Pass The Map III: The Search For Spock
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:53 am
Who's with me?
I don't feel [that] I like Radiant anymore, so I'll just stick to the stuff I do best; modeling and textures.
The main problems with past PTM:
1. Lack of organization
2. Strange deadlines and extensions causing confusion.
3. Pertinence fell prey to eye candy.
4. Giant clusterfuck zones with massive brush detail slowed down Radiant raped any possibility of connecting the maps in a stylish heterodox form. Instead, the maps were connected through a series of doorways which breached parts of the giant brush-chasm, which was already large enough to be a medium sized CTF map.
5. There were no size limits as far as each zone goes. This produced gigantic areas that were large enough to be their own maps. Even on a server packed with 32 people, it would have been hard to find a hot fire-fight.
6. Entities were not governed... Every section seemed to have it's own quad/mega/red armor placed.
7. Zero completion, zero deadline, zero releases.
Qualities of last PTM:
1. Anyone and everyone was allowed to participate. It was clear by the time that I got the map that there were geocomp style guys working on it, and people the LVL would make fun of on their nerdy site.
2. Total community input. We kept it fairly open and distributed screens when we felt like it.
3. Although updates were sporadic at times, there were large bursts of input and output where everyone would be working at once on the thing, and on the forums talking.
The best way to do a PTM project is to all work on the same thing. Working on sections and then passing it on just makes the map gigantic and rarely playable. Quake maps have been done. Let's do something that has never been done collectively.
"Innerspace" was on HBO Comedy the other night. I've always wanted to do a map that is on the inside of the human body, but it would be a fairly limiting experience for the gamer. The cavernous realms of the human body would have to be extremely enlarged to be playworthy, ergo the magic feeling of claustrophobia would be lost and it would seem like some id software map from an early alpha of Quake 3 where you would run through some creature.
Another idea is a map that would literally make the gamer say, "What the hell were these idiots on when they made this?" A giant terrain map that isn't made of mountains, but is made of the face of George W. Bush, with floating tanks and bibles in a skybox, along with flying televisions with a flickering message of, "Buy! Buy! Terror Alert: Orange! Submit! Buy! Jesus!" A river of snot is flowing from his nose, but when you get close you realize it's actually US dollars. There is a floating cherub with Dick Cheney's face, and it's moving fast but if you can hit it with a rail it triggers some oil well models to pop up along the horizon in the sky box and spew oil everywhere, followed by a world sound of "YEE HAW! YEEEEE HAW!"
I don't feel [that] I like Radiant anymore, so I'll just stick to the stuff I do best; modeling and textures.
The main problems with past PTM:
1. Lack of organization
2. Strange deadlines and extensions causing confusion.
3. Pertinence fell prey to eye candy.
4. Giant clusterfuck zones with massive brush detail slowed down Radiant raped any possibility of connecting the maps in a stylish heterodox form. Instead, the maps were connected through a series of doorways which breached parts of the giant brush-chasm, which was already large enough to be a medium sized CTF map.
5. There were no size limits as far as each zone goes. This produced gigantic areas that were large enough to be their own maps. Even on a server packed with 32 people, it would have been hard to find a hot fire-fight.
6. Entities were not governed... Every section seemed to have it's own quad/mega/red armor placed.
7. Zero completion, zero deadline, zero releases.
Qualities of last PTM:
1. Anyone and everyone was allowed to participate. It was clear by the time that I got the map that there were geocomp style guys working on it, and people the LVL would make fun of on their nerdy site.
2. Total community input. We kept it fairly open and distributed screens when we felt like it.
3. Although updates were sporadic at times, there were large bursts of input and output where everyone would be working at once on the thing, and on the forums talking.
The best way to do a PTM project is to all work on the same thing. Working on sections and then passing it on just makes the map gigantic and rarely playable. Quake maps have been done. Let's do something that has never been done collectively.
"Innerspace" was on HBO Comedy the other night. I've always wanted to do a map that is on the inside of the human body, but it would be a fairly limiting experience for the gamer. The cavernous realms of the human body would have to be extremely enlarged to be playworthy, ergo the magic feeling of claustrophobia would be lost and it would seem like some id software map from an early alpha of Quake 3 where you would run through some creature.
Another idea is a map that would literally make the gamer say, "What the hell were these idiots on when they made this?" A giant terrain map that isn't made of mountains, but is made of the face of George W. Bush, with floating tanks and bibles in a skybox, along with flying televisions with a flickering message of, "Buy! Buy! Terror Alert: Orange! Submit! Buy! Jesus!" A river of snot is flowing from his nose, but when you get close you realize it's actually US dollars. There is a floating cherub with Dick Cheney's face, and it's moving fast but if you can hit it with a rail it triggers some oil well models to pop up along the horizon in the sky box and spew oil everywhere, followed by a world sound of "YEE HAW! YEEEEE HAW!"
many lost their interrest for the project. [edit] actually there were two phases: the first one was overorganised, the second one was underorganised.
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