http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87100557/giger/g004.jpg 

glQuake is too limiting, can I make a map for another engine ?
<sheep> ? 

:) 

Is that pic a contribution to the "no arms in Irak" debate?

sorry bad joke, nice pic who's the artist? 

You can make a map for another engine. 

It'd be good if it runs perfectly well on standard Quake though, since otherwise it removes a number of people from the possible play base. 

absolutely correct nonentity. the map should run on standard quake as well, everyone should be able to play it. 

i'd guess Giger... but i don't really know much of his stuff. 

The man who made them spectacular designs for Alien (the first movie) yes could be.. 

see those syringes? they're armed with biological weapons!
(yes, it's Giger) 

And I'm not talking the badass from TV.

Another possible job (this one paying) has cropped up, so I'm gonna go for that. That's two oppos in the same week!

And, also, I'm suffering from CD-burners. Nurse! Nurse! More MP3s!

(Mind you, I have to rethink a fair bit o' Shaft...) 

it's giger. These are the shaft pictures fatty and i were talking about earlier in the thread. 

Me look for paper bag with holes for eyes...
big holes 

I started a map just like that for two different games, and both were named Shaft. :) 

http://hem.passagen.se/h2/giger/ 

1500 brushes and I hit the wall.
One three level "atrium" to go.
Stecki versus Ogro = demonpunk.
But what combination to populate it with SP?
Could be a bit unconventional *shrug*
"Disrupted Coagulation"
Will try and see this through. 

i hope all of you agree it's art. i think it's also a lot of imagination.

it reminds me of all the macabre surreal things which objectively seem so scary and bad but actually show a persons brain in full activity (including its evil thoughts which we can't control: if you believe freud and other philosophers words anyway...) 

"shaft" inspiration:

"In the stairwell of my parents' house in Chur was a secret window, which gave onto the interior of the Three Kings Hotel next door, and was always covered with a dingy brown curtain. In my dreams, or nightly wanderings, this window was open and I saw gigantic, bottomless shafts, bathed in a pale yellow light. On the walls, steep and treacherous wooden stairways without banisters led down into the yawning abyss"

No doubt Giger would have been an excellent mapper. ;)

Looking at some of the artwork, there is a clear link to Quake, the combination of organic with mechanical, the overall mood of darkness, surreal images and a nightmarish, lurking quality - especially similar to the Quake 1 monsters. 

Always use fiends! It is fun to make them jump off ledges! POP! And think about speedrunners... 

Do not think about the speedrunners. Those maps are generally much less interesting.

Instead, DON'T think about the speedrunners -- neither think about blocking them nor about aiding them. 

grenades bouncing on the ground and then into the void (hopefully without showing too many invisible floors...). 

to everyone that you have ONE MONTH left to the deadline for submitting maps to me; March 1st. 

fookin' school work takin' time away from mah mappin'... 

I don't know. From the looks of things, schoolwork isn't having much of an impact at all. 

well, suffice it to say i would have been finished by now if it weren't for exams... but point taken. ;)