One Room, Bone Room, Two Rooms.
Following a proven pattern (not including the Half-Life: Alyx One Room challenge), Map Labs has unpredictably expanded to Three Rooms with this Test Tube competition! The entrants were technically limited to three rooms, but there’s also some trickery at work in some of the maps here. Enjoy the 21 entries!
As always, if you’re interested in learning more about Map Labs and maybe even participate in their upcoming challenges, visit the Map Labs Discord.
Born on the forums of TWHL, here comes another collaboration pack – this time on the Source engine! Mappers were restricted to a small footprint for their map, as if each map were a floor in a tower. A full 3 years in the making, here is the result of a lot of hard work from both new and experienced Source mappers.
There’s a lot to love in this long anticipated collaboration! Enjoy the 18 floors in this solid follow-on to TWHL Tower and TWHL Tower 2! Plus don’t miss the handful of unlockable bonus maps!
Total Downloads: 88219th July 2024
8 Comments
and 5 recommendations, 2 say "Play It Later"
This is an updated and remastered version of 2007’s HW Upgrade (originally made by luckid) done by ArctixSnowPup.
Total Downloads: 42717th June 2024
17 Comments
and 6 recommendations, 3 say "Play It Later"
Map Labs revisits the old Back on Track theme, this time with a twist: vertical backtracking is a must!
Enjoy the verticality in the 8 submitted maps!
As always, if you’re interested in learning more about Map Labs and maybe even participate in their upcoming challenges, visit the Map Labs Discord.
Total Downloads: 1,2125th April 2024
9 Comments
and 5 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!
Well, we’re back! Thanks for sticking with us through the site downtime – a server problem that also just had bad timing right over the holiday season.
And so here’s a new General Chat for the New(ish) Year! What are you looking forward to playing in 2024?
27th January 2024 72 Comments
Halloween Horror is back! This time, the Map Labs crew asked authors to channel fear of THE UNKNOWN and come up with a suspenseful map for the season.
Here are the 8 spooky maps received, enjoy!
As always, if you’re interested in learning more about Map Labs and maybe even participate in their upcoming challenges, visit the Map Labs Discord.
Total Downloads: 1,24021st November 2023
11 Comments
and 7 recommendations, 3 say "Play It Now!"
Look at that! Valve just dropped a big Half-Life update on the eve of its 25-year anniversary. So, let’s check out how it plays!
I’ll stream Half-Life at the usual time (12 noon Saturday eastern US time / 5pm in the UK / 6pm Central Europe).
Check the Time & Date.Com website for your local time. See you there!
17th November 2023 7 Comments
This release combines two Map Labs Test Tubes (short challenges). Unfortunately, one of them only received one entry so it was combined with the larger Test Tube.
A Place in the West, as the title suggests, simply asked authors to build a map based on the popular comic Half-Life: A Place in the West, which depicts life in America under the Combine.
The Wrap-Up Two! – much in the vein of The Wrap-Up! – allowed mappers to choose any previous Map Labs theme and enter. Finish an abandoned project, remaster a previous map, or make a brand new map; all were acceptable as long as the map fit one of the Map Labs themes. Nine maps were submitted.
Enjoy this double feature!
As always, if you’re interested in learning more about Map Labs and maybe even participate in their upcoming challenges, visit the Map Labs Discord.
Total Downloads: 60415th November 2023
7 Comments
and 2 recommendations, 1 say "Play It Now!"
You are Flynn Weißhaupt, a computer engineer of Black Mesa who worked on the Gibson, a powerful supercomputer. Now with the Resonance Cascade, it is your mission to retrieve the data of the Gibson and destroy it. Because The Gibson is too powerful to fall into the hands of alien forces or the military.
Total Downloads: 1,14611th November 2023
18 Comments
and 13 recommendations, most say "Play It Later"
As a follow-up to the successful Tune (a 24-hour Atom), the Map Labs folks expanded the challenge for this Test Tube. Plus – as the title confirms – there’s a twist: entries must be based on TWO songs!
Here are the 9 maps entered, including 4 bonus maps.
As always, if you’re interested in learning more about Map Labs and maybe even participate in their upcoming challenges, visit the Map Labs Discord.
Total Downloads: 4578th November 2023
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Total Downloads: 5993rd September 2024
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