Post by Yun on Sept 6, 2004 16:15:05 GMT -5
Purgatory is my dream map.
For those who don't know what Purgatory is, it's the place where Christians believe they are sent to repent for their sins, before being shipped off to Heaven or Hell (or something close to that, details may be off).
When I was playing Dark Forces 2 (God bless that game), I came upon a map called Purgatory which featured just weird things that would freak you out. But, the coolest thing was a sign and a elevator.
"TO HELL" is what the sign said. Once you got in, the elevator would rotate so the entrace was facing down and you would drop, with a blood-curling scream, into hell.
If you walked into the beam of light on the roof, you would rise to heaven.
Anyways, that was a long time ago, before I found Quake 2. When I first started mapping, I wanted to recreate the map Purgatory. Early version included the great drop to hell (which everyone loved, but it didn't have an elevator). And eventually in later version, the way to heaven, which included a HUGE stone throne which you could walk into.
Fast-forward to today, the map is still not finished because I keep trying to revise it and make it better, so the map has never been released.
Here is my proposal to Q2M. We all create this map. As the first group project, we could cut up the different parts of "Purgatory" and maps them out peice by peice.
The trick is with this map is to make it look as creepy and wacked out as possible. Not like Doom 3 where everything is high detail and ugh. But more like when you're walking and all of a sudden you see a flying chair coming at you. Blood comes flying out of the toilet, blood soaked bathtubs... and that's just "Earth" (Purgatory).
With heaven, I would like to make a drastic change, and make it into a castle type of thing. Not bright textures, but cheery like, you should feel relaxed when entering heaven.
Hell is just creepy, all cave like with red light and heat coming off the lava below walkways and such.
I just think it'd be cool to do a group map, or even a set of maps (map pack!) with the Q2M members.
Yun
For those who don't know what Purgatory is, it's the place where Christians believe they are sent to repent for their sins, before being shipped off to Heaven or Hell (or something close to that, details may be off).
When I was playing Dark Forces 2 (God bless that game), I came upon a map called Purgatory which featured just weird things that would freak you out. But, the coolest thing was a sign and a elevator.
"TO HELL" is what the sign said. Once you got in, the elevator would rotate so the entrace was facing down and you would drop, with a blood-curling scream, into hell.
If you walked into the beam of light on the roof, you would rise to heaven.
Anyways, that was a long time ago, before I found Quake 2. When I first started mapping, I wanted to recreate the map Purgatory. Early version included the great drop to hell (which everyone loved, but it didn't have an elevator). And eventually in later version, the way to heaven, which included a HUGE stone throne which you could walk into.
Fast-forward to today, the map is still not finished because I keep trying to revise it and make it better, so the map has never been released.
Here is my proposal to Q2M. We all create this map. As the first group project, we could cut up the different parts of "Purgatory" and maps them out peice by peice.
The trick is with this map is to make it look as creepy and wacked out as possible. Not like Doom 3 where everything is high detail and ugh. But more like when you're walking and all of a sudden you see a flying chair coming at you. Blood comes flying out of the toilet, blood soaked bathtubs... and that's just "Earth" (Purgatory).
With heaven, I would like to make a drastic change, and make it into a castle type of thing. Not bright textures, but cheery like, you should feel relaxed when entering heaven.
Hell is just creepy, all cave like with red light and heat coming off the lava below walkways and such.
I just think it'd be cool to do a group map, or even a set of maps (map pack!) with the Q2M members.
Yun