Just to let y'all know this project isn't dead. I've just been trying to find the inspiration to continue working on this, plus I've been working on other stuff too (cough donald cough) and I've also been busy with uni and whatnot.
So the layout of a1 was pretty bad, I must say, and I put that down to the map being really narrow. So to rectify this, I've gone and decided to completely rebuild the map from scratch! It's not done yet, I've only got about half the map done, but here's a quick peek at the opening area (don't mind the shadows on the track, I'll fix those for the release):
I'm positive that this'll play much better than the previous incarnation of Jeanette. A bad habit I have with maps is that they tend to be very small and thin (arena_donald shows signs of this, although luckily the size issue works to its favour) so I'm really trying to make this map wider and larger (while not making it too open, obviously).
Barnblitz is a major inspiration, as you may see in those screenshots, and also Badwater 'cos it's my favourite Payload map. I've also gotten some ideas from honeymustard's Boundary.
... Seems I'm fixated on the letter B right now. Maybe I should rename this map to Beatrice or something.