Easter Eggs

Hey guys,

I've seen plenty of maps with and without easter eggs. Do y'all think
it's cool to put em in, or do you think they're pretty lame? Or does it
matter what the easter egg actually is or says?

I put an easter egg in every map I make. I like to thank people that
have advised me. I also like to hide stuff in my map, that certain
people will know what it is, and others will have no clue.

My latest is, a modeler is making me a easter egg.. I plan on hiding a couple in my maps..

My wife hid giant lego men we made for Lego Dust. Someone snagged her
map and changed it and removed them though and her sexy picture that
said map made by Reign.

So I guess I think they should be included..

I don't know what you qualify as Easter Eggs and what's just hidden goodies in the maps. I always hide things (batteries, healthkits) in hard-to-find places in the map. I don't consider them Easter Eggs though.

I hid a Magnum in my Justice map, but no one ever found it.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

Since I am a CounterStrike mapper more so than any other type.. I would not consider stuff like that Easter eggs satch..

I used to restrict AWP's in my maps but hide one every now and then in
a wierd place.. normally some place that was near impossible to get to
or was out in the wide open.

It's a good thing that not too many people put easter-yeggs in their
maps. That's what makes easter-eggs special,
you see. :biggrin: I don't always put them in my maps , tho. On
the other hand, you won't find an Andrei map without a special gadget
in it :biggrin: (be it a howitzer or a special trap).

No, no, no. I mean a room you can't get to that has a picture of your
three-legged puppy with "L337 DAWG" written on it. Or something. Why
did I think of that?

Anyone who wants to see extravagance in easter eggs, check out my map cs_apartments (original CS :eek: )... See if you can find it before you try and cheat to get to it! Made everything in the easter egg myself too, and see if you know what the original inspiration was :razz:

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

I've never really done them to be honest, but its something I would
consider doing. I think, as Andrei said, that having them in every
level (particularly if the easter eggs are pretty much the same each
time) is a bit pointless and removes the novelty. On the other hand, I
have seen them done very impressively in the past. Two that spring to
mind are CJ's paintings in "Persian Letters" (an easter egg of sorts),
and Gonnas had a neat little room you had to noclip into in his map
"Blind Apathy". So yeah, if done well they are cool, but unless I
really had a good idea of how to integrate it into the map in a neat
and novel way, I don't bother.

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Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

There's always the infamous Megg in the original Halo. Now that
was an extremly fun one to get too. Also, if any of you have
played the myst series, those games are loaded with amazing easter eggs
that you'd never find with someone telling you where they were.

Until Later...

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Dark_Kilauea
DVS Administration
http://www.dvstudio-production.com/

Every map of mine ass eggs and secrets. My Dungeon Death map has some elaborately hidden pictures of me and friends....some signs you can hit and they change...and in my brown map there is os much hidden s**t, it is nuts. Eggs and secrets are great great fun.

It's not about mapping, but I thought the fly simulator-egg in Excel 97 was pretty cool.

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

Dark Tree said:
Every map of mine ass eggs and secrets.

:eek: even your posts have easter eggs!

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

LOL.. Wil5on.

Ah I remember a cs 1.6 map I made for fun which had a wall tied illusion. It led to a room with the best weapons and some gimmicks like buttons that made the towers bridges fall.

Hmm gives me an idea for a future map :razz:

And I even gave you guys a hint!



:razz:

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

If I didn't know better, I'd say you were playing Quake 1...

Quickly runs to avoid G.Ballblue's impending wrath

Until Later...

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Dark_Kilauea
DVS Administration
http://www.dvstudio-production.com/

I spent many years playing CS from beta six through to CS:S and one
thing I always remember from maps are the easter eggs. It's
almost a little peak into the mappers minds. I'm saddened that
there aren't any hidden rooms in the CS:S official maps.

Some of the good ones that come to mind...

The picture of the guy chugging windex in cs_estate

The secret room with rats worshipping a skull in poor_yurick's as_forest

A picture of DaveJ eating smarties inside a box in one of the old versions of dust

The room with a guy having sex with a sheep in cs_italy

But my favorite is the breakable wall that reveals a picture of a hampster labeled simply "f e a r" in the 1.6 cs_office

So yes, I think secret rooms are awesome... and definitely should be included.

i remember the first great easter egg i ever encountered was in duke nukem 3d, in a canyon level there was a secret cave with a guy impaled (or hanging from a rope, dunno), and duke says "We meet again, doctor Jones"

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

Duke3D had heaps of easter eggs and cameos.

4 references to Star Trek (a cheat code "DNSCOTTY", two levels "Warp Factor" and "Tiberius Station", and a song "ITSGREEN.VOC")
1 reference to Indiana Jones (impaled on a cave wall in "Hotel Hell")
1 reference to Luke Skywalker (hanging from a cieling in "Lunar Reactor")
1 reference to The Terminator (a building in "Freeway")
1 reference to Tim Sweeny (a sign that says "Sweeny and Co. Sewage Experts")
1 reference to Balls of Steel (pinball machine in "Hollywood Hollocaust")
1 reference to Duke Nukem II (video game cabinet in "Hollywood Hollocaust")
1 reference to DooM (corpse in "Death Row")
several signs that say "You're not suppossed to be here - Levelord" in the Levelord's levels.

Probably heaps more I forgot to mention.

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Better to be in denial than to be human.

Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

you looked these up or do you actually know them by heart / remember them. or have you recently replayed it? :razz:

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

Can someone take a pic of the hidden room I made in cs_apartments? I would, but I deleted Half-life 1 (DON'T KILL ME!)

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Aaah, I always thought of putting an 'easter egg' in one of my maps, but I never actually have... might go do one now :smile:

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www.senshiserve.tk

I love eastern eggs, as soon as I understand them that is... :wink:

I usually keep it at putting my nickname or an abbreviation of it in my levels. When I don't forget.

Actually, I usually forget it when I really release a map... dang...

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