Got stuck on adib's will retry with QS later. I think some platform did nto raise or something. Was locked on a tiny ledge over the lava in the third "shoot down the stone" area.

Breezeep: Absolutely solid knave map, can't think of any criticism.

Daz: https://gfycat.com/WhichExcellentCock 

 

Kreathor : Wow you had a rough time! Looks like you didn't notice picking up the Silver Key after the roof top fight either, that definitely needed picking out much better! Hope you enjoyed it though :)

Sleepwalkr : I'll fuck my shit dude! That ambush is perhaps a bit cheap ;) The double KO at the end had me LOL'ing :) I'm happy you found one of the ways to get at the quad. There is another way that let's you get it much earlier! :)

Scampie : typical scampie demo! lol. You were playing normal though, not hard (get rekt noob). The biosuit secret seems to be a mixed bag. Definitely a secret that most people won't know what to do with until their second time through the map, so it's probably a failure in that regard. On the flip side maybe it will make people want to play it again? :)

Thanks for all the demos! Always interesting to watch! 

Yeah heard about that bug :( Very, very irritating! Wasn't there until the final compile. sigh!

I might do a bugfix release... or I might not! 

My file sizes are too big on the demos so I will release them individually as I get them. It might be preferable for people to download their own instead of everyone's at once.

Adib (Second play through after being squashed in the first room almost immediately & funny/interesting ending):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x561fakfg1fw067/SIGNATI.dem?dl=0

Breezeed:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vh7j58nk1831o5z/oftheflames.dem?dl=0

Daz:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eorr0gox4s7q4ec/magmapolis.dem?dl=0

EricW & Tronyn:
It is somehow 316mb and I do incredibly well for about 30 seconds after the invisibility wears off when I jump back into the giant lake of lava because I suck. If you don't mind I will not post yours unless requested.

@Daz - I think I either watch too many of your videos or I did so well because I ran into issues on your map that my map also suffered from and I exploited the crap out of them. Either way I beat it first try after getting stuck at the beginning as per Spirit's gif. Also part of my map broke on last compile too. 

 

All four of the above for 18mb as a rar file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/32xbjg5hdu8zks2/mapjam6_demos1.rar?dl=0 

"Kreathor : Wow you had a rough time! Looks like you didn't notice picking up the Silver Key after the roof top fight either, that definitely needed picking out much better! Hope you enjoyed it though :)"

Map is good, problem is I'm a noob, lol ;D Still... I have finished it on Hard! *flexing muscles*
Yeah I've totally missed I got a key. This teleportation after battle was kinda confusing, and when realized I have a key I couldn't find the door ;D 

Adib: Nice little map. I found all 2 secrets!

Breezeed: Solid knave map. I enjoyed both the visuals and the gameplay. Found only 1 secret=(

Daz: Great! There were minor visual glitches mentioned before, but all the rest was very solid and stylish. I managed to accidently get the quad right after I killed all the monsters in the final battle=)

Ericw/Tronyn: Very impressive! Such a grand scale. I felt like a was playing an ant in the realm of giants.

Exhalzar: Pretty nice for a first map. Keep on mapping!

Matecha: Small but nice. There were some places where it was hard to maneuver tho.

Necros: Looks amazing but feels too empty for its scale to me. I would have places a lot more different monsters there, especially in outdoor area.

Rick: I love castle maps! Very good! But one question: There are nails, but where is the nailgun?

Scampie: omg that was awesome! Looks great, plays great and it's rubilavacon! 2/6 secrets found. 

You guys are crazy.

Demo: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/mapjam6_sleep_2.7z 

If this ledge is one I'm thinking of, it will be deleted in a next version. It's a design flaw, you're not supposed to go there. Scampie did that too, because it actually draws attention.

Or maybe I change a few things to make it playable, part of the fiend fight nearby. Mmmm...

The only thing I did last night was playing Breezeep's and watching Scampie's demo. Need more time to watch everything, give feedback and torture you all with demos of me playing worse than a 10 year old.

@Scampie, thanks for the demo and feedback. It was a blast to see you try to figure what to do. You had the right amount of "dunno what to do" I was expecting for this level. The whole point here is to puzzle the player.

@Breezeep: Yours is a great solid Quake level. If it was in the original iD pak, would be praised as a classic. The original tr00 Quake done right. 

Also, I see you thought a floor button near a vore was a seal and tried to break it. It's my design fault, this level should never have a floor button (to be confused with something else), specially one that you accidentally push after teleport. 

Some of the secrets in my map require you to look closely at the walls or one of the bookshelves for anything that sticks out. 

The classic loose brick, sticky out book secrets, eh? How oldschool :D 

Thanks to Daz for organizing this jam and all mappers who took part. I considered taking part too, but since I have some computer issues, I had to pass. (My laptop is in for repairs at the moment. Another computer I am using doesn't have enough GL support for the editors I might have wanted to use.)

So far I've played Adib's, Breezeep's, Daz's and Eric & Tronyn's maps, in alphabetical order. The last one took only about 37 minutes to cpmlete on my third demo, so I think this is enough for today. I have demos for all my playthroughs or attempts, but I will upload them in one batch later.

So, I shall continue tomorrow with Exhelzar's map. I'm avoiding spoilers until then. I've only watched Daz's earlier mapping streams and a tiny bit of Ionous's so I essentially am playing them mostly blindly too.

Fortunately this computer is at least good enough to run Quakespasm and E&T's huge map at decent speed. I might look at those editor issues too, if I have the time. Or I might get my laptop back and not have to worry about this anymore.

Amazing work everyone! I've enjoyed every map so far. 

Demos for those mentioned below: https://www.dropbox.com/s/edwgvgix2ufdqlm/jam6-demos1.zip?dl=0


Exhelzar:

Nice oldskool map design. Brushwork could be a bit more detailed, but considering the amount of time you had it's an awesome job.

Where the ogre bridge is, you could have closed the gate behind the player for extra challenge. The part after was frustrating, because it leads the player to waste all his ammo (like I did) on the hell-knights. It also nullifies their melee attacks. If you want to use them as snipers they're better close. A solution to this could be to make the lava pillars larger, so you don't encounter the hellknights until you're on top of them.

Of the maps that I played so far, this is the only map I didn't die in (at normal skill). I felt you could have teleported some more mobs in at various places in the map after collection of the blue key. Even without any changes it's a really really solid map. Great job.


Breezeep:

Really really nice style. Hellish without tonnes of lava.

Really good difficulty balance on normal (didn't play other difficulties). I felt the underwater button should have been shootable, that's just me nitpicky. The zombies don't pose much of a challenge in that area either as they don't target you whilst you're underwater.

I don't know how I derped an missed the door after killing the vore. The ogre room was perfect, I wasn't expecting it and led to my subsequent death. I didn't play beyond this because I didn't really feel like anything else needed to be said, great map man.


Ericw & Tronyn:

What can I say other than this map is really really unforgiving. I really don't know whether I'm supposed to pick off the map room by room or just speed run it. This map isn't really to my taste, I think my old man skills aren't up to scratch either. I gave it a go. I included a demo of one of my many attempts.


Ionous:

What an amazing map. Really good diffoculty on normal. I felt sufficiently challenged. Ammo pickups were just enough, I would have hated to have had any less. Visually this map was quite stunning. Excellent lighting. Great architecture, nice touches in th floors and ceiling (although I kind of thought that the yellow armour pit somehow didn't fit the style, maybe it was a touch cramped). Really good execution. Suprise shambler was... Difficult, but I always felt like I could "win", up until I died :)

Great job.


Daz:

Great styling, and really well lit. I love the columnar bassalt styled rocks. Difficulty was pretty spot on for this one. I'm really glad you added the shortcut buttons. Saved quite a bit of travel time. Nothing really to say other than, enjoy watching me fail :)


Adib:

Excellent job, visually excellent. Such a shame you can't have falling lava. I felt that ammo was a touch scarce, which was the reason for my demise in one of my attempts as I couldn't shoot the rock shard required to progress :(

Mob placement was perfect, the scrags at the start, vores were perfectly frustrating, as were the zombies (I wore a grenade to the face thanks to these bastards). The shambler makes you panic if you jump to the RL before aggroing him. One criticism would be the falling rocks are frustrating to jump off / land in a stable manner. I felt that a flat top or some kind of clip texture (not sure if this is possible) would help with this. Unless this was planned to frustrate the player in which case, great job =P

I really want to play this map with a mod that allows sinking lava now. 

In your first level you already got visual consistency. Feels like you're comfortable with the theme. Still looks very boxy, but promising: pretty path thru lava in the first room, good texture choices overall, and the masterpiece: that graveyard's fence and gate. I see you didn't force the player to visit the graveyard, you can finish the level without even see it, which is a shame. A design decision up for debate. By all means, keep it up. 

Thanks, man :)

You're right about the rocks. If you noticed, the one at scrags' room has a little step to make it easy to climb. I should work on the other ones too. There's no gameplay reason to keep them unstable.

I didn't give up on raising lava filling one last room yet. But you said "sinking lava" and that's a good idea as well. A room that raises, simulating the lava sinking, revealing enemies and passages. 

I thought you wanted the main room to have sinking lava as you progressed over the jumps and shot the rocks. 

"I thought you wanted the main room to have sinking lava as you progressed over the jumps and shot the rocks. "

Ohhh that would be cool! 

But is it safe to say this jam is the best jam since Mrs Beeton's strawberry jam? 

I owe you apologies. When I saw your first screenshots, specially that freaky... traffic light device (??) it was too much for my square mind. I didn't get it. But what do I know? You created unique gameplay (like or not) and a very very bold move on the layout and looks. "Very Bold Move" could be the name of the level, but even its name is neat the way it is.

Reminds me Zeno Clash looks.

Beautiful lava effect in the end.

The only thing I'd change is that golden key + button. 

You will notice there is one secret in the map, but so far it seems no one is taking the time to find it. Coincidently, no one seems to reach the upper level with a nailgun.

I thought I was making it easy to find the secret by using one of the most common tricks ever to trigger it. You know, like a red, blinking, shootable button on the ceiling, or something like that.

I guess I failed. I blame running out of time to test. Yeah, that's it.

Not finding the secret isn't a problem on skill 1, but it can make skill 2 pretty difficult. 

OK, I went to the end of the list working backwards to those guys some attention before the end of today.

Demos part 2:
Fallen.dem - WarrenM - The map turned out looking great! I was coasting through it without problems until near the end. Beat it, but it caught me off guard.

Untitled.dem - Necros - Huge and incredible looking map. On the easier side of things but I enjoyed it.

Daysinthefire.dem - Scampie - I knew this had the fire, but I questioned the brimstone... oh how I should have never questioned the brimstone!!! Watch me fail at platforming in this demo. Great all around... even has a geometry based creature like I wanted:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fwn961rccn0bsb6/Quake_MapJam666_WIP_10.jpg?dl=0

Detour.dem - Rick - The dripping ceiling had me cheering when I noticed it. Very atmospheric and great execution. Beat it with no ammo left. Short but very tense.

Igneous.dem - Matecha - This map may be small but it freaking nails the atmosphere of the theme. I am jealous of your map edges. :-p

Princess.dem - ItEndsWithTens - O_o* I started the map and lost my shit for a second then realized I didn't start a demo for your map after the shock subsided. Those totems man... I knew once I saw those we were in for a treat. On the critical side, after the first totem I knew all I had to do is run away to turn the tide of each encounter. You will see that a lot in my demo.

Download as a RAR here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xrmpa0o948kie96/mapjam6_demos2.rar?dl=0 

Seriously? I looked for one, but I guess not hard enough. I will have to go through one more time once I get the last two maps down.