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new Quake map: "Taught By Thirst" for Remix Jam

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However the dark lighting and texturing transform much of the play area into an unpleasant mid-brown mess, and its reliance on Source displacements leaves it feeling a bit blobby and melty. Thanks to Makkon's excellent textures , as always.) They are still key areas for gameplay with major fights.

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new Quake map: "Heart Like A Bird's Nest"

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This jam placed specific constraints on submissions, asking designers to map for a "slot" with a specific texture theme and weapon progression. The arena has a little observation deck with a little floor hatch to drop down into the fight when the player's ready. I've usually used Makkon's (excellent) textures for my Quake levels.

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new Quake map: There's a Certain Slant of Light

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The two big changes I made were the texturing and the monster placement / player flow. One of my big motivations was to use Makkon's updated textures. Yet as I aligned the 100th trim texture on a brush, I wondered whether my level was also anti-brutalist in its own way. Maybe it wasn't such a bad map after all?

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new Quake map: The Close And Holy Darkness

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The theming felt very fresh for Quake at the time, taking notes (and maybe a few textures) from Unreal. Why are these textures like this?! The texture theme is also a bit of an in-joke within the mapping community. There was gossip about whether McGee was being inflexible, or whether these Aztec textures really were so bad.

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new Quake map: "When There Were Wolves"

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With textures by Makkon as usual.) Basement, teach player about buttons and door types, via two 512x512 quarter-rooms and small player-initiated fights 2. Halls, introduce wood barricades and more complicated fights, via two 512x1024 half-rooms of 2 waves each 3. My art pass also needed to punctuate Taufner's progression.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

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Overall I feel it's an OK game that's basically playable, despite the bugs and aggressive texture streaming and general unfinished feeling. You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! Three safehouse skulls + main quest macguffin = boss fight. But not really.

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new Quake map: Daughter Drink This Water

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As you progress through each fight, you gradually unlock more of the map, until the big finale fight that uses the entire layout. My only real metrics changes were widening the 96u wide passages to a Quake standard 128u wide (mostly to make texture alignment easier / help Quake monsters navigate), and then lining up more ramp jumps.

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