Check this out! Created 18 years ago2006-04-05 09:20:27 UTC by Playbus

I just recieved this email:

Hi <removed>,

My Name is Robert Horn, I work for the german PC-Gaming magazine GameStar.
GameStar is the most important German PC game magazine from the IDG
company with a sold circulation of over 300.000 copies per month.
GameStar addresses the whole environment of PC games. The cover-mounted
CDs & DVD offer the reader an extensive collection of demos, mods, levels and patches.

This month, we found your SP-Level Day 14. We would be very happy if you gave us permission to put
your level on our DVDs. Also there will be a small article about it in the magazine.

For the DVD of the coming or of a subsequent- /special-edition we ask you to give
us your approval to use one of your programs (Day 14, Half-Life 2).

Please sign the following declaration and fax it back to the faxnumber:
<removed> as soon as possible. Alternatively, a permission by email would be fine, too.

One very important question is: Do you use any copyrighted material such as music oder pictures, that aren?t your own?
Do you have a website we should mention?

I hope this is the correct address for this request. If not, please
forward this to the right one or email me.

Best regards,

Robert Horn
<address removed>
Telefon: <removed>
Fax: <removed>

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GameStar: 304.324 verkaufte Hefte pro Monat (lt. IVW IV/2005)
http://www.gamestar.de: 28.650.167 Page Views, 4.447.166 Visits pro Monat (IVW 02/2006)

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GameStar: 304.324 sold copies per month (audited by IVW IV/2005)
http://www.gamestar.de: 28,650,167 page views, 4.447.166 visits per month (IVW 02/2006)

I replied:

Hello Robert,

Thankyou for your email. I am very pleased that you have noticed my work.

Feel free to use Day 14 in your magazine and coverdiscs. You did not really need
my permission (the mod is freeware) but I thank you very much for asking me anyway.
I really am grateful for your attention.

There is no copyrighted custom material in Day 14. All of the custom content was made by me.

All required credits are shown in the text file which is in the Day 14 download.

I don't have any website, but you could link to http://www.twhl.co.za/ which is the
mapping community which taught and inspired me to do all this.

I would like to see a copy of any article that is written about the work. Could you send me
a copy of the article? Electronic is fine.

Many thanks

Best Regards

<removed>

Bah lucky...Some day...Thats why I made my website to build a collection like General Vivi.

Congrats anyway.

Oh stop your braggin' nub.
Seriously though, nice work, except for the double post. One could always just send his work to a magazine and hope for the best.

Sorry for the double post strider

And the thing that pleases me is that I didn't send it to the magazine.

Hehe, it is pretty amazing when one of your maps makes it all the way to a german pc magazine.

Whoa! Congrats!

YAY. You're so lucky.

Congrats, and I look forward to a sudden influx of Germans :D.

Not if there anything like my German mate you won't.
And i quote.. "CAMPER! CAMPER! YOU ARE A CHEATER! CAMPER! YOU DON'T DESERVE TO PLAY COUNTER-STRIKE! CAMPER! CHEATER!"

Alright, lets start a positive attitude against germans .

Deutschland jetz geht los!!

Nice work playbus!

Hehe.

Congrats, playbus.

Reminds me, I should play your map. Dunno when I get around to do so, but it deserves a look methinks.

Yeah! Good job!

I wouldn't like something like this to happen to me. Too much noticibilty can be bad, and sometimes losing heeds the best results.

Keep up the good work. It's too bad i can't play your it for it is for source.

Rimrook Sad...

I wouldn't mind a sudden influx of germans. For some strange reason I love all thing that have to do with germany (not including some of the nastyer history connected with the country).
Congrats playbus, now i have to go play Day 14.

Thanks all

Rimrook, I agree with your point. Indeed, I don't deserve the luck I've had with Day13 and Day14, because although I am proud of them both, I've downloaded much, much better custom maps which I'm sure never got the same attention.

If anything your own work, or that of Kasperg or Rabidmonkey or any of the other legends that I aspire to around here, should have recieved this attention and not me. I'm pretty certain if any of the big names here played D14 they wouldn't be that impressed, indeed I myself am not that impressed with it any more. Like D13, it was a learning experience for me.

I hope you don't get too much trouble from anyone who might register here because of this, Seventh. crosses fingers But I also hope maybe the magazine might pick up on more deserving work as well.

Grats for getting your map featured, we all should be so lucky. Personally Id have emailed back saying NO I DONT WANT MY MAP FEATURED HOW DARE YOU, I might get famous or something and then I might have to hide in my black room with all the death and the misery with my facial jewelry and black eyeliner /rimrook

If anything your own work, or that of Kasperg or Rabidmonkey or any of the other legends that I aspire to around here, should have recieved this attention and not me.

I've found my "Kaufmann House" map featured in other webpages, but no one has contacted me yet
I'll try to reinstall Day 14 this weekend and see if there isnt any problem with the custom materials like last time.
It would be nice if you eventually post the German article in this thread so we could see it.

Thats very cool Playbus. That was an awsome map BTW

awsome! you totally deserve it!

It is my goal in life to get HL:HS mentioned in PCGamer (UK) and hopefully on the coverdisk..

Wow, fantastic Playbus, you are well deserving of it in my opinion.

Be sure to post the article here if possible. ;D

WOW! Sweet dude! Awesome that you linked it to this site

afraid that i havnt p[layed your map yet, but congratulations

I'll definately post the article from the magazine as soon as I see a copy.

Thanks again all