OMG sock map!! Looks well cool. 

Work,

We have to have a talk. 

Just noticed this. It's like a mini Christmas! 

....an early / smaller version of this would have been great as part of the Egyptian retrojam, before expanding to this full AD version. Pity you didn't that but regardless this is a great release on it's own.

I had a blast playing it, I haven't played Quake and I'm caffeinated off my tits so I was a bit skittish but got through it first time. The lower floor of the water room was a bit hectic and the lift was cool, but everything was well balanced apart from a slight ammo lack at the first NG. The "multiple crossbowmen doors" room had me bouncing around with glee, really fun. Also loved the classic Sock secrets style, so much fun exploration. Architecture was all good, not as spectacular as outside maps, but it's cool to have an inside / tomb focus and it worked well, obvz the waterfall room was sweet.

Funny enough as much as I'm not overkeen on spiders / scorpions / floating wizard shizzle, they'd have worked really well with the vibe of this map.

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/demos/shamcastle1d.zip 

This is an excellent map, extremely sockesque in all the usual ways. Really enjoyed it! Loved all the ambush setpieces and the exploration :) 

A new Sock map! Holy fuck, a new Sock map with transparent waterfalls - take that, id1, haha! Wait... an egyptian AD map without scorpions?? Wait... a new Sock map!!

Thank you for this unexpected gift. Screenie looks ace. 

nice retrojam6 map
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/demos/ad_scastle.7z

i really liked that ambush with the xbow knights. instead of throwing off the monster or using monsterjumps, you used doors that open. 

https://www.twitch.tv/ionous 

Skill 2, 9/10 secrets

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ma1yz2izuu4lk41/sand_mjb.zip?dl=0

I'll let the demo explain what I thought about the map. But I'll throw a few bullets:

-Overall just lovely to look at
-Unique theme with water pouring into a sunken tomb
-Retro green sky used to great effect.
-Fun as hell secrets and exploration.
-Fantastic encounters and non-linearity.

I missed the SNG if it exists and I also would have liked a grenade launcher earlier. I now know that there is one if I took the first route...but maybe a repeat pickup somewhere down below. I don't know what else to say...nothing else to really pick at! 

Another Sock�s Masterpiece!

Here my first play through, although I�ve probably missed some parts of it:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzLgsE84gQ1WeGgxc0JyT0x1Smc