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-====== Quake Advent Calendar 2013 ======
+====== Quake Advent Calendar 2013 - Part 2 ======
 Welcome to a Quake-themed Advent Calendar. On 24 days 24 people will showcase something about Quake. Something old, something new, something obscure, something you should check out. Monitor the list on the [[https://www.quaddicted.com/|frontpage]] to see new posts every day. This is part 2 for the 7th to 12th December. See [[quake_advent_calendar_2013:1-6]] for the previous posts.
+===== 12th December - Johnny Law =====
+{{ :quake_advent_calendar_2013:qphone.png?nolink|}}
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+I often don't pay enough attention to a game's sound design while playing
+it. But particular sound effects can really stick with me... showing up as
+surprise nostalgia years later when I hear an HEV suit charging, the chunk
+of an 8-ball launcher, or even "wort wort wort".
+Of course the classic Quake sound effects from McGee/Romero/Reznor are high
+on that list. So for a while now I'd thought it would be nerdycool to set a
+few Quake sound effects as phone alert sounds. When I actually bit the
+bullet though, it was a surprising amount of work to find good alert-sound
+candidates and then extract, rename, noise-reduce, format-convert, and
+gain-normalize them.
+I decided it would be neat, in a small way, if I could make a shortcut for
+that process -- a utility that you could throw your pak files at, and have
+processed sounds pop out the other end. Having a Quake Advent Calendar slot
+to fill seemed like a good excuse to get off my butt and do it, so:
+**Downloads:** [[
+https://github.com/neogeographica/quakesounds/releases|From GitHub]]
+Docs:
+    * [[
+https://github.com/neogeographica/quakesounds/blob/master/README.md|The README]]
+    * [[
+https://github.com/neogeographica/quakesounds/blob/master/LAUNCHING.md|More details about launching the application]]
+    * [[
+https://github.com/neogeographica/quakesounds/blob/master/CONFIGURING.md|More details about customizing/configuring things]]
+===== 11th December - Tronyn =====
+==== No Vertigo ====
+{{ :quake_advent_calendar_2013:tronyn_nyarlathotep.jpg?direct&500|}}
+As one of the last truly "arcade"-style FPS games, before that style of game was self-consciously and somewhat ironically resurrected a decade later by games like Serious Sam and Painkiller, Quake has some relatively unique features. For example, no matter how far you fall, you can only ever lose 5% health. Vertically, there's nothing to be scared of - and this total lack of realism has always opened up creative possibilities. In the comments after the article [[http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/06/gaming-made-me-quake/|Gaming Made Me Quake]], one "BobsLawnService" wrote: "The one thing that always blew me away about Quake was the architecture. Looking back I think it is because the level designers thought 'Hey, we can do full 3D now so we’ll overdo it.' A lot of modern level design seems flat and uninspired in comparison." This reminded me of how much Quake exploited 3d in its level design from the very start. The classic example is "Ziggurat Vertigo," probably the single weirdest and most impressive original Quake map. In fact, my dream map is probably if a modern mapper made a gargantuan level inspired by Ziggurat Vertigo. Years later, some mappers came up with the idea for a "Vertical Map Pack" in which they would only be allowed to build up. Later still, others followed up on this theme with great results such as negke's [[/reviews/768_negke.html|Skinny Norris]] and necros' [[/reviews/ne_tower.html|Moldy Tower]]. I should also mention the id map "The Wind Tunnels," and some of the great maps it has inspired including at least one remake, Backspace's [[/reviews/tfl2.html|The Fierce Livid]], Digs' [[/reviews/digs03.html|Digs03]], metlslime's maps [[/reviews/chaos.html|Crawling Chaos]] and [[/reviews/ant.html|Antediluvian]], most recently sock's [[/reviews/backstein1e.html|Backsteingotik]]. Vertical design is one of the strengths of Quake's level design legacy, something that more "realistic" or "place-based" games have really neglected in their level design.
+Today I'm releasing my own vertical-style Quake map, [[/reviews/nyarlathotep.html|Nyarlathotep]].
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 ===== 10th December - Neozeed & [HCI]Mara'akate =====
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 [[http://dk.toastednet.org/QDOS|Experience Quake like it's 1996 on original hardware!]]
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 ===== 9th December - ijed =====
 Tech Evans stood, stretched, then sat back down in the creaking office
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 Please be nice and respectful. Happy fragging!
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+  * [[quake_advent_calendar_2013:1-6#st_december_-_spirit|1st til 6th December]]
+  * [[quake_advent_calendar_2013:7-12#th_december_-_emergency_spirit|7th til 12th December]] <- You are here
+  * [[quake_advent_calendar_2013:13-18#th_december_-_cocot|13th til 18th December]]
+  * [[quake_advent_calendar_2013:19-24#th_december_-_sock|19th til 24th December]]