It Started...

[Lwek]

When did you start making maps?
How long was it from the time you bought SC to the time you started making maps?
What events were happening when you started making maps?
Was there a specific map that made you want to open that Staredit?
Are their any map makers that influenced you to start making maps?

For me:
I started making maps just a month or two after I got SC(summer of 2001). I remember I use to play a lot of turret defense games and then I switched over to the lurker defenses.
There was this certain map, some of you may know, it's called Lurker Defense 6 way. That was the map that got me into map making believe it or not.
I opened up the map under the original and outdated Staredit, and looked around. I didn't do much to the map - all I did was:
-Make a word with units(aligned the units to form the word win or lose and then kill it when the game starts)
-Added a banner(Never worked, it banned everyone from the game when I tried it)
-Added a secret where if you bring an overlord to a certain part, it gives you a lot of air killers
I guess I'm a fast learner because I did all that the first time I opened up Staredit. I think I renamed it to "Lurker Defense 6 Way SE. It never got far.(duh)
Boredem was happening during the time I started making maps. Just hung out with friends... stuff like that.
I still remember his name to this day, it was "Ghost[Yoon]" or something like that. I always wondered how he created that cool terrain in Turret Defense(The one with the heros at top left, n the cerebrates at bottom right.
Then, one day, I played Golem Madness Ultra. It was just me vs another person. The other person asked me if I knew something called "Platinum Aspect".
Of course, being just a game and not a mapper, I said NO. He then made me think by saying how does the HIVE stay afloat ontop of the water on Mutalisk Island. He told me to search up "Platinum Aspect" under yahoo. I came to a site called www.creepcolony.com.
I downloaded it, and messed around with it.
Within a few months came my very first map started from scratch by me - Disease Defense
My first map ever made and it went very far. There are like 8 different version of it.

That's my summer of 2001. What about yours? And if possible, I'd like to read something better than a sentence or two.

[Taligaro]

Originally posted by Master Virus
When did you start making maps?
How long was it from the time you bought SC to the time you started making maps?
What events were happening when you started making maps?
Was there a specific map that made you want to open that Staredit?
Are their any map makers that influenced you to start making maps?

I started to make single player maps for myself a month after I got SC. I made every one of them in StarEdit and they were made just for me, I got tired of playing the campaigns over and over again so I made some basic melee maps having the seven comps as hard as I could make them.

I got SC the day it came out here, Colorado USA, incase anyone was wondering, or even cares. So I started to make personal maps a month after that.

Events? I was sick of playing the campaigns over and over and wanted to see if I could make something harder. It wasn't until the release of Padorath's Return RPG by Lockdown420(or was it 720?) that I got interested in making my first MP map. However school got in the way of me making any maps. Damn highschool used up all my time! Every week they gave us a BACKPACK full of homework and it took my the whole week to get it all done. Then there was summer school, man I wish I could have killed my dad for that crap! I finally graduated early this year and took myself a four month vacation from my family. Since I've been back I've been planning to make my very first MP map, a series of RPG maps, Northern Territories.

Yes there was only one map that made me want to make my own maps, Padorath's Return RPG. It is one of the best RPG maps I've played since I got SC, and I want to create something that will make all others look like crap.

Lockdown420(or was it 720), the maker of Padorath's Return RPG, and lately Tuxedo Templar. I can't wait to play this A&O Saga he is making.

I guess that's all.

[Wing Zero]

When did you start making maps?
i think a cupple of weeks after joining BF

How long was it from the time you bought SC to the time you started making maps?
not long maby 2 months

What events were happening when you started making maps?
none i dont htink

Was there a specific map that made you want to open that Staredit?
This Madness map

Are their any map makers that influenced you to start making maps?
Panzer, um and the guy who made that Final Fantasy III RPG

[Oni-Sei]

[COLORE=RED]When did you start making maps?[/color]
About 1 month b4 i joined BF my first map was Army of Darkness it sucked so bad!

How long was it from the time you bought SC to the time you started making maps?
about 5 months

What events were happening when you started making maps?
well i think it was around my Bday i was extramly bored of the crap i got so i started to ask my friend Bloodrain- how to do some stuf and then i looked for an advanced ver of StarEdit then found X-tra!

Was there a specific map that made you want to open that Staredit?
I think it was a Half Life map i wanted t osee what made it tick

Are their any map makers that influenced you to start making maps?
Probably Tux! and a few others i wanted to try and make his quality maps but i decided i wouldent wna copy him so i try diffrent things like what im doign with my current map.

Why did i join BF well i joined BF becasue i was Bored and seeked help or something!

[SpX]

When did you start making maps?
I started making maps when I was talking to my friends and one of them who plays Starcraft told me to try to make a bound. I tried making a bound and me and my friend worked on it for a while and we finally made it and it was okay, but we messed it up so you can't beat it.
How long was it from the time you bought SC to the time you started making maps?
Probably about 3-4 months. I was just a gamer before and then my friend told me to start making some maps so I tried it and it was fun. I'm still not that good at it though. Too much Warcraft 3...
What events were happening when you started making maps?
Nothing much, I was bored and nothing cool was happening.
Was there a specific map that made you want to open that Staredit?
DBZ Fusions or something like that. I couldn't host or anything so I just wanted to open it and see. It was really cool. I finally decided after my friend told me to make a bound and I finally did make a map.
Are their any map makers that influenced you to start making maps?
No, probably the person who made DBZ infulenced me but I don't remeber his name, so not really anyone.