April 2004

Gloom Map Awards - Part 2: Voting By Cataclaw - Sunday, April 11, 2004
And now, the the gloom map award nominations.
Vote for one map per category. You can only vote once. Voting will end at 18:00GMT on friday, april 16. (Note: Most categories have 4 maps / category. Some categories have 5 due to ties in the number of nominations. Also note there is a 10th category, created after i received 6 nominations for a certain map...) Thanks to all 26 gloomers who submitted nominations. Vote here: gloomawards at sign hotmail.com

1. Best gloom map (overall)
-Totalkarn by Karnage (totalkarn)
-Gloomy Mines by ThePyro (mines-1)
-Totalkarn SE by Cataclaw (tkse)
-Infested Caverns by Kris Siuda (gloom)
-Temple of Sseleman by Sul (sseleman-c)

2. Best gloom map (visuals)
-A Cold Night by MuteMode (cold)
-Under Dreamskies by Who (uds)
-Opeth by Cataclaw (opeth)
-My Faeryland Forgotten by Who (mff)

3. Best gloom map (gameplay)
-Gloomy Mines by ThePyro (mines-1)
-Totalkarn by Karnage (totalkarn)
-Infested Caverns by Kris Siuda (gloom)
-Temple of Sseleman by Sul (sseleman-c)
-HazMat Processing Plant #6 by ThePyro (hazmat-b)

4. Best gloom map (concept/originality)
-Opeth by Cataclaw (opeth)
-A Cold Night by MuteMode (cold)
-Gloom Arena by Cataclaw (garena-b)
-Kitchen of Death by Unknown (kitchen)

5. Best gloom map (realism/atmosphere/ambience)
-A Cold Night by MuteMode (cold)
-Opeth by Cataclaw (opeth)
-Deadstar by Veda (gloom4)
-Zulu Outpost by Llurk (gllurk1a)
-My Faeryland Forgotten by Who (mff)

6. Spammiest map
-Gloomy Mines by ThePyro (mines-1)
-Gloom2 by REX and Whitenoise (gloom2)
-Spambox by Cataclaw (spambox)
-Space-Bace by Stannum (spacebace)

7. Best mission map
-Planet Gloom by Sul (planetgloom-c)
-A Cold Night by MuteMode (cold)
-Bug Port Missions by Bidmix (bpm)
-Stargate by ThePyro (stargate)

8. Worst gloom map
-The Lost Planet: Zeqet Erelium V by R1CH (speedse)
-Zeqet Erelium by R1CH (speed)
-SiegeSE_v3 by Chrono (siegese_v3)
-The Oratipe Facility by ihavenolegs (oratipe)

9. Best SE (special edition) map
-Gloom 2 SE by Jherax (g2se)
-Totalkarn SE by Cataclaw (tkse)
-Gloom SE by DevilWarrior (gloomse)
-RSM-01 Revisited by Echon (rsm01se-r2)

10. Best non-existent map
-Star Trek: Gloom by Cataclaw (stg)

RSM-01 Revisited... again! By Cataclaw - Sunday, April 11, 2004
The easter celebrations continue with RSM01 Revisited 2.0. Lots of improvements over the original version. Definitely worth a look. Get the 1562kb map here.

Easter By Cataclaw - Friday, April 9, 2004
To celebrate easter, yours truly has decided to waste another 5 hours of his life making another map for this cursed game. Happy Easter. Enjoy.

Download the 427kb file here.

Gloom Map Awards By Cataclaw - Tuesday, April 6, 2004
It's time for the first annual Gloom Map Awards!

Here's how it works:
Send an e-mail to cataclaw at sign cataclaw.com with your nominations for the best maps in the categories listed below. (Maximum of 3 nominations per category. You don't have to nominate a map in every category.)

In 5 days, the nominated maps will be announced and voting will commence. The winning maps will be played all day on OCLD and will be announced here on the GMD.

Here are the categories:

1. Best gloom map (overall)
2. Best gloom map (visuals)
3. Best gloom map (gameplay)
4. Best gloom map (concept/originality)
5. Best gloom map (realism/atmosphere/ambience)
6. Spammiest map
7. Best mission map
8. Worst gloom map
9. Best SE (special edition) map