then why do you ask for opinions if you only value your own and defend against everyone who thinks differently?
Like all you did so far was saying that you find your map fun to play, hurray. I don't think your mindset in combination with this thread makes sense as you're actively looking for citicism with this thread and then tell everyone who brings forward arguments to basically go away lol.
to answer your few questions
1. I feel like if I understand "regular" mapping better, i might be able to apply this knowledge to my "punk maps".
Idk maybe once you understand regular mapping better you will stop making punk maps
2. A lot of people, after playing the "punk maps", will assume i have no idea what I'm doing. If I make a bunch of normal maps, or maybe even get a few ranked, I can at least point to them.
good luck.
1: Do you think anybody else, besides me, would consider my map fun to play, or am I just weird...?
There are a few people who enjoy clicking literally random objects (don't defend your map, if someone plays it and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to them that's their opinion), I'm not one of them.
2: Do we sometimes focus too much on what is considered "good mapping" rather than what is actually fun to play?
Good mapping and fun to play should never cancel each other out, if you make something you find boring under the concepts you grasp as good mapping you're doing something wrong.
3: Can maps that don't follow these "rules" be fun to play anyway; are there anything that objectively makes a mad good or bad, or is mapping entirely subjective?
You're asking if art is entirely subjective..?
4: Is it important to know how to follow the rules, even if your usual style is consistently breaking them?
The basic rules, if you're referring to the ranking criteria it would ideally only tell you how to make a non-broken map. Most of the rules and disqualifications happen for a reason, like they developed throughout years and are actually in a process of a major overhaul. If you refer to >rules of good mapping<, these don't exist, to each their own. Some people love some mappers while others absolutely hate them and they still get stuff ranked.
Like all you did so far was saying that you find your map fun to play, hurray. I don't think your mindset in combination with this thread makes sense as you're actively looking for citicism with this thread and then tell everyone who brings forward arguments to basically go away lol.
to answer your few questions
1. I feel like if I understand "regular" mapping better, i might be able to apply this knowledge to my "punk maps".
Idk maybe once you understand regular mapping better you will stop making punk maps
2. A lot of people, after playing the "punk maps", will assume i have no idea what I'm doing. If I make a bunch of normal maps, or maybe even get a few ranked, I can at least point to them.
good luck.
1: Do you think anybody else, besides me, would consider my map fun to play, or am I just weird...?
There are a few people who enjoy clicking literally random objects (don't defend your map, if someone plays it and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to them that's their opinion), I'm not one of them.
2: Do we sometimes focus too much on what is considered "good mapping" rather than what is actually fun to play?
Good mapping and fun to play should never cancel each other out, if you make something you find boring under the concepts you grasp as good mapping you're doing something wrong.
3: Can maps that don't follow these "rules" be fun to play anyway; are there anything that objectively makes a mad good or bad, or is mapping entirely subjective?
You're asking if art is entirely subjective..?
4: Is it important to know how to follow the rules, even if your usual style is consistently breaking them?
The basic rules, if you're referring to the ranking criteria it would ideally only tell you how to make a non-broken map. Most of the rules and disqualifications happen for a reason, like they developed throughout years and are actually in a process of a major overhaul. If you refer to >rules of good mapping<, these don't exist, to each their own. Some people love some mappers while others absolutely hate them and they still get stuff ranked.