whatever, I'm doing it! 

A variation of turtlemapping: A turtle episode.
Everyone tries to create an entire episode within a week, each map only the size of a more sophisticated speedmap. One map a day, seven maps in total (or how many one can manage) per participant. Think rpgsmse. 

That is a GREAT idea!

But one that will definitely have to wait until a time when I'm less busy, haha!

...The only problem I can see is that peoplemight be biting off more than they can chew when they commit to that - mapping inspiration is definitely sporadic for myself, and when I've tried to "binge" map, I've generally found the inspiration shrivels up - definitely a case of diminishing returns, or whatever. I mean, it should be kept in mind that rpgsmse's construction took place with breaks between each map.

fuck all that though - it's definitely worth a try! 

It's definitely not easy to do, especially when you have any kind of life.

A while ago the speedmappers had like 4 weeks of speedmap themes lined up with a 5th week's goal being to refine the maps - The 4 Seasons of Quake or something like that.

RPG was the only one afaik to string his speedmaps into an episode, but it wasn't a map a day, it was a 5-week project and only produced like 4 maps and a start map I think.

A speedmap a day is nothx for me, but a more drawn out event would be okay. 

er, i have a refined e2 map and unrefined e3/e4 maps, did start an idbase one for e1 but never finished it. would be nice to pull something together sometime but i have other priorities atm 

It's been some years and I still build on my maps from back then from time to time!

So maybe i a few years there will be a smal episode from me as well! 

to maybe do it RPG style for now. make an episode session by session... I suppose that's not thematic though - more just personal.

Has "start map" ever been done as a theme? 

but i dont think it went through 

If I did do an episode I would probably need to plan it out instead of just throwing a bunch of speedmaps together - maybe a planned month-long mapping project, longer than a turtle map, with actual planning and stuff, and even then I'm not sure I could do it reasonably well. 

Aiming for a whole episode (regardless of the number of maps), even if the maps aren't really related or thematically connected to each other, takes away some of the freedom from pressure that speedmapping offers (commitment, coherence, quality, you name it).

It's more of a side-project than an actual time-restricted event. 

sm 76 maybe? the end leads to 2 different exit gates, and I intended to make speeed maps that all kind of interlinked etc.

next week I tried to make a metal map(I find that theme so hard, I don't know why) and then gave up on the whole idea. 

I can't do anything in metal theme. I have tried several times but the textures just don't work for me. 

I�m making a ID metal map :) and I think is working pretty well 

Custom textures and a blocky outlook. All those 64 squares and 32 rune tiles are counter to the make it curvy idea. 

Metal.wad is the easiest theme to work with - it looks good in all kinds of combinations. It's pretty much defined by a single texture. 

why not repeat this theme?

but with another texture? 

but with another texture?
wizmet1_2?
rofl 

I've seen alot of people say it's their favourite, etc. but it doesn't work for me too well. 

Yeah I have like so many different .wads I've made with metal themes but I never seem to be able to do anything with them. I guess it's too hard to define myself with metal textures, but I seem to have less of a problem with medieval textures/brick, etc, so challenging myself with metal and actually forcing myself to get something done with metal might be a good theme. 

ideas?

start maps? 

no.

sm's don't have skill levels!


base maps? 

'remaking a famous map from another game' been done? 

Well there was that remake project a while back where people remade original Quake maps. Not technically from another game, I know, but that's the closest I can think of. 

remake a small map might be cool 

i made a remake of dust2 for that sm, which actually was a map from another game. :P