Town Reimagined: Development and Credits

Xela and the map

Town Reimagined is the work of XelaZM, known as Xela. Xela mapped it alone; gameplay features, scripts and many assets came from other modders, whom the Workshop page thanks one by one. In Xela’s words: “Hope you all enjoy playing it as much as I did making it!”

The story of the map

September 27, 2018: first work-in-progress image on r/CODZombies.
October 25, 2018: an update shown on Reddit, with Black Ops 4 just out; it passed 1,200 upvotes.
November 2, 2018: first teaser.
December 20, 2018: teaser trailer on Xela’s YouTube channel.
January 13, 2019: release on the Steam Workshop, with a release trailer the same day.
January 13 to 15, 2019: six updates in three days, without change notes. The last one is dated January 15, 2019.

During the development, a player asked how the lava would work. Xela answered that they had thought about removing it entirely because it always annoyed them, but would bring it back if most people wanted it. The lava stayed, with VerK0’s textures.

Credits

V

VerK0

All the PBR textures of the map, the lava included, and bug hunting during the tests.

S

Symbo

The scripts of all the Easter eggs, and the exploding zombie script.

C

Clix

The zombie models, and help with the sounds.

Z

ZeRoY

The jukebox of the bar, and help with bugs during testing.

e

eMoX

The M1911 of Black Ops II.

M

MadGaz

Banana Colada, the work that made all the perks run, and the zombie animations for Banana Colada.

The full list on the Workshop page names about fifty people, among them harrybo21, JBird632, DTZxPorter, Scobalula, BluntStuffy and Treyarch and Activision.

On the Workshop

On November 11, 2026, the Steam Workshop counted 940,398 current subscribers, 1,515,179 in all and 47,746 favourites. The download weighs about 3.6 GB.

Town Reimagined

The logo of the map, at the end of its release trailer.