Quote from sicklebrick on December 18, 2011, 9:38 am

Nah man, don't give up!
It was pretty enojyable, and well done.... hang on in there with hammer and you'll get it

Quote from KennKong on December 19, 2011, 3:32 pm

This needs to be put into WIP until you work out the kinks. There are just too many places where you can get stuck. I managed to find a way to get stuck in every room but the entrance! And after struggling through all that, the sleep chamber at the end never opened for me, so I never really made it to the end. This needs so much more work, I can barely give it a 2.
If you're trying to tell a story, you're a writer, not a mapper. So I can forgive the generally poor quality of the map itself, but not the incessant misspellings. What the heck is an "undercroft"?
As much as I can appreciate your desire to tell a story, please remember this is a game; people play it to do something, not just watch. You need to think about how to engage your audience.
I hope that you do find other mappers to work with you on your project. You will learn much faster that way, and their feedback will help your next chapter come out much better in the first release.
Don't give up just because you are having trouble with the mapping. Albert Einstein was a poor math student, but he accomplished a great deal that required a lot of math.

Quote from BlackBird Studios on December 19, 2011, 9:21 pm

To KennKong,

As stated many times, I know that this map needs work, but I'm not going to fix any bugs on here, because as you mentioned, I'm trying to find somebody else to partner up with me. If I do not find anybody I will continue to do the Chapters and at the end, re-do the whole story and clean it up a lot. Now to the question regarding what an undercroft is... An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room,often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times. In modern usage, an undercroft is generally a ground (street-level) area which is relatively open to the sides, but covered by the building above. Here I thought people whould be able to put two-and-two together, but I was wrong, so I will stick to much smaller words. Unless I used it in wrong contex or mis-spelled it on the map itself, you need to do a little "define: undercroft" on Google. Thank you very much on your feedback. And for you, I will try to remember that this is a game and not not-a game. In all honesty, just to sum up how much I know this map was a complete failure, I'm just going to say 4 words, so people can stop mentioning the same thing. "This..was..a..test"

Quote from BlackBird Studios on January 3, 2012, 8:10 pm

Dear Readers,

For the people who have played my map, you know that it looks crappy as hell... So I am going to pile drive my maps to the floor and beat it with a chair... Meaning I am starting from scratch... I won't lose the idea of the storyline but just really improve on the map structure. If anybody would love to help me with this project that would be GREAT!!! I am looking for a partner who knows what their doing.. I have all the ideas set in mind, just need the brains... If no one offers to help, I will just complete the map to the best of my ability. If anybody is willing to give support on how to do the complicated things for instance, making your own voices for GLADoS and other characters I have in mind, please help me, and I will be sure to include you in my project when complete. I promise this will be to the best of my ability, I have no life so theres a plus for you

PLEASE HELP ME. And from now own, don't be looking for Chapter 3... I hope to be able to make all the maps and send it all out as ONE.. No more parts just a complete series..

Thanks for reading,

BlackBird Studios

Quote from buckfuts on January 9, 2012, 2:44 am

BlackBird Studios wrote:

To KennKong,

Now to the question regarding what an undercroft is... An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room,often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times. In modern usage, an undercroft is generally a ground (street-level) area which is relatively open to the sides, but covered by the building above. Here I thought people whould be able to put two-and-two together, but I was wrong, so I will stick to much smaller words. Unless I used it in wrong contex or mis-spelled it on the map itself, you need to do a little "define: undercroft" on Google.

Well researched but, why didn't you just say cellar? I "whould" have looked up undercroft but, when you spelled the "smaller words" sedate as "sidate" and anarchy as "anarcy", it was not clear whether you intentionally meant to say that. Being condescending to your (Portal 2) audience, is probably not the best way to attract productive criticism.
I like the idea of a story driven game, and after playing the first one I looked forward to this one, but waiting for the (misspelled) text was also an issue for me. I hope you find someone to help you tell your story, and I will be looking for it.
Good luck!

Quote from BlackBird Studios on January 12, 2012, 12:21 pm

To Buckfuts,

I understand your point, I should have taken more time to have a spell check. It was not intentional, but that was the past. I am re-designing my maps, and I hope to be able to add custom voice and not just text. If you are looking for me to wave the white flag to my failure you got it. lol Thanks for the compliments and I hope you enjoy my new improved version of 'Chapter 1: The Escape'. I hope it is what you expect.