{"id":1029,"date":"2006-09-26T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2006-10-01T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T15:22:55","slug":"an-absence-of-user-generated-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"An Absence of User-Generated Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rather than repeat previous observations (like this one – reLink<\/a>), I’ll let this forum posting over on Map-Center (Link)<\/a> – a once-thriving level development forum – speak for me:<\/p>\n

I was looking at the list of maps on lvlworld<\/a> waiting to be reviewed I couldnt help wondering what on earth is happening to the mapping scene. The maps there are in the main so poor that I couldnt be bothered to write reviews. Newbs need a chance to learn….no problem with that, I can remember being there. Obvious mistakes, mising textures etc. The difference these days is that there seems to be no experienced mapper producing anything.<\/p>\n

What on earth is going on!
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\nIf the designers are there, what game are they designing for?<\/p>\n

There still seem to be many experienced designers hanging about, both here and on Q3W….why are they not producing maps?<\/p>\n

Will there be a sudden explosion of D3\/Q4 mods and maps?<\/p>\n

Come on guys….produce something!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those banking on user-generated content to carry the load, you might want to go looking for incentives… and ways to ensure those incentives don’t get compromised. This stuff isn’t as easy as snapping a digital snapshot and posting it online.<\/p>\n

{Take note of the archive links at the bottom of the lvlworld site. That’s a pretty serious drop since 2000. If there was a corresponding increase in other maps – Doom3 or Quake 4, for instance – it’d be easy to explain. But like this person, I’m not sure where they’ve gone.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rather than repeat previous observations (like this one – reLink), I’ll let this forum posting over on Map-Center (Link) – a once-thriving level development forum – speak for me: I was looking at the list of maps on lvlworld waiting … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}