Metropolitan Starlight

DESCRIPTION:

A community build project that I and Michael Crisp started, recruiting mappers to make an space city station. It also features sections from:

• Mister Sinister
• Maarten van Oostrum
• Merlijn van Oostrum
• High Treason
• Captain Awesome
• Forge
• Quakis (with a William Gee/Merlijn piece in the middle)

RELEASE DATE: 26/JULY/2012

REQUIRES: Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition & Eduke32

INCLUDES: New Music, Bat and Autoexec files

INFO:

My original idea was having a central hub with a high spire, and that every mapper made their sections around it (talk about egocentrism), so I started the map doing exactly that, but I pretty much messed my participation with this one, they almost kicked my butt for changing things on different mapper's sections without  asking, I even broke one part! What was I thinking? man I really regret doing that, anyways they managed to save the map to the previous functional version. Personally I feel this map is a bit of a mixed bag, probably because I didn't give the mappers enough directions on what my vision was, but hey it was a COMMUNITY build project, not "Norvak messing with the community telling everyone what to do and changing things like a spoiled child build project" so I think it's okay. A lack of communication and maturity on my part made me abandon the project half when it was finished, fortunately Michael Crisp took the wheel and released the map as planned, oh I also produced the music for the map, it was used in the Counter Strike Zombie Scape mod as well.

Here are some links!

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Suburban Hive II : Crimson Moon (2-Hour Community Build Project 3)

DESCRIPTION:

Another great community build project, but this time each mapper had only 2 hours to work on his zone. Made by Aymeric 'MRCK' Nocus, William Gee, Mikko Sandt, Shawneth, Merlijn van Oostrum, Forge, MetHunter, James 'Jblade' Stanfield, Maarten van Oostrum and Mike Norvak.

RELEASE DATE : 10 - 10 - 10

REQUIRES  :  DukeNukem 3D Atomic edition, Eduke32

INCLUDES   :  New music

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Crimson Moon

Reduked Series: Duke Nukem Remixed

Another tragic story, well it's no so tragic since you can listen to the 2 albums on Bandcamp and Youtube...

Reduked started as a 10 track album with remixes of Duke Nukem 3D, it was originally released in 2010 with overall good reception, so I keep working on more remixes for a part two album, and even a third EP with remixes from Duke Nukem II some of which you can listen exclusively on soundcloud, while I was more or less ready to launch Reduked II, I decided to rework the first one to get a more polished sound, everything was going fine until the self sabotage demon started to talk to my ear, and I felt like any of this was enough, I keep reworking and reworking some of the remixes or changing the mixdown of others, up to a point, where in 2016 I finally decided to upload everything once and for all to SoundCloud, completely avoiding the album format, (you still can listen to some of the tracks on SoundCloud) some months later I had a hard drive crash, and you guessed... I lost all the source files.

Two years later I chose to finally upload a definitive version and launch Noise Boulder Records on Bandcamp at last, I recovered some of the mixdown tracks, finished some unfinished tracks and made a new remix from the recent (at the time) World Tour edition of Duke Nukem 3D, Reduked: Deluxe edition came to fruition in 2018, the new master was aimed to increase the dynamic range of the songs (a bit of technical terms ahead) following that misguiding trend of the -14 LUFS, so in theory this master sounds better than the one from SoundCloud but on the other hand it sounds quieter, I'm not here to judge so probably you need to compare them your self. 

Anyway I'm planning to upload a definitive (ahora si) version of the album to Spotify and other streaming platforms (with permission of Lee Jackson, I'm still unable to contact Bob Prince) so probably I'll need to licence the remixes with a third party service. Probably I'll go with the Soundcloud master (louder) with some fixes.

Also 2020 I released a 10 anniversary remaster of the original Reduked plus a remix that was gathering dust.

Check all the links to listen to the different iterations and versions of these remixes, including the exclusive SoundCloud tracks

LINKS:

Exclusive Soundcloud Tracks

Reduked Deluxe Edition

Reduked 10 Anniversary Remaster

On Youtube

Nightshade Army

 DESCRIPTION:

A Roch inspired night-time city single player map.

RELEASE DATE:

3rd June 2010 (Original Version) 

20 June (2012 3-BKC Version)

REQUIRES:  DukeNukem 3D Atomic edition, Eduke32 , Dukeplus optional

INCLUDES:  New music , sound clips

INFO:

Nightshade army was my first released map, it was published in 2010 and updated in 2012. It has various parts from previous unreleased maps by me (hidden complex inside bar from a map called "Biotech", Sushi restaurant from a map called Dark Horizon, some rooms and buildings, etc) and  it's heavily influenced by the likes of Red3 by Merlijn Van Oostrum, Bottles to the Ground by Aymeric Nocus and classic city maps like the Roch series. The updated version added some minor tweaks like reducing the number of blue keycards from 4 to 3, and changing the boss fight. Although the updated version is still around on different servers, I made this version speciallf for Megaton Edition Workshop where it was quite popular back in the day (Fuck you Gearbox!) The map is also part of "Dukeplus" which some people still play today, although is no longer updated by the developer (DT)

Here is a gameplay video and download links.

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2012 Version

2010 Version