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Posted by satchmo on Sun Nov 6th at 10:44pm 2005

I just found out that one of my neighbors is a game designer.

Looking at the Frapper map for SnarkPit, mappers indeed appear to be a rare breed, especially serious mappers. Even though there are thousands of us at the Pit, we're scattered all over the world. And the opportunity to meet another fellow mapper seems truly slim.

Now I can talk in person with someone who shares my sense of enthusiasm for the gaming world. It is a momentous day.



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Posted by KoRnFlakes on Sun Nov 6th at 10:46pm 2005

Never met another in my life.



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Posted by Captain P on Sun Nov 6th at 10:49pm 2005

I've got a rising mapper living very near to me... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

In other words, I'm teaching my little brother mapping and he's picking it up quite well. Besides him however, I haven't seen a real level-designer yet, though I've heard of some brothers of friends and such who mapped and recently I found out another Dutch mapper lives about a 15 km west of me, but that's probably the closest I've seen so far.

And yeah, it's always nice to see someone else who has the same 'tick'... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">



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Posted by asterix_vader on Sun Nov 6th at 10:55pm 2005

it's really rare to see a mapper here in peru, i don't know anyone else that maps (or at least that knows how to) for HL or any MOD... well, i know there's another mapper near to me, but he only shows himself when i look to the mirror.





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Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Nov 6th at 11:05pm 2005

I got introduced to mapping by a group of friends of mine. There was about 7 of us, in a town of ~2000.

The others have since moved away or stopped mapping, or turned into jerks and... forget it. Anyway, Mappers are pretty common here i think. or at least they were. I am getting Fatstrings hooked on it now too!




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Posted by wil5on on Sun Nov 6th at 11:25pm 2005

I've tried to get friends into mapping, one made a decent first map, but none really got into it.


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Posted by Hugh on Sun Nov 6th at 11:34pm 2005

Yeah, I impressed all my friends with my l337 mapping skills, the most I ever got them to make were things like... hollow rooms with prefabs and the occasional ladder.


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sun Nov 6th at 11:46pm 2005

Never met a mapper in real life, but then again I don't go around asking people if that's one of their hobbies.




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Posted by Madedog on Mon Nov 7th at 12:20am 2005

Well, I know a few... but I'm the one thanks to who they have ever touched hammer though.
I just thought one day when I was playing quake, that it would be great to make something on my own like this. So I started searching... I found a small page on the internet which was estonian language and described the making of ladders and such, and windowses. (if we live in a world without walls, why the hell we need gates and windows?)
Anyway, I started looking for materials on my own, I have a huge Worldcraft manual somewhere...

But I'd really like to meet a level designer irl, you can then have someone you can talk face-to-face about level design and actually you would be both interested in it. Also, sharing knowledge is a key element <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Captain P on Mon Nov 7th at 12:41am 2005

Hello, nice to meet you. Are you a mapper? No? Oh well, what's your name bytheway?

<img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

Well, about sharing knowledge and idea's, I've had two fellow Dutch mappers on the phone a few times and there's a few German mappers I'm on IRC or MSN a few times a year and those are always great talks, so, yeah, a real-life mapper would be nice <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Nov 7th at 12:45am 2005

Madedog, I told you I'd come up there to see you some day. we can talk about mapping after I beat you up!




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Posted by Gorbachev on Mon Nov 7th at 12:53am 2005

I have met one DoD mapper, and oddly enough he shares the same birthday as me as well as he's lived in the same city his whole life like me...except he's on the other side of the city and a completely different race. :P

I've been pushing one of my friend to map as it's something to talk about, but generally I just have friends wanting to see what I've made and they aren't as into the actual construction.




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Posted by parakeet on Mon Nov 7th at 1:08am 2005

I am a very selfish mapper , i make maps .. play them by myself and then delete them when i'm done. =.

i tried to get a friend into mapping , and obviously he was unhappy with his results.




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Posted by French Toast on Mon Nov 7th at 1:44am 2005

I do'nt make maps, and therefore don't call myself a mapper. But every once in awhile I'll make something and play it and then not post it, because normally they're CS killboxes (They're more fun then you think, guys).

Yeah, I make killboxes, but with some excitement, and theyre lots of fun.




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Posted by asterix_vader on Mon Nov 7th at 2:09am 2005

i used to map killboxes for cs too. i like them.





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Posted by Gorbachev on Mon Nov 7th at 2:36am 2005

When you've played games as long as some of us have, killboxes don't do it for you.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Nov 7th at 3:32am 2005

? quoting Gorbachev
When you've played games as long as some of us have, killboxes don't do it for you.

Unless you custom texture the walls with star trek pictures....




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Posted by GreenDragon on Mon Nov 7th at 5:33am 2005

Gorbechev is the closest mapper to me yet ive never met him. I just dont have a real hankering to meet somebody who does the computer thing. Id rather be out partying then in adark room filled with computers and geeks.


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Posted by satchmo on Mon Nov 7th at 5:51am 2005

Mapping is an unusual hobby. In fact, if you ask most of your friends what mapping is, they would probably think you're talking about making a topography of a hiking trail or something.

And that's why I think The SnarkPit is such a close-knit community. If we meet other mappers in real life everyday, there's no need to come to the forum and discuss about our obsession.

It's hard to find someone who can get into a heated discussion about displacement surface and entity settings in the real world.



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Posted by Paladin[NL] on Mon Nov 7th at 8:13am 2005

? quote:
I've got a rising mapper living very near to me...

In other words, I'm teaching my little brother mapping and he's picking it up quite well. Besides him however, I haven't seen a real level-designer yet, though I've heard of some brothers of friends and such who mapped and recently I found out another Dutch mapper lives about a 15 km west of me, but that's probably the closest I've seen so far.

And yeah, it's always nice to see someone else who has the same 'tick'...


Cap, I live in Zeeland woohoot...it's relative close(considering the mapping world is still large americanized)





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