interlopers.net

Well that took a while.

In fact it's been over 10 years since the site last update was made to Interlopers. Since then phpBB has moved on several versions, PHP got faster and websites are supposed to work on mobile. This latest iteration makes use of all of the above and more.

Whilst it's clear that the site isn't as popular as it once was, it's still deserving of a fresh look. And the forums are much faster and enjoyable to use so maybe you'll want to stick around?

On the 8th October Interlopers.net becomes 20 years old, and this redesign serves as a little gift for that occasion. I'm hoping to have something else to share on the day as well so keep your eyes peeled.

We're planning Shitty Maps Night 14. The tentative date for the event is Saturday, May 4, 2024, at 12:00PM CST (6PM GMT). It is still a long way away so if this is a bad time for anybody at all please let me know ASAP.

Shitty Maps Nights are where we take a few weeks (or months) to work on silly CS2 (oh shiiiiiii) maps and then get together afterward to play them all as a group. There's no expectation of quality, so the idea is really to quickly put together whatever comes to your mind and then test it out for fun with others.

CS2 workshop is released so we will be hosting the same way as always with a workshop collection.

To organize this event, we will be utilizing Discord! Please use the following link to join the Interlopers.net official discord channel. This channel will be used as the primary point of communication for this event and contains instructions for the creation and submission of your maps!

You may join by using the following link: https://discord.gg/vsnjNjc8EH
For more information and questions please direct them to me (@SmurftYours) in the event channel.

And with that, it is once again time to get shitty.

Whilst the forums are pretty slow these days, just a reminder that you can find a lot of community members on Discord. Come and join in

https://discord.gg/zrmBmDCZnG

We're planning Shitty Maps Night 13. The tentative date for the event is Saturday, April 15, 2023, at 12:00PM CST (6PM GMT). It is still a long way away so if this is a bad time for anybody at all please let me know ASAP.

Shitty Maps Nights are where we take a few weeks (or months) to work on silly CSGO maps and then get together afterward to play them all as a group. There's no expectation of quality, so the idea is really to quickly put together whatever comes to your mind and then test it out for fun with others.

To organize this event, we will be utilizing Discord! Please use the following link to join the Interlopers.net official discord channel. This channel will be used as the primary point of communication for this event and contains instructions for the creation and submission of your maps!

You may join by using the following link: https://discord.gg/vsnjNjc8EH

For more information and questions please direct them to me (@SmurftYours) in the event channel.

And with that, it is once again time to get shitty.

We're planning Shitty Maps Night 12. The tentative date for the event is Saturday February 19, 2022, at 12:00PM CST (6PM GMT). It is still a long way away so if this is a bad time for anybody at all please let me know ASAP.

Shitty Maps Nights are where we take a few weeks (or months) to work on silly CSGO maps and then get together afterward to play them all as a group. There's no expectation of quality, so the idea is really to quickly put together whatever comes to your mind and then test it out for fun with others.

To organize this event, we will be utilizing Discord! Please use the following link to join the Interlopers.net official discord channel. This channel will be used as the primary point of communication for this event and contains instructions for the creation and submission of your maps!

You may join by using the following link: https://discord.gg/vsnjNjc8EH

For more information and questions please direct them to me (@SmurftYours) in the event channel.

And with that, it is once again time to get shitty.

We're planning Shitty Maps Night 11. The tentative date for the event is Saturday February 27, 2021, at 12:00PM CST (6PM GMT). It is still a long way away so if this is a bad time for anybody at all please let me know ASAP.

Shitty Maps Nights are where we take a few weeks (or months) to work on silly CSGO maps and then get together afterward to play them all as a group. There's no expectation of quality, so the idea is really to quickly put together whatever comes to your mind and then test it out for fun with others.

To organize this event, we will be utilizing Discord! Please use the following link to join the Interlopers Shitty Maps Night 11 official discord channel. This channel will be used as the primary point of communication for this event and contains instructions for the creation and submission of your maps!

You may join by using the following link: https://discord.gg/43X6xtaPGr

For more information and questions please direct them to me (@SmurftYours) in the event channel.

And with that, it is once again time to get shitty.

Over at Reddit Gabe and some other Valve team members are doing an AMA:

We are continuing to use Source 2 as our primary game development environment. Aside from moving Dota 2 to the engine recently, we are are using it as the foundation of some unannounced products.

Check it out

The Alpha release of the Dota 2 Workshop Tools are out now, which includes a new Hammer and Materials Editor, among all sorts of other new features. Download and try it out for yourself!

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Dota_2_Workshop_Tools

Hi Guys,

I hope the recent The Forgotten Journey has whetted your appetite for mapping comps.

I'll be announcing my next comp, which is actually my 24th on Friday.

It will have my usual rules:
ten day limit
Must run in Ep2
no unauthorised assets to be used etc

The theme will be pretty simple as I will be on holiday for 3 weeks from Wednesday, so I won't be able to reply to emails and comments as quickly as I normally do.

Anyway, hope that interests you.

http://www.planetphillip.com/posts/new-mapping-competition-announcement-on-friday/

You can see all my previous comps here:
http://www.planetphillip.com/posts/tag/pp-mapping-competition/

In case you don't know, once I receive the entries, I package them into a mod, like I will be doing for The Forgotten Journey.

Please feel free to repost this to other sites and forums that you think would be interested.

Firstly I would like to say again a huge huge huge thanks to everyone that entered, every entry was of fantastic quality and really made judging a very difficult but fun job to do.
A huge congratulations to the winners!.
The updated site actually isn't finished yet, each thumbnail entry at the bottom should link through to individual spotlight pages that will feature my thoughts and feedback on the levels (there's alot!). I have disabled these pages for now but they will return next week when I am back from my holiday.

If the winners (top3) would like to pm their choice of poster and their address then I will post their prizes asap.

Phillip from planetphillip.com will be releasing a Forgotten Journey map pack via his site and also on Moddb.

This is a great chance for your maps to reach a wider audience and get additional feedback.
Your all encouraged to work on polishing and updating your maps for this map pack! fix those bugs!
There is currently a deadline of Monday 28th 12pm GMT. However we may be able to extend this!