revisiting the id1 levels and adding things to them. for example one level could be infested(?) with some devilish organics, another could have had a slipgate exploded and so on. 

OFC OMG WTF ROFL! 

"With only a boomstick"; derived from the Q2 map "with only a blaster" (only2.zip), the goal would be not to kill all monsters but to somehow dodge various traps/ ambushes and get through alive.

A variation af this could use the Airfist mod, I was thinking about cramped/tight rooms, again the goal would be to get to the exit and not to get 100%.

Another: making maps with fun Boss battles, like that one map by Harbinger which has a Chthon throwing fish instead of lavaballs. 

I'd like neg!ke's theme suggestion from way above:
machinery

Who is with me this weekend (deadline monday evening)? 

I had a nice start (~1 hour) and will probably spend 2 more hours on it (one tomorrow, one monday). 

sounds good, can�t wait to play your map! 

my sm132 is ready. it actually could also be a full release. betatesting on monday with neg!ke (& spirit?). 

deadline? i was away this weekend :\ 

so.. you're dead for this session... :P 

How about this weekend (4/14 - 4/15)? 

for sm133 machinery or for the next? 

Thanks. 

i was going to release the pack today. do you want me to hold it back for you? 

I won't have time this weekend anyway. 

what about making a map where every brush must have the same texture on every surface? One brush=one texture. Kinda new conceptual type of mapping along with geocomp, 100brush, monsterfree etc. 

http://czg.leveldesign.org/q/shot/czg00.jpg 

 

Every map ever made with Thred3D ever. 

Square brushes with the same texture on every surface. 

we may call it notexturetool or nosurfaceinspector map 

but yay for a "czg00" theme 

restriction: only make objects with dimensions of a power of 2, and only textures displayed on the surfaces of those objects 

Metlslime mentioned this earlier, and perhaps it has been a theme earlier on but how about doing a speed sp conversion of a quake dm level you have made. If you haven't made any then maybe just use id source or use the source of another mappers level.

That way you get the whole time to concentrate on making fun gameplay and the visuals are already taken care of. I know much of the fun of mapping comes from building geometry, but this might be a fun change.

Also, how about rerouting an id sp map to have different gameplay? Maybe that's more of a turtlemap project to do nicely.

I mention this because I am currently making a quick conversion to Quake of an old q2dm map I made and will be adding sp gameplay to it when it's built because I know nobody will bother to play it otherwise. I've also still got plans to work on sp conversions of all the id dm maps at some time, but I have a lot of other maps that need building first :) 

http://shub-hub.quaddicted.com/files/textures_wads/muzzlego.zip 

how come when I loaded it into WC 1.6 it doesn't recognize it?