Speedmap Saturday

Tomorrow (Saturday) is the start of spring break, but I don't leave campus until Sunday so I have a day completely free.

I intend to make a quality HL2DM map from start to finish tomorrow. The rules: everything must be stock, and everything must be done tomorrow. By everything I mean the whole deal - think up the style, plan the layout, make the geometry, add details, playtest, and edit. I don't know if its possible.

Anyways, I will post updates throughout the day. If anyone has ideas or would like to help do team-mapping, feel free to post or message me (email/msn messenger: n_alger_ at hotmail).

Insanity, nothing but. I'm intending to "speed map" before April time,
to get a release out at last, but not over a 24 hour period :razz:

Just use the time to fix the water bugs in Island17! runs away :wink:

Speedmapping is fun. I used to speedmap maps for TS with a friend, we'd do one map each and see whos was the best.

No offense intended, but i can recall only one map made in a day that was worth a s**t.

cannot recall its name, but it was a HL/DMC map. sadly even though i know the author I cannot recall which. :sad:

One day maps tend to be exactly that, one days worth.

I have TWICE thought I would just make a mp in one day. A perfect example was my Dungeon Death mod for HL1. I originally only intended to work on it for one or two nights....I had just got done playing a small map called winter maze, and decided I would make a bigger, cooler maze. 4 months later........

So yeah...I would do a 24 hour map...but I know I would never be satisfied and keep building on it...thus destroying original intent. Also, when I only plan on working on it for a certain amount of time, the beginning parts where I "speed mapped" always look like sh*t.

I will not set boundries on my maps unless for a contest :smile: ...which by the way...oh Leeeeep!

edit:

My maps turn out to be sh*t usually anyways, so nvm. I think like 6.25 average rating on my maps. :razz:

I'd be interested if I didn't have other things to do today (and it
wasn't near enough 3pm already!). I'm certainly up for giving it a shot
in the future. Best of luck with it by the way Maze, should be
interesting to see how it turns out :smile:

Maybe if you keep it SMALL and don't try any effects that you aren't dead-sure how to do... It takes me weeks just to tweak the lighting in most of my maps.

Hmm, its not going so well... Still got a few hours...

I just finished a critique.. does that count?

Does anyone know Kasperg from TWHL? I bet he can crank up a decent DM map in a day. He typically completes a map in three days, and they look very impressive.

I give up. My map is crap. Maybe another day.

I think ill do that on the start of my spring break

Ill make my mother make me :wink: one great thing about parents is you can make them motivate you.

And it'll be the start of a mapping frenzy from me as soon as i get windows up and running again

Maybe 48 instead of 24hours? :smile:

how did it go? i wanna know :biggrin: that rhymes lol