With the Quake 30th Anniversary, the Quake Mapping Community has been organizing slew of new jams. I participated in a few of these.
Author: Ryan JL
Website administrator and artist.
Brutalist Jam III
For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a map (or maps?) for Quake Brutalist Jam 3. The project includes exciting new weapons and monsters to play with! Because of this, I had to re-assess goals I wanted
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Quake From Memory
Quake From Memory is a project started late last year (December 2024) and helmed by the user iLike80sRock, where the idea was to recreate all of Quake’s original maps from memory. Referencing the original maps or their sources wasn’t allowed.
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Light Construction
I wanted to make sure my site was kept up-to-date with the latest versions of PHP and WordPress, so I’ve chosen to migrate the site to Toocheke. I’m still working on the theme, as well as migrating over things like
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Quake Christmas Jumper
I hosted the Quake Christmas Jam for 2024! This one was themed around simply implementing the jump boots into a map, using the Arcane Dimensions mod. Everyone had about two weeks to put a gameplay map together. When the event
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Floyd Factory Jam
Smoke and steam. Crates and warehouses. Machines whirring. Fans spinning. Recently, I chose to host my first mapping jam for Quake on Slipseer & the Quake Mapping Discord. The direction was to build a map in the style of a
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Re:Mobilize & Malice
Re:Mobilize is a modification for Quake that adds in new features around advanced movement, such as a grapple hook, trampolines, and wire meshes. Version 1.2 was recently released, which includes some new tools, as well as a set of new
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Grit Under the Eyelid
Grit Under the Eyelid is a new map involving the exploration of crumbling tombs that I put together for Quake with Arcane Dimensions 1.8 Patch 1, and is my first solo release. Originally, I intended to finish this for Rotting
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Vanilla Quake
I have a new very small map that was made over the course of 2 days for the Vanilla speed mapping event, hosted by Zigi, titled Tangled Monopole. It contains simplified versions of a couple spots in the recent chapter
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The Last and the Limbless
I have a new map out as part of Fairweather’s Remix Jam for Quake. The pack’s theme is to remix a multiplayer map from any game for Quake single player. This was a weird one! I had several ideas for
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