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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: texasmom on August 12, 2009, 12:07:17 AM
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My sons (10 & 12 at the time) made a cool map for the Halo X-box livegame, making it look like a D-Day beach (I think they called it storming the beach). They made it for themselves, so they could make a video of themselves storming the beach. I guess once you load it into the live-thingie other people can play it as well.
Anyhow, I met someone today who's played it & loved it. :) So that was cool to meet someone who remembered playing the map & liked it. Anyhow, no point, just bragging. :D
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This is a first for me, I always thought moms were humble :)
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kewl!
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This is a first for me, I always thought moms were humble :)
Not when it comes to their children. Unless they have attended juvi, or cost their little league team the championship by being the last batter and striking out when the bases are loaded.
BTW texasmom, nice to hear your children putting some creativity into that FPS; you learned them well. :salute
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My sons (10 & 12 at the time) made a cool map for the Halo X-box livegame, making it look like a D-Day beach (I think they called it storming the beach). They made it for themselves, so they could make a video of themselves storming the beach. I guess once you load it into the live-thingie other people can play it as well.
Anyhow, I met someone today who's played it & loved it. :) So that was cool to meet someone who remembered playing the map & liked it. Anyhow, no point, just bragging. :D
That is really cool. Do they still make them? Building maps/skinning and creating mods is a great way to break into the gaming industry.
ack-ack
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That is really cool. Do they still make them? Building maps/skinning and creating mods is a great way to break into the gaming industry.
ack-ack
They made the storming the beach map to make a video themselves mimicking the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan with their little halo men. It really looked incredible when they were done with that. :) I told them they should do the same thing with all of their other favorite movie scenes (all war movies), they haven't done it yet. I'm supposed to get some device to allow them to transfer their saved clips from the xbox to the computer & get a program that allows them to edit, add music, voice overs, or whatever. I haven't even looked yet to find out what that program/thing is though.
Usually they're on their bike or in the pool for the summer, so they haven't made any more maps, other than goofing off. They sometimes take one of the warehouse buildings & turn it into homes, fully divided with rooms, makeshift furniture, etc. Then they 'lounge' around watching the 'big screen tv' or whatever. The rest of the time they spend trying to find glitches in the games. It's fun to watch them goof off with those. :)
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I've always wanted to creat a map of my own for a game. I'm trying to learn how to use the program to make one for "Killing Floors".
:aok to your kids
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:aok
:rofl
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my little brother loves making maps on halo. this is his gamertag CHOPTIO :)
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Hmmmph... my Mom has never told me how proud she is of me for making AH maps... :confused:
:cry
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Hmmmph... my Mom has never told me how proud she is of me for making AH maps... :confused:
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It's ok Dux, we're proud of ya anyways. :)
Only games I can make maps on are games from 1995-1998, they get too complicated anymore.
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Not when it comes to their children. Unless they have attended juvi, or cost their little league team the championship by being the last batter and striking out when the bases are loaded.
I did one of these things, and it did not involve juvi.
I was always better at defense anyway :(
I think my mom still loved me...possibly. :uhoh
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Hmmmph... my Mom has never told me how proud she is of me for making AH maps... :confused:
:cry
Would it help if I imitate her?
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I bet she carries a print of the map in her purse to show people! :D
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I bet she carries a print of the map in her purse to show people! :D
:rofl :aok
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Texasmom, did you ever send your son's design to me?
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Good for you Texas mom, I have always wanted to design a cool vidieo game level, but I am too lazy and never got around to it. You should give me the legal rights to the map :D.
Just kidding.
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Texasmom, did you ever send your son's design to me?
I'm sorry, I sure didn't. Once I told him I have your address to send it to he freaked out about it being perfect and is redrawing it 30 million times. To me, one drawing doesn't look different from the next, but he's not satisfied with them anymore now that he thinks someone other than his Mom is going to look at them. :) So I'll still send it, but not until he gives the 'okay it's perfect' thumbs up. :)
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No worries, just make sure he uses revision numbers on his drawings. :x
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LOL. That's so funny. I'm not going to ask him to add those. He'll be pissed that revisions have to be identified.
With that kid it's either perfection or failure. If you're not presented perfect the first time, you fail; he won't move on to #2 problem on a math page until #1 is answered correctly, perfect penmanship, etc.
He leaves no allowance for 'correction' through learning mistakes and making improvements the next go around. He's willing to make corrections, but in his mind, it's already a failure because it wasn't perfect to begin with.
Drives me crazy with him sometimes, because his view of personal relationships is the same. He thinks:
As a young man, he's a failure because of x, y, & z.
As parents, TxDad & I are failures because of x, y & z.
His brothers are failures because of x, y & z.
Until I watched him grow I always thought that I had a problem with things being viewed only as right/wrong. period. black & white. no gray area. Not the case anymore, my narrowness pales in comparison to his.
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LOL. That's so funny. I'm not going to ask him to add those. He'll be pissed that revisions have to be identified.
With that kid it's either perfection or failure. If you're not presented perfect the first time, you fail; he won't move on to #2 problem on a math page until #1 is answered correctly, perfect penmanship, etc.
He leaves no allowance for 'correction' through learning mistakes and making improvements the next go around. He's willing to make corrections, but in his mind, it's already a failure because it wasn't perfect to begin with.
Drives me crazy with him sometimes, because his view of personal relationships is the same. He thinks:
As a young man, he's a failure because of x, y, & z.
As parents, TxDad & I are failures because of x, y & z.
His brothers are failures because of x, y & z.
Until I watched him grow I always thought that I had a problem with things being viewed only as right/wrong. period. black & white. no gray area. Not the case anymore, my narrowness pales in comparison to his.
Well, then you'll never have to worry about paying for a Doctrine degree! Its ALL about grey areas!!
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LOL. That's so funny. I'm not going to ask him to add those. He'll be pissed that revisions have to be identified.
With that kid it's either perfection or failure. If you're not presented perfect the first time, you fail; he won't move on to #2 problem on a math page until #1 is answered correctly, perfect penmanship, etc.
He leaves no allowance for 'correction' through learning mistakes and making improvements the next go around. He's willing to make corrections, but in his mind, it's already a failure because it wasn't perfect to begin with.
Drives me crazy with him sometimes, because his view of personal relationships is the same. He thinks:
As a young man, he's a failure because of x, y, & z.
As parents, TxDad & I are failures because of x, y & z.
His brothers are failures because of x, y & z.
Until I watched him grow I always thought that I had a problem with things being viewed only as right/wrong. period. black & white. no gray area. Not the case anymore, my narrowness pales in comparison to his.
Sounds like a serious young man.
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Carefull Mom,
next thing ya know they'll be living the house,it's all down hill from there..... :devil
:salute
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Hey Mom can you give us a link to their video? I would love to see it.
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Hey Mom can you give us a link to their video? I would love to see it.
Sorry, I didn't get the computer stuff necessary to transfer it from the x-box to the computer. I'm supposed to do that.
But if you're plugged into x-box live, it should be on the maplist. It's name is 'storming the beach.' :)
Oh wait, that's not correct. The only thing there is the map itself for you to play on. I have to do the computer transfer thing before the video can be viewed. Sorry!