The domain ics-base.net was originally registered back in 2004, created to serve as a clansite for a game called Vietcong. We had a clan called *EFF* in the past, in which i was part of but it kind of died off. So, to get back on the game Vietcong and to competitive gaming, we formed clan called |ICS| aka I Can't Shoot. While it's not really a good name for a competitive clan (you can laugh), we stick with it. So that's where the domain name comes from. This resurrection didn't take long and already couple of months later, the clan died due to inactivity.

During those times back in 2004, i was waiting for 2 major games coming out to the market. Those games were Doom 3 and Half-Life 2. So i got the Doom 3 which was a huge dissappointment for me due to it not being what i expected. Who the hell wants to play a game dark as that? Where is the feeling from the older Doom titles? Gone i tell you, gone! After that, it took some time for Half-Life 2 to come out and so i got that too. Not so dissapointing. Infact, you can blame that game for the things i've done in the past 6 years. During that time, i took online nickname ICS into my use and it has kind of sticked in.

You see, with HL2, came a game called Counter-Strike Source. I was previously against the file Counter-Strike title due to the players being ignorant and stupid people who play the same game all the time, year from another. This game turned me around and i became to realize what is the thing in it. It was not competitive thing anymore, no. I tried that too but it didn't feel the thing for me. Instead, i started my own server which then became 2 servers, then spreaded to another game and so on. These days, it's a community. Servers for many Valve games, such as Counter-Strike Source, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2.

While the community is mainly ment for Finnish people back out here at Northern Europe, everyone is welcome to play there. I currently run largest finnish custom maps server for Counter-Strike Source, the most popular 2 Team Fortress 2 servers and 3 Left 4 Dead and 5 Left 4 Dead 2 servers, all packed up with custom maps too including. This community is called Pelipurkki.net.

I did not stop there. I did some skins of some zombie skins at first, then admin models and other models for to be used on game servers. Those came quite popular at the time and are used on quite many gameservers these days. Whenever you connect to a server and see your game downloading something during connection that has ics on the path name, that's propably something i did but i left those days behind me, when i noticed that i kinda suck at it. I'm no artist. So i tried the Hammer world editor which could be used to make maps instead. Didn't really get the hang of it either.

Back in 2007-2008 i had cancer, which kind of turned my life around. At the winter-springtime of 2008, i started learning the Hammer world editor again for CS Source game. So far i've done 7 quite nice maps for it. Beginning of the year 2009 i also skipped to Left 4 dead 2 game and started a campaign for the game. It is still unfinished but due to lack of interest and problems i encountered. I will finish it though. I am also working on Team Fortress 2 map at the moment i am typing this.

Other side-projects for me are the so far annual Anime/manga Xmas Calendars during christmas times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009). There will be one at xmas 2010 too.

The rest of my things are somewhat unreleased, private or for my own fun but i think you get the idea of what ics-base.net is all about. Things for others to enjoy, for free.