Me needs inspiration

[Bomberman9000]

What should my next map be? I am completly out of Ideas.
Any advice would be gladly appreaciated and will be credited.

[KuriKai]

try downloading othe peoples maps
its a great way to get ideas:D

[Frades]

Abandoned ice cream factory with greasy floors.

[Doom_Dude]

Inspiration. It's hard to find sometimes. But what is it that you like? There must be something you've watched or read about or played that is inspiring. I have three maps planned that were inspired that way. Just yesterday I was watching the SPACE channel and they had a special on the Alien movies. I got this idea for a map from watching that. I also have a couple map ideas from reading and playing The Wheel Of Time. This is not to say I want to make a Wheel Of Time Doom level.... but the seed of an idea was taken from that. Sometimes you can just think up some map idea, which is always cool if you can actually implement it in the level. I find sketching out rooms on graph paper helps though I don't do this as often as I should. Once V2 is done I'll be doing this more often. When you have a room or part of a level / whole map drawn on graph then you can work in the editor with better focus because your not sitting there as often thinking... 'what do I do next' because your plans are laid out to some degree. Sometimes just writting down a bunch of names on paper helps. I once covered several pages of note paper with names... like: Hellish Junction which became one of my Vilecore maps.

The Black Well
Uac Power Conduit
Tango Base
Castle Of Bleeding
Shotgun Justice
Shadows In Evils Wake
Cyberdemonicron
Blasted Realm
Chaingun Factory
Nuclear Sludge Processing Plant
Monster Duplex
Bastion On Fire
Demon Lasagne
My Shotgun Told Me To Kill Demons

Or something......

[Wicked Anime Kid]

Something like uhm, an abandoned underwater base where the power has to be restored to take a submarine from the subhangar and get the hell outa there. When entering the hangar you teleport to hell to fight 2 baddasses like a manci and an arachni or something:)

[Doom_Dude]

Imp Farm. ;)

[Ninja_of_DooM]

Well Bomberman. First, what sort of map do you make best? Is it tech, Hellish, dark, temple, lab, abandonned base etc etc? Take a look at some of the stuff on WIP and download other folk's work. It can really help. It took me 3-4 test maps to finally come up with a good idea.

Check out my wads and see what you think. The download links are also there. http://wip.paci-fist.org/index.php?a=listwads&user=Ninja_of_DooM

[Doom_Dude]

Sometimes just pushing lines around in the editor can cause you to come up with something different design wise. I was messing around with one of my maps and I really started to make it look different than my other maps.

You can also play other games for inspiration or look through some screenshots.

[Bomberman9000]

I might have to try the abandoned Icecream factory, prehaps I could call it IceCreap. Thanks for the help, I'll have to play around and see what I can come up with. In the mean time check out my latest map I made about a month ago which I made in about 20 minutes.

http://www.freewebs.com/bomberman9000/ultimdm.zip