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Pavera said:
I've uploaded my MAP05 candidate The Boiler, done in the style of American McGee to the best of my ability. Hopefully it isn't too terrible of a map, though my maps do tend to be terrible!!

Follow the link for screen shots!

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• The vine staircase was just brilliant. Very moody and unnerving.
  
• The little asides going up the staircase.
  
• The steps taken to unlock going outside. Just when I was thinking "what is the point to all this area and climbing these stairs that hold a secret? Finally, the metal bars are dropped and I see a great expanse of the city. Just brilliant. This was probably even better than what made doom2's best Map15 one of the best in the game.
  
• The red pulsing room with the weird fleshy things going on in it was also very moody and put me on edge.
  
• The nooks in the beginning of the map were very well done (and the backward of the start position as well).

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esselfortium said:
American McGee's maps in Doom2 E1 pretty much always used key-locked exit doors.

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st.alfonzo said:
I like it when a map comes together.

Map19: Bedlam is a sandybox creation loosely based on the idea of a city collapsing into the maw of Hell; the exposed walls of earth crushing the streets and forging a crucible of combat. It's a largely undergroud affair featuring large blocky buildings, damaging floors, and isolated concepts.

There Will Be Mancubi.

>> Download <<

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purist said:
New submission incoming...


MAP01: Dropzone.

http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww137/ChrisBourke/doom36_zps5b930dfc.jpg

A fun little map to potentially open D2TWiD. It's still a WIP progress but it's at the stage where there's enough there to comment on but is not so finished that I begrudge making changes. Feedback will be gratefully received.

[[DOWNLOAD]]

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purist said:
It's called the Quarantine and it's a freewheeling, caterwauling Petersen effort. It's ugly but is it Sandy ugly or just ugly ugly? Thoughts please!

Also, I'd appreciate some more feedback on my MAP01 effort if anyone has a few minutes to spare. [/B]

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st.alfonzo said:
@Purist: I'll take a look at this one later and offer some feedback. I did actually glance into a short while ago, but not nearly deep enough to formulate a reliable opinion.

EDIT: I'll also take another look at your map01 effort which I actually quite enjoyed, but which was (and is) up against some stiff competition.

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purist said:
Thanks for taking a look Tarnsman. Some of your comments ring true and I'm particularly pleased you dislike the startan as it bothers me too but whenever I thought of prettying it up it felt like I was wussing out.

I'll wait to see if st.alfonzo has any further comments and then get a third version uploaded.

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st.alfonzo said:
Here's a critical analysis of Purist's Quarantine map in the medium of stream!

http://www.twitch.tv/st_alfonzo/c/2144444

My overall impression of the map is generally positive. I think the gameplay feels enjoyably scattershot much of the time in the same way that Refuelling Base does, and there are certain areas that stand out well in the mind and should be emphasised a little more, I think: The outdoor area, the exit ickwall area and the cement area with the crescent platform in particular. Some more dynamic lighting could help accent some areas a little more, as well! I also thought the texture selection was okay for the most part, save for the star* abuse, heh.

On the negative side, much of the geometry in the map feels uninspired in its shapelessness, which leads me to point out another criticism in the map's general lack of really memorable gameplay encounters around which the geometry could be made. These are probably my biggest beefs, however, and with them solved I can't really find much other reason to fault the map.

Also, apologies for the distortion at the top of the stream. I usually remember to fix it before streaming but forgot in this instance.

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Marcaek said:
Purist: If it hasn't been mentioned already, there's quite a bit of "autoalign abuse" which means that you have a lot of textures perfectly aligned where they don't need to be. If you aren't doing it then your DB2 might be on it's own, a way to deal with this is to select every sidedef with the offending textures via the search feature(and ctrl+1 or 2 for 1 or 2-sided lines) and reset the coordinates using the line editing box.

Also get an IRC client and join #doomtwid on irc.oftc.net for realtime feedback, it's fairly active.

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purist said:
I started using DB2 and it auto auto-aligns - can you turn that off? Anycase, I might leave the MAP09 slot to Alfonzo/Xaser. I'm a bit late to the IRC party - I wondered where all the feedback and discussion was at all this time.

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