Alright first idea goes to the bin

-its a lot of work (atleastfor me)
-with my experience with the coloseum i made the other week i probably hit some limits with the way i construct buildings with tons of arches
-just found out there already is some fort boyard videogame anyway
-sun is shining lets go outside! 

That's the best if you don't have time or motivation. And, who knows, it can get fun later and you regain motivation to expand it. ;)

I'll be waiting to see your amazing works. 

...Have Portal of Praevus' Tibetan textures ever been used in Quake? 

Okay I'll see if I can get something together. Never done a speedmap before so I have a few questions.

Islands or Island? In other words, at least two? Or is a singular island something allowed?
Due Sunday (19th) at Midnight? Or Monday (20th) at noon, or when??
Time limit: Self imposed!?!? hrm, okay. Is the intention to have the map completed in all one chunk of time or just made before the due date?
And .bsp title sm170_Qmaster in my case.

Rules?:
Start from scratch or can I use existing stuff from my ideas.map?
Standard progs.dat, standard quake only?
Readme file required? Or just a brief description that Spirit will put in an sm170.txt?

Oh and http://speedq1.leveldesign.org/ is a dead link. 

so add as many leprechauns and clovers as you like... ;) 

Island or Islands, doesn't matter (themes are not the most strictly enforced things)

Due Monday whenever I wake up and put the pack together.

Timelimit is whatever you want. Basically the stance I'm taking is that "Anything under a week counts as 'speedmapping'".

The idea is that you should start from scratch. Use standard Quake, or at least a very common mod like Quoth... the pack will only include .bsp, .map, and .txt files. You can include a textfile if you want, and you can include the .map source if you want, neither are required.

Speedmapping is just to encourage people to map and try cool things. Not being that strict about all the rules!

...and yeah, leveldesign.org was my website 6-so years ago when I ran the speedmapping events then... it's long dead... that likely should be edited out of the header here. 

Timelimit is whatever you want. Basically the stance I'm taking is that "Anything under a week counts as 'speedmapping'".

This is intended so that people can put something together whenever they want and around their schedule. If you have the whole week free and want to spend the whole time making an amazing speedmap, go for it (though, maybe you should just release it as a proper release!), if you want to spend 20 minutes a night for the week, or just 100 minutes on saturday, those are fine too! In the end, the idea is just "GO MAP". 

sm170_digs
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/single_player/speed_maps/sm170_digs.zip 

if someone cares

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/demos/spy3_sm170_digs.rar

a nice void map 

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/single_player/speed_maps/sm170_pack.zip

2 maps, sm170_digs and sm170_scampie

negke promised me a map today, but apparently fucked up :_( 

to keep things rolling:

Theme: BIG

Due: Monday, May 27th 

Phew good, I haven't even started! I've been too busy mapping. 

always a good theme, that one.
Although I'm working a FUCK TON the week before that, so no promises whatsoever. 

planned a bit longer route & some more secrets but at somepoint the bugs and errors started pouring in and it became a rescue mission. Tried to keep it easy but still somewhat of a not to frustrating challenge. And the secrets are for those who like to up the challenge a bit. (the free void teleport makes one very easy to do cheap, but else some might find the basic challenge to frustrating)

http://members.upc.nl/verorber/sm170_orbs.bsp 

http://members.upc.nl/verorber/sm170.rar 

anyone tried mine? eager to know if this easy enough for the masses :P 

Will try to get to it to it, a d post the demo along with the others 

I try'd. Very difficulty for me 

I finished it. Fun. Reaching the exit seems to be 5% success rate though. 

Orbs I couldn't finish your previous map with the quoth stuff in one run. Had to use save games actually. Did you complete it legitimately in your demo? I'm impressed. 

i can't make it up the first ramp jump. :( 

I can get to the third jump pad but the map feels sadistic. You are an amazing player (love watching your demos) but as a designer you just punish players with little reward. I crashed into the first ramp for ages and then I realized I had to jump before the edge which is not how people jump. The second jump is easy because it is just skipping but the third I have no idea. After about 5 minutes of frustration I gave up. 

It seems like one has to jump at the point of the arrow. I did not make it up that vertical part with enough speed. http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/demos/sm170_orbs-May-22-2013-223140-SpiritQuaddict.dz (10002 I guess, should play in bengt's glquake). 

to make the third jump, you have to do the air control trick where you jump, press the strafe key in the direction you want to turn and then smoothly turn your camera in that direction as well.
if you turn the camera smoothly (but quickly) enough, you preserve all your forward velocity along your new direction. 

No. Although I get the principle.