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===Production notes=== | ===Production notes=== | ||
*Development on Ghost Town started in September [[2007]], with initial blockouts created for the level. The initial massout by designer [[Steve Cotton]] was basic and used cubes to represent buildings, with players in playtests coming to know it as "that ghost town map". Although some Bungie staff wished to call the map "Mortar", the map would go through production under the guise of "OK Corral", before being renamed at the last minute to the name the map shipped with.<ref name="BWUGhostTown"/><ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13824 '''Bungie.net''': ''Bungie Weekly Update 05/23/08''] - ''“These are the final names” is what some adults told me, but Ghost Town’s name changed at the last possible moment"''</ref> Overall, the map was in production for roughly 4–5 months, in which time the layout changed little aside from the addition of new areas. The map was first teased in January 2008.<ref name="BWU010408"/> | *Development on Ghost Town started in September [[2007 (real world)|2007]], with initial blockouts created for the level. The initial massout by designer [[Steve Cotton]] was basic and used cubes to represent buildings, with players in playtests coming to know it as "that ghost town map". Although some Bungie staff wished to call the map "Mortar", the map would go through production under the guise of "OK Corral", before being renamed at the last minute to the name the map shipped with.<ref name="BWUGhostTown"/><ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13824 '''Bungie.net''': ''Bungie Weekly Update 05/23/08''] - ''“These are the final names” is what some adults told me, but Ghost Town’s name changed at the last possible moment"''</ref> Overall, the map was in production for roughly 4–5 months, in which time the layout changed little aside from the addition of new areas. The map was first teased in January 2008.<ref name="BWU010408"/> | ||
**This map's codename of "O.K. Corral" is a reference to the ''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral''. Many thought this map would be a map similar to [[Tombstone]] because of the codename "O.K. Corral", which was a famous gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona. | **This map's codename of "O.K. Corral" is a reference to the ''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral''. Many thought this map would be a map similar to [[Tombstone]] because of the codename "O.K. Corral", which was a famous gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona. | ||
**Bungie staffers also jokingly called Ghost Town "that ''Counter-Strike'' map",<ref name="BWUGhostTown"/> referencing the popular PC shooter game, and specifically referencing the map "Italy," to which Ghost Town bears more than a passing resemblance. | **Bungie staffers also jokingly called Ghost Town "that ''Counter-Strike'' map",<ref name="BWUGhostTown"/> referencing the popular PC shooter game, and specifically referencing the map "Italy," to which Ghost Town bears more than a passing resemblance. | ||