hello you crazy mappers!
this is a contest with its roots in mapwars. for those of you that didn't get the chance to know about mapwars, here's the premise:
small fast contests between few people. you get a little time to prepare a map for gameplay and visuals, then it's off to playtest. each mapper gets a vote, and the winning map will receive... the pride of winning a mapwar!
contests will include
[*:1rqtdhna]60-150 minutes for making your map in accordance with a selected theme (theme presented at contest start)
[*:1rqtdhna]up to 10 contestants at a time
[*:1rqtdhna]10 minute playtests for each map after making them, one vote per mapper
[*:1rqtdhna]simple engines, not much extra work required (goldsrc/source, suggestions welcome)
[*:1rqtdhna]IRC channel: contest @ gamesurge.net
since these contests are small and fast, there can be a new one every week or whenever people feel like it. there are no requirements to join, and there are no limits to how many contests we can have. IRC attendance will be mandatory as it is much easier to get info out to people that way. for the first couple of contests, there will be a list of attendees. after that, it's just whoever shows up in the channel at starting time. new dates will be up in the discussion thread.
competitions always start at 21:00 CET/20:00 GMT unless stated otherwise.
below is a list of tools to get goldsource working for the original half-life.
For those who are lazy to dig around the web looking for the tools I´m posting direct download links here:Hammer
Hammer 3.5b (requires Hammer 3.4)
FGDs:
Other tools:
ZHLT (last version)
