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Hail to the ercking

Spirit — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:22:48 +0000

erc stepped up to the task of adding links to all the review site to each and every map available. Crazy? Yes. Awesome? Yes!
I did like less than a quarter of the work by going through Retroquake (what a mess), Ethereal Hell and TEAMShambler earlier. But with my pace this would have taken until next year…

Thanks erc for such a dedicated contribution.

Next on my list: The Search for the Missing Thumbnails. :)

Maps! Updates! Interviews!

Spirit — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:52:00 +0000

It’s description update time. Thanks to negke, an unknown contributor and me there are more than 40 new descriptions.

Excellent and Nice: aopfm_v2, auximine, dark04b, ne_lend_doom, nsoe, shesp1

The rest: alsc, anaconda, anoxia, apocshel, axeme7, break1-map, bridges_2, brt01q1, brt04q1, brt06q1, brt07q1, brt08hip, brt08q1, building, burns, butcher, cargoshp, cavosin_fixed, chess, chqmd, city, corporal, dblback, dock5, dxm2, dxmf, fun!, maze1, mercy, platform, series1, skymaze, vr

And the fiffy maps got better ratings. I am sure I made some mistakes as usual, so please don’t hesitate reporting errors.

I also posted some more interviews in the QExpo booth, thanks to Lardarse who did the “processing” work: necros, negke, Pingu, SleepwalkR, Tiddles, Vondur

Updates once again

Spirit — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:47:20 +0000

A bunch of updates: dd, digs04, dis_sp6, dumbdim, e2m5rmx, fbase, fr3n1m3, home_ke, hulk256, martys, omlabx, skeet, sm36, smlevel, ssm, supermaze, xplore.

I’m pretty sure I made a mess somewhere, so if you spot something bad don’t hesitate to mention it.

There are a more files pending addition, but I am not sure if they should be added at all:
burns.zip = does anyone know what this is? Wasn’t it someone’s first map and not meant for public?
curse.zip = is an old beta map, I don’t know if the author wants it public
darkbase.zip = is an old beta map, I don’t know if the author wants it public

Also I have repus_building.zip and building.zip with the same contents, does someone know which filename is correct?

Major changes in the background

Spirit — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:38:46 +0000

I successfully converted all the html files to xml now. This makes editing and maintaining much easier. For the normal users it means almost nothing though. My enthusiasm was also used to merge the “maps” and “mods” into one huge listing (ok, actually it would have been more work not to do that): spmaps.html (~180 Kilobytes). You will noticed that the “mods”s rows are darker. As posted before I also re-did the speedmap list.

And to make a big announcement: Mods and Engines will be next.

Anyone interested and willing to brainstorm please post about what informations and “criteria” (like the hasbsp, haspak for maps) should be included. Also what kind of mods. How they should be divided. The plan is to have that decided until QExpo and then starting to collect and list.

Statistics on Quake Singleplayer Maps

Spirit — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:32 +0000

A statistic like “Who made how many maps” is not available (yet) for two reasons: First there is no consistency on spelling and some mappers changed their handles, second there are too many team releases. It would be a lot of manual work.

Excluding the speedmaps there are 850 files. The number of speedmapping packs (currently in the archive) is 134, some are missing, others are just demos though.

There is a total of 1335 .bsp files plus 105 .pak files (including speedmaps) inside all those zips. That should range well above 1500 .bsp files in total.

Year: Releases (Excellent&Nice / Average / Poor&Crap)

1996:  95  (   5/  37/ 53)
1997: 371  ( 111/ 145/113)
1998:  69  (  28/  24/ 16)
1999:  40  (  29/   6/  5)
2000:  35  (  31/   2/  1)
2001:  53  (  43/   6/  2)
2002:  29  (  20/   3/  6)
2003:  35  (  25/   7/  3)
2004:  32  (  26/   4/  2)
2005:  24  (  18/   6/  0)
2006:  15  (   6/   8/  0)
2007:  22  (  17/   4/  0)

And with the ’97 spike cut away:

Totals in ratings:
Crap: 42
Poor: 167
Average: 262
Nice: 224
Excellent: 147
As a graph this gives a nice almost gauss-normal curve with a shift to goodness (1 = Crap, 5 = Excellent):

Please keep in mind that the ratings might be quite subjective. Also older maps are sometimes rated with regards to their age. The ratings are meant as a guidance.

Aaaaaahhpdate

Spirit — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:04:07 +0000

The incredible amount of 2 added maps: level2 (renamed Level.zip from here, thanks to aguirRe for the hint) and the latest release: bod. Enjoy!

Backfilling update #143

Spirit — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:08:10 +0000

Thanks to neg!ke for some descriptions and thanks to me for the majority (no joke, I was diligent this time!). Enjoy!
base_debris, burgtx12, cogs, dejavu10, distractions, dragon, elek_neh_episode4, event, fr3nrun2, funkx89, hrim_sp3, j1, j2, qkdme1m1, qkfort, qkhouse, qkmetro, qkpit, qkship, qkstarg, qkstore, qktower, qkwall, quadrx6, quoth2, rcoldmaps, slave, src2, src, trail, travail_skins, travail_soundtrack, wbase

PS: Stop voting for the pink for heaven’s sake!

The Singleplayer Map Archive is complete

Spirit — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:10:29 +0000

Wow. This looked like a task for sisyphus at first. 3 years later it is done. Most of the actual work (playing maps, making screenshots, add the informations) was done by the always helpful neg!ke. Eternal gratitude is assured!
OmegaPhlare, Sielwolf, erc, Megazoid, ijed, MadFox, spd and I wrote some descriptions too. Thanks again guys.
Also Sajt must be thanked as without his fantastic script for making the descriptions we would be nowhere near the end.
I know there are a lot falsely displayed umlauts, will fix those later. Apart from that please report all anomalies or errors you encounter.

Enjoy!

Quake Singleplayer Maps – Quake Singleplayer (“partial”) Mods

Be aware that you can sort the tables by clicking on the “Author – Map – DL – Size – Date DMY↓ – Rating” header. You need Javascript enabled. Warning: It might freeze your browser for a second or two.

PS: The speedmapping packs are very low priority, they don’t count.

second last backfilling update

Spirit — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:03:30 +0000

Dammit, I wanted to finish it today but it took longer than I thought and now I am tired. So my scheduled completion party has to wait until tomorrow, hrm. Unfortunately I also moved the files out of the “work” directory before saving the list and I can’t be arsed to move them back, so this time there is no list of the updated descriptions. Sorry!

All the maps in the listings are done now. Massive thanks to neg!ke (and other helpers?) as usual.
I replaced all the nehahra files with one all-inclusive nehahra.zip, Mindcrime gave his ok.

I will do those tomorrow, just a reminder and a “to-do” list. :)
Maps to add: back2forwards, r_666, r_church, cjhsp1, aow
to update: quoth
to verify: pg /pg2 really confuse me. pg has a newer pak while pg2 has the “2″.

When that is done I will compare files vs descriptions for missing ones, clean up, add missing links to reviews on TeamShambler, underworldfan’s and Retroquake, provide a new “quaddicted archive”-zip, write about the trash folder (crap and old versions), convert everything to xml, maybe add a “total conversions” listing, hopefully write some interesting articles, philosophise about the meaning of life and inevitable get laid. Cheers!

Updates, enjoy them while you can

Spirit — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:33:22 +0000

flesh was submitted two times, I chose the shorter one as it fit the style better. Many thanks to the nice soul who submitted the wordy one!

I don’t know about the links to #l on the lf maps. Is there some browser/addon that works with that? I have added no anchors in the tables and don’t plan to. Dear submitter, please enlighten me about the intention. :)

e1m1rmx_hard, e2m10glq, e2m10, flesh, hayduke1, hdn, hellchepsout, hellctle, heresp4, hhouse, hive, horrid, hostile, hotel, housp, houstrps, hrim_sp1, hrim_sp2, hrimspeed, hub, ikspq1, in_ovo, insane01, jackboot, jailbrk, level, lfsp1, lfsp2, lfsp3, lfsp4, lfsp5, lfsp7, lfspme, lfspplus, lfstart, morbid_1, morbid_2, obiwan2, obiwan3, obiwan, polygon2, purgator, purgtor2

Thanks for the submissions!

Description update, 96 left

Spirit — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:02:11 +0000

This time I did most of the work, I managed to write the incredible amount of 2 descriptions whereas neg!ke (or whoever else, just raise your voice, eh) just did 42. There were some deletions and updates thus the number left differs from the last update. 96, that means it might be done this month.

Dear neg!ke, leave the gl4fify* ones to me. I need to suffer for being a lazy bum. ;)

cross_2, gloin, gloom, godsjt, golgotha, gor1, gordian, grc4beta, guard, guncotton, gunman02, gwynt, haunted, haunt, ickle, kthdrl, mayhem2, mayhem, mcomplex, m_palace, pand01a, pbrsp1, phantasm, purgator, pyromid, r_666, rpgsmse, rpgsp1, runekeepgl, runekeep, starshp2, temple2, temple_e1, thebase, thecrypt, thepit_2, thepit, tomb_2, trincasp1, trincasp2, trincasp3, trinity, tsoa, zertm_pack

Update done, will automatically reboot in 3.. 2.. 1..

Spirit — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:04:10 +0000

136 left. ~~Unfortunately~~ Stupidly I badly screwed up my opengl drivers and haven’t yet found the pace to fix it (would like to reinstall the whole system to be honest). So once again, hail the !ke!

evilpool, fc1, fc, fdissens, fearfall, flecksp1, fmb1, frcastl2, frcastle, fromhell, funrun, gallery, gatordiv, genetix, ghost, giant, gibcent, gibfact, gibplex, utem666 (screenshot was added)

29 this time, what a rhyme

Spirit — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:20:19 +0000

Praise the !ke! 164 to go.

coagula2_flesh, coagula3_bone, coopmine, dma1, dmc1, doom2_01, doom2_04, doom2_07, doom2_08, doome1m7, drastic, drasticl, dwell, e1m1rmx, e-5, elden1, electric, elektra, elements, elsinore, etworld, evilarmy, evildead, evilwrld, evspq1, fane11, fantasy, shoot, utem666

25 descriptions done, 193 to go.

Spirit — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:15:06 +0000

Yes, I will do small updates now. Work by neg!ke (20) and me (5).

altus2, coe, coe_p, corpus, cryo, czg_moon, czgtoxic, darkages, darkcity, darkness, decree, demonslair, descent, despair2, dethcrch, dethtrap, discord2, disgrace, disturb, rubicon, wieder, wind, winterpack2005-2006, wolf3d, xnsm2_se.bsp

edit: Removed 2 entries (dm17qme and travail_prev) from the listings, thus it’s 193 left.

Massivestest update of all eternity

Spirit — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:39:53 +0000

I don’t plan to do a huge bunch like this again. It made me realise that I should have written some script to do the copy’n'paste to the listings right at the beginning of this project… neg!ke did the most as usual, I can’t remember me doing any, if anyone else contributed please raise your hand. :)

Here are 157 fresh descriptions for your enjoyment. 220 to go, woah. Remember to press F5.

apsp1, area51.2, bioforge, blister2, blister, bridges, cappuccino_v2, carnage, catacomb, cha-gh, chain1, chain2, chaos, church, citadel, climb, coma, corp2, cotud, could, critters, crosroad, cross, crucible, crusade5, crypt2, crypt, cult, cursed, czg100b, damaul3, damaul6, darkfst, dig, discord, dknite11, dkt1000, dm1-6sp, dm17, dm3rmx, dnspq1, doghouse, doomcasl, drunk, dspirl11, dstab1, earthbnd, earth, efdatsp1, epoch, erkle, erotique, fdtd, fire, fist, flo, fober1, frbdbase, goblin, halo, harmsway, ins1, ins2, ins3, ins4, janitor1, jason1, jjspq2, jjspq3, jtkmap6, juracave, kellmet1, lighthse1, lunsp1, maelstrm, maelstromv2, masque, matsp1, matsp2, maze, medlab, mekbase, mexx10, mexx3, mexx4, mexx5, mexx6, mexx7, mexx9, mexx, mini, misery, mission, monastry, mortal, mungo, murder_1, museum, mykd1, n3sp02_13, n3sp02_extd, offspring, oldones, oms2, orlmaps, oum, outpost2, outpost, percept, purg3, pyro4, q1tm2_czg, q1tm2, q1tm3, q1tm3_zwiffle_v2, red777, rings2, rit2, rit, roritor, royalwar, rstart11, rumours, sbe, sewer12, sewer, shoggoth, sickbase, sm100t_neg!ke, soe_full, sofsp1, sofsp2, sop123, sop_v2, storm, strom, strong-hold, swintime, tdk11, the_gate, thehand, themill, themines, tmqe06_pack, tomb, torture, tspe, tss, twelve, twxfinal, vision, warpgate, wishwell, wolfie3d, zerdem, zer, zwifflesm1

Release your breath now and get your sda-googles on to participate in happy silly contest speedrunning on watrways!