I map for fun, because I liked the song, or I think I'd make a fun map out of a certain song. I get them ranked because I want others to enjoy what I did.
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I map songs I enjoy in a way I find them enjoyable. Since what I find fun is vastly different from what most people find fun, not to mention breaks tons of guidelines and even a few rules, I don't aim for ranking at all, but I still upload some of them in case some others might enjoy them too.
Though I am trying to get a guest difficulty ranked just so I can say I did...
Though I am trying to get a guest difficulty ranked just so I can say I did...
Because i want to express myself artistically
or
Other ....
uhhh I don't know. I actually just want to be able to play songs that I like since I cannot stand these "annoying anime voices of 8 year old girls that are actually 22 or chipmunk stuff >,<
That's why I mostly map. I also create them to have something at exactly my skill level.
I also map for my friends .... kind of.
But I am most motivated to map a song when I really love it. and I mean like really enjoying it. I see like a vision of what would feel nice in my opinion and i cannot stop mapping until I can express that vision as a map
I chose "Because i want to express myself artistically " now but it is a close call between "Other"
or
Other ....
uhhh I don't know. I actually just want to be able to play songs that I like since I cannot stand these "annoying anime voices of 8 year old girls that are actually 22 or chipmunk stuff >,<
That's why I mostly map. I also create them to have something at exactly my skill level.
I also map for my friends .... kind of.
But I am most motivated to map a song when I really love it. and I mean like really enjoying it. I see like a vision of what would feel nice in my opinion and i cannot stop mapping until I can express that vision as a map
I chose "Because i want to express myself artistically " now but it is a close call between "Other"
For fun o3o
playing osu! is fun and I try to increase the fun by mapping songs I like.
I picked "Other"... though I've dabbled in the "to get a ranked map of a song I like" and "to be known" reasons plenty, the ranking process is too long and bogged down with rules to be worth bothering with anymore. Nowadays I go for less glamourous versions of those goals... something like "because a map of this song needs to exist" or "to make something the small handful of people who play my maps would enjoy". Not gonna strike it big this way by any stretch, but at least I get to make my maps exactly how I want them to be. 
Because when I listen to a song I like, I imagine a map and I need to try and make. Basically because I enjoy the songs I map.
Choosed "other".
Choosed "other".
Chose other because it's just fun to map and try out new styles and see what I can do to make the next map even more fun
Well, after I began mapping I keep "mapping" songs in my head whenever I listen to music. A lot of times what I imagine seriously don't fit though, which is why I end up with 39484 unsubmitted maps with a whopping length of 0:10.
Generally though, I map because I like the song, and find mapping enjoyable. I'll try get maps ranked, but I don't really care either way (as shown by my graveyard), so I picked "other".
Generally though, I map because I like the song, and find mapping enjoyable. I'll try get maps ranked, but I don't really care either way (as shown by my graveyard), so I picked "other".
lalalalala.MillhioreF wrote:
Though I am trying to get a guest difficulty ranked just so I can say I did...
stress relief and its fun
"Other." When I push for a rank, I want to provide something that other maps don't have. I'm not saying that in an arrogant way, but I'm very particular about how shape and rhythm is used. I also want to try to get different types of music into the community. Not one of my mapped songs have been similar to each other nor to what's currently in vogue. I have three mapsets sitting around, which I'll probably try to rank around the summer. I have loads of ideas for maps otherwise, so I'll hopefully end up with a good workflow of maps.
I also like to make guest difficulties for people, so that I can help people by leading by example or simply giving them less work to do. Unfortunately, almost none of my efforts have been reciprocated by an earnest attempt to rank/complete something. It's a shame, because I tend to make them for good maps. All I want is a committed person, with a good style of mapping, to let me work with them and provide a set with a unique combination of styles.
DEEDIT: I suppose that I also map for e-penis. Luckily, it seems to have worked to an extent.
I also like to make guest difficulties for people, so that I can help people by leading by example or simply giving them less work to do. Unfortunately, almost none of my efforts have been reciprocated by an earnest attempt to rank/complete something. It's a shame, because I tend to make them for good maps. All I want is a committed person, with a good style of mapping, to let me work with them and provide a set with a unique combination of styles.
DEEDIT: I suppose that I also map for e-penis. Luckily, it seems to have worked to an extent.
Meatstick_old
I chose "Other" since its a combination between "Because i want a Ranked map of a song i like" and "mapping is a fun thing"
hit me up bby. jk.CDFA wrote:
I map because I'm bored as shit.
cause it's fun to map 
and it puts a smile on my face when people enjoy my maps :3
and it puts a smile on my face when people enjoy my maps :3
It's hard as hell fun to make beatmaps and I just want to try it out how it sucks feels to make a beatmap of your own. 
I love the feeling when someone tells you "I know exactly what you were trying to do here" and they can explain it to me what I was doing. It makes me feel like I didn't waste the effort trying to make expressive ideas within my mapping.
So far there has been only two people who actually told me that they understood though, but that keeps me trying haha.
So far there has been only two people who actually told me that they understood though, but that keeps me trying haha.
I choosed the first plus I like mapping. Even tho my style is still sucks as I was using my brain I alway got new ideas and that makes the whole mapping more fun to me.
Because I want to make something people will have fun with. Since I would have a hard time understanding what others find fun, I start with what I find fun. Creating an experience where the player feels like part of the song is a big part of that.
Other.
I want to attract the bitches with my mapping skills. They just love sliders.
I want to attract the bitches with my mapping skills. They just love sliders.
I map cause...
It's fun.
It's fun.
For fun mostly. And in some way, with my songs, to get known (but that's another part of it as it's my songs eh)
Other than that, it's also to let people discover more or less what are the songs we've listened to when we were younger etc. I am careful about what to submit!
Other than that, it's also to let people discover more or less what are the songs we've listened to when we were younger etc. I am careful about what to submit!
For sharing my mapping skill~
Including Timing, Story Boarding, Mapping Technique, etc
Including Timing, Story Boarding, Mapping Technique, etc
I map because it makes fun and also sometimes I wish a Mapset from this or this Song (or mapping a personally better Mapset as the already ranked one). Also, I want to share my abilities in the Mapping Area and want to show how I feel the rhythm of the Song and how I would map it.
Shiro wrote:
Mainly a way for me to make art. Let's be honest though, I was hoping for a bit of recognition from mapping. Oh the disappointment.
I'd only map songs that I liked. Unfortunately I never really got into it, I felt it took too much of my effort and time. I used to regularly hear music that I took a liking to and thought "I should map this shit it's brilliant". Subsequently I'd enter the editor a few days later, stick a background in, map the first minute or so of the song and then get bored and never come back to it.
I don't map. xDDDDDD
I map because I want to rank a song I like to hear!
Through determination I got this far eventually. No ranked map yet, but I'm almost there.
Through determination I got this far eventually. No ranked map yet, but I'm almost there.
A plus on that as well :3mm201 wrote:
Because I want to make something people will have fun with. Since I would have a hard time understanding what others find fun, I start with what I find fun. Creating an experience where the player feels like part of the song is a big part of that.
I like to try and find the rhythm of songs and form a map out of it
For fun
i map because i suck at playing
nothing more, just this lolRLC wrote:
i map because i suck at playing
RLC wrote:
i map because i suck at playing
same here lol
Because four people aren't enough, same hereRLC wrote:
i map because i suck at playing
All of you should buy a tablet.
I already have one, it doesn't help much o3o [/offtopic]Andrea wrote:
All of you should buy a tablet.
I map songs that I like in a style that I find fun. Seeing it through to ranking is a chore, but it makes the task that much,sweeter if you collaborate with some friends. Mapping meaningful themes is also pretty fun, though I know itll go unappreciated by most. I still enjoy pulling out my old maps from time to time (even all the old guest easies) as well, and it works as a nice gauge of how far I have progressed in mapping.
It takes time to get used to tablet as wellAndrea wrote:
All of you should buy a tablet.
You know, I tried using tablet once during a show, but I can't seem to cursor around properly.
Buy Tablet ≠ Become pro!
I have to ask about the last point. How often do you cringe at your old stuff? As I still haven't ranked my first proper attempt, going back to it is going to be a huge cringe fest.Garven wrote:
I map songs that I like in a style that I find fun. Seeing it through to ranking is a chore, but it makes the task that much,sweeter if you collaborate with some friends. Mapping meaningful themes is also pretty fun, though I know itll go unappreciated by most. I still enjoy pulling out my old maps from time to time (even all the old guest easies) as well, and it works as a nice gauge of how far I have progressed in mapping.
Honestly, it's a money waste. For me.Andrea wrote:
All of you should buy a tablet.