Bestiary Jam

chris holden - nice 'quake condensed' style map, liked all the callbacks to id maps, and i found all the secrets as i went. this was cool straightforward map, think my only complaint is that some of the colored lighting felt a bit off

ic - liked the humor of this with the rotfish taunting you all the way through, and it was cool monsters got 'reused' through teleports to snipe at you before you fought them. the shambler at the end was a bit mean though and destroyed me instantly without any cover. also as a note for this map and some others: you should break up centerprint messages longer than 40 characters with newlines, not all engines display longer lines than that and you have to open the console to read the full line

alexunder - nice looking classic runic map, and i liked the way you are hitting buttons and toggling walls throughout, but got annoyed by the amount of times it felt like enemies were in my face in a tight hallway and i only had a grenade launcher to deal with it so i had no choice but take self damage. teleporting shambler at the end was neat

razzzor - cool looking map, and i really like the concept of hunting the monsters by essentially looking for secrets everywhere, that was fun... but there were also a number of places where you can drop down to while exploring that are essentially death traps because there's no way to get back in bounds without noclip, which feels bad for a map where you're meant to explore nooks and crannies

comfybythefire - whew, really spooky surreal level. liked the modified textures and there's so many cool effects and memorable scripted setups... the spawn's pain maze will haunt me forever, and i nearly killed myself with grenades trying to airshot the bouncy vore. great work

auhsan - really nice looking idbase map, and a unique take on the theme making a map where you don't kill all the monsters. took a bit for me to understand what was going on in the first area because i was distracted with a grunt shooting me and ignoring the centerprint, but after that it was a fun puzzlebox of a level, and i liked the humor of it

pulsar - great looking map with some nice scripted sequences, and again fun use of rotfish as an evil mastermind... but i feel each challenge went on a bit too much and some of the situations were a bit too annoying to deal with, the 'use ogre grenades to jump up to axe buttons' area in particular. also ran into a bug where the vore that descends in the zombie room got crushed by its own platform (just quake things)

kell - just a good runic map that felt like it was trying to be a classic quake map that made you forget it was limited by the jam's theme. i only ended up getting the GL secret my first time through, the rest were well hidden and were fun to go find on a second play

mazu - sorry to say, i was not a fan of this. all the rapid fire superspike traps and explosions that spawn more explosions and lack of armor/health while trying to sneak around and recover just your basic weapons made this too frustrating of a challenge rather than something that was fun for me