I think after all these years, acknowledging the highly unrealistic nature of Quake levels in a meta- fashion, is fine. Arguably, stuff like Kell's e1m2 with its floating pieces of rock going into the skybox, similarly admits this. 

I think it would be cool if it were in Latin, and said initium 

Holly mother of GOD! That looks awesome. Where can I get the map? 

 

nowhere yet, it'll be released with the final version of DRAKE (my goal is by spring day 1).

but, the tech people, whom I massively admire, have made things easier, so I'm hoping to release the whole thing within like 2 months. 

 

nice to see you still around Shambler, approximately 15 years after you refused to review my first map. 

@Fifth, I know you are going for the whole ID vibe in your maps but it feels too similar to the original. I know you have done subtle changes, like extra floor detail but I was expected more differences.

@Tronyn, wow nice large epic start entrance, it feels very greek style to me, maybe have the start text in a greek style font and try 'begin' or 'enter' instead of start? I would prefer to see the screenshot in colour. 

This is the only room which will be so close to the original game. Once you get to the episode selection the differences will be much more apparent. There are some very small homages but it is all brand new stuff, promise! 

haha tronyn, 15 years since shambler refused to review my first episode as well! he was offended I even thought he'd consider putting it on his site.

re start map, fifth that just looks like id's start map. what's the difference? if you're going to do big changes to the other maps, why not the start map as well? it could have a lot more detail added. 

shambler refused to review my first map too!

it sucked though. 

You'd be surprised at how different they actually are side-by-side. Mine is meatier with more detail and more defined lighting.

I might do a second pass on it once it's finished to make it feel a bit more unique anyway. I don't want to overdo the detail though as id maps were simplistic (and my intent is to actually release more maps per year). 

Did some more work on the dam interior.
http://i.imgur.com/9dUwQhP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/efaZ1RH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/c5Nn3TT.jpg 

Look like HL1 :) 

WTF was he playing at??

On the plus side there does seem to be a correlation between having early maps rejected and then becoming a prolific and consistently good mapper :P 

well also Shambler, as you pointed out, at some point the general quality of maps became so good that even someone's first map was worth reviewing 

"I'll show that fat bastard Shambler what a good Q1SP is." 

 

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/titan2s.jpg 

Mechtech one word... impressive! 

Nice architecture and texturing, but the lighting looks flat - maybe take some cues from sock's maps to improve it? 

yeah my episode sucked too. i thought it was pretty good at the time though haha. 

I replayed the Alkado Crisis just before this "issue" raised its head and... not that it stopped me from being in awe back in the day :) 

Are you using minlight?

Those walls are crying out for some spotlights! 

texture is very out of place. Looks nice except for that one thing really.