Parkour challenge levels

[no-lex]

The recent addition of parkour challenges as a game type has allowed RE2 to have a singleplayer aspect, and allow for a more guided learning experience of RE's advanced parkour features.

I have ported the first four levels of Port to 1.9.9 (challenges-port-0x) as the first four challenges in this gamemode, but having twenty or more levels would be great for allowing a decent amount of singleplayer gameplay without undue effort required.

Possible ideas for challenges:

• Tutorial set of levels to introduce parkour concepts
• Sets of levels with consistent themes
• Ports of levels (crueldozen, remaining ports)
• Difficult sections of existing maps

If any community members would like to contribute challenge maps for RE 2.0 release, that would be a relatively simple and easy way (vs. making an FFA map or a full race map e.g.) to help contribute to the project.

Criteria for submissions:

• Fully textured and lit
• Appropriate mapauthor and mapdesc strings; textures culled and calclight'd
• Three required entities: a single spawn point and a start/finish checkpoint
• No more than 1 spawn point and no intermediate checkpoints
• No more than 10 seconds to complete by a skilled runner (challenges should be short)
• Deathmat needs a reason to exist (lasers, water, etc.); difficult to parkour geometry recommended instead of large deathmat areas if possible
• Only one obstacle in the level (not a series of obstacles like a full length race map)
• No route markers required; map should not need them anyway (there should be one obvious "right" way)
• Individual contributions must match the set they belong to (e.g. all tuto levels should share a theme)

For examples, look at the four levels included which are a "matched set". I will be adding more maps in the future that are part of the set, as ports of Temka's port map.

[lambda-11235]

I call wall jump thingy.

[no-lex]

Tutorial level? If it's going after the port sequence of levels it should be more difficult than port-20, but a cursory glance makes this appear more suitable as a tutorial level (does not seem difficult). For tutorial levels, having programmed echo responses explaining how to do things (ala escapeultima) is something that would help make explainations easier and clearer than putting text on the walls.

[lambda-11235]

Ok, I'll change it. I was thinking of it going after port 4, but I'll try something else.

[SniperGoth]

Is it planned to be separated by diffculty levels?
I could cut sections from some of my harder/extreme ones to be added then.
Like this one part from "euphoria" for example :

[no-lex]

The plan is to have levels in sequential order by difficulty; port is the first set of "real" levels (which are no longer particularly difficult in 2.0) and more difficult sets of levels can follow (e.g. what you propose above, or a port of the crueldozen set, etc.) Theme can be different than port as long as it's part of a consistent set.

@lambda-11235 yeah, the port sequence of levels is planned to be a contiguous block of challenges, so either making a tutorial for wall climbing (perhaps easier and without death water?) or making a more challenging level would work. I'd like not to have a one-off level however, and would prefer something as part of a set (like tuto level set or port)

[lambda-11235]

Current work on port 19, non-textured.

v0.1:
port19-lambda.zip

v0.2, replace waterfalls with non-parkourable geometry:
port19-lambda.zip

v0.3, add supports:
port19-lambda.zip

v0.4, add textures:
port19-lambda.zip

[lambda-11235]

I've started an early version of the trellis challenge. Please tell me what you think of its difficulty.

v0.1:
trellis.zip