25 Years Of Mapping And Level Design
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Join my journey of making levels for different games through the past 25 years . This video does not include all my finished projects because some of them got lost over the years.
Take care everyone!
Music: Skyward Fire by Michiel Van Den Bos
Seeing those early levels made by a teenager with no internet or help made me realize unreal redux will be a masterpiece
Lots of awesome work, here. Can't wait for Redux!
Unreal holds a special place in my heart like no other game. Turn of the millennium was peak PC gaming, IMO.
I had no idea the 227 bonus DM maps were by you, hats off man! And good luck on Redux, this is the one Unreal project I'm looking most forward to.
Unreal has this magical thing about it where any map you build just always works in its universe. When i was a kid I used to love getting custom maps like this and imagining how they fit into the crazy jigsaw puzzle of unreal's lore. Even though they weren't made by the official developers, they all somehow seem canon. Because of how outlandish everything is in the game, anything is possible. All the maps shown in this video are no exception. I'm sad I never got to experience them during the time of their release, but at least I will for the redux when it finally arrives. Excellent work man.
Congratulations Krull0r! and Thank You for your enormous dedication to our Unreal
So, BeyondTheSun was your map? Always asked myself where this map came from, when I installed the latest patch for unreal. I mean, there was a hint already in the mappers name, but I never was completeley sure if it really was you.
Its one of the prettiest Unreal maps and one of the best to play on, you are a god on your craft, keep it up man!
impressive work on those maps you did throughout the years,
well done mate.
I can't beleive it. I vaguely remember seeing your name on Unreal custom maps I played in 2001. You are still making maps for it?!!! I'm astonished. I will 100% play your Redux version when it's out in coop.
Fabulous retrospective look at your level design skills, we all look forward to the day when Unreal Redux is finally finished, until then keep up the great work KrullOr and have a wonderful Christmas and best wishes to all the modding community
This is dedication to the job!!
Building something looking this tasteful, and on par with what professional devs did, when you were 14? Back then, I would just start making things GIANT and end up finishing nothing
Makes me even more excited for Unreal Redux
Dude same lmao
I think playing the game and seeing other people's design helps alot on what works and what doesn't.
Thank you very much 🤩
Back then I had no internet. I had no tutorials or documentation how the editor works. I learned everything by trail and error and by looking into the original levels
its just amazing
(and also, how 25 years just whooses by :) )
Not sure I played your maps but I loved logging on to planet unreal and finding new maps and mods. Simple and wholesome times.
Oh how I envy you, all my maps I made as a kid back in the day are lost somewhere with old disks, I only have them in my own memory. Great stuff!
What a nice Christmas present! 🎅🏽
Oh my god, that Runtime 50003 error just triggered me from the depths of some repressed childhood memory hahahahaha
Hi!
The Unreal project is amazing!
I see that in your website you’re almost done with reworking all the maps!
I’ll be happy to do a Gameplay on my channel once the project is done!
And i would be happy to receive upcoming news of how the project is going on!
Thank you for what you’re doing! ❤️
@@SighiTV hey there 😃
The project is still active. Right now I’m updating the consoles of the crashed space craft „ISV Kran“.
Once that is done I’ll continue the work on Dasa Cellars.
Once all maps are reworked I like to add some new places which are optional secrets the player can explore.
And there will be a new connection segment between Velora End and Bluff Eversmoking.
I share some news related to the project on Twitter / X :)
@@Krull0r Very nice!
Can't wait to see and play the final result!
Kids today don't know about that GameStar CD treasures feel.
Frohes Fest
I love the intro sequence, because that runtime error and the exact same fix was my first experience too! 😂😁
It's nice to see you having fun with mapping for years.😊
Krullor - I had no idea how familiar I was with your work before this video! Twister2, Raskasaar, Examination, and a few others are all some of my favorite multiplayer maps, and so much so that I'm hosting them on my UT/EXU server RIGHT NOW.
Aside from that, it was wonderful to see the evolution of your skills as a mapper and all the ways you not only mastered the use of geometry and stock texture packs, but even started to push the limits of what the engine can do through stuff like Modular. Thanks again for putting this together, looking forward to your upcoming work.
(And the angry German UT kid meme was the perfect way to start this video 🤣)
Ohh, so that map from Descent was yours, I remember! I really liked the bow gimmick, it felt like a proper reference to Tomb Raider somehow, and the environmental storytelling was stellar! Definitely one of the highlights of that mod.
What a beautiful retrospective. Please keep up your great work!
Looking forward to giving this a watch
Man! It’s good to have you back
holy shit so many awesome DM maps from my childhood. I never realized you were the author of them lol
pre-mainstream times... what a time to be alive
That pretty cool, and crazy to imagine people mapping before i was born 😱 I made a video reel like this one some weeks back showing my Garry's Mod mapping timeline, so its cool to see the same coming from someone else, even though for different games, the people behind all the maps are still people , someone thats putting their creativity, time, and effort to test. Regards
Very impressive! Absolutely loved DM-Twister
The Unreal community is lucky to have dedicated and talented fans like you!
Merry xmas!
How beautiful are these worlds mate, well done and thanks for sharing your journey with us. Looking forward to seeing what next year brings with your creativity. Also great music choice, that music is just the icing on the cake and absolutely transports you into these realms. Have a safe chrissy and all the best for the New Year ahead :)
Amazing and inspiring work!
Dec 2018 level is like a cherry on a cake.
Thanks for all the worlds you've created and continue to create! It's people like you that bring the magic to gaming
Спасибо за Ваше творчество и труд!! 👍👍
Cool video, I love your mapping style.
I know some of the old maps from our youth! 😊
Levels in der UE1 zu sehen, erzeugt bei mir ein wohliges, nostalgisches Gefühl. Danke für deine Arbeit über die Jahre und ein geiles Intro! 😁
Frohe Weihnachten! 🎄🎅
In ein paar Jahren gibts ja noch ein großes Abschiedsgeschenk für Unreal, nämlich Unreal Redux :)
Dir auch fröhliche Weihnachten 🎁🎄
You have been making levels since I was a kinder. Impressive.
That's a really nice video showcase with your levels. 25 years of experience is incredible. I wish you more and more. :)
I was actually big in the modding community back then. even a runner-up in the unreal contest. today I AAA dev at epic.
8 years Unreal redux, hip hip hooray !!!
This is inspiring stuff! It's so cool to see your evolution over the years and just how downright naturally talented you are plainly are! I'd wish you the best of luck in the future but you clearly don't need it. Looking forward to what you put out in the future!
I remember my first level being one room and thinking to myself "God, I'm good!"
Still to this day I struggle to make good level design. But yours improved quite fast :) Impressive!
Can't wait for Unreal Redux!
And Merry Christmas!
You should join a Game Dev team! Love that you kept the Unreal/UT style going past the Y2K.
Thank you very much :) let’s see what the future brings 🥹
But first I have to finish my main project ☝🏻😃
Nice time travel. Merry Christmas.
odd i was just thinking about this game while playing ut2004 and lo behold a new media update dropped!
Keep at it bros, i look forward to play when it is complete!
Amazing! That's actually so inspiring
Amazing! I admire your talent and hard work! I wish you all the best for the new year!
Unreal is one of my favorite games of all time. I loved the feeling of exploring an alien world that was beautiful, deadly, full of secrets. People like you who can create such virtual worlds are amazing.
That's amazing, dude. Great work!
Youre an amazing mapper ,great work on perfecting your skills.
2001 and your maps look better than UT2004
You had Windows 10 in 1998? 😁 Seriously, those are some of the best and most beautiful and inviting Unreal/UT maps I've ever seen!
Hehe yes I know 😅 I had no chance to make it authentic by installing a virtual machine to run win98 😅
Thank you very much 🤗
Having slightly longer run-throughs would be nice; these levels look definitely deserving of a longer gaze.
Wow, superb! Great lvl design!
Holy shit, anscheinend hab ich ein paar deiner Maps anno 2001-2003 auf meinem allerersten PC gespielt.
Und nen UT99-Port von Beyond the Sun bis heute in der MapList für Botmatches.
Sehr geil! 👍
Amazing talent ... that you stuck so long to Unreal instead of jumping to UT99 is fascinating to me ... Those older maps look amazing still ... And I get your sympathy for Trackmania, that game is fun as hell...
You made all these maps? Last year I had played a bit on Zora's KeyCoop server (which was kinda the last server with players, all other 100 servers were dead), and there I saw at least 3 maps from this video (DmWinterCastle, DmDeathCastle, DmExotica).
The game that refuses to die
Some very impressive work. It's interesting to see how your style has progressed over the years. I'm genuinely surprised not to see more Unreal Tournament maps in there, though!
Der Anfang, köstlich 😂
Ich musste das so rein machen. Das illustriert ganz gut den Ärger den ich über 25 Jahre damit habe 🤣🤣 selbst heute noch
damn thats what i call a prolific mapper
HYPE!
I made a map or two. They sucked. Somewhere I have a CD-R of the entire Nali City website map collection. I suspect it contains some of these. Brilliant work, man.
I used to love level design back when the level designer had to make geometry combined with 3d models to create a believable map. Nowadays entire maps made from 3d drop in assets and it took all the fun of level design away and made it so basically anyone can make a basic map. It also means to be a level designer you need to be able to 3d model to actually make a good unique map, otherwise you are kinda restricted entirely to the asset packs you buy.
Merry Christmas!
To you too 🎁
Cool! Happy New year man! 🎉
Did not know you're also TM fan like me!
Awesome stuff.
0:03...der meister ist doch tatsächlich jünger als ich...😁🍺🍻
Very Cool!
Sehr nice 🙂
Wow!
🎉🎉
Daniels86! WTF, where is KF-HelmsKlamm??? 😱
Glück Auf 🎉!!!!
Jaa bin da auch mit 14 gestartet. Hatte damals noch kein Internet, da war also nix mit Tuorials nachschlagen. Alles learning by doing.
Exakt wir hatten damals auch kein Internet :)
Ich hab damals auch ständig in die Original Levels geschaut um zu schauen wie was gemacht wurde. Das hat unglaublich geholfen.
Learning by doing ist immer noch die beste Methode 👌🏼
Wie witzig. Ich hab genau gleich angefangen wie du, mit dem Fix auf der Gamestar. Hab dann auch gebaut, bin aber schnell zu Gamestudio umgestiegen. Hab dann Spiele gebaut und veröffentlicht. Wo wohnst du denn? Vllt kann man sich mal zusammen setzen, auch bzgl. Unreal Redux. ☺️
Hehe 😅 Großer Dank geht wohl a die @Gamestar. Was waren das für Zeiten als wir uns noch Zeitschriften gekauft haben um Patches und Tools zu bekommen😁
Ich wohne in der Nähe von Kiel, in Schleswig Holstein.
Unreal Redux ist ja leider kein offizielles remaster/remake, mehr eine Mod und persönliche Interpretation von Unreal aus meinen Erinnerungen, die ich als Kind an dieses Spiel habe.
So guuut
Danke Yassi 🤗ich wünsche dir, Marco und deiner Familie schöne Weihnachten
Bleibt gesund 🤗
@@Krull0r danke❤️ dir auch🎄
Unreal98 will always be my absolute favorite,
compared to Unreal Tournament 99 which is just a mod with an improved Engine, and which contains Unreal but with bugs
Are these maps still available? and can they be playable for UT?
Hey there.
Yes the maps are still available and can be downloaded at OldUnreal.com and they are compatible with UT99 :)
Nice
So, Unreal Redux in 2026...?
Sadly not 😞 unless I quit my job and grind development and ignore my entire private life and family.
It will come one day, please don’t worry. I’m still working on it, even after epic delisted the game which made me close to cancel the project entirely.
Where can i download these maps for unreal 1? 🙂
Most of them are hosted at OldUnreal.com :) you can find them in the download section.
@@Krull0r thank you brother! I'd will love to play on them. Unreal is forever!🍺😀