Posts by KungFuSquirrel

  • THE PERPETUAL TESTING CHALLENGE: SUBMISSION THREAD

    Hopefully you've all been having fun with the Portal 2 editor the last couple weeks. It's time to gather up our submissions!

    May 20th, 2012

    11:59 PM US Central time (GMT -6)

    A reminder of our submission guidelines:

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    Your level MUST be posted to the Steam Workshop and include mention of the "MapCore Perpetual Testing Challenge" in its description. Post the Steam Workshop link in the submission thread (Please keep all your submissions to a single post). In addition to the download link, each level must also have the following two images ATTACHED:

    • [*:30izgw3b]1 in-editor screenshot
      [*:30izgw3b]1 in-game screenshot

    Please post all of your test chambers in a single post.

    You have until 11:59 PM US Central time (GMT -6) to make your submission. At the end of the submission window, all entries will be compiled into a MapCore Perpetual Testing Challenge Collection on the Steam Workshop. Only test chambers that have been posted to the Submission Thread AND include the "MapCore Perpetual Testing Challenge" in their description will be added to this collection. Then, the MapCore Collection will be unleashed on the world and we'll all be pretty pleased with ourselves.

    Let's see what you've got!

  • THE PERPETUAL TESTING CHALLENGE: Rules and Discussion!

    All right, here is a RULES UPATE regarding submissions:

    The SUBMISSION THREAD will be opened late Thursday May 19th. You will have from then until 11:59 PM (US Central) on Sunday, May 20th to post your submission(s).

    Here are the updated submission guidelines:


    • [*:3jv021mu]Your level MUST be posted to the Steam Workshop and include mention of the "MapCore Perpetual Testing Challenge" in its description
      [*:3jv021mu]Post this link in the submission thread (Please keep all your submissions to a single post). In addition to the download link, each level must also have:

      • [*:3jv021mu]1 in-editor screenshot
        [*:3jv021mu]1 in-game screenshot

    At the end of the submission deadline, all entries will be compiled into a MapCore Perpetual Testing Challenge on the Steam Workshop. Only test chambers that have been posted to the Submission Thread AND include the "MapCore Perpetual Testing Challenge" in their description will be added to this Collection. Then, the MapCore Collection will be unleashed on the world and we'll all be pretty pleased with ourselves.

    Any questions/comments?

  • THE PERPETUAL TESTING CHALLENGE: Rules and Discussion!

    THREE puzzle submissions per person.

    The challenge will begin May 8th, and end Sunday, May 20th at 11:59PM US CENTRAL time (GMT -6)*

    As always, the submission thread will be opened in the final days of the challenge. Post the following items with your submission:

    • [*:2amd65y4]Please keep all of your submissions to the Mapcore thread in a single post (the edit button is your friend)
      [*:2amd65y4]Your level MUST be posted to the Steam Workshop and include mention of the "MapCore Perpetual Testing Challenge" in its description
      [*:2amd65y4]In your Mapcore submission, include a link to your puzzle's WORKSHOP page. In addition to the download link, each level must also have:
      1 in-editor screenshot
      1 in-game screenshot

      [*:2amd65y4]Optional: A video showing your puzzle's solution(s)

    Unless there is severe backlash, this challenge will not have a voted component. Instead, all entries will be compiled together into a single post with appropriate download links. If the Steam Workshop integration will allow it, we will bundle all entries together to form a MapCore Portal 2 Pack .

    You may:

    • [*:2amd65y4]Use ONLY the editor provided in the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC
      [*:2amd65y4]Submit up to THREE puzzles (please post only one reply to the submission thread, however, bundling all your submissions together)

    You MAY NOT:

    • [*:2amd65y4]Build or otherwise adjust your level in Hammer or any external tool. This is a level playing field.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Quote from SpronyvanJohnson

    I came across an old and unfinished Quake 3 map. Reinstalled Radiant and started to play around with it. I'm going for the very original Quake 1 look Anyway, here are two editor shots. The lights are temporary of course.

    I love the first shot, but the curves in the second shot really bother me - they just don't feel like they belong in the Q1 style. I'm not sure you even need to detail it much more, either, short of some extra floor trims and texturing the sides of the dark plates at the top of your first shot. Maybe some ceiling variation to your second shot for some depth, but the beauty of that style really is in its simplicity - I think decking it out too much (like with the curves) might actually hurt it in the long run.

    Quote from Campaignjunkie

    Me and my team's thesis project, Souvenir. It's VVVVVV + Proteus. Once we graduate / hit alpha, I'll do another art pass on it and hopefully hit the festival circuit. We'll see!...

    Fantastic. I really can't wait to play this.

  • MOH Warfighter

    Quote from Rick_D

    that said i did enjoy the previous MOH, it had a really nice pacing and felt like a solid quasi-realistic game that didn't throw waves and waves of enemies on you unless it felt right.

    Totally agreed, and when they did it had that real "oh shit we're being overrun" feeling vs. "raaar I shall charge and murder you all," and even had you fall back a few times. Nicely done.

  • MOH Warfighter

    The 2010 MOH was a damn solid game, so I'm really looking forward to this one. Though based on that trailer I see that since they've switched the SP to Frostbite they too have decided to make lots of night missions.

  • Mass Effect 3

    That's what the "Assignments" tab was for! They had plenty of little side things in ME1/2 that came from news announcements, picking up random items, etc, and all got sorted under that category and were super easy to track without making it also impossible to track the main missions.

    Also there's no excuse for always making the starting selection down in the middle of the finished quests and making me scroll through them all to the top EVERY TIME.

  • Mass Effect 3

    I kind of waffled on what I thought of the ending until I saw this take on it. I now love it, though I'm curious what their plan for it is (if any - DLC might just slot into the existing story).

    More than anything, I wanted more out of

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    the lead-up to the ending. With the exception of the giant baby Terminator in ME2, the ending runs of the series have been amazing. Ilos + the Citadel battle in ME1, the suicide mission and its consequences in 2. In 3, you had these fantastic priority mission arcs like Tuchanka and Rannoch, yet the finale of ME3 was generic rubble with average combat spaces at night. ME1 nailed the scale of the battle, ME2 nailed the tension and importance of your choices, and ME3 really kind of whiffed on both.

    Still, the repercussions of the ending as presented as well as

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    watching my squadmates get vaporized ahead of me on the final charge to the beam

    haunted me for days. It's a mighty fine game.

    Oh, the other thing that annoyed me more than the ending: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE JOURNAL? It worked perfectly fine the previous two games - story missions, side missions, a bulleted list of what you had done and what came next... It's like they rolled back in some prototype ME1 journal code for ME3 and called it good. Horrible navigation, no useful information, no updates. Ew.