.:	Sunken Hopes by Ionous and Chris Holden	:.

Our offering to Greenwood's Alkaline Jam project.
	

Filename: 		alkjam_ionous.zip
Authors: 		Ionous / Chris Holden
Email addresses: 	voice.of.the.nephilim@gmail.com / choldenjr@gmail.com
Twitter:                @voiceovnephilim / @chrisholdendev		 	
Description:		Large single player level clad in stock IDbase textures. 
Single Player:		Yes
Cooperative:		Yes, several starts, though untested. 
Deathmatch:		No
Difficulty Settings:	Yes
Base:			My imagination
Editors used:		Trenchbroom			
Textures:		ID.wad
Build Time:		All told, probably four months old spread out over close to a year. 
			
Brushes:		8,902

Monster Count:
Easy:			44
Normal:			109
Hard:			157

Map background:
This was originally going to be e2m1 of Tremor, but was cut for reasons and subsequently converted to Alkaline.
Everything save the last room was designed to run in WinQuake, and did so, though it bumped up against several limits. 
Though I (Ionous) did the vast bulk of the work, Chris Holden helped with progression and optimization of my wretched beta. This version is much improved. 
Gameplay was designed without having played Alkaline itself, or any prior testing of enemies. That's largely why I avoided the Alkaline-original monsters; harder to gauge their behavior. 
In the future, after having actually played Aklaline (which I still haven't), I should have better command of the new monsters. 
There's multiple flaws in the map (easy to get lost, architectual uniformity, lack of landmarks, one monster is missing on all difficulties), but I'm frankly tired of this map.
Time to move on. 

Thanks:

Thanks to Chris Holden for salvaging this wreck. 
Thanks to FW, Vurkka, Greenwood and Zothique for testing.
Thanks to Sleepwalkr for Trenchbroom. 
Thanks to ericw for the glorious compile programs.
Thanks to my wife for putting up with my nerdy habits (mapping is only one of many). 
Thanks to my boys for being patient when Daddy is playing on the laptop. 

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Disclaimer / legal stuff:
Legalese. Legalese. I made this map. Don't fuck with it without our permission, or modify its conten, without contacting us first. Unless you're Skacky. 

Skacky, you have carte blache.  
