SM103 - "Autumn"
Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
3:00 PM Central in #speedq1, Quakenet

I'm afraid this'll be my last Speedmapping event until next year. School starts next Tuesday and I just won't have a lot of time to do anything between that and work. Oh well. =/ 

Nice final theme too, hope you get a good turnout.

I think you;ve done a great job of keeping speedmapping going under fairly uninspiring circumstances, and I think it;s been worth it - although they are still only speedmaps, there have been some interesting maps, interesting ideas, and an occasional upturn in quality too. AND you have brought several new mappers to the fore, some of which - generic, drew, negke - are showing a lot of promise. 

I agree with Shambler, and I'm sure plenty more of us quake fans do as well. Your commitment has been pretty impressive. You just kept going, coming up with wonderfully obtuse themes and producing maps every time. I know alot of people would have given up... I know I would've. Thanks alot for contributing to this community. Hopefully someone else will step up to the plate. So yeah, thanks. 

Do you have an email address? Just send me an email and I can reply to that. 

nooo, that's sad news! :/
what am i now going to use as an excuse not to continue working on my maps??
hopefully, you'll find some time to host a speedmap event every now an then, depending on how much spare time you'll get...
anyway - as the others already said - good job!

btw: why not upload the smqe1 pack to the speedq1 archive, just for the sake of completeness? 

"Pirates"
"Aliens"
"Mental Institute"
"I'm a true mapper"

Any of those are feasible. 

"I'm a true mapper"

I never thought I'd be able to actually say that.. 

and what about "i got 'zwiffilis'"? :D 

You've got mail :) 

That second map is the most beautiful piece of art I have ever experienced... truly mind blowing. It speaks truths even Jesus couldn't deliver. I'm just breathless from that whole thing. :D 

Was it not written that there wouldst come a mapper
And though he be generic, his speedmaps would not? 

no fair, you peeked ;) 

who will be running speedmapping after this Zwiffle? 

[nt] 

Get in contact with me. 

You've done a good job on running the SM sessions and produced a lot of good maps! If noone picks up the thread, I hope that you'll return later. 

You're interested in taking over the Speedmappage duties while I whittle away my hours on school and work then email Scamp at whatever his email is, otherwise he's gonna take over, and that means... well that means there'll be speedmapping, so that's good. Still, if anyone wants to try, by all means go ahead. 

Speedmap #104 will be happening this Saturday, with myself taking helm of the Speedmapping boat once again.

There will be no theme for this pack, Single Player or Deathmatch levels are acceptible. Timelimit is 100 mins, let's try to stick to it, but I've never been one to enforce the timelimit strictly.

We will meet on IRC for the live event, on the Quakenet network (irc.quakenet.org) in #speedq1, at 3PM Central Time, this is 8PM UTC. If you can not make it, or wish to map beforehand, you may email me a map before the live event or get in contact with me beforehand. My email is scampie@spawnpoint.org. 

I will not be making a speedmap, for this or future speedmaps. I cannot due to the limitations of my contract. I likely shouldn't even be running this event. This is why I will only be in charge of organizing, collecting, and uploading the weekly events. 

Boo for Raven contract! 

If anyone has any ideas for themes, please bring them up.

Themes I will not run for any reason:
Anything requiring a custom engine. Speedmaps must run in GLQuake minimum.

Anything requiring a mod. Speedmaps will run in vanilla Quake.

Anything limiting brush or entity counts.

Reasons:
Speedmapping is about creation and enjoyment for the mappers who participate. Themes should encourage people toward innovation and new ideas of architecture, gameplay, and buildstyle. Themes should not limit mappers, or require having to learn new entities/features in a specific mod or engine. We are having fun building maps, this is excercise, not a popularity contest for mappers to get famous. We don't need more than vanilla Quake to be creative. Themes will never be enforced, only suggested. The timelimit is also not enforced, since it's merely there as a guideline to spur on the quick creation of a map. Speedmap packs are released for the sole reason of sharing what we did with each other and inspiration for our fellow mappers. 

- "Quake Meets Next-Gen FPS of your Choice"
- "The City"
- "Runic" (I like Runic maps!)
- "Swallowed"

Don't you think Return of the King is a little egotistical? :) 

- Charles Dickins.
- Pirates.
- Old Movies.
- Glass.
- Origami.
- Speed? 

that speedmaps is going to be more than a summer fling.

Possible Theme's

Clean Base,
Rusty Base,
Sci-Fi Runic,
Gothic Runic