Perhaps as a good stopgap someone could organize a simple weekend 'retrojam' to happen in Oct? Pick a weekend and just make some basic maps in a day or two. 

 

Another Halloween map pack? 

remix end.bsp 

OK 

speedmap sessions are officially dead and now is the reign of jams ...

I'm gonna miss them. Well, when i get my health, time and a computer back i'll try to promote them, or at least make some packs myself, as speedmapping is the thing that drove me for mapping the most in these last years. 

 

but no-one ever dares to do it ;) 

Would be OK ... make ugly, random maps that make no sense. Done. :P 

You forgot the "shit your pants" factor. 

Don't be so quick to write off E4. There's something about it that still freaks me out. Probably the deep shadows, wandering fiends, and periods of silence broken only by the sound of monsters teleporting around, triggered by god knows what. 

You are a luddite. 

e4 remakes needs to be a proper jam, not a weekend thing. 

 

That while they're not random and ugly, a tight deadline would definitely help in recreating the production values of the original E4 maps. 

I would say don't try to emulate the E4 production values, but try to capture the oldskool gameplay. The environment is the real enemy in E4 - lots of tricks, traps, and shadows. It really puts me on edge. 

Let's do this. How does Oct 9 to 11 sound? 

 

Zwiffle: Episode 4 is pretty diverse, you can do basically anything as long as it's kind of dark and there are power ups.

It's a weekend mapping thing, E4 inspired maps sounds simple and open enough of a theme. 

so don't call it e4.

call it "dark and deadly."

the dark and deadly jam. 

 

And a bit of time to make speed maps with you Zwiffle 

 

I like Retro Jam 4: Episode 4


Quake is dark and deadly more often than not. 

E4 jam where you ignore the real E4 and instead just work from the level titles. "The Nameless City" could own.