I was just wondering how many people here at the SnarkPit have plans to enter the contest. Are you in? And what's your theme? Do you have some REALLY innovative tricks up your sleeve? (yes or no question of couse...)
My map is like a highway 17 map. A lot like the first battle with the gunship. Where you meet Colonel Odessa Cubbage At your Service. only mines got lots of innovative stuff in it and good displacement work.
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Not me. I'm running a little low on mapping motivation at the moment after Frontline Force crumbled.
Besides, I think it would be wise for myself to wait a while to get all of the 'standard' themed maps out of the way and be able to come up with something a little different.
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I'm going to enter if I can. I'm going to be remaking my first map Torque using a urban city17 theme. It'll probably suck and I'll give up but whatever.
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Besides, I think it would be wise for myself to wait a while to get all of the 'standard' themed maps out of the way and be able to come up with something a little different.
exactly the same goes for me. only, on the first line, replace "Frontline Force" with "Paroxysm"
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I didn't realy care THAT much for the standard theme either, but the rules of the contest dictate that you must use the textures and materials INCLUDED with HL2.
I want to make maps for myself and not to fit other's needs too, but I can do so a lot happier with $5000.
I wish I could just remake one of my old ones, but frankly, all of mine are novelty maps built for specific LAN parties and have much too much emphasis on complex entity chains and not enough on having more than one texture. for instance there is one map where you have to jump off a skyscraper at a certain place, then you are teleported to a room with a miniature model of the map in it. anywhere you shoot on the model-map will be blasted with mortar shells from the sky while you are showed a camera view of it. ALAS it only uses one texture!!!
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No 
I have to finnish my behemoth of a map, Classic. Been working on this Son of a bitch for half a year now!
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Not exactly going out on a limb with that guess are you! Not exactly going out on a limb with that guess are you!Well, really, I figure that they won't want anything too wacky or complex. In order to win, i bet you'd have to emulate the original DM maps for HL. Make them simple and Circuitous with NO dead ends. But i must be somthing that shows off the new entities like CROSSFIRE was for HL. With the airstrike it gave the map a REASON to be fast-paced AND a place to fight over. My map will most likely have the CRANE in it with a car stuck on the magnet. the first one to the crane get's the car. See? its not THAT outrageous.
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