I want to feel better about myself so post your lame ass maps here

How bad was/is your first map?


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Burnout6010

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Oct 14, 2012
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Before I did Dualmove (yeah you remember that one) I had done a CP map called CP_River

It was kinda good, it had an approximatly working layout, but I never went beyond dev textures because I felt overwhelmed at the time. Sadly I lost it with my hard drive last year I think and I have nothing to show :s
 

Blade x64

Logical insanity
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Sep 3, 2009
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The first few releases I made were pretty bad. It was early 2007. I had become a member of my first gaming community based on HL2DM: Phoneburnia. I didn't know what func_detail was, leaks were a foreign concept, and visuals were primitive. But by God they were played a lot.

The first was for a zombie server hosted by Phoneburnia. Basically various npcs would spawn around the map and you would kill them, rummaging around for weapons, ammo, and health. This map was z_office_tower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjkOvCopeA

The second was for another server in Phoneburnia. This server had a mod where you could both build things like in Garry's Mod and play the standard deathmatch. I made the first map suited for this server mod where it featured both a deathmatch area and a build area. The deathmatch area was taken from the previous office tower map. pb_lobby is probably the most played map I made as it was used frequently on the build/deathmatch server.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qLSdxfTlm8
It's pretty likely that that's me in the green airboat.
 
Mar 20, 2012
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http://forums.thinkingwithportals.com/topic3943.html

It's been a while since I mapped for Portal. Back when I was doing this, that community wasn't that large. It was still like 10x large as TF2Maps, but you could remember who posted and what maps they made.

I take too long to map. I am super OCD, get frustrated quite easily when things don't work out and spend way too much time with my sketchbook. I'm a very erratic designer.
 

Harribo

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Nov 1, 2009
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henke37

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Sep 23, 2011
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We should hold a gameday called "your old shame" to play all these high quality maps.
 

Fruity Snacks

Creator of blackholes & memes. Destroyer of forums
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Sep 5, 2010
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ctf_offtrack... it had trains.

The interesting fact is that I had made Koth/Arena Tron-themed map before this one. It wasn't actually THAT bad. The arena randomly changed every 10-15 seconds, and was kind of akin to icarus's grid... but more random.

Don't ask to see it. There is nothing left.