How many maps have you made, but never finished?

[Mar]

Let us see. Well I am slowing making progress on 1 map in hammer, 5 on paper.

but about 5 little side projects to figure out the basics of hammer. Looks like I still got a lot of projects to go.

 

[Fireman]

I've gone through about 10-15 different projects teaching myself how to work with hammer, none of which ever neared completion. Right now I'm on my first serious attempt to see a map through to completion, though how far it'll get remains to be seen.

 

[KingBosq]

about 3 for me in tf2.. if you call maps.

Mostly i spend hours and hours making a small area detailing it then throwing it out as i can never grasp level design.

This

 

[ChronoTriggerFan]

Lets see here after a year of mapping, I've got bunch of fail projects! Time to go down fail lane again...

First there was cp_mines, never released cause it was simply too big and had the fresh scent of mappers first fail.

Then came along dom_perfection, which fell through because of an unstable gamemode, and my lack of grasp in size.

Then comes along Tributary, while a very nice attempt, had one big feature NO ONE likes, water. It could have been good, but lack of play testing, feedback, and a core feature was just too much for the map that couldn't *sniff*

Now theres Cumulus, which is just about right... unless pub players have a fear of the terrain, and if they do I will kick them in the face.

 

[[Hoolie]DrHouse]

I'd have to say...a shitton (mostly goldsrc though... CS 1.6, TFC, and NS)

Though I'm actually going ALL THE WAY with my first Source project. *dance*

 

[Rexy]

Before I made tf2 maps, I made a lot of CS:S gungame maps, so I made a good number of maps, I'm not saying they were any good, but still...maybe about 3/4 ths I never finish...and a small number of the ones that are finished are even worth anything.

 

[StoneFrog]

I'd have to say...a shitton (mostly goldsrc though... CS 1.6, TFC, and NS)

Though I'm actually going ALL THE WAY with my first Source project. *dance*

Heh, me too. I seem to abandon Goldsrc projects way more frequently than I do Source ones. Funny too because I have a ridiculous affinity to Goldsrc over Source.

 

[Void]

Around 75 failed experiments in about 8 months of Mapping Experience.

Crowfoot was essentially a texture test. And then there were the maps simply made to push Source to it's limits. Now I have Fishbone. Which is well off and actually close to an Alpha release. Which you should expect within 2 weeks.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

Funny too because I have a ridiculous affinity to Goldsrc over Source.

Aha! Now I know why you seemed familiar... you made a thread about GoldSrc mapping over on the FF forums.

 

[Puddy]

I ditched a ctf map that was almost complete. It was small and intended for 8-10 players on LAN's.

 

[The Political Gamer]

9 month bump FTW

pl_railway_1/2, pl_railway_a3+, and plr_assembly. Oh and a few others that I will never ever let leave my hard drive.

 

[Nutomic]

3, all in very early alpha (few days of mapping), though one will be released as soon as demolition is more or less finished (aka beta).

 

[FaTony]

15 Starcraft maps, 10 AoE2 maps, 8 TrackMania Sunrise maps, 15 HL2 maps, 10 TF2 maps, but I plan to try to continue tf2 ones.

 

[Micnax]

If you include little detail area tests and experiments, several million.

 

[SlayerBlitz]

NONE! still working on my first.

 

[Gerbil]

Every single one I made/didn't make.

 

[Icarus]

I have yet to have one TF2 project I stopped working on. (Grid, Observatory, Waste, Grinder - All completed or in development).

I've had grid up for several months until Observatory's release.

I didn't make any 'experiment' maps because I learned how to use Hammer as I went through Observatory's development

The only other 3D engine I've had experience with is Build for Duke Nukem 3D.

I guess this has changed now, huh?

 

[lana]

Define finished.

 

[KaiserFate]

I was expecting a lot more aborted slunks of maps from a mapping forum. XD
Since working on TF2 I've made two that I have no intention of finishing. Now I want to get serious.
On the other hand, in my Quake days I made about four maps that my friends and I used regularly, and about ten that I never bothered to complete.

 

[Psy]

I guess this has changed now, huh?

Hehe.

I used to be terrible at finishing maps. I was stuck in the phase of starting something then giving up on it several hours later.

Now I'm nowhere near as bad. I start fewer projects now then before and put more then enough thought into them that I can keep going for several months. In fact, since Nightfall I've only started 1 new map which I will continue once Nightfall enters beta.