SPMC: Sky_High_Shoot'em-up

Mmeaninglez | 2013-06-08 01:38

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Blurb A participation of the Single Player Mapping Challenge

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10/11/13
It's late and I don't expect it to be considered for the competition, but I actually finished up a playable version of my map. It still has no lighting, but you can get from the start to the end without inturruption, and nowhere is left blank and untextured. Get the "finished" version here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4cc39dgrcldds1v
THE FILE UPLOADED TO THIS NODE IS STILL MY LAST IN-TIME SUBMISSION TO THE CONTEST. OTHER CONTEST PARTICIPANTS, PLEASE VOTE BASED ON THE INCOMPLETE FILE FROM THIS NODE. (If you vote at all, I didn't finish so I won't win anything anyway)
So anyway, if you want to play a completable version of this map, download it from the mediafire link above, but if you want the contest submission, get the version uploaded to Quadropolis from this page.

Known Bugs: The elevator in the circular tower sometimes does what it wants, like spawning outside of the tower.
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10/1/13 [almost 10/2 in my timezone, I think it's already 10/2 in Quad time]
Did a couple more hours of work, but I'm not finished yet, I'll have a 'finished' version sometime this week.

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9/29/13
Well, looks like I didn't finish in time. I have had an incredible amount of work over the last couple weeks.

My map needs about an hour of work to be technically playable, so I will get that posted soon.

During the last month, I have though of several better ideas than this for a singleplayer map. I might make them eventually, but I don't really want to do more with this map. To be happy with it, I would need to remake most of it, as a lot of sections don't play nearly as well as I'd hoped.

Also, this map will likely not have lighting at all, because that would take a long time, which I don't have.
Posted now is the nearly complete map, but it lacks triggers and stuff for roughly the last quarter of the map.
Also, I never remade the balloon to look better :( Oh yeah, and the platforms/elevators needed to navigate one part don't work either. Like I said, this isn't finished, and I hope others maps are better.

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7/29/13
i have been doing more work on this map, I am going on vacation for another week. meaningful update when I get back.
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7/10/2013
I did some more work yesterday. There are now a few actual monsters and switches in the map, but I haven't changed the .cfg at all sice I last updated it, so I should really work on that.
Anyway, yeah, I should work more on this map instead of other various things I've worked on.
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7/1/2013
I have done less than 2 hours of work on my singleplayer map in the past week. I put far more effort toward a ctf map I'm calling HyPass, which has absolutely nothing in common with this map. Yay.
If I do work soon I may make a midweek update here, but basically I have nothing to show for now.
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6/23/13
Posted my work so far in a cfg and ogz file, and two scans of sketches i made during the first week of the contest, while I was on vacation. I've gotten more done than I though I would.
I still need to make a better-looking balloon(s) for the map than the one I have currently.
I am calling the map "air" for now. The map files are the correct ones.
Alternate link for when Quadropolis no longer has this update: (In case anyone cares later)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/f0pq8ssfst9aawr/mmesp_checkpoint_2.zip
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6/8/13
NOTHING HERE WILL BE USED IN THE ACTUAL MAP. THIS IS NOT STARTING EARLY.
However, the contest guidelines say to start a node beforehand, so this is it. I will be on vacation next week and miss the start of the contest, so I probably wont have an update by the first checkpoint. Anyway, as you can probably tell by the title, the map will still be a sky castle, and feature you shooting things.
All that is currently here is stuff I made to make sure I remember how doors and triggers and monsters and gameclip work. The carrot to end the level does not work, so if you wanted to play the shortest single-player level ever, too bad, you can't finish it.
The balloon is a beta design for a fancier balloon I may use in the final.
Anyway, I clearly have nothing interesting to contribute at this point, so yeah, see you all in a week or so.

Map file Mmean 'nearly' finished.zip (292.08 KB)

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Suicizer | 2013-10-02 17:22

I've checked out the map just to see at least something, but sadly it's all still very layout-ish; Too bad.

Mmeaninglez | 2013-10-12 02:42

I have now uploaded a playable, as-finished-as-it's-gonna-get version of this map to MediaFire. (See link above)
The file on quadropolis is still the final contest submission, so for purposes of the contest, please look at that map.

Now that I finally 'finished' this map, I can finish other maps I've worked on and look at the other contest maps. (I hope they're all better then mine.)

Suicizer | 2013-10-13 13:23

The mapmodels are still displayed incorrectly (a bench is a door, while some plant is an elevator?).

Can't vote higher than putting this map on 4th place of my list within the challenge. Ah well, being voted as 4th out of 10 participants isn't a bad thing.

zombie-apocalypse | 2013-10-13 17:37

Mmeaninglez, I love your map!!! xDDD The dialogues made me laugh out a lot of times and I think the theme is very unique and sweet. I had a lot of fun playing it, but I got stuck at one point where the elevator of that skytower (left in the pic) was stuck at the bottom of the map! o.O I wish you would add some more detail (and geometry optimization) and lights especially! Would add a lot to the atmosphere! (And one minor detail: please rename your Packages folder to packages in the zip. Unix handles names case sensitive!)

So, awesome work so far, gameplaywise my favorite map of the contest so far! :D I hope you finish this some day!

love, meow! :D

crun | 2013-10-13 19:12

This is my place number #3,
because you posted at least your map in its current state. As i did.

Skur | 2013-10-13 21:42

I think you chose an interesting theme for your map (kinda reminds me of Bioshock Infinite), but as it doesn't even have lighting yet and overall is very unfinished, it's only #3 on my list. I still think it would be nice to see this map lit and complete, but of course it's up to you. At it's current state I can only give you 5 points for it, even thugh it could, if you decide to put more work into it, reach a much higher rating. :)

Mmeaninglez | 2013-10-13 22:38

Thanks for all the positive replies about this map. I may finish it at some point, but I don't overall have much time to work on maps, so before I do anything more on it I'm going to finish up and publish a couple/few other maps.

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