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bluepaladin7

getting a foothold

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You should read the FAQ, and especially this section. In short, submit your level to archives.3dgamers.com and it will be reviewed the next time we have a /newstuff chronicle, which is usually every Sunday.

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If you are talking about being reviewed in /newstuff the only criteria is that your wad has been successfully uploaded to the /idgames/newstuff folder.


It is not some sort of special privilege or anything.

Regarding how you "grow in ranks" as a mapper it is kinda easy. You make map that a lot of other people like and then you get popular in the dooming community.

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And if you make a map that's demo-friendly (ie. vanilla compatible, nothing radical or experimental, beatable in one go without saving game), that's an even quicker way to grow in the ranks (especially if the map attracts interest from Compet-N). But experience helps, as with each map you make you'll learn many things, from editing tricks to do's and don'ts (from your own ideas and from tutorials and feedback here). If you get stuck on something, post a thread in the Editing section asking for help (but make sure the question can't be answered from the FAQ or the DW editing tutorials first, as this can be frowned upon).

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Make a map thats fun* with a high replay factor and people will look forward to your next release. And thats as good as it gets.

* completely subjective. It's damn difficult to please everyone so don't try, make a map you enjoy playing will get the best results.

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Little Faith said:

If you are talking about being reviewed in /newstuff the only criteria is that your wad has been successfully uploaded to the /idgames/newstuff folder.

Note that you can't actually upload to that folder. Uploads are to ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames/incoming/ only. They get moved to ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames/newstuff/ by Ty if and when he approves them.

This isn't intended as a nitpick - you do get people trying to upload to the wrong folder.

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