I think this is a great idea. Ironically, I have not used the launcher for Quoth. 

I imagine not many people on this board would, everyone here is pretty familiar with Quake and isn't scared of command lines. The launcher is really there for the casual player who doesn't know Quake from any of the other games they play. 

I'll have this done by the end of the day, I promise. 

Gypsy, what's your status? You haven't given any news in a while. 

http://imgur.com/a/s37bp

This will be my second Q1SP so don't expect a classic but I am happy with much of the experience players will have. It started as an homage to Doom2 Map03 "The Gantlet" but quickly got out of hand and changed a bit. So only the one central area from that map survives.

"Knight Gaunts" is a play on 3 things: the original Doom 2 map, H.P. Lovecraft's nightmares as a child (he called them "night gaunts." And finally, the Knights and Gaunts featured in Quoth.

Other mappers should share their map name background here. (Except Muk - his is disgusting) 

Wow dumptruck, that's really impressive stuff! I can't wait to play. What is that skybox?

I can always appreciate some thought behind a map title. Your title is fantastic and works in so many ways!

My jam 9 map is called "Cloudy with a Chance of Gibs" Because it's a funny title but also describes the actual map rather well. 

Awesome title. I love meat showers in Quake!

The skybox is randomly generated from this Space3d website. I needed help from Preach and Spike to get it working correctly in QS as the coords are non-standard. I know it's too late now but I could write up on how to convert these to the proper format if you are interested.

Anyone is welcome to use the skybox in a future level - an algorithm made it for me afterall. :) I found some nice fog in one of the Arcane Dimensions test maps (Map7?) and it works well with the skybox. 

http://i.imgur.com/9A6tvUS.png

I never thought I'd get this done on time. It's been a hell of a ride. I hope you lot enjoy playing all the maps in this jam! 

wow - it's stunning. 

Breezeep's map is a truly excellent one.
Looking good dumptruck! Really reminds me of Doom (in the best way possible).

My map is named Chasing Promises; named after the eponymous Breathless album but it's also a nice fit for the Contract Revoked theme.
The start map is named The Stars Turn And A Time Presents Itself which is a direct lift from a popular show these days but also fits Contract Revoked like a glove.

@Mugwump: I guess the jam will be released in the next few days or so; people are still tweaking their maps at the moment. 

http://imgur.com/a/XVjn0 

Sent it to Dumptruck for mastering, waiting for him to send me back the result. 

My map is called The Tugging after a novel from Ramsay Campbell. I've always liked this title, and it's kinda fitting because there are huge gallows with corpses hanging off towards the end.
They are inspired from an actual place, the Gibet de Montfaucon, which used to be the biggest set of gallows in France in the late middle ages. 

 

Heh. Never heard the word "todger" before. 

Awesome. I've never read Ramsey Campbell but I know of him.

Glad I asked for the stories behind the names. Great stuff guys. 

I emailed you back. 

Re-sent, should be fine now. 

Got it. Is this going to be looped for a sound entity or used as a music track? I can loop it if you'd like or just leave it for you to do. 

That is, if he decides to use the track... 

I'd like to hear it first. :P 

Will there be a nice poster of all the maps in that jam ? Would be cool ! 

dumptruck gave me a listen. I thought it was going to be an ambient track like the one you did before; this is more suited for an ambient_genericpurpose/play_sound. It's good stuff though, but I don't think I'm going to use it for this map.

Something that would work is if you took snippets of that track without the background hum so they can be used as one-shot sounds, much like how the wood creaking works in AD. 

I'm too impatient to hear that. 

I was just about to post the download link. It comes in two versions: normal and volume reduced by 6db (I thought the normal one was a bit too loud ingame). It's OK if you don't use it, I'll find a use for it anyway. Told you it would be more suited to a full library map! ;) The idea behind it was that the writing sounds you hear are actually invisible ghosts of ancient copyist monks who follow you everywhere through the map, hence their constant volume. The hum/rumble (humble?) was for extra eeriness.

I could upload the multitrack if you want to make point ambient sounds out of it, let me know (it won't be mastered, though). Or you could DIY - the samples I used are listed in the readme below, though I modified them.

If you, or anyone else for that matter, decide to use it anyway, please add this to your readme:

MUSIC:
Filename: trackXX.ogg
Title: The Infinite Library
Time: 4'26"

Composed by Guillaume "Mugwump" Perez a.k.a. The ?uestion Mark.
Mastered by David "dumptruck_ds" Spell.
Released on 07-27-2017 under Creative Commons license CC-BY 4.0.

Samples used from freesound.org:
book-close-03 by koops
flipping-through-pages by vladnegrila
psani-brkem by 6polnic
readingroom by bulldozia
room-tone-large-room-library by lwdickens
turning-book-pages by et-graham
writing-with-pen by jasonelrod
writing-with-pencil by jasonelrod

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You like The ?uestion Mark's music? Explore more!

https://thequestionmark.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/the-question-mark
https://www.indabamusic.com/people/thequestionmark

As before, replace the XX with the track number of your choice and rename the file accordingly.

PS: Sign of Koth wasn't exactly ambient. This one is.