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"ttt_boonpit", GMod map made in Hammer Editor, for Trouble in Terrorist Town Gamemode
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Playing TTT with my pals last year made me want to try my hand at making a map for it, so I dusted off Hammer and got to work.
It was my first time making a map for a 3D multiplayer game, and my first time using this editor, so it's a bit janky, but I'm pleased with it!
I felt that the vast majority of TTT maps were very horizontally-oriented, sprawling but relatively flat, so I wanted to make something with tons of verticality for variety's sake. I tried to make it look like an unfriendly old quake map, with lots of steel and concrete, a vast machine of unknown purpose.
The core gimmick of sorts is playing around with fall damage and sightlines- different layers can be accessed through rickety platforming sections, that leave a player vulnerable while they cross between. Most of the traitor-activatable traps deal with deactivating, moving, or otherwise screwing with platforms, so as to leave pursuers to plummet to their death. My personal favourite bits are the silly rotating central platform, and the top section with the catwalks, it's eerie up there...
See it in action in this video by my pal! (timestamped to when my map shows up)
I felt that the vast majority of TTT maps were very horizontally-oriented, sprawling but relatively flat, so I wanted to make something with tons of verticality for variety's sake. I tried to make it look like an unfriendly old quake map, with lots of steel and concrete, a vast machine of unknown purpose.
The core gimmick of sorts is playing around with fall damage and sightlines- different layers can be accessed through rickety platforming sections, that leave a player vulnerable while they cross between. Most of the traitor-activatable traps deal with deactivating, moving, or otherwise screwing with platforms, so as to leave pursuers to plummet to their death. My personal favourite bits are the silly rotating central platform, and the top section with the catwalks, it's eerie up there...
See it in action in this video by my pal! (timestamped to when my map shows up)
"MAZE - Mystery At Zenith" Maps
These are some of the maps for
a MAZE, a "bump-combat" ARPG I've been
working on to get some grips with more traditional action game design.
This here is the first level, The Outskirts. It's intended to be a sort of foyer to the
dungeon proper, a path out of the starting village only partially subsumed by the trappings of
Videogame Dungeon.
Here keys, chests, combat and overall dungeon exploration are introduced lightly,
with few properly dangerous enemies and few additional puzzles, though an observant player can start to engage with the first bits
of the overarching metapuzzle if they know what to do.
This level went through a few passes, and I'm most satisfied with this version I created after taking some queues from the original DOOM. To me DOOM is
a holy handbook of complex action game level design, and it has a lot to teach. Particularly the way it manages the player's curiosity and greed with baited traps
and how it teases its secret areas before they can be accessed.
The Caves is the second accessible map, it's smaller but ramps up the tension a bit. There are some tricky chokepoints with tough enemies, and new enemies are introduced that require a bit more thought to engage with. Caves is intended to be a more combat-focused map to get the player comfortable with more complex foes, so it's light on puzzles and narrative. I think it needs a second pass, it's not quite difficult enough.
