3) If I would like to write that someone "suck all dick", I wouldn't hesitate to log-in :D

Heh. Noted. :) 

Goth rock and mapping

https://www.twitch.tv/ionous 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i8k1mttrs6bi0wh/quoth.def?dl=0

/q1.game/quoth/quoth.def

100% typo free assured. 

Currently sitting comfortably at 8430 solids. 

With room for more. 

Excellent news. But we need another entry to make it lucky 13! 

Does it have horde combat, platforming, logic puzzles, trap sections, and mini boss encounters before every map exit?? 

 

will post my progress on Discord. (name is Sir Cheeki of Breeki) 

http://i.imgur.com/dZeooCB.jpg
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http://i.imgur.com/HcJeTb5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UxcpC5N.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WicUrqs.jpg 

If it's really that big, might want to turn it into a proper map. Better to have one more level with gameplay rather than a huge start map that's ultimately unnecessary for a map jam pack... 

 

 

Don't agree with negke. Nice to have a hub for this jam. A little cleaner than watching streamers type long ass names like:

retrojam6_dumptruck_ds_revised 

I wanted to make a start map for this because Chapters had one and it wouldn't make sense for this not to have one. 

 

That start map, beyond being unnecessary for a jam, is far too big. Start maps are selection menus, and menus fucking suck when you have to spend any amount of time navigating it trying to find the map you want to enter and it means people can accidentally miss maps. Contract Revoked is a great example of an awful start map.

Just make it completely utilitarian if you're going to have a start map, a big box room with a bunch of teleporters in a row. Leave you brushcount dickwaving of generic arches you copy pasted a billion times to your actual map skacky.

dumptruck: tab key autocomplete. 

Cool story bro. Just shift maps through the console if that shit bothers you. 

I for one like to have a nice start map to select the maps I wanna play far much better than typing something in the console, even with autocomplete. That said, I agree that it's unnecessary (even detrimental) for a start map to be overly big and complex. 

I prefer big fat and complex funky start maps (even with tits), if they have some game in it, like traps, mystery, a few dogs and zombies to bang in the arse, and some puzzles to solve.

Good start maps are not for pussy grabbers. 

And why do you have to stick to old style ID soft boring start maps ? Make it a full level with 500 zombies and dogs, moving geometries and traps, and many "exits" (to other maps). 

injecting gameplay in a start map is that you'll have to replay it every single time you finish a map. 

Reprimanding Skacky for making a start map for a jam seems a little silly. I've always wondered why participants didn't use trigger_nextlevel in map Jams pointing to the next level. It falls on the admin of the jam to deal with I know... This a better alternative but long overdue. 

Is the start map name for linking i the trigger_changelevel? 

@Mugwump

well, that's the whole point ! Make the startmap gameplay such that it's never the same each time you replay the start map. Traps could reconfigure, puzzles could reset in new ways, and the monsters could be redistributed randomly.

The map geometry could even change (rotating plateforms and gears).

And more easily, the paths to each exit (i.e to other maps teleporter) isn't the same :

The first time you go to exit 1, you'll have to beat the zombies walking their dog. The next time you replay the startmap to go to map 2, you'll have to find another room, with a shambler waiting for your balls to snack. To find exit #3, you'll get to go down, trigger a button that launches a swarm of 600 scrags on your ass, etc.

Start maps are just in need of imagination !