..::LvL hardly gets any new map submissions, unless they are from Spike or one of his friends

There are clearly people that are still tinkering maps and mods (myself include). About 6 years now for one map for me due to lack of free time to work on it.

It is a nice idea and would be awesome to see a great the outcome.

As a suggestion: Limited time frame for the build (maybe a max of three days) and restricted to original textures.

If you're after single player, you could map for entityplus, or defrag aka the best game ever!

Edit: I thought you were aeon haha. I don't need to suggest defrag to you

..::LvL hardly gets any new map submissions, unless they are from Spike or one of his friends

There are clearly people that are still tinkering maps and mods (myself include). About 6 years now for one map for me due to lack of free time to work on it.

It is a nice idea and would be awesome to see a great outcome.

As a suggestion: Limited time frame for the build (maybe a max of three days) and restricted to original textures.

It's true, lvlworld doesn't see many releases these days, but the defrag mapping scene is still fairly active.
Check out some of the most recent maps for 'FPS Winter Cup' on https://dfcomps.ru/
https://defrag.racing/maps/filters?search=fpscup
https://defrag.racing/maps/filters?search=dfwc

Some real gems in there!

Hey Kitten, good to see you're still around. Just lurking about or also still mapping?

forums are old, hat jack. i'm on discord, still in radiant and defrag damn near every day. i feel dirty posting screenshots here because so much of my work blurs the line between copying work and making my own, and i'm sure some people would say i cross that line. i release a map here and there though, and still have epic projects piling up behind the scenes too, including some entityplus work! i'm no organizer, but i'd join in on a pass the map for sure

You know, you should reach out to fkd, as I understand he was making all these new cpma levels, that wasn't too long ago either I think?

Hey man. Thanks for the heads up on Steam. I’ve not had a lot of time for mapping of any sort, but just maybe….

I had a weird dream one night that someone funded a video shoot where they flew me around the world to do interviews with all of the older mappers from Quake 3 Arena....to lead up to doing a commercial for the remaking of Quake 3 Arena...it was premium!

Good to see your name popping up on here, Tig!

Did we have hot robot nurses changing our diapers in this future? :D

Did we have hot robot nurses changing our diapers in this future?

Absolutely .... and hey sst13!!

With all of the stuff going on in the world lately, and my seeing it as some sort of aftermath of what has happened to the world since the silencing of Quake in general...I sometimes think back to half of the memories that I have had over the last 20+ years of playing this game. People doing things that I think had changed the world of gaming in many ways....
....it all seemed to go bleh after Quake Live blasted on Steam...when that died down, the world died with it.

If half of the people in the world knew half of the crazy things that I did back in the day in Q3/QL, that probably had an effect on many lives...they'd be like, shit!

...you guys too...

I think back to the early days of mappers who I was able to communicate with, they being like celebrities to me when I was new to Quake. Getting to know some of them, helping in any way for all of them to creates environments that would change the lives of thousands at that time .... forums ... LvL ... Burial Grounds ... all of the old sites, it's insane when I look at it now.

We didn't live in the YouTube world.

It seemed more spiritual back in the day ... Quake 3 was like entering into a different world.

I'm no programmers, or a mapper at that, but I know this game. I have it tattoed on my right arm largely. I just sometimes wish that I had the know how of creating a movie about my life in Quake. The switching of identities..I know most of you all of have done that too. Being different people....that was the game...the arena.

Based on all the comments so far, I take it there's little interest in participation from this community, am I right about that?

I think you need to collect people from various places to get this going, there might be someone here, maybe two, you have the splashdamage forums, jedi knight forums, defrag as mentioned and others, you should post in the quake live steam section too and ask.