Archiving the history of the video game Quake 2: created by id Software; customized by the Quake 2 community.
This is Geezer's CTF Map Making Guide from back in the day. I found it to be relevant to the map making going on today, especially in that Geezer basically walks through how to mirror a map and correct the textures. Here is a link to the original article through the internet archive of PlanetQuake.com... …
Cacophony By Rich "Publius" Tollerton, Charles "Myrkul" Kendrick from the Expert Quake Team Review by DRiVEN[D!] Here is some fun reading about everyone's favorite map from the internet archive of Boomstick Joint, Week of 15 November 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/20010620102458/http://www.captured.com/boomstick/ Overall impression And then they asked me "Why do you like the blue team more?"... I saw this …
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Here is Rocky I by Azrael. This map is significant because the ground is textured organically, similar to Caco, and promotes fun and fast grappling. In fact, the map makers behind Caco, Myrkul and Publius, recommended this map for their ExpertCTF mod for this very reason. Title : Rocky I Date : 20/4/98 Filename : rocky1.bsp …
In early May 2016, legendary Quake 2 mapmaker Macanah released a CTF version of his DM map Bite! That's right, another new 2016 Q2CTF map! Here is a link back to the Q2 Cafe post: http://leray.proboards.com/thread/3813/macanah-ctf-map-quake2
Previously unplayed Maric's CTF map! I was looking at some of the maps that were tweaked for the Awakening mod, and I found a Marics CTF map that I had not seen before. It is a small map, good for the style of play in 2016. The name of the map is "End Run." The …
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