Post by Null on Jan 29, 2015 17:55:58 GMT -5
Hey Kaal!
I understand where you're coming from, and we're not ruling out holding Contests for Modern Engines like Unreal 4 or Unity 5 with all their bells and whistles in the not so distant future. We'll be having a poll after this contest concludes, so stay tuned for that
This contest though is about coming back to roots of death-match design and the basics of area styled layouts, which are increasingly being lost on the specialized newer generations of players and mappers.
It's so easy to get lost in the technical details these days and not focus on the core structure and principles. One can simply snap together bunch of prefabs and call it a map, yet some would see it as yet another flashy environment piece with mediocre gameplay. I guess that might work for some worlds, but strictly for deathmatch duels, it's far from optimal.
Quake is where it all started, Quake 2 probably being the most solid, polished and unobscured deathmatch, which is the main reason many are still attached to it after all these years, not so much with other games and their endless sequels.
Even after 17 years because of its fast paced death-match experience and purity, Quake 2 holds up nicely against the so called advanced modern competition:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBQddGuu0Xg
I understand where you're coming from, and we're not ruling out holding Contests for Modern Engines like Unreal 4 or Unity 5 with all their bells and whistles in the not so distant future. We'll be having a poll after this contest concludes, so stay tuned for that
This contest though is about coming back to roots of death-match design and the basics of area styled layouts, which are increasingly being lost on the specialized newer generations of players and mappers.
It's so easy to get lost in the technical details these days and not focus on the core structure and principles. One can simply snap together bunch of prefabs and call it a map, yet some would see it as yet another flashy environment piece with mediocre gameplay. I guess that might work for some worlds, but strictly for deathmatch duels, it's far from optimal.
Quake is where it all started, Quake 2 probably being the most solid, polished and unobscured deathmatch, which is the main reason many are still attached to it after all these years, not so much with other games and their endless sequels.
Even after 17 years because of its fast paced death-match experience and purity, Quake 2 holds up nicely against the so called advanced modern competition:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBQddGuu0Xg
