Back to School official sites:

bts-l4d.com
Back to School Steam group

Description:

Back to school is a custom campaign for Valve's Left 4 Dead, designed by 100_o/o_f@ke and romasm . The main goal during campaign development was to create as realistic and atmospheric an environment as possible, so that a player can immerse into surrounding atmosphere of a zombie-apocalypse.

Our campaign is a flight of fancy - initially we only define the key elements of a map (mines, train station, warehouse etc.), and the exact shape of it and the look of other elements come later during the process. The key features of our campaign are:

1. Realism - means maps, atmosphere detailing, and realism itself (lighting, architecture etc.)

2. Events - we make many events that are diffrent from standard ones made by Valve.

3. Versus - we adjust our campaign for this mode specifically (though others are not forgotten), because it has a perfect difficulty balance, and also reveals all the game features. This is the mode with which we associate the long life of our campaign.

Plot:

Four survivors that were hiding from the main epidemic wave in a forest on outskirts of N. city hear on the radio that US army is going to clean-up the town and its outskirts. To avoid crumbling survivors along with infected, evacuation centres were created in police stations, town hall, stadium and others. The closest one was a local high school where our heroes decide to go.

They start their journey from the north and watched all the horrors of a town drowned into an epidemic disaster. At the same time the army starts from the south and cleans up block by block. Upon finally arriving at the gates of the school they are left with a most disturbing scene of Zombie mayhem. Evacuation centre has fallen and the only place where one could escape was haven. But still it was possible to hide there and wait for the rescue. So our heroes have to work their way through the abandoned city filled with hordes of swift-footed brain eaters to hear familiar - GET TO THE CHOPPER!!!, and save their asses from the zombie's outrage.

Chapters:

1 - "Forest"
beta: nav-90% complete, geometry - 90% complete

2 - "Train station"
beta: nav - 90% complete, geometry - 80% complete

3 - "Town"
beta: nav - 85% complete, geometry - 95% complete

4 - "Cinema"
alfa: nav - 0% complete, geometry - 70% complete

5 - "School"
alfa: nav - 0% complete, geometry - 70% complete

6 - "Escape"
no info available

Specical Thanks to:

l4dmaps.ru (Russian Left 4 Dead mapping community)
l4d-inside.ru (l4d-inside.ru forum)