Hello everyone my name is MazK. I'm a well experienced Portal map designer and I am looking to start up a team of map designers and play testers to create good, solid maps. I'm hoping with this team to create maps that are at "Valve standard".

I need around 10 people to make a solid team. I'm looking for people who are familiar with using hammer to help in the creation of maps. I am also looking for people who understand the game play mechanics of Portal 2 quite well to help come up with some interesting puzzle ideas and to play test the maps before publishing. All maps will published here on ThinkingwithPortals and also on myApertureLabs.

Anyone can join but I would prefer if they were from the UK to avoid any issues caused by members being in different time zones. Also it is recommended that you have a microphone but its not completely necessary. If this group goes ahead we will mostly be using xfire for group chats so if your interested in joining please add me on xfire "mazk19852" or my friend "darrenm94".

I hope to hear from you portal lovers soon

wheatleyFTW wrote:
Hello everyone my name is MazK. I'm a well experienced Portal map designer

I do not mean to be rude but, how the heck can we tell that you are experienced?

kwp21 pitts wrote:
wheatleyFTW wrote:

Hello everyone my name is MazK. I'm a well experienced Portal map designer

I do not mean to be rude but, how the heck can we tell that you are experienced?

Gotta agree, I have never heard of you, and unless you post some examples of your works, random people on a forum aren't going to dedicate their time to join a mapping group.

I might be interested but I live in a totally different time zone and although I think I could contribute, I'm not Valve's standards

ya sorry I really should have posted some of work before saying Im an experienced map designer. I made quite a few maps for the original portal but only 1 so far for portal 2.

Here's a link to my map PMK 6

[SP] PMK 6

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EDIT: Nevermind that was stupid. (Removed post.)

I might join, I liked PMK5 a lot. Same deal as chikenmobile; I live in a totally different time zone...

Also, I'm just good at making maps...I mapped for Portal a lot and my first portal 2 map is Eco_Leaf.

It has a fail bug at the last room, (indicator lights) but its still playable and I have a patch ready.

I played that map and I gotta say its very good in the looks, but it took me an age to figure out what to do. If you worked on the puzzle aspects it would be perfect!

Yeah, I thought your name was familiar... But why not post under your old account? Making a new one and claiming to be someone else is a little fishy, no?

Yeah, why two accounts? Did you forget your pass code?

Another Bad Pun wrote:
I might join, I liked PMK5 a lot. Same deal as chikenmobile; I live in a totally different time zone...

I gotta say, Space is a very different timezone.

The reason I'm not posting from my own account is because I wanted to make a second account so that any messages I might get our emails related to this topic would be sent to that account. As for the name I just couldn't think of anything good as a username lol eventually if this group goes ahead I'm going to be making another account with the name of the group to post content on this site and myApertureLabs. About the time zones, its ok if you don't live in the same time zone you can still join. If you cant meet with me online and have some good puzzle ideas just email me instead. [email protected]

The brand recognition of posting as a Community Contributor with a registration date of March 2008 > making a new account, tbh.

Who the hell is this wheatleyFTW stealing my stuff??? Only joking it is me

I'm sorry for the confusion guys but I felt like keeping my work seperate from this group but now I realise I should've posted using my mazk1985 account. If the group works out then I'll switch over to a group account for posting comments and publishing but for now I'll use my account to avoid confusion or suspicion.

Anyway like I said before the aim of the group is to create "Valve" quality maps but also it's to get a tight group where playtesting, ideas and map creation can be easily exchanged and collaborated on.

The ultimate goal however is to create a series of co-op chambers with their own hub, pacing and style. (style to a certain degree anyway)

While working on a co-op map with a friend of mine he came up with the idea of starting this group. He is a very experienced Portal player who is currently helping me design a co-op map. If the group goes ahead then he will handling the organisation of the members and of the website. I'm gonna be moving house over the weekend so please contact him on "darrenm94" using xfire if your interested in joining.

Sorry for all the confusion, hope to hear from you guys soon

Now that I know who is who, I'd be interested. I could pitch in effect Ideas as well, depending on what the goal of the design. Message me If you can.

You guys of the A-Team could look after an hypothetical amalgamation of the better COOPs in the competition\releases. The unwashed masses could use some incentive for their waning interest in the gamemode!

Im in if you want me. I sent you a PM.

xdiesp wrote:
You guys of the A-Team could look after an hypothetical amalgamation of the better COOPs in the competition\releases. The unwashed masses could use some incentive for their waning interest in the gamemode!

It could be an interesting idea if we were really stuck with fleshing out a full coop experience but ideally we want to create new content.

Another Bad Pun wrote:
I might join, I liked PMK5 a lot. Same deal as chikenmobile; I live in a totally different time zone...

Also, I'm just good at making maps...I mapped for Portal a lot and my first portal 2 map is Eco_Leaf.

kwp21 pitts wrote:
Now that I know who is who, I'd be interested. I could pitch in effect Ideas as well, depending on what the goal of the design. Message me If you can.

Were using Steam or xfire for the moment to get people familier with each other and discuss ideas so if you would like to join us then please add us on Steam (Me: mazk1985 or Darren: darrenm94) or xfire (Me: mazk19852 or Darren: darrenm94). I'm online most nights 11pm to 4am GMT and sometimes during the afternoon and Darren is online most nights I believe.

iWork925 wrote:
Im in if you want me. I sent you a PM.

I tried to send you a PM just now bt kept getting an error saying you don't exist which is dodgy. Anyway the message I was trying to send is this:
Hi.
Sorry for the slow reply. I've been trying to work out the best way to get this group idea to work and inbetween that I've been moving house. I'm getting together a few people (hopefully) on xfire or steam tonite to go through exactly what this project is about. Add me on steam "mazk1985" or on xfire "mazk19852" and i'll be online at around 12 midnight GMT.
Hopefully speak to you soon

Can't run xfire, because last time I installed it I had to reimage my computer. But I obviously run steam. The steam username 'mazk1985' shows up as invalid when I try to add it.

np dude. try [email protected]

Cool worked :3