The Storm 59

I wrote this up elsewhere, but I figured it might be nice blog entry, so here goes.

Regarding the new Halo Wars trailer.
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Finally, an actual fucking cinematic experience in the Haloverse.
-.-

EDIT: If you don't like reading long rants, stop now. But it gets cool at the end... ish. =P
I basically rewrite halo2 and halo3 to make them good games....

Storm's guide to creating an Infection game

Since the implementation of infection as an official gametype in Halo3, zombies has slowly been loosing its shine, eventually culminating in people playing it with humans inside an impenetrable fortress of doom, and zombies pissing their pants and quitting out before the voice over has a chance to say ‘infection’. The reason for this is undoubtedly because of the ability to heavily alter gametypes, and because of forge. Back in the day, zombies...

GIMPshop

Okay so it's not exactly Photoshop, that was misleading of me. I'm sorry. Please don't tell your mum.

What it is is GIMPshop.
GIMPshop is a modification of GIMP to make it have an appearance more similar to Photoshop. This is ludicrously helpful when trying to follow Photoshop Tutorials, without having Photoshop.

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For some reason quite a few people on Forgehub have trouble identifying between important and unimportant aspects of maps.
Lets put this simply.

Unimportant aspects of maps.
• Geomerging/Interlocking.

Important Aspects of Maps.
• Everything Else.

A map without geomerging or interlocking is not necessarily a bad map. Nor is a map with geomerging or interlocking necessarily a good one.

That said, most posts about Geomerging and Interlocking seem...

Fleshing out my contest idea...

Competition: Speedmap
You always hear about people making maps which take them hours and multiple revisions to complete. The aim of Speedmap is to take a step away from this habit of ForgeHub members, and see what you can come up with in a short period of time.

Rules:

• You can plan for your map, but you can't just remake a map you have already created. This contest calls for original ideas.
• Map cannot be a remake or edit of someone else's map.
• Map

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