crazy level GG 

 

Very cool maps; proper end-of-year treat like in the previous years. Thanks to everyone involved for organizing and participating! 

Thanks everyone for the great maps. You'll find timecodes in the comments of the videos in my ChristmasJam 2019 Playlist.

As for my map I will say, there were two exits though the "true ending" was not so obvious. Also, depending on the order in which you play the maps, if you already have an E4 rune in your inventory you cannot complete my map this way; the ending is triggered by collecting the rune at the bottom of the final lava pit. Sorry for the trouble but there was not supposed to be another E4 rune in the pack! 

OK I'm REALLY late to the party on this one but I wanted to drop in with some love for Ionous' map that I just played. I got stuck for a while after the 3rd tome, like others apparently, but when I _did_ figure it out that was quite cool.

I guess along with "players don't look up" (which Quake vets are at least partially trained out of) you can add the truism "players don't look down". :-)

(That experience actually helped me in a later spot where looking down was again required for progression.)

The hunting-around-and-exploring feel was handled well IMO. It's good that it was in a small map so you could run around and examine everything pretty quickly. Also I don't underestimate the value of the initial tone-setting from the design of the opening area and a few bits of text.

Anyway, I don't blame anyone that got stuck/frustrated, but it ended up being a very satisfying map for me. 

Hmm got a weird blocky blue-and-white skin for an ogre in Maxx's map. Using QSS on Linux. No errors in the console. Curious. I think this is a normal QS behavior for a bad skin reference but I didn't see anyone else mention that? 

Thanks for the kind words. Glad that sticking with it paid off; the difficult paths of progression were intentional.