MAYhem 1500. 34 maps! Playtesting and stuff this month!

Welcome to the fourth annual MAYhem: MAYhem 1500!

I'll keep rules clear, concise and simple:

Looking for Boom compatibility, as usual.

Gothic textures is your duly elected resource pack, linked and recompiled courtesy of NiGHTMARE.

The restriction implemented is going to be 1500 lines.
Much like last years 2048x2048 restriction, I hope this can still leave plenty of breathing room for good, detailed maps that don't become to sloogish and overbearing, but still set something up for a little thought and creativity.

You have until the end of the month to submit stuff. And then more stuff happens!

Logo forthcoming, after I do school things!

Also, quality control may be more of a thing this year. We will see how submissions go :]

SUBMISSIONS:
venom canyon - jmickle
Drillbit Compression - Pinchy
Solace of the Shadows] - Demonologist
Shi - pcorf
No Mayhem! - walter c
Domain of the Generically damned - cannonball
Still More Mayhem - Urthar
HANSEN - Chris Hansen
Bond of Blood - gaspe
You are Worshiping a Sun God - Inkie
Sleep with the fishes - Breezeep
Tech Center 1-267 - CorSair
Monument of Pain - Phobus
Isolation Game - Getsu Fune
Isle of the Descendents - joe-ilya
ArmouredBlood ArmouredBlood
The Way to Jadeamir -Pinchy
Jadeamir - Pinchy
Gothic's really late submission Gothic
Intersection of OppressionMarcaek and An_Mutt
Solemn OutpostMarcaek and An_Mutt
Too Many Homages [MAP31] -Walter C
Castle Bathory Impie
Somnulent Keep -Zakurum
Rancid Redeemer -Archi
Scalding Creek. What are you gonna do about it :v -AD_79 & Marcaek
The Silencer -Impboy
Art of Suffering -joe-ilya
1500 BC -Marcaek
1500 AD -AD_79
Sacrificial Circle -Phobus
Benedictine ConvulsionsObsidian
EurononymousEgregor
Catastrophe at the Keep of Cape Caco -NoisyVelvet
Prayers in Stone-dobu gabu maru

dewit

I vote that Joe-Iyla makes all the textures himself in MSPaint by scratch and that we can ONLY use those.

oh man i just hope i make in time to finish my third map for my wad, so i can make one for this, NMN Corp have some of my fav tech textures on it

Do we need votes from some random people that don't even map?

^Those people who don't map at least show their interest of what they'd like to play (or just see to happen). At this point, it's not clear who will actually contribute and how much he will do so, so it would be undemocratic to exclude anyone from the possibility to vote.

FuzzballFox said:

I vote that Joe-Iyla makes all the textures himself in MSPaint by scratch and that we can ONLY use those.

Heh.

Not funny.

NMN 4 life!

FuzzballFox said:

I vote that Joe-Iyla makes all the textures himself in MSPaint by scratch and that we can ONLY use those.

lol

1 : Entrymay
2 : Undermays
3 : The maylet
4 : The focused may
5 : The may tunnels
6 : The may crusher
7 : May simple
8 : Tricks & Traps & May
9 : The pitty may
10 : May base
11 : O' of mayhem/Circle of map
12 : May the factory rise
13 : Maytown
14 : The inmost mays
15 : May zone
16 : Suburbian may
17 : The tenements where may is
18 : The mayard
19 : May's citadel
20 : Got may!
21 : Mayvana
22 : May's catacombs
23 : Barrels o' may
24 : Deep may
25 : May falls
26 : The abandoned may-ns
27 : May condo
28 : The may world
29 : The living may
30 : Icon of may
31 : Wolfenmay
32 : Big may
33 : Betrayed may

joe-ilya said:

24 : Deep may

Why not Chasmay? They're all awkward anyway.

scifista42 said:

Why not Chasmay? They're all awkward anyway.

Don't you mean "anymay"?

And yeah, it was funny. I laughed.

Edit: I just realized, you hit 5000 posts. Didn't you just hit 4000? Dude, when do you sleep?

Will there be any other limitations or gimmicks to the maps?

Last year we did 2048 sized maps in addition to the texture pack.

Inkie said:

Will there be any other limitations or gimmicks to the maps?

Last year we did 2048 sized maps in addition to the texture pack.

This year they're actually doing 2,048 maps.

I would prefer if there was no limitation and that we could do whatever we want.

AD_79 said:

I would prefer if there was no limitation and that we could do whatever we want.

That was pretty much what the first Mayhem was, the only limitation was the texture pack.

AD_79 said:

I would prefer if there was no limitation and that we could do whatever we want.

I'm actually in the opposite camp, where I look forward to MAYhem because of what the gimmick could be.

Maybe "make a map in the shape of something"? Like previous Mayhem had a caco map. I've always wanted to do a pony map.

Memfis said:

Maybe "make a map in the shape of something"? Like previous Mayhem had a caco map.

I'll have a chance to make an even better caco map.

An unifying theme (or themes to pick from) would be nice. Just like an Abyssal Speedmapping Session with extended mapping time.

What about remaking dwango maps to single player maps? Any dwango is allowed, not just dwango5.

scifista42 said:

An unifying theme (or themes to pick from) would be nice. Just like an Abyssal Speedmapping Session with extended mapping time.

This is an Abyssal Speedmapping session. It starts at 0500 UTC on May 1,2015. Alfonzo time just lasts a month instead of an hour. :>

Oh look the most overused texture pack is the one winning. See Donut, this is why you don't allow democracy to choose shit that requires taste.

Tarnsman said:

Oh look the most overused texture pack is the one winning. See Donut, this is why you don't allow democracy to choose shit that requires taste.

I picked CC4 of my own accord two years ago and Nick Baker recolors in 2012. Dick tater ship doesnt work with me at the helm either. But like most dictators, I dont wish to give up the post either.

Also, you imply that this voting will ACTUALLY affect the final outcome, and I'm not just going to use the new Romero resources.

300 lines per map?
And/or 10 textures and 5 flats per map?

@Tarnsman: The causality is:

Texture pack is good -> Texture pack gets voted -> Texture pack gets picked -> Texture pack gets picked often -> Texture pack gets overused.

Texture pack is not good -> Texture pack doesn't get voted -> Texture pack doesn't get picked -> Texture pack doesn't get picked often -> Texture pack doesn't get overused.

Texture pack is overused as a consequence of being good. Not vice versa. Overusage of the texture pack doesn't make it less good. And particularly, overusage of the texture pack doesn't make other texture packs more good.

It's not because it's bad or good, it's because projects need something new and fresh that hasn't been done before or at least too much.

Uhh so is GOTHICTX underused or overused? I'm confused now, people are saying both. Tell me what to think, Doomworld!

Fact: It's certainly much more used than the other 2 packs.
Opinion: I actually don't think it's overused (that much). I've simply adopted Tarnsman's assumption when replying to him.

I would love to see GothicTX combined with the ones found in Crucified Dreams. That could add alot of variety IMO.