Stoking the fires of creation

[Panzer]

I was reading earlier that John Carmack (yes...the father of Doom and Quake) is releasing Orcs and Elves for the Nintendo DS and he spoke of creating games on limited hardware and how much fun that in itself could be.

It immediately made me think of what we have done over the last several years for Quake 2 and I thought I would further that notion with a link to an article written Sven who used to map for Quake 2.

sven.planetquake.gamespy.com/insane/whyq2.html

Sven basically said that creating maps for older games was more fun because of the limitations that forced the mapper to become more focused on the task at hand.

It's a great read and one that could possibly rekindle that old flame we all share for Quake 2. Enjoy!

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

I remember Sven's maps and really enjoyed them. Nice article too, thanks for the link.

[m0n0LiTh0]

h0m3rc1d4l said:

I was reading earlier that John Carmack (yes...the father of Doom and Quake) is releasing Orcs and Elves for the Nintendo DS and he spoke of creating games on limited hardware and how much fun that in itself could be.

It immediately made me think of what we have done over the last several years for Quake 2 and I thought I would further that notion with a link to an article written Sven who used to map for Quake 2.

sven.planetquake.gamespy.com/insane/whyq2.html

Sven basically said that creating maps for older games was more fun because of the limitations that forced the mapper to become more focused on the task at hand.

It's a great read and one that could possibly rekindle that old flame we all share for Quake 2. Enjoy!

Anyone remember the days when you could find Sven , Maric , Musashi, all on the same Awaken Server (any server actually) rippin it big time!!
Olden days.............Good times Good times

P.S.

Jester Too!! BackShooterzz...

[Paril]

That's basically why I feel I love Quake2. Pushing the Quake2 mod DLL was great practice for me.

-Paril