A friend of mine made a map in this genre, GM_Solitude. It's a very expansive map, loads of small secrets and paths to it. It's a very errie map in parts, creeps you out, but there aren't any jumpscares. You'll probably need several playthroughs to find everything, but it's worth it. It took him several years to make it, so check it out, it's by far my favorite map in Gmod, even if I play Gmod more for sandbox stuff. Edit: I am sorry, but I completely forgot that there is a minor jumpscare in the map. Again, the map is huge and my memory is not great, so apologies for missing that fact.
I have spent countless of hours on NIPPER's abstract maps, both on CS 1.6 and Gmod. They are my all-time favorite game maps ever and I cannot help but come back to them every now and then simply to walk around and vibe to the different rooms and songs. It's very nice to see someone covering these maps in a video.
I think your channel and this vid in particular is what internet was just about when it started.. people just talking about something they love.. keep it real like that dude! Greetings from argentina
There's something about the lighting in Source games (including Goldsrc and Source 2) That really make these maps hit different. For TF2, a lot of Conni's Trade maps are very Nipper inspired while still largely being thier own thing. You also have Xenon who made maps like MARIOKART, Cyberpunk and Harbl Hotel which has gone on to inspire their own subgenre of Abstract Source Engine Map
The section where you're on your pc at like a minute in the vid reminded me of Meowballz' meow mix video I saw a while back, and I check in the description and I see that they helped you with that!! Insane!! Love both of y'all stuff!
I saw Glubtastic and immediately just felt pain, spent HOURS with friends just trying to beat those maps, and not to mention the amount of crashing lol, awesome video
Source Engine is a whole art culture just because how it was fun, and easy to make from old days, to modern days. I still think that 99% of all maps created in Source/GoldSRC engine have soul than most of games in the world
Another content creator talking about my favorite kinds of Source engine maps? Consider me instantly hooked.😄 Nipper and Shadgrimgrvy truly are the pioneers for this style of mapping, I live for this stuff.
Amazing video😲 When i was scrolling through the gmod workshop i found a map called "Copper forest". i think it fits into the abstract vibe pretty well, and it even has objectives you can complete.
i adore this video I'm obsessed with meow wolf and this video got me to finally play blahhh and there is so many similarities i would be shocked if meow wolf was not inspired by nipper
Great you made me miss my childhood game little big planet miss playing bomb survival and shark survival and the sledding map and a bunch of others. I miss playing with my brother and sister
I believe that this style of art should be more thorougly dissected by the public. It's almost like peering into a different reality entirely. They should have art exhibits were you put on a virtual reality headset and explore these foreign creations.
I adore these maps and the editing on this one was noticeably better than your other videos. You clearly love this subject and it shows, and that's just awesome to me.
Ima be real, I was so high that I felt the trip of these maps, and asked "why tf is he doing an outro" for what's felt like 3 minutes inatead of 8 haha, loving the videos 😍
These maps make me think specifically of the more recent radiohead online like art exhibit on epic games where you discovers these very strange abstract rooms and hallways that have strange music from their albums Kid A and Amnesia playing its a very like eye opening experience
if you have a fascination for abstract maps, I suggest you to play halfquake amen and halfquake sunrise, this is a series of weird abstract mods for half life 1
One of my fav meme maps in TF2 is called Koth_wubwubwub, and is designed around tf2 themed dubstep. just a silly map that is fun to play with friends (and is reasonably balanced as well!)
i loved the era of abstract and vehicle maps were on alot of cs 1.6 servers sometimes i miss that era i want to relive it soo badly i love abstract maps
just went onto abstract map and it looks cool asf even though there are some errors some parts are really cool, cant wait to explore more maps, glad I found this video
At 7:15 the song in the background sounds like it’s from Echochrome, which is perfect cause it’s whole style was based on abstract and perspective, I love that game so much- little tid-bit I noticed :0 awesome video gold !!
Every video you make is beautifully edited, wonderfully scripted, and jam packed with a VIBE that leaves me with a happy feeling after finishing it Can't wait for more of your stuff in the future, and will be looking forward to seeing more of these wacky 2D cats within!
2:03 That is (was?) a real building as far as I know. It's just soviet so it has a bit of that odd look to it. :p Source 2 definitely has the potential to make some great atmospheric maps, but I think the limited capabilities of goldsrc making things just inherently more abstract and further from reality plays well to the abstract appearance, and then the greater detail but still some limited capabilities of source allowing for some neat additional effects, but still very capable of a strong feeling that it's just otherworldly does well for these kinds of maps. Not that Valve didn't do a fantastic job making half life 2 and other games very immersive, even if it was very clear you were playing a video game if you stopped and took a look at your surroundings just for the sake of looking at your surroundings, but I guess that's the essence of feeling a liminal space. It'll probably almost require reining in some of the "realism" in controlled ways to make source 2 abstract maps look extra good, but the extra capabilities should allow for some great looking stuff.
Some very cool and abstract surf maps: surf_adrift_fix by Murglegurgle surf_limbo by Murglegurgle surf_zoomathon by Sid surf_illusion by Juxtapo, Maz, Phurix, and Syncronyze surf_the_distance by Skar surf_era by Skar (this map also has a lot of hidden rooms and easter eggs) surf_angst by Proxychains surf_embrace by Maz surf_sanguine by Krealington surf_endeavor by IrynStyl surf_happyhands5 by Kiiru surf_sirius by Granis surf_fractal by Kingkurtis
I now have an idea of what maps to look for the next time me and my friends (who currently have Gmod) play. Thanks for the inspiration to find maps to get immersed with all the "abstract" details and design.
i'd say my favorite liminal map is sky_archive_v2 made by shrimp in tf2. the map looks amazing and is full of secrets to explore. there's also a lot of songs to listen to as well
The portal and littlebigplanet music at the start and end of the video made me so happy. Thank you for existing and uploading to the website known as UA-cam.
I never really played Gmod but I put probably around a couple thousand hours (no joke) into MG servers on GO/1.6. Almost every course/deathrun/minigames/DM map had this nostalgic liminal feeling that i've never been able to fully experience in any game since. It really is a shame that a majority of these naps are now unplayable on servers because of Source2.
goldecc If you havent if you havent already, you should definetely look into making a video about the pubmasters. They won all sorts of tournaments with just being funny and using glitches back in the old cs days.
2:03 lmao that twin-like building is actually real and located in Kaliningrad city (Soviet house/Дом советов), my birthplace. kinda funny to step upon it in a "abstract" maps video xD
Abstract maps are great, they can offer something normal gameplay doesn't and allow you to be purely creative making them. I'm only familiar with ones in Portal 2, which often focus on impossible geometry.
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If this video doesn't talk about any of nipper's maps, then I'll be very displeased.
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nipper? that guy who constitutes for 13% of the whole abstract community yet responsible for over 60% of the best maps?
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A friend of mine made a map in this genre, GM_Solitude. It's a very expansive map, loads of small secrets and paths to it. It's a very errie map in parts, creeps you out, but there aren't any jumpscares. You'll probably need several playthroughs to find everything, but it's worth it. It took him several years to make it, so check it out, it's by far my favorite map in Gmod, even if I play Gmod more for sandbox stuff.
Edit: I am sorry, but I completely forgot that there is a minor jumpscare in the map. Again, the map is huge and my memory is not great, so apologies for missing that fact.
Are you referring to 3315348928 on the workshop, by Nexture?
Nexture?
Man this some quality stuff right here
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Its a good day when silly cat man uploads
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When a silly cat man uploads, the day becomes silly
The bosch painting part of Blahhh went so hard it inspires me to this day
I have spent countless of hours on NIPPER's abstract maps, both on CS 1.6 and Gmod. They are my all-time favorite game maps ever and I cannot help but come back to them every now and then simply to walk around and vibe to the different rooms and songs. It's very nice to see someone covering these maps in a video.
I love this channels mascot character usage.
Never get rid of the catkids and dogbro's.
Indeed
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I think your channel and this vid in particular is what internet was just about when it started.. people just talking about something they love.. keep it real like that dude! Greetings from argentina
There's something about the lighting in Source games (including Goldsrc and Source 2) That really make these maps hit different. For TF2, a lot of Conni's Trade maps are very Nipper inspired while still largely being thier own thing. You also have Xenon who made maps like MARIOKART, Cyberpunk and Harbl Hotel which has gone on to inspire their own subgenre of Abstract Source Engine Map
you're the reason I know about blahhh! love your in depth vids bro
the visual style of some of these maps are so intriguing to me, any time a video showcasing their styles appears I have to watch
your production quality is becoming insanely clean
The section where you're on your pc at like a minute in the vid reminded me of Meowballz' meow mix video I saw a while back, and I check in the description and I see that they helped you with that!! Insane!! Love both of y'all stuff!
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Crazy editing dude. Been working on my editing recently and have been taking hella notes from this one
I saw Glubtastic and immediately just felt pain, spent HOURS with friends just trying to beat those maps, and not to mention the amount of crashing lol, awesome video
Source Engine is a whole art culture just because how it was fun, and easy to make from old days, to modern days. I still think that 99% of all maps created in Source/GoldSRC engine have soul than most of games in the world
the editing and effects on this one goes insanely hard
thank god that goldec switched from valorant to cs (source engine) so we get vids like this
this guy is an after effects wizard!!! how on earth did you edit this
Geoldec its been a pleasure seeing you grow from 2k subs to now and reaching out for sponsors, keep making amazing content and you will make it big :)
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Another content creator talking about my favorite kinds of Source engine maps? Consider me instantly hooked.😄
Nipper and Shadgrimgrvy truly are the pioneers for this style of mapping, I live for this stuff.
Thanks for reminding me of Blahh, its been too long! It actually played really well back in the day!
Duuuuude one of these is a Conne map and he has made a LOT like these that are just amazing, though primarily for tf2. REALLY good creator, love em
Amazing video😲 When i was scrolling through the gmod workshop i found a map called "Copper forest". i think it fits into the abstract vibe pretty well, and it even has objectives you can complete.
i adore this video I'm obsessed with meow wolf and this video got me to finally play blahhh and there is so many similarities i would be shocked if meow wolf was not inspired by nipper
Great you made me miss my childhood game little big planet miss playing bomb survival and shark survival and the sledding map and a bunch of others. I miss playing with my brother and sister
This was a really good video. All of the maps you showcased were all so cool and so inspirational. Loved it. W vid as always.
If you get rid of the animals I’m literally gonna explode. Also good production quality.
I believe that this style of art should be more thorougly dissected by the public. It's almost like peering into a different reality entirely. They should have art exhibits were you put on a virtual reality headset and explore these foreign creations.
There can't be enough shoutouts given to the legend that is Nipper
you are the goat bro best editing style and ur checking out abstract maps
I adore these maps and the editing on this one was noticeably better than your other videos. You clearly love this subject and it shows, and that's just awesome to me.
thank you so much for talking about parallax i played it all the time as a kid and you unlocked a core memory
happy to see nipper getting his flowers
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Ima be real, I was so high that I felt the trip of these maps, and asked "why tf is he doing an outro" for what's felt like 3 minutes inatead of 8 haha, loving the videos 😍
I recently installed Gmod for the first time in my life. I was looking for these kind of maps and you delivered! Thank you!
These maps make me think specifically of the more recent radiohead online like art exhibit on epic games where you discovers these very strange abstract rooms and hallways that have strange music from their albums Kid A and Amnesia playing its a very like eye opening experience
THANK YOU for listing the music that plays in this video :DD
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Already know this will be a banger
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Holy shit man your editing is so gorgeous to watch. The amount of effort put into the animations and transitions really shows
meowballz really outdone themselves with the beginning, damnnnn
i cannot believe meowballz edited for this channel, y'all are making really good stuff!
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if you have a fascination for abstract maps, I suggest you to play halfquake amen and halfquake sunrise, this is a series of weird abstract mods for half life 1
Nipper is the real mvp, his maps are definitely the best stuff you could play on Counter-Strike. The guy is a mastermind when it comes to creativity.
One of my fav meme maps in TF2 is called Koth_wubwubwub, and is designed around tf2 themed dubstep. just a silly map that is fun to play with friends (and is reasonably balanced as well!)
mr goldec did awesomesauce editing than usual vidoes 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱, sick dood!!!
i loved the era of abstract and vehicle maps were on alot of cs 1.6 servers sometimes i miss that era i want to relive it soo badly i love abstract maps
Insane editing brodie keep it up
This is a peak video goldec classic
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its because source games had a feeling of abstract that I even played them in the first place, i love this stuff
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just went onto abstract map and it looks cool asf even though there are some errors some parts are really cool, cant wait to explore more maps, glad I found this video
There is also a cool artstyly called "weirdcore" its one of my favorites. Its like a mix of retro, liminality and abstract
i prefer vaporwave
Yooo, Echochrome OST! Glad to see more people that know about it.
At 7:15 the song in the background sounds like it’s from Echochrome, which is perfect cause it’s whole style was based on abstract and perspective, I love that game so much- little tid-bit I noticed :0
awesome video gold !!
Cool a lot of these maps remind me of the ptsd(punt traumatic stress disorder)half mods
Meowballz edits go hard
Every video you make is beautifully edited, wonderfully scripted, and jam packed with a VIBE that leaves me with a happy feeling after finishing it
Can't wait for more of your stuff in the future, and will be looking forward to seeing more of these wacky 2D cats within!
2:13 was that the old yogscast music? damn the nostalgia hit outta nowhere
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2:03 That is (was?) a real building as far as I know. It's just soviet so it has a bit of that odd look to it. :p
Source 2 definitely has the potential to make some great atmospheric maps, but I think the limited capabilities of goldsrc making things just inherently more abstract and further from reality plays well to the abstract appearance, and then the greater detail but still some limited capabilities of source allowing for some neat additional effects, but still very capable of a strong feeling that it's just otherworldly does well for these kinds of maps. Not that Valve didn't do a fantastic job making half life 2 and other games very immersive, even if it was very clear you were playing a video game if you stopped and took a look at your surroundings just for the sake of looking at your surroundings, but I guess that's the essence of feeling a liminal space. It'll probably almost require reining in some of the "realism" in controlled ways to make source 2 abstract maps look extra good, but the extra capabilities should allow for some great looking stuff.
I love your editing style
Some very cool and abstract surf maps:
surf_adrift_fix by Murglegurgle
surf_limbo by Murglegurgle
surf_zoomathon by Sid
surf_illusion by Juxtapo, Maz, Phurix, and Syncronyze
surf_the_distance by Skar
surf_era by Skar (this map also has a lot of hidden rooms and easter eggs)
surf_angst by Proxychains
surf_embrace by Maz
surf_sanguine by Krealington
surf_endeavor by IrynStyl
surf_happyhands5 by Kiiru
surf_sirius by Granis
surf_fractal by Kingkurtis
I now have an idea of what maps to look for the next time me and my friends (who currently have Gmod) play. Thanks for the inspiration to find maps to get immersed with all the "abstract" details and design.
Hearing Magicant from the Earthbound soundtrack in the context of abstract source maps feels right in a strange way
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i'd say my favorite liminal map is sky_archive_v2 made by shrimp in tf2. the map looks amazing and is full of secrets to explore. there's also a lot of songs to listen to as well
That one guy: i will revenge... Aesthetics!
I like that "abstract" is defined as "liminal weirdness" and then liminal goes undefined
The portal and littlebigplanet music at the start and end of the video made me so happy. Thank you for existing and uploading to the website known as UA-cam.
Damn your editing is really good
I never really played Gmod but I put probably around a couple thousand hours (no joke) into MG servers on GO/1.6. Almost every course/deathrun/minigames/DM map had this nostalgic liminal feeling that i've never been able to fully experience in any game since. It really is a shame that a majority of these naps are now unplayable on servers because of Source2.
There are tons of bhop maps that meet these abstract criteria too
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goldecc If you havent if you havent already, you should definetely look into making a video about the pubmasters. They won all sorts of tournaments with just being funny and using glitches back in the old cs days.
2:03 lmao that twin-like building is actually real and located in Kaliningrad city (Soviet house/Дом советов), my birthplace. kinda funny to step upon it in a "abstract" maps video xD
Abstract maps are great, they can offer something normal gameplay doesn't and allow you to be purely creative making them. I'm only familiar with ones in Portal 2, which often focus on impossible geometry.
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Your editing is really entertaining!
The growth and editing of your channel is extremely good following your channel from 3k subs good luck for the future
Well now I wish I published the maps I made in high school but thought they were trash because they were just abstract attempts at map building
I love your videos with all my heart this is so cool
NIPPER MADE CLUE!? Wow how did I not know this
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I really appreciate your videos.