Under A Stone Blanket - a 5-minute crypt dive

Quake Quake Maps
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The crypt-dwellers have been resting for centuries.

Time to wake up.

A short blast through a disturbed tomb, where the dead have been hurriedly bricked up.

Download here (or view screenshots): https://archive.org/details/stoneblanket
Video flythough here: https://youtu.be/BdErVWDVRbQ

  • 3-5 minutes playtime
  • 4 secrets
  • Necromancy of an unknown variety
  • Normal & Hard modes supported

This was made with progs_dump (necessary files included). To run the map, unzip the stoneblanket folder to your Quake directory. Start Quake and use the console to type “game stoneblanket” and then “brendy3”.

It’s a 1024 map because I missed the last 1024 jam but wanted to do it as a fun exercise anyway.

Thank yous: This uses Makkon’s textures, so big thanks for those. Thanks to Zaratzara, dumptruck_ds and TheSolipsist for playtesting and useful feedback. Credit for a water lighting trick goes to Makkon. Cheers to all members of the Quake mapping Discord for consistent community support.

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I found ‘Hard Driven’ a lot more enjoyable, compared to this one. This one - ‘Under a Stone Blanket’ - I did not find really at all. It is cramped, convoluted, unnecessarily puzzling. Fortunately, it is not a long map - took me some eight or nine minutes to complete. I see how you experiment with breakables here - the option featured in mods such as ‘Arcane Dimensions’ or ‘Progs_dump’, that you use - but breakables, can easily be abused. Breakables, may bring an element of surprise, which is good only in moderation.

I always wonder when I see ghost-Scrags or any kinds of “ghosts”, gib to meaty pieces.

Anyhow, at this point, ‘Under a Stone Blanket’ is a map worth of 2/5 rating to my consumership.

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Thanks for playing and for the honest feedback!

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Can you upload the archive to a website where I don’t need to register to download something? For example google disk or similar?

Everything is fine, I figured out how to download files without registration. You just need to look at the “zip” link at the bottom of the page, not at the top. )))

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[quote=Andrew]Can you upload the archive to a website where I don’t need to register to download something? For example google disk or similar?

Everything is fine, I figured out how to download files without registration. You just need to look at the “zip” link at the bottom of the page, not at the top. )))[/quote]

Yeah, the zip is definitely downloadable there to all, even if it’s not immediately clear. I use Archive.org because it’s plain and reliable, I don’t think it’s tidy to post finished maps using Gdrive. But! It’s in the Quaddicted DB now (thanks mods!) for anyone else having trouble with Archive. So this might be better: https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/stoneblanket.html