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/inside-pc-gamings-wildly-creative-tomb-raider-mapping-scene-being-able-to-create-my-own-adventures-for-other-people-to-play-is-such-an-addicting-concept"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:02:24","slug":"inside-pc-gamings-wildly-creative-tomb-raider-mapping-scene-being-able-to-create-my-own-adventures-for-other-people-to-play-is-such-an-addicting-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/inside-pc-gamings-wildly-creative-tomb-raider-mapping-scene-being-able-to-create-my-own-adventures-for-other-people-to-play-is-such-an-addicting-concept","title":{"rendered":"Inside PC gaming\u2019s wildly creative Tomb Raider mapping scene: \u2018Being able to create my own adventures for other people to play is such an addicting concept\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-pc-gamings-wildly-creative-tomb-raider-mapping-scene-being-able-to-create-my-own-adventures-for-other-people-to-play-is-such-an-addicting-concept.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that time, I had no professional experience in the videogame industry, and I didn\u2019t even really have an artist portfolio, so I made one in a bit of a rush.\u201d Nonetheless, this was enough to convince Saber, and Hatt\u00e9 joined the team as an environment artist, working primarily on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/tomb-raider-4-6-remastered\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/tomb-raider-4-6-remastered\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/tomb-raider-4-6-remastered\/\">Tomb Raider 4\u20136 Remastered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy role on the team was specifically to work on the environments and remaster the textures,\u201d Hatt\u00e9 says. \u201cIt was a life changing experience. I\u2019m incredibly grateful to have been given that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reamsters aside, Tomb Raider has been dormant since 2018\u2019s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-review\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-review\/\">Shadow of the Tomb Raider<\/a>. But late last year<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/tomb-raider-comes-to-the-game-awards-with-not-just-one-but-two-new-games-a-re-imagining-and-an-all-new-adventure\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/tomb-raider-comes-to-the-game-awards-with-not-just-one-but-two-new-games-a-re-imagining-and-an-all-new-adventure\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/tomb-raider-comes-to-the-game-awards-with-not-just-one-but-two-new-games-a-re-imagining-and-an-all-new-adventure\/\">, two new Lara Croft adventures<\/a> were revealed\u2014a second remake of the original game, and a new adventure by Crystal Dynamics pitched as a sequel to Tomb Raider: Underworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt that time, I had no professional experience in the videogame industry, and I didn\u2019t even really have an artist portfolio, so I made one in a bit of a rush.\u201d Nonetheless, this was enough to convince Saber, and Hatt\u00e9 joined the team as an environment artist, working primarily on Tomb Raider 4\u20136 Remastered. \u201cMy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}