SHOW ME THE CHAMPION OF LIIIIIIIIGHT

This was a beautiful map, reminded me so much of House of Leaves, and awesome photos man, I myself am using a Pentax 35mm film camera and a Canon EOS R10 DSLR, I too love taking photos mainly of buildings. This was such a treat, awesome work!

@bomjJack I appreciate it! Unfortunately I'm only any good at english and that's being generous lmao. My next map is going to be a big open nighttime city kinda like afterhours, even has quite a few photo-to-hammer recreations :D

This is a great map, as it's clear that a lot of work, triggers, meticulous work, and the author's love for creativity went into it. It's literally art in map form. It's just a shame I'm so slow.

I see that there's an artistic message here, wonderful music, and even some narrative, but I found the map rather difficult to understand and explore, plus the rooms around it were rather deserted and unremarkable. After an hour (get it? :D) of walking and reading pages, I didn't understand where I needed to go or what to do next.

On gm_afterhours, I could use Google Translate on the photo descriptions, and knowledge of English wasn't generally required to enjoy it, and I really enjoyed the map overall because of the feeling of a night walk. Maybe I'm whining, yes, but that's how I felt

@LuhbL hey I really appreciate it, thank you very very much for the comment and for checking the map out! 😁

Genuinely an extraordinarily well made map, clearly a lot of effort went into making this. 10/10.

@bridget you should do it!!! Taking photos is a lot of fun, no matter what you're using.

thank you so much btw, and alan my king, such a good game

@FrioGaming 🙏🙏🙏 thank you so much! Stay tuned, cause I think possibly this weekend i might have a little work-in-progress build up for a new map. We'll see if hammer cooperates lmao

really great map, enjoyed my time with this
i loved the little gallery showcasing the photos, ive been wanting to get into photography myself for a while
also it has alan wake 2, love alan wake 2.

Absolutely goated map as always. Looking forward to your next maps!!

@The Thunder Ghost thank you so much!!! Feel free to peruse, there's a couple in the backlog that are halfway decent lmao

THIS WAS SO COOL. I recorded this with my Beyond 2. Such a great map, and loved the puzzle aspect integrated into the exploration. Love your style, and can't wait to explore your older maps!

@SomeStaples 😂 oh god I can imagine, thank you both for checking it out btw :D

@MrMilo yooooooooo checking out right now hell yes

@jehu @amaterasu thank you both so much, I'm so glad that you enjoyed it! <3

My girlfriend and I got lost and enjoyed the vibes for so long that we were left with a headache and carpal tunnel respectively, 11/10

Hey Dylan, just want to say that in case you haven't checked it out yet, my recent map iron stronghold has a nice little surprise for you

played with jehu and I agree, this is an all-timer
also mirror's edge mentioned

genuinely one of the best standalone experiences ive had with anything source engine related, my highest kudos to you.

@amproreal3am oh shit no way! I've gotta test that, I wonder if that big gmod update fixed something cause people were having so many problems in 32-bit. I really appreciate the heads up!

the maps runs perfectly fine on the default branch of garry's mod btw

@Bulk Bogan love the name lol, all the music and voice work for the map is just me! (Aside from one easter egg recreating a scene from my favorite game)

NikitosSpetznaz thank ya! I dunno, I figured I'd leave the npc spawning to players, having a monster in there might have spoiled the tension haha 😁

For the typewriter room, who did the voice acting for that? As between the VAing itself and the ambience, was a great scene

good map, although i wish there was some sort of a monster roaming on it

@Johnny Cockslam (lmao) thanks so much!

nice photography

Awesome, I'll be sure to try it again, and see what the lighting looks like in regular gmod, too

Got a small update to fix that weird NPC issue, default combine/player aligned factions should work now! Weird holdover from floatingisles and afterhours when I didn't know how to manage NPCs as well lmao, should be fixed when this update goes live.

ah gotcha, to my total neophyte head, that makes sense since iirc your npc was a citizen model

@J.E. Spaceman isn't that weird??? I have no idea why it's like that tbh, I'm nowhere near good enough with source to figure that stuff out lmao

And actually you've just reminded me, I think I know what's going on with the stock HL2 factions not working properly, might be a holdover from some workarounds I was trying really early on to fix my little guy in the gallery.

get this, it has no problem on the 64 bit beta just loading in

oh no kidding? Having my doppleganger pop up after I open a door and kill me was a genuine jumpscare and I loved it. It seems to take a while to hunt because it has to knock open the doors, but it does it.
I'm hoping to bring a buddy on--especially since I somehow missed your fix you suggested-- and try it with Gargitron. Also, it looked like allied NPCs weren't following or roaming but that could be on my end.

@J.E. Spaceman thank you for playing it! 😁 I love Logan, he's always a must watch when I'm at work lmao

Also I'm pretty sure I've actually used that same npc to test if it could navigate large portions of the map ahaha

Thank you for designing such a cool map! Logan from Earth introduced me to your map, and admittedly I didn't do the story mode, but getting stalked by a Terminator in this space made it genuinely exciting. You packed so much into the space with all the twisting halls. It definitely feels larger than it really is, and I haven't even explored all of it yet

I appreciate it btw!

Ahhhhh yeah that would make sense. I'll see if any overlay tex's are missing, in the meantime you may want to do mat_specular 0 in the console. I actually didn't build the map with any cubemaps so you won't be missing anything lmao

Absolutely! It was all the reflection textures. so even my viewmodels of guns were all layered over with pink. Wood reflections, metals, whatever lay beyond some windows. Maybe it's a setting on my end.

@J.E. Spaceman I just checked the latest version using my steam deck which I keep as a vanilla gmod install and I'm not seeing any missing textures. Do you remember about where you might have seen them?

This map is awesome, but I'm having some missing textures. What games am I missing?

@gavin I appreciate it! HoL was a huge inspiration, same with myhouse and myst and a few others.

@castindo having that like wallpapered sky just makes it feel so much more fake, super uncanny valley vibe 😁

very house of leaves esque. loved it.

using the star-patterned wallpaper in place of an actual skybox is so fcking strange i love it

@Aycile I appreciate it! Making shit eerie is my main goal hahaha

@Koi so good for real 👌

very eerie, i like it..

Shoutout to the Beer Depot in Ann Arbor

the locker has 2 doors
they're doors
also i remembered that in the description you said theres no jumpscares and only tense moments so i hoped that a giant critter swimming by me would count as a tense moment and not a jumpscare and it turns out at the bottom of the pit was a nothing burger
at least i like burgers