Tim Elek about his mapping

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## Tim Elek about his mapping

Some days ago I randomly bumped into an old blog of Tim Elek. You should know that name, he has made great Quake singleplayer releases, not to mention his work for Nehahra. He wrote a long piece about his Quake mapping which I highly recommend to read. Nowadays he is working at Raven Software, many Quake mappers work(ed) there. His Planetquake site is gone of course. Damn you, IGN, especially for not being upright on those “maintenance” pages. At least you could serve a HTTP error 404 or even a 410 instead of a redirection circus ending in 200. Thanks to CocoT there is an archive of the site, I uploaded it for browsing here.

29.11.2009 in Quake Nostalgia | 13 Comments »

### 13 Responses to “Tim Elek about his mapping”

1. Anonymous Says:
   29.11.2009 17:13

   There’s also an archive here:
   http://www.quakewiki.net/archives/tertiary.planetquake.gamespy.com/

2. Spirit Says:
   29.11.2009 18:46

   Yes, but since Chip does not share his files I consider it not good. :(

3. st3ady Says:
   29.11.2009 23:06

   looking for speed map competition pack 146 and 147

   thanks!

4. Spirit Says:
   30.11.2009 15:47

   http://www.quaddicted.com/filebase/sm146_pack.zip
   http://www.quaddicted.com/filebase/sm146_pack.zip

   Enjoy!

5. Willem Says:
   01.12.2009 11:37

   That was great, thanks for finding that! Now I’m wishing that every level designer from the Quake days had written up something like that.

6. st3ady Says:
   01.12.2009 20:23

   Thanks Spirit!

   Also sad about planetquake websites disappearing :[

   glad ur able to back some up for us :]

7. Tronyn Says:
   03.12.2009 05:51

   I preferred his earlier stuff – ie coagula 1/2, golgotha, to his later stuff (precipice, coagular3) to his later stuff. Still, clearly a talented enough guy to leave behind a memory of his work. Damn those Ravensoft folks – they could at least repay our community by making a Heretic/Hexen sequel instead of degrading into the “no new intellectual property here” corporate whores they’ve become. Alright that’s enough from me.

8. Trinca Says:
   03.12.2009 18:13

   Tronyn, sadly the community is sick…

9. Bad Sector Says:
   04.12.2009 00:12

   @Tronyn:
   Making a Heretic/Hexen sequel won’t save them from the “no new IP here” syndrome – these two titles are existing (and old) IPs :-P.

   Of course that doesn’t mean i would love to see a Hexen 3 :-]

10. Bad Sector Says:
    04.12.2009 00:13

    duh that should have been “wouldn’t” :-P

11. dreadlorde Says:
    05.12.2009 05:51

    @Tronyn Intellectual Property is a silly euphemism.

12. Steven Says:
    05.12.2009 22:43

    Man, that’s a great graphic. Thanks.

    Post 8, laugh. The prophet of doom stretches his decrepit feelers.

13. Chip Says:
    02.01.2010 16:17

    @Spirit “Yes, but since Chip does not share his files I consider it not good. :(”

    It is done now. All archives are shared. :)

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