I would say don't try to emulate the E4 production values, but try to capture the oldskool gameplay. The environment is the real enemy in E4 - lots of tricks, traps, and shadows. It really puts me on edge. 

Let's do this. How does Oct 9 to 11 sound? 

 

Zwiffle: Episode 4 is pretty diverse, you can do basically anything as long as it's kind of dark and there are power ups.

It's a weekend mapping thing, E4 inspired maps sounds simple and open enough of a theme. 

so don't call it e4.

call it "dark and deadly."

the dark and deadly jam. 

 

And a bit of time to make speed maps with you Zwiffle 

 

I like Retro Jam 4: Episode 4


Quake is dark and deadly more often than not. 

E4 jam where you ignore the real E4 and instead just work from the level titles. "The Nameless City" could own. 

exec """\nfrom random import choice, randint\n\ndef funfunfun():\n scampiesuxx = ("Sewage","Elder","Nameless","Pain","Azure","Hell","Maze","World","Tower","God")\n negkerulez = ("System","Shrine","Palace","Hell","Maze","World","Tower","God","Atrium","City","Agony")\n spiritistehleader = ("of Despair","of Hate")\n maybeormaybenot = choice(("The ", ""))\n suxxx = choice(scampiesuxx)\n kkk = choice(negkerulez)\n \n while(suxxx == kkk):\n kkk = choice(negkerulez)\n \n if randint(0,5) == 0:\n jem = " "+choice(spiritistehleader)\n else:\n jem = ""\n \n return (maybeormaybenot+suxxx+" "+kkk+jem)\n \nfor x in range(12):\n print(funfunfun())\n""" 

exec """\nfrom random import choice, randint\n\ndef funfunfun():\n scampiesuxx = ("Sewage","Elder","Nameless","Pain","Azure","Hell","Maze","World","Tower","God")\n negkerulez = ("System","Shrine","Palace","Hell","Maze","World","Tower","God","Atrium","City","Agony")\n spiritistehleader = ("of Despair","of Hate")\n maybeormaybenot = choice(("The ", ""))\n suxxx = choice(scampiesuxx)\n kkk = choice(negkerulez)\n \n while(suxxx == kkk):\n kkk = choice(negkerulez)\n \n if randint(0,5) == 0:\n jem = " "+choice(spiritistehleader)\n else:\n jem = ""\n \n return (maybeormaybenot+suxxx+" "+kkk+jem)\n \nfor x in range(12):\n print(funfunfun())\n""" 

The Sewage System of Hate
Elder God
Nameless Hell
God System
The Nameless World
The Elder Palace
World City
The Hell Maze of Hate
Azure World
The God Palace
The World Tower
Tower Atrium
Maze Tower
Tower Agony
The Maze City
The World Atrium
The Sewage Palace
Nameless Maze
The God Shrine
Pain Agony of Hate
Elder City
Sewage System
Sewage City of Despair
The Pain Atrium 

THAT might be interesting ... 

Not that spew, what Jon said. 

 

Damnit... Such avoid theme. Won't have the time for it 

Kinda like Berlin?

Although I like E4, I'm not really interested/inspired to do a E4 jam at the moment - besides, "E4" seems too unspecific as a theme anyway. Also, Zwiffle must map, so we have to take all steps necessary to enable him! 

http://codepad.org/2em33e0b 

...But will there ever be another speedmapping session? Because I would be interested in participating on IRC if it comes around. 

I have a webcam now and might be interested in mapping something small-ish. I apologize for having a webcam in advance. 

How about new speedmapping event?