For me just about any map maker who made a zombie game.

Although my sites have widened now but before anyone who made a zombie map was amazing .

Liar. In the past you've mentioned that you had never even played dota before making temple siege.

I believe I heard that too. HMMMMMM

In chronological order:
Staredit, for being there for me to fool around on and make melee maps oh so long ago.
Christopher Paolini, for writing the book Eragon which I made an RPG out of a long time ago (never was popular on bnet though).
The old SEN, for having tutorials and stuff back when I was learning.
Phantomskyfire's (CMSF-Fever, for those who don't believe they're the same person) RP - Ticondera, for having a CCMU limit so terrible that I had to make RP - Feyvern. The rest of the map was good though, and did have some influence on Feyvern as well, it wasn't just the CCMU limit.
Joseph Conrad, for writing the book Heart of Darkness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, for writing the book Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov.
Leo Tolstoy, for writing War and Peace.

Also, this wasn't really an influence, but I'd like to thank OTM_Shank for making Zoids 3v3 RPG.

First off, props of Kaias for the Marathon 2 picture


As good as a map that is, especially for its time, I have a love/hate relationship with that map. It really abuses the whole non-stop respawning enemy bullshit which has plagued almost every rpg ever since that one. Why do mappers think respawning enemies in blocky clumps is a good idea?

Also whoever made the original Crash RPG and Chrono Trigger RPG were big influences on my early days as a mapper.

Excalibur and MePHistO_IS_GoD

I wish I could have influenced someone ;(

Brb Call of Duty: Modern Zombie Warfare.

People like MillenniumArmy (why I'm often freaking out about how I can casually talk to him pretty much whenever), [Ghost]Yoon (classic turret defense maps, ftw!), SWW (though his maps are more of a "Hey, that's neat" kind of thing), and other fun people.

lol.. actually you're right.. :\ .. the original Dota wasn't even by Icefrog really.. And since i took only the basic basic ideas... i guess he didn't inspire me... but whoever started AoS.. custom hero wars and etc i guess...

lol at Rush 2

I'm not that old school to starcraft but who is Panzer_Kavalier...
All i know is that he was one epic map maker.

(He even has a Wikipedia page 0.o)

DasGlueck (maker of Lost Battle & Lost Technology)(German)(A friend)
Ahli (maker of Random Bunker Defense)(German)(A friend)
NudeRaider (maker of several fun maps)(German)(A friend)

Later on Psionic_Storm influenced me with Dungeon Escape... since then I only made room-maps.
He became a good friend, very social .

Probably bearcatfan, I think there are some underscores somewhere in there but I don't remember where they go. Sorceries II RPG. Blizzard and one of my cousins influenced me to start mapping though. (My first map ever finished was a halo map on space terrain for the first starcraft. Ah, I remember the total impossibility of winning. When I found out about scmdraft, I made a halo map. That was fun because I thought toggle would open and close doors (as in make what it wasn't) but the doors just opened and closed nonstop. That was also fun. Man... that was when I made stuff.

Can't find the wiki page, linky?

found this and lol'd
http://www.battleforums.com/forums/mods-maps-patches/56826-panzer_kavalier-v-s-tuxedo-templar.html

gtfo with that shit.

lol I saw that today, looking for the PK wiki.

For terrain: WoodenFire, qpirateking, Wilhelm and Fwop_
For general map making: Tuxedo-Templar, Lethal_Illusion, qpirateking and Kenoli
<3

For me when i use to map make a long time ago is was Black-Rider-, People in Stray)Bullet and [K]nown clan.

lol@ Black-Rider-
I remember I used to fight/argue/something with him a lot for no reason that I can recall... Probably just trolling. I remember it ended with my brother beating him in melee for some reason.
I've only seen bounds by him.. ;o

Influenced....
really influenced?

Tuxedo-Templar for his text based trigger writing (with notepad++ and custom trigger language and macros)... (yeahhh thx man ;D).

I don't know who influenced me in my past. I guess that were mostly maps I liked.

I feel that my internet came to late. Else I would have been there since 2002 instead of 2005.
I just looked at the first maps that I made for bnet. Mostly defenses, a HGMA copy (not X-i Defense), a DOTA style map which led to another DOTA style map.
After 1.5 years of failing I made my biggest suc(c/k)ess: Random Bunker Def...

I still think that nobody inspired me. There was no mapper that I knew that well that days.
If I would have started 1 year ago, I guess Aszala or E.x.c.i.t.i.n.g (their maps) would have influenced me.