Mapcore
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Mapcore is a game development community primarily revolving around mod makers who specialize in mapping, texturing and modeling. While originally it was mostly a Half-Life community it has evolved into a community for a wide variety of games.
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[edit] History
Mapcore started in 2000, as a community of Half-Life level designers and texture artists. Since then, core members of this community have contributed to almost every major Half-Life mod, including Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. Several members of the community have even gone on to professional careers in game development and contributed to titles such as Brothers in Arms, Vampire: Bloodlines, Hitman: Blood Money and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Mapcore was started by a level designer named Anarchy (real name unknown) who passed the reigns off fairly quickly to a young mapper named EuroBrew (Joshua De Jong) who ran the channel and website for some time. In 2002 MikeZilla (Mike Neumann) took over, and put the site back up with the help of Mojo (Pat Krefting) and Zaphod (David Marsh).
Today Mapcore is a group of people, both amateur and professionals, who share the same passion of game design and development on all platforms and engines. Through this web presence and an IRC channel, Mapcore aims is to provide a community for developers to socialize, learn, teach, and draw talent from.
[edit] IRC
Mapcore first started as an IRC channel. The current channel is located at #Mapcore @ Gamesurge.net
[edit] Website
Mapcore is also composed of a website, revolving mostly around the forums.
[edit] Thumbnails
The thumbnail images on the mapcore frontpage are updated frequently. They show what the mapcore members are capable of and set a standard for the community. When clicked they link to the forum thread about the subject. The works presented are of at a level of quality you will only find in the professional gaming industry.
[edit] EOT
Stands for Equal Opportunity & Treatment, and is basically the forum where the better part of mapcore hangs out. This separation makes sure the general quality of mapcore stays at a professional level.
The current Idiot King is st0lve, who rules the forum with EOT superstar Peris and the much hated Postman.
