The Three Week Map #1

[Streetboat]

Yours were all awesome. I mean it, I'll go into detail about why I liked each one in a bit. The three I played were by Kia, OriginalUsername, and WIWWM. Amn, I couldn't get yours to work, and when I looked at it in the editor, all the models were fucked. That's my fault though, not yours- I messed around with the AMFP models and messed up my Amnesia base folder, and anything that uses AMFP models in TDD is messed up. It's totally my fault, I'm sure your map would have been very pretty had I not been an idiot.

Kia-

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I love this. At first, I was looking around like "oh, it's just a mansionbase room with generic furniture." Then I realized there was a method to your placement and that everything actually made sense where it was. The overturned bed with the clothes on the floor and the mattress on the clothes makes me think the bed actually had a bunch of blankets on it and was violently overturned. That was just one tiny detail that made me go "oh shit that's neat as hell", and when I kept exploring I kept finding little deliberate things that made me sure that I loved it. Please keep telling stories the way you do, by rewarding careful observation.

OriginalUsername-

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I loved this too. The way you made the pathway the player needs to use to well disguised but still recognizable was a lot of fun to play. I really liked filling in the story of where I was and how I got there, and it really made me crave a beginning and an end. I loved navigating the machine room, the way you made me hop a pipe and get steam in the face was fun. I felt like I was getting my hands dirty (in a good way, as if I were actually exploring an underground sewer) when I played this one, you should definitely keep doing this.

WIWWM-

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This was just plain well fucking put together. Your grasp of using the Amnesia assets to make interesting architecture is waaaay up there. Your ability to create a flow of rooms is interesting, because I went from a hallway to a rock cavern and I really didn't feel like it was unrealistic- it just felt smooth. I wanted to know what was coming next. And the music- best thing ever. I don't know if I just had really good timing or if you actually scripted it to do it, but the music changing based on what room you enter was just perfect. I loved that so much. You rock for making this.

This challenge was a great idea.