What new adventure lies in store?

A challenging one...

The most recent flavor of campaign/map. Make a map or campaign for L4D1 or L4D2 centered around challenge beyond typical zombies and tanks.

-Create a map or campaign with overwhelming elements from any of the following catergories:

-Boss
-Traps
-Puzzles
-Mazes
-Platforming

If going for a boss, having a boss is simply enough so long as it isnt too easy.

If going for traps, make them present throughout the map.

If going for puzzles, make them more challenging than "go here, press this button"

If going for mazes... have fun???

If going for platforming, center the campaign around platforming.

Feel free to mix any of these topics or ideas using your creative willpower, having to platform through a trap-filled maze while a dragon flies around scorching you? sounds like fun!

If I didnt list anything that you think adds a challenge, feel free.

-Disqualifications: doing nothing but adding ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of zombies/tanks/witches, thats not really fun, or challenging.
(feel free to add zombies, tanks, and witches though >:D)


This is your chance to be a ♥♥♥♥ and get recognition for it!

Seasonal Theme, submissions will be valid (meaning theyll get a link) from now till November 8th.
-Until next October that is :3

Theme Validity Criteria:
Making a halloween map, its not just a joke, its not just "slap some halloween decor from TF2 in a regular map" naw, nothing like that, thatd just be silly.

Make a map
Make it spooky or based off of something halloween related
Simple...
Its still a theme, so everything else is up to you.

Ideas:
Haunted Forest
Haunted House
Graveyard
Abandoned ______ (not just apocalypse abandoned, but spooky abandoned)
Horror Game Related Level
Horror Movie Related Level
The list goes on...


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Check out all the amazing content that has churned up in under a year, some for the group, others independant, some complete, some WIP. Impressive for a game long past it's heyday:


The Neverglades:
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/15655

End of the Line Remastered:
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/16536

Forgotten - Season 2:
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/15965

EOTL-Remastered (Awesome Nuke Demo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDPOnMDsJ7E


Beaver's Place:
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/15801

r.a.t.z.f.a.t.z.:
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/16188

Fake:
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/17029



The Final Stand:
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/15967

Storming The Citadel (Alpha, I2):
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/14876

Storming the Citadel : Iteration 3 (Artorias Death Demo:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nho_ixCt-vw

---i honestly havent released much this quarter because i delete more of my work than Lady Ellipsis starts/ends a sentence, phrase, or message with "..."



And a nod to the most glorious HALLOWEEN MAPPING CONTEST entries of all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time:

Haunting Grounds: Sawrunner (Lady Ellipsis)
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/13327

Hallow's End: Wrath of the Horseman (Roflmahwafflz)
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/13326

If you dont get the joke, youre too young :p
true salt will never spoil



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feel left out in this announcement?
post your work and keep us updated if you want recognition
not going to hunt all you spicy poops down on gamemaps or workshop :p
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This will be the first “Non-Contest” event... So bare with me as I try and lay out the ground “suggestions”...

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Create a map or campaign that centers around vertical gameplay space... Any mode you want...

This can mean a few things...
You can have a focus on vertical gameplay... Ladders, Stairs, Ramps, and Elevators everywhere... Going up OR down...
You can have a focus on vertical aesthetics... Have an average or normal layout, but the aesthetics give the player a sense of vertigo... (I'll be listing off ideas shortly...)
You can have both...

The main idea is at any given moment in this map... There should be a visible height difference in the environment... Be it within the gameplay space or not...

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-Syscrapers... (Look at No Mercy's Finale... or Vertigo from CS:GO)
-Mountains and Ravines...
-Airplane... (Look at the first chapter of Wan Li... Or the plane from Rainbow Six: Siege)
-Floating Islands...
-Space... (If you do space... I suggest having the earth on the bottom of the skybox... But that is just me... ;3)
-A Skyscaper on a floating mountain... in space...

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Being no longer a contest... There are no Strict guidelines, and no Disqualifications... Though the map should still work...

1. If you are doing a building... You don't have to go so height that you can not see the ground anymore... Look at the first chapter of Dead Center... That counts in my eyes... You can also go so high that all you see is clouds... It is entirely up to you...
2. You don't have to be at the top of the map at any given point... You can get vertigo from looking up at a tall building from the ground... If you want to be on the ground around skyscrapers, or at the bottom of a ravine... That is fine...
3. You don't have to be realistic... That last suggestion up there was not a joke... If you want to go crazy... GO FOR IT... I'll reveal my hand right now, I plan on have a building that starts on the ground and ends on the Moon... So long as “heights” is the focus of the map... Go nuts...
4. If you are making a campaign... You can have a chapter or two on the ground to establish the area... Just try and make the majority of the campaign fit with the theme...

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-There is no deadline... If you like the theme, then take your time and create a great map...
-Also... If you didn't have time to try any of our past theme... They are all still open for submissions, and will be open indefinitely...



Hopefully that covers everything... Happy Mapping... ;D

Almost forgot... Make sure you tag the map a "heightcon"... It may no longer be a contest... But it would still be nice to easily find maps that were submitted for the theme... ;3

You may or may not have noticed... But there has been a format change to how we do these events, and will be doing these events for now on...

The biggest change is that we will no longer have deadlines...
Let us all be quite frank with ourselves... Mapping with a deadline sucks... And with no ability to promote and not enough money to make it worthwhile... There is just no incentive to stick to such a strict date other than self-torture...

So... We will no longer have deadlines... Period...
Unless we do an event that is literally a timed event... But other than that... No more deadlines...

This means that if you see a theme you want to map for... Go for it...
Past, current, and future theme will remain open indefinitely... This also means that guidelines and rules will be a lot more lax... And that you can make as many maps for a theme as you want...

There is no need to make mapping harder on ourselves... So let us just enjoy mapping... And go at the pace we need...


Can't rush perfection afterall... ;3