I thought this was going to be out today...

I crunched like hell between my ridiculous 60 hour shift last week. I now have a bunch of spare time and I could have polished up what I had done. 

Sorry everyone I need to go out and finish off some paperwork today, if anyone wants to adds some polish to their maps, just send me an update by the end of the day. I know this is frustrating, but shit happens and I need to fix it!

I recommend a leaf from Daz's new book - go outside 

outside is full of lions, tigers and bears... Oh my! 

But all of my computers are inside ... I don't get it. 

 

It never rains it just pours! I sort of have a start map but I have had no time to add any detail. I will cut and paste some stuff from the original honey start map and just release the pack in a couple of hours. Not really the ideal situation but I want to get this released today.

I received a map update from mfx/ionous yesterday.

@fifth, any map update from yesterday? 

I haven't actually updated the map at all. I have moved back to a couple of projects I was working on pre-jam.

To get my map where I need it to be I'd need a few weeks, I suppose this is the point of jams though? Make something awesome and polish it later? 

@fifth, no worries, I understand. 

Take your time to build a nice start map. Add more details !

There's no hurry, and there's no point in playing a dull cubic room map without any details to look at.

Details, geometry and atmosphere are why I love Quake1.

And come on, add more details. 

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but the start map is one of the things I'm looking forward to most. Take your time, and make it awesome. We got two weeks to make a map. Giving yourself at least a week to do the same is not an unreasonable request... 

 

Take the time needed to do your usual awesomeness for the start map. The weekends blown out so nothing to fret about now. 

As was proved by SM175, sock doesn't need a week to make a brilliant map. Pushing the deadline just to polish up a map would be pretty ironic, too, given the context of this being a map jam. 

 

Or, alternatively, your spirit animal. 

 

the drips must be big. Very big.

Ever thought about that? 

Suggestion :

Make the start map with puzzles to solve (or even a few monsters to hugh ?), just to unlock the teleporters to other maps.

I think that start maps are under-used in Quake1.

Start maps just to select the difficulty ? Come on ! Put some puzzles to solve too, for the explorer from another world who discovers. 

just slap together something worthy of a map jam instead of over-perfecting. 

Hold onto your buttes and let Sock make a start map and upload the pack. 

 

 

 

 

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