maps hsa to be related to portal?

pestchamber · Loves Cake Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 252 Location: Earth

if i made a map and submitted it here it had to be related to portal or could it just be a map (that you can complete) ? with related to portal i mean in the portal univers where you use the ASHPD(Aperture Science Hanheld Portal Device), etc...

NocturnalGhost · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:46 am Post subject:

As long as it runs in the Portal engine, i'd say it's fair game.

pestchamber · Loves Cake Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 252 Location: Earth

MrThompson · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject:

You mean surfing.

Hober · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject:

Man, surf maps are so rad.

msleeper · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

rellikpd · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject:

sssummer · Superior Participant Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 69

taco · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject:

Fusion · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject:

I don't know why this community is so hostile towards any map for Portal that doesn't use the portalgun...

pestchamber: if you make this map prepare to be shunned.

Hober · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject:

rellikpd · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject:

I'm making a note here:

ThinkingWithPORTALS

Ricotez · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:24 am Post subject:

Well, you don't need the portal gun, actually. There are a dozen of other ways to make an interesting map. (Autoportals. Both automatic or on the press of a button. Decreased freedom in placing your portals, increased challenge.)

msleeper · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject:

I'm locking this thread. Surf maps belong in CSS with the rest of the bullshit, if you want to make a Portal surf map then go post somewhere else. Thanks.

EDIT Actually let me put this idea down a little bit more - Surf maps are an excuse for untalanted, unskilled, immature people who stumbled upon the SDK tools and want to map because the idea sounds neat, and instead of taking the time, effort, and dedication it takes to create a quality map, they put together some ugly wedges floating in a huge skybox and call it contributing to the community. It's not, it's a waste of everyone's time and the only people who think that surf maps require any fucking skill to create are the same 13 year olds who made them in the first place. The only reason surf maps are popular at all is because it brought some fresh insight to an otherwise deathly stagnant Counter-Strike community.

We're not Counter-Strike, surf maps do not require any skill to "make" or any skill to "play".