I sure am! Hotdogs (my map) is still a long way off, and sometimes I wish I had a second project to jump over to when I get burned out on hotdogs... but not enough to want to start and entirely new map from scratch, so here's my idea: let's get a group of mappers together, and do a little brainstorming, decide on a layout, greybox it, divide up the detail work, and end up with one hell of a map!
EDIT: TO BE CLEAR, the following is JUST an idea. It's not the idea we've settled on! As of writing, we still have yet to decide on a theme and layout.
I'll kick things off with an idea I've had for a few weeks now. Rather than making yet another spaceship, spacestation, moon base, or w/e you want to call it that ends up being essentially the same thing anyways... how about something a little bit different... like a lunar amusement park! Yes... like my alias, I DID get that from Futurama (Season 1, episode 2, they make a delivery to the moon which has an amusement park on it). Then I remembered this picture:
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Alright "Simeon-9"... so you think you're sooo safe do ya? Then one day, the Kharaa arrive! The entire planet (and the moon(s ?)) are evacuated... left abandoned... yadda yadda yadda, etc etc... now we can have our little marine vs alien battles on it.
Thinking ahead just a bit... we could have each tech point be a different ride (and I INSIST on having at least one rollercoaster!![:D]( ":D")
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To do this would require a lot of custom assets, which I would happily take charge of, potentially even alone, and leaving the mapping to others if that's what it takes.
But I can't do this alone (well I guess I COULD, but I doubt this game will even be around in 10 years![;)]( ";)")
).
Again, the whole amusement park idea is just something I'm throwing out there, we don't have to use it, but I WOULD like to see just ONE more really excellent (and FINISHED) custom map for ns2 out there, and I want to be a part of it.
Who's with me?
EDIT: I'll keep track of who has come forward so far in this first post, and which tasks they have chosen.
Crew
BeigeAlert - Mapping, custom assets
Ironsoul - Mapping, custom assets
joohoo_n3d - custom assets
Loki - Feedback, testing.
Vert^ - Mapping, custom assets
Uncle Crunch - Mapping, testing
EDIT: TO BE CLEAR, the following is JUST an idea. It's not the idea we've settled on! As of writing, we still have yet to decide on a theme and layout.
I'll kick things off with an idea I've had for a few weeks now. Rather than making yet another spaceship, spacestation, moon base, or w/e you want to call it that ends up being essentially the same thing anyways... how about something a little bit different... like a lunar amusement park! Yes... like my alias, I DID get that from Futurama (Season 1, episode 2, they make a delivery to the moon which has an amusement park on it). Then I remembered this picture:
Spoiler:
Alright "Simeon-9"... so you think you're sooo safe do ya? Then one day, the Kharaa arrive! The entire planet (and the moon(s ?)) are evacuated... left abandoned... yadda yadda yadda, etc etc... now we can have our little marine vs alien battles on it.
Thinking ahead just a bit... we could have each tech point be a different ride (and I INSIST on having at least one rollercoaster!
)To do this would require a lot of custom assets, which I would happily take charge of, potentially even alone, and leaving the mapping to others if that's what it takes.
But I can't do this alone (well I guess I COULD, but I doubt this game will even be around in 10 years
).Again, the whole amusement park idea is just something I'm throwing out there, we don't have to use it, but I WOULD like to see just ONE more really excellent (and FINISHED) custom map for ns2 out there, and I want to be a part of it.
Who's with me?
EDIT: I'll keep track of who has come forward so far in this first post, and which tasks they have chosen.
Crew
BeigeAlert - Mapping, custom assets
Ironsoul - Mapping, custom assets
joohoo_n3d - custom assets
Loki - Feedback, testing.
Vert^ - Mapping, custom assets
Uncle Crunch - Mapping, testing