[RELEASE] Cube (my first map)

gallmond · New Employee Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 13

Its not pretty. Its quite small. And its simple as 'owt. But I reckon its a good start to mapping.

It contains all the basic puzzles and a few more complex ones.

Next task is to tackle the button and door ;P

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Constructive criticism welcome.

Mapster · Loves Cake Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 432

Add some screenshots and i'll move it to the Community Release forum.

gallmond · New Employee Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 13

Astro · Superior Participant Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 79

in looking just at the screen shot, things to note, texture alignment and fullbright, you might have a leak in the map

youme · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject:

not too bad, the textures are a little repeated, and lights definatly wouldnt go amiss. havign the cake sign at the end was a nice idea.

Wasn't really too difficult.

Not really cube themed, and having more than one WCC kinda defeats the object of a companion cube you should use normal cubes instead. You Just an idea, but perhaps you should also add a box dopper spitting out loads of boxes really quickly, as though it's broken.

Lorithad · Loves Cake Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 250

Way way too many companion cubes in that one. But overall, I enjoyed it.

I think I skipped the second fling entirely the first time I played. You might want to raise the walls so they touch the ceiling.

It was kind of cool that the GLaDOS ball at the end was saying the cake recipie.

gallmond · New Employee Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 13

JunkInThetrunk · New Employee Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

I think I may have cheated. Was I allowed to bring all of the companion cubes and just go under the fizzler and then build a staircase to the last room? Cause that's what I did, and I feel I may have not been supposed to.

gallmond · New Employee Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 13

JunkInThetrunk · New Employee Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

Alright, I was just making sure you thought about that, cause honestly it felt less like a solution and more like I wasn't supposed to be doing that. I'd suggest maybe extending the fizzler all the way to the walls and blocking the floor underneath it, because what I did really wasn't fun and required no portals to execute... kind of defeating the purpose of a custom map =D. Just a thought... other than that I really enjoyed it though and it is a ton better than most "first maps" I've played on other sites. =) well done.

Player1 · Test Supervisor Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 144

The first fling I did accidentally sent me all the way to the rooftop rafters. So I wandered around a bit thinking "hmm wonder if I was supposed to do that". In the end I jumped down and brought all the turrets to the end just for the heck of it (using the cellar as well).

Mek · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:09 am Post subject:

c'mon, is this a bad joke or...? it seems to me it has no solution
you start in the middle room, you have no option than go to the room below, there you find the portal gun, with it you can go to other 4 rooms, but not up anymore. All those 4 rooms are dangerous, so what da hell am I supposed to do? Did I miss anything?

rellikpd · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject:

look at the post date. this was PRE-portal sdk, and he even says its his first map.

Remmiz · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject:

Hober · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject:

Old shit's old.