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.
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: 59715th 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: 1,12811th 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: 4528th November 2023
1 Comment
and 1 recommendation, say ""
In the heart of the Cuban capital, an unknown rebel sympathiser must disable three combine antennas to loosen their grip on the city.
Total Downloads: 8484th November 2023
22 Comments
and 13 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"
This unique challenge allowed mappers to tidy up an unreleased or unfinished map – or make a totally new one – for any of Map Labs’s previous themes [even at the time, that was a whopping 23 themes to pick from!]. But being a Test Tube, time was really limited – this challenge only ran for 10 days.
Here are the wrapped-up and entered maps – enjoy the solid 19 maps in The Wrap-Up!
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: 7971st November 2023
3 Comments
and 1 recommendation, most really enjoyed it!
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Total Downloads: 1,22621st November 2023
11 Comments and 7 recommendations, 3 say "Play It Now!"