At what age did you start mapping/coding/...

[Soulwax]

At what age did you start getting into level design/coding/art/... ?

I'm 15 and started mapping just a couple of months ago.

 

[[SAS]Solid Snake]

Something like seven or eight years old.

 

[Angel_Mapper]

Making top down adventure games for the Apple IIGS... Same age SolidSnake was.

 

[Bi()ha2arD]

well, i made some "maps" for the settlers 3 at the age of i believe 13 or 14.

for ut i started at the age of 16

 

[milb]

I started with Age of Empires in 1997, I was 14 ...

 

[Firefly]

about 10 years ago for UT

 

[dub]

tmi

Digital art with about 10, games creation in SEUK and the like with about 12, 3D modelling with about 12/13 (Imagine 3D on the Amiga) coding (very badly) at school with about 14 and I think the first game I started mapping for in 3D was Marathon with 15.

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

If it counts, then first thing I was making for a game was on the old stunts game, the car racing one with obstacles etc. I was like 5 and 6 when I made tracks for it. It was very easy I remember though, but my tracks didn't look bad compared to most of the game stuff actually, I made once a fine track centered about a volcano thing (or more like hill with a lake) with a bridge through it and a round track around with palm trees around and other stuff.
Very easy stuff really.

 

[ambershee]

I started with CnC Tiberian Sun around 11-12 (aged 10ish) years ago, then moved on to learning to program for Quake 3. I got into the Unreal scene about three or so years ago.

 

[Bi()ha2arD]

now that you mention it...
i mapped for CnC RA a bit. i remember that map that was 99% cristals and the bot couldnt find a spot to build a base. i build a base and had like 150000cash and used my nuke to bomb away some cristals for the bot to build. as the only thing i had been doing before was building rafineries i wasnt really prepared when the bot suddenly attacked xD

 

[TurdDrive]

Does Tony Hawk's Count with the in-game editor,

if not 14

 

[Angel_Mapper]

If it counts, then first thing I was making for a game was on the old stunts game, the car racing one with obstacles etc. I was like 5 and 6 when I made tracks for it. It was very easy I remember though, but my tracks didn't look bad compared to most of the game stuff actually, I made once a fine track centered about a volcano thing (or more like hill with a lake) with a bridge through it and a round track around with palm trees around and other stuff.
Very easy stuff really.

Oh god, Excite Bike?

 

[Jackal]

I was mapping INSIDE THE WHOMB!

take that!

 

[M.A.D.X.W]

Why is this topic here?!!!!!!!?!?!?
But I was around 10 or 11, trying to map for UT.
Soulwax, do you like Soulwax??

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Oh god, Excite Bike?

No, it was the Stunts game as I said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)

 

[Soulwax]

Why is this topic here?!!!!!!!?!?!?
But I was around 10 or 11, trying to map for UT.
Soulwax, do you like Soulwax??

Yeah, they're awesome.

Their studio is like 15 minutes from my house ;D

 

[JohnDoe641]

I mad a few maps for Doom and I altered changed character sprites. I was 13 or so back then.

 

[inferyes]

Anyone ever heard of nox? I started doing maps for it when I was 11. That editor was a bitch to learn at that age. It was mostly hex.

Before that I did starcraft maps when I was like 8 or 9.

 

[StalwartUK]

I remember making a ton of maps for Age of Empires when I was around 7 years old or so (1997).

I didn't start Unreal modding till I was 12 (2002).

 

[Kantham]

Before that I did starcraft maps when I was like 8 or 9.

Well if SC counts then I'd say 10-11 years old. My EX step-father and I used to go around JKedit (An unofficial Dark Force 2: Jedi Knight) by the time we had Voodoo's. Ticking cards during resolution changes.

I got into Mapping seriously around age 15-17.