Why do you map?

[Prestige]

boredom & love of tf2

wow i responded twice

I like creating things. I like tf2. Tf2 maps are challenging to make for the most part. Also, the perfect map doesn't exist. thats like saying no one has created the perfect painting.

 

[Penguin]

OTHER

because i hate myself

 

[Eyce]

free badge item for completing a map

 

[ics]

In short, i like to create something that others can play and enjoy for.

Once you play the games you like, there is a certain cycle that you will be going forward. For others it's getting admin status on their favorite server. For some it's getting into competitive play. To others, it's creating mods and such.

For me, it was running a server. Then came an opportunity to create a community and adding more servers. At some point there was an urge to make something for the community but lacking skills to do it. Tried many times, still failed. Beginning of 2008, after i beat the cancer, i really dug in and 6 months later, my first CS Source map was out. Been mapping since then for 3 different games, TF2 being the current point of interest. Here we are, 5 games and countless non released and released maps later.

 

[Deodorant]

To silence the voices.


Other than that, it's because I love the style of (vanilla) tf2 and I have a fascination with the creation of 3D environments. When I played TF2 I looked at all the funky constellations of stairs, the stylized wooden battlements, the winding basements, collapsed shacks, patchwork roofs, intertwining tunnels and so on and so on... And I kept thinking 'I want to make these things.' And then I did. And then I realized that I need to learn a fuckbunch about area design to end up with anything even remotely enjoyable, which came as a bit of a setback. But hopefully some day I'll have managed to figure out enough about that stuff to indulge in all the makeshift woodwork action that my little heart desires.

 

[Vaconcovat]

I enjoy pain and depression and sadness and despair

 

[Gumby R0b0t]

I get really bored of playing on the same maps day in and day out. So i decided i would just have to make my own maps to defeat my boredom with the old ones.

 

[Burnout6010]

I liked creating LEGO's but then I got bored then I found out about Source SDK and that's pretty much it bai

 

[Sel]

i want to be popufur

 

[Ælement]

It's the best way to prepare for the task of building an evil lair for my army of hippos.

 

[Shanghai]

I'd like to motion for a "masochism" option to be added to this poll.