So Acid's post about making a map for another game got me wondering how hard it could be to make a source map. Well it turns out that with Hammer (Valve's map maker utility -- bundled in the Source SDK under Tools) its actually pretty easy to make a basic map with floors walls and ceilings, spawn points, and buy zones. Everything on top of its a little more difficult but not too bad.
Anyway, I'd like to start a Map Building project for n00bfest but I'll need a lot of help. I have really no sense of design or what would be cool in a map and end up with a map that is very boxy and linear and just picking random textures that don't look too terrible.
With that said, anyone who is interested is more that welcome to participate -- I expect we'll need:
-- Map Engineers (the layout)
-- Map Designers (the textures and props)
-- Graphic Designers (for custom textures)
-- Testers (to find the glitches, snag spots, missing textures, etc)
We could start with a map that uses almost all stock textures (except for a few n00bfest ones advertising the n00bfest name) to make it easy in that department and with that being said, and given the props that are available, I think a pretty decent map theme would be n00bfest armory -- I'm not super committed to it so other suggestions are welcome.
Anyway, if you're interested post up here and we'll compile a list. Most likely we'll work on and decide on a layout, divide the work up, and then bring it together and start tuning it.
Valve has a great developers wiki that answered almost all of my questions, and the rest have been answered from links in the first page of google results.
For the guys who played in my map last night, that was a result of like 4 - 6 hours of work, imagine what we could get done if we got a group task force together... If any group of people have the talent to develop a sick map, its n00bfest, no doubt.
Get it done fellas.
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and maybe some designing