

Its amazing, you will hear nothing else like it and it is inspiring my “next map”. They are a blend of metal and keyboards with an incredible opera style singer who just blows me away. Lately I have been listening to a German band called Nightwish.
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My RA3 map was inspired mostly by a surrealistic band called Delerium and The Insider movie soundtrack… and of course the blend of European metal I usually listen to. I listen to a LOT of different types of music to gain inspiration for my maps. What kinds of things (books, movies, music, people, etc.) inspire you? K!: Many creative people find inspiration and ideas from sources completely unrelated to the medium they work in. I would say, if done correctly, it really doesn’t affect flow at all. Or if you had a ton of detail that people could get snagged on, that could also slow down flow. It doesn’t really affect flow unless your lighting is very low and people have a hard time seeing… that could slow down a map. It has a lot to do with texturing, geometry and lighting. It’s what makes a level look real instead of like a box with textures on it.

Senn: Well, mood is more of a visual style thing. K!: How much does mood play a part in the way a map flows? K!: First off, anything you’d like to say to the Rocket Arena community?

Along with the interview are some screenshots of his maps, just click on them to view the larger versions. Senn was also kind enough to answer a few questions for us here at. Senn recently did an interview with Essobie over at the official RA3 site. Clicking the next button below will bring you to ’s interview with Senn and some screenshots of his outstanding RA3 maps… It contains 3 1v1 arenas and a pickup arena. Senn’s map pak, Liquid Blue, will be ra3map2. Like all the mappers on the team, Senn let’s his own visual style shine through and not only creates a well playing map, but creates something that has a unique mood. But Senn’s maps, especially the pickup map, really struck me. Almost all of them have inspired an audible “Wow!” from me. All of the mappers on the RA3 team have done outstanding work.
