something along the lines of 100b, coagula, 1024. an interesting theme with a definite deadline (so maps are actually being finished). might be fun, without the pressure of having to get perfect results.
ideas/comments? 

Make the best map comprised entirely of rectangular brushes! 

Does it mean only 90� angles, without rotated brushes ? Would be interesting in this way indeed... 

NO right angles instead? 

Brushes are exclusively rectangular, with no rotation allowed.

2000 brush limit, no sky texture allowed, only custom textures allowed. 

As a creative limitation and not a technical one that doesn't sound like too much fun.

Have we done our own 1024? We could always just nick the idea from Mapcore. And we'd technically get more perceived space because Quakeguy is shorter than Freeman. :D 

...isn't 'creative limitation' an oxymoron? Surely limitation feeds creativity - you know; "necessity", "mother" and "invention". 

would be my favorite in combination with 100 cubic brushes. Seriously, that could be fun. 

100b challenges you to make awesome brushwork and an awesome map by being really clever and conservative with brush use.

1024 challenges you to make awesome brushwork and an awesome map by being really clever and conservative with your layout.

Rectilinear-only doesn't make you work around a technical limitation to maintain creativity, it makes you work around a creative limitation to see whose map can be the least boring. You can look at the 100b winners and say "wow it's amazing he pulled that off with only 100 brushes!" but a map with all right angles isn't going to be particularly impressive or even interesting to build or play. 

in short. 

geocomp sounds nice to me too. but it doesn't really go well together with a rectangular brushes limit. would be way less fun (rectuagular could be used as a speedmap theme though).

btw. lun: there was an attempt at 1024� mapping in a sm pack once. turned out to be too much space to be challenging in quake. 512� works better. 

of course, geocomp without angled/weird brushes would be rather idiotic. oops :D 

an RMX contest? Remake any map from the original quake excluding the few that have already been remixed (e1m1, dm3, ... any others?) 

e1m2


just cos....well, y'know...some people may already be remixing that one




�_� 

I've not written anything off until I see the results.

And, being an optimist, I hope to be saying, "wow it's amazing he pulled that off with only right-angled brushes!"

And no, I'm not creative enough to be able to do it either :) 

your insulting ruse will not work. 

 

just to prove lunaran wrong... 

Long ago I suggested a "vertical" map contest where the maps had to be 512x512 in X and Y, but with no vertical restriction. Also, no teleporters allowed (except for teleporting monsters into the level.)

Since we never did it, I'm resurrecting the idea. 

i want to participate!!! why not a turtle map seccion? 

Either push this event back towards the end of May, so the I might have time to participate or select the theme so that I don't need a ton of time to participate (ie 512x512x512 would be good, or 100b, etc.)

And is this a contest or just an event? 

for anything, really, but I would not mind participating in a chainmapping session with some well thought out rules (e.g. specific texture set, prefabs, etc.). Just don't make it too much of a rush job, please :-) 

You could get pretty creative, depending on how granular you wanted to get...think of them as pixels. 

for a speedmap:

Bestiary - Use every monster from the quake bestiary once and only once in your map.



for a turtlemap:

Terrain - Might be better if I got around to adding tree mapobjects to quoth, but nevertheless a bunch of decent outdoors maps would be new and good. Doesn't have to be temperate, could be sand or snow or flesh. Just as long as the player is always standing on 'ground' instead of 'floor'.


I also like metlslime's "vertical" theme. 

Metlslime's vertical idea is rather more interesting than my right angle idea.

I guess the only issue would be the xy area of the map. My guess would be:

2x + 2y < z

To give the mapper a little more freedom in terms of their respective creation, while still maintaining the vertical aspect.