Is it terrorism also? As far as I know, terrorism is now illegal, whether it is students or the public at large. I was just trying to expand the debate as to what constitutes terrorism, and to what degree we will go to suppress it.
Back when Doom! was big I got ahold of a map editor and made lots of maps. I made a map of my house and a couple of buddies’ houses. But, ya know what? A house doesn’t have many rooms, so a deathmatch game gets pretty redundant. You spawn, run into the living room at the same time as three other guys and three out of the four die. Repeat until boredom ensues.
What was my next step? What large building did I know and did my doom playing buddies know that had lots of rooms and lots of places to hide? My highschool! Shhh! don’t tell anyone, but I have a doom map of my highschool. Amazingly I graduated without once bringing a chainsaw, pistol, shotgun, chain gun, plasma rifle, or BFG9000 to school!
What a bunch of crap. :rolleyes:
A few years ago I did a Doom II map of my office, put a big fat monster in my boss’s office, then shot it up with a rocket launcher.
LOCK ME UP!!!
I, too, wish I would have had a map to my high school. Then I wouldn’t have spent the first 2 weeks of my freshman year looking for the swimming pool.
What was he arrested for? Cartography? Graphics Design? They confiscated a hammer and called it a weapon? Oh shit, did he have a wrench? Did he have any furniture with wooden legs, cuz I mean a chair turns into 4 weapons so easily.
I know lots of people who made gaming maps of places they were familar with. I tried to make a map of my school for the original Postal, but couldn’t cuz the map maker sucked rocks.
I hope this gets dismissed and this guy sues the screaming shit out of every asshole who did this. Raising false alarms over stupid shit should be against the law.
Experience and knowledge is what is needed to find problems, not clueless dumbasses jumping at every little sound.
Catchy, but I think it’s taken already. Would you settle for .cc? 
Our children are out there designing game levels, people. Doing nothing is not an option.
I wanted to make a map of my HS for Marathon 2, back in the day. 
Turns out I’m too lazy to finish any level maps I start, so it never got done. However I found an awesome school map on the net of a college (in Denmark i think?). That was some of the most creative usage of the engine I’ve ever seen.
I never did this with a computer game, but my friends and I used to play Call of Cuthulu using our hometown as the setting. Including chasing baddies through some familiar settings including local high schools that some of the players had attended. I used to use interesting real world buildings for the basis of designing dungeons when I was DM.
Then there was the gaming convention at a local college, where we played out a battletech scenerio on a scale model of the college itself! I even got to turn my maurader's guns on the dining hall (take that, cardboard pizza!). No one felt we were planning an attack on the school, the guy running the game saw it a a special treat, playing
out an imaginary battle in a place we actualy were sitting in (hey, if this battle were actually happening, my mech would be RIGHT OVER THERE).
Great fun, nothing spurs the imagination like a real world setting. Since you already have a clear picture in your head, it is easy to imagine the action in-game. I suspect that is all this young man was doing, racheting up the fun, not planing an attack.
I would say that after all my experiences, my chances of summoning nameless horrors in my old high school chem lab, or attacking a college with a 100 foot tall battlemech are rather low.If people take stuff like this so literally, why aren’t they happy that someone will be there to take out the zombies when they come?
Duh! Because zombies aren’t real! Obviously, if someone has drawn up a map to be used in a shoot-em-up computer game, the only possible purpose is to shoot real people in real life!
Or in other words … THE STUPID! IT BURNS!
Man, Marathon 2 had the best mapping tools ever. I sunk hours into that thing.
Here are some screen caps of the CS:S map.
It actually looks pretty good.
I always wanted to go on a shooting rampage, just never could find Q3DM18:Space Chamber in my hometown.
And I think the kid has mad skillz, punish him for them!!
There is a hidden level in Might and Magic VI - The Mandate of Heaven(3DO games, Circa 1998), where you can go to the offices of the company which made the video game. At this point you have laser weapons and all kinds of powers. There are avatars of most of the staff there, complete with their names. You can wander the cube farms and kill them all. If you go into the head designer’s office you’ll find a mean goblin who attacks you. You’re not forced to kill anyone, but it is allowed and the goblin actually attacks you.
Enjoy,
Steven
This is how a terrorist designs a school.
The pictures look nice; clearly a lot of effort went into mapping and designing this level. I’d say lock’im up for trying to be an architect, that son of a bitch.
ART VANDELAY YOU ARE NOT!
He was right on the verge of striking after being delayed by Texas’ mandatory 730 day waiting period on hammer purchases.