Mapcore
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| Founded 📆 | Evolved in - 1999 |
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| 🌐 Website | MapCore.org |
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Mapcore (old: MapCore) is a game development community with origins in Half-Life mod production, which since its inception in 1999 has evolved into a thriving forum featuring all flavours of game development including level design, modelling, concept art, and programming. With 100+ members part of the professional games industry working for the likes of Valve Corporation, Blizzard, Crytek, DICE, Gearbox Software, Rockstar Games, and Ubisoft, Mapcore offers an opportunity for professionals and amateurs alike to socialise, learn, teach, and find talent.[1][2][3][4]
History[edit]
Mapcore evolved from 1999's Anarchy Design, a games design-focused website and IRC community officially supported and hosted by the Counter-Strike development team. Due to the explosive growth of the community and the widespread popularity of the Half-Life engine as a platform for development of third-party modifications, Anarchy Design was revamped to include developers from projects beyond Counter-Strike and was renamed Mapcore in order to suit the new direction of the site.
The website was re-launched in August 2000 as an affiliate of the late GameFan Network, and partnered up with other sites in the creative community such as 3DPalette, GameArt, GFXArtist, and Skindom. The timing of this move was poor as the network came under fire for withholding advertising commissions from its affiliates months later. The magazine's online network dissolved, leaving MapCore without a home.
Mapcore continued to be based primarily on IRC for a short while, until the website was revived and the forum re-established in 2003 by Mike Neumann, David Marsh, and Patrick Krefting — and handed over to Ryan Williams several years later.[5]
Since 2017, Mapcore has an official discord server, which by 2021 had over 2000 members.[6]
In December 2017 Mapcore launched its own CS:GO hubs on Faceit, featuring only community made maps.[7] Combined, these hubs have more than 100,000 members as of December 2021.[1]
Industry relevance[edit]
The community's members have had an enormous impact upon the games industry at large. The forum was founded by Gearbox creative director Mikey Neumann, and almost every major games industry heavyweight has at least one Mapcore member working in-house; numerous Mapcore members also either work for or have founded indie studios. As such it's possible to benefit from a wide range of informed perspectives when discussing games-related topics.
In the past, Mapcore primarily attracted two groups: those who actively worked in the games industry, and those who aspired to. Industry developers benefitted from being able to talk to their peers outside of the professional environment, while budding developers got to learn and received feedback from them. Over time, the focus of the community shifted towards Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and subsequently began to primarily attract people interested in creating maps for it.
As of December 2021, 59 maps made by members of the Mapcore community have been featured in CS:GO.[8][9][10]
To support this growing interest in CS:GO and multiplayer maps in general, Mapcore has featured several distinct contests over the years for CS:GO, Day of Infamy and Unreal Tournament (2014).
Mapping Competitions[edit]
Mapcore has presented many mapping competitions, such as:
| Year | Game | Name | Prize Pool |
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| 2015 | CS:GO | Reddit + Mapcore CS:GO Mapping Contest[11] | $1,700 USD[11] |
| 2016 | Day of Infamy | Day of Infamy Mapping Contest[12] | $6,000 USD[12] |
| 2016 | Unreal Tournament | Unreal Tournament Level Design Contest[13] | $3,000 USD[13] |
| 2017 | CS:GO | Mapcore CS:GO Mapping Contest 2017[14][15] | $10,000 USD[14] |
| 2019 | CS:GO | Exotic Places Mapping Contest 2019[16] | $15,000 USD[16] |
| 2021 | Prodeus | Mapcore x Prodeus[17] | $2,000 USD[17] |
| 2021 | Prodeus | Mapcore X2 Prodeus[18] | $3,000 USD[18] |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Mapcore Job Census". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "Job Postings". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "Portfolios". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "How to break in the games industry - an insiders' guide". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "About Mapcore". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "Mapcore Discord". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "Mapcore FACEIT Hubs". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "CS:GO: Neue Maps für den Matchmaking-Pool". National Gaming League (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "Prisma 2 cases and Chlorine and Anubis maps added in CSGO update". Daily Esports. 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Maps - Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki". liquipedia.net. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Reddit + Mapcore CS:GO Mapping Contest!". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Day of Infamy Mapping Contest [Day of Infamy] [Contests]". GameBanana. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Unreal Tournament Level Design Contest". www.epicgames.com. Retrieved 2021-12-14. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 14.0 14.1 West (Kaostic), Kris (2018-02-23). "MapCore CS:GO Mapping Contest 2017, Powered By FACEIT". Medium. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ "Mapcore's CS:GO Mapping Contest 2017". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Exotic Places CS:GO Mapping Contest 2019". Mapcore. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Prodeus - Mapcore Contest ends February 28, 2021! - Steam News". store.steampowered.com. 2021-02-10. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Prodeus - Mapcore X2 Prodeus Official Mapping Contest! - Steam News". store.steampowered.com. 2021-05-31. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
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