It's also important to consider the shape of a map; if you're going for a DM or FFA Map, you usually want to make it Circular, Square or Hybrid and maybe make it Asymmetrical. If you're going for CTF or KOTH, you Usually want an Oval, Rectangular or Kite shape and a Symmetrical layout.

This is an amazing video, by following those simple yet extremely efficient guidelines I improved my level design by a lot, by finally be able to create good maps for forges, map creators and also aiming at developing maps for my own game! Thanks a lot!

having a really good mic isn't synonymous with lacking noise cancelling. I love the crickets however, this is not a jab at you.

Very wise, sir. Very very wise. You're absolutely right. I would only suggest on change, to the title of the video. I would add "Arena" before FPS. Although some of these rules do apply to any FPS game, such as having good flow, landmarks, etc, most of it really only applies to multiplayer or arena FPS games. Eexample, I don't think we'd be happy if standard play result in single player levels ending in ten seconds! Maybe if you're speed running. And of course sometimes you need to stammy the flow in a level for a reason. IE blocking the players progress until they complete certain actions, like solving puzzles or killing opponents. Maybe they need a key. Something. That is my only critique of this video. Otherwise I think you nailed

Strafing isn't the intended way to move out. its an engine glitch. So that railgun wasn't meant to be strafe-jumped to

Hey, those are very good points. I especially like the landmarks one. I would even precise *unique* landmarks.

This has a lot of good information, thank you

this is an epic video in 2022, amazed

You picked one of the Q3 maps that is actually good and was used. Q3 has bad maps overall, if you go through them.. they aren't very good and many, most, were not played beyond very early days when there were no alternatives - even if your guidelines (which are perfectly fine btw) are followed they do not make the rest of Q3s maps decent. The older quakes, while their DM map selection was much smaller, had better maps over all. All the Q1 maps were ok and only dm1 was "bad", all the Q2 maps that were added in the patch were ok. Q3 on the other hand has a whole slew of maps that are just bad - this was shown by which were actually played. Q3 doesn't even have 6-8 good maps that stood the test of time like its predecessors. Your selection of turbine for ut99 isn't really adding to the argument since it is exactly as you say, more labyrinthine and difficult to navigate, but many, the majority of maps in 99 are not like this. Across the board I would say the ootb ut99 maps are worse than the total of quake maps (including third party) but the ut99 maps are significantly better than the Q3 ootb maps - the evidence? Many were played and are still played today. There were enough options to not play the poorer/gimmicky ones and have a map pool of 5-10 maps for DM/TDM/duel as well as CTF straight out of the box that worked well. Lastly landmarks in arenafps are less important than in other shooters as the areas tend to be known by their respective pickup. On DM6 you would call enemies at red armor, not enemies at the lights/stairs thing. Areas, outside of connections, don't need names and when they do "upper YA corridoor" is more likely to be used than what you get in modern shooters - banans, goat, chicken, etc in CS. The exceptions are when there is no pickup - on DM6 this would be the bridge area directly above RA - and if it were not for bridge to rail jump, an iconic piece of movement, then it may have gone unnamed.

Neat thx for making this

is that really crickets? i though it was your monitor or something lol (also nice video)

I'm a sucker for 3 lane maps.

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I feel like this is more heavily geared towards multiplayer FPS than FPS in general. For example, you wouldn’t use that 10 second rule in a single player campaign map for obvious reasons. Cool video for sure but I was expecting a bit more general FPS level design rules

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