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Okay, it's time for an intervention! Except... this time, I'm asking you guys to intervene.

I haven't made a map in months! My trouble is that I have a hard time starting a map. The big blank square is just so ominous and threatening. So somebody should tell me what sort of map to make. Sorta like flo's Theme Competition.

My only request is that it is a jungle/twilight map. I'll take my favorite request and try to do it!
2006, 03, 08 23:08
Make a 4-player map with the start locations as close to eachother as possible, yet not connected and without dangerous tanks. Yes, it's wide ^^
2006, 03, 08 23:13
Good idea.

Why dont you just win the theme competition? :)
2006, 03, 08 23:18
ok, i will tell ya:

make a map that has a certain theme...let's say, a glacier!

OR:

make a 3player-map with all bases located VERY near to the very middle point of the map. only that far away so a tank cannot shoot a foreign mainbase from the own one. so there will be hard dropping and incredible stunning ZvZ play :P

and around this core of mainbases, try to create a balanced but interesting map (no air!)
and try to make it positional balanced

/e this could actually be a setup for the glacier competition ~~
modified by flothefreak
2006, 03, 08 23:34
@panschk[FP] because I have already started my map for glacier comp... I'm just having some trouble finishing it at the moment. Plus I'm not quite sure if it's going to turn out okay at all.

But I want to get back into map-making, so that's why.

-and I'll be doing flo's idea, thanks flo!
modified by epidiOn
2006, 03, 09 00:37
I can tell you how i get my mood for making maps.

First i put the music that i want to hear atm, most of the time some Dark Psychedelic staff or chillout mayby, dunno... Depends on the sunlight :P . Then i turn on the volume a lot (my sound system is huge in my room). Then i open Star Edit and i start draw all over the map like you do in Paint for example. After i stop act like a chilt i listen to the music and i delete some of the draw and i keep the most logical part of the draw that have potention for a map :) . After you see the light in your mind for making a cool new map like (2)Osom for example, go to the fridge get at least 2 beers and free your time for the next 5 hours (to make at least the concept of the map, the details you can make them some other time).

I hope you get what i mean. I just let the music in my mind, and get into the map soul ( wow ) :D
2006, 03, 09 21:02
i usually start mapping when i'm bored. i get about one rough drawing per school lesson ~~

mostly, i am just hit with an idea...and i got a paper where i draw it in a hurry so i can remember it at home^^
2006, 03, 09 22:32
i got some ideas.

1. make a map that has 3 players, and uses neutral buildings alot, try to add some interesting ramps too.
2006, 03, 09 23:07
I wish I had flo's muse. My muse is lazy.
2006, 03, 10 00:10
While making a map, I knock the keyboard with my head. Very helpful, especially when you have no ideas.
2006, 03, 10 06:03
well, i am a very creative kind of person. so i usually don't have problems.
the only problem i've got is that i had a sheet of paper with ~5drawings on it, but i canot find it anymore :<
2006, 03, 10 14:45
I stole it.
2006, 03, 10 23:23
sorry my cows were hungry epidion. so what you stole is now cow pie.
2006, 03, 10 23:41
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haha, flo, your design looks like an angry duck with glasses :).
2006, 03, 11 00:48
i already had shitting monkeys, so you need some better to shock me ~~

btw, i found that mentioned paper yesterday ^^
2006, 03, 11 14:59
Bleh i have the same problem.
2006, 03, 11 16:08
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