Creative!

Fun to play THX :-)

Would be nice to have a horror tag! Otherwise, on the short side, nice concept and execution with the shadow walls and the "thing" and its "cutscenes". Should have seen my face when the leftmost corridor door in the first shadow wall room dragged me in, I was screaming on the inside xD

Horror map : 8/10
Black Mesa map : 5/10

i hate horror games, and i downloaded this without thinking it was horror. when you see the monster the second time in the hallway i nearly crapped myself. 10/10

@Astral That is really nice of you to say, thank you! I plan on releasing a new gmod map very soon.

Literally every your map is the best map. Thank you for posting really cool maps

spooky af

console didn't recognize the command and doesn't show up on workshop tab

Okay this one actually scared the daylights out of me, but not in a way that made me want to instantly stop playing for fear of some cheap jumpscare.

Walkthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmbF1kPtDeQ

I liked the introduction of a new threat. Overall it felt like a normal HL map, however the new threat can give it a new atmosphere. The idea that comes into my mind is, instead of the dark killing you instantly, it could damage you. You can couple that with solving a puzzle. I think that will increase the tension, because you have to solve the puzzle, while using the flashlight, while being damaged, before the dark gets you.
Because this was a contest you had little time to develop the mod. I hope you have more time to keep developing it.
Best luck!

Good map, with some good puzzles and baddy shooting.

Fun map - It was fun playing this map. A bit confusing at start with the dark wall coming towards us but after dying twice I realised that it wasn't a bug of some sort. I liked the shadows appearing quickly. Great map in general but thought the players had too many weapons which removes the map to be 'scary' as we can just burst the enemies without the need of tactics. Good fun! Would recommend

I also think you could have expanded on the shadow a little bit more, by giving us more gameplay involving it than simply running away. Perhaps something to do with turning on lights to ward it off?

Overall, a great effort! I enjoyed it, I think it just would have benefitted from some further refinement.

(I'm Chon, Lead Level Designer at Crowbar Collective and a judge for the competition!)

I enjoyed this one! I was pleased to see a unique idea with the shadow, and there was some fun combat and navigation in this map overall. Nice work.

I think if I had one criticism, it was that aside from the shadow, the atmosphere of the map was lacking a little, in my opinion. Maybe you did this to contrast the brightness with the shadow, but I think you could have done a lot more to influence the atmosphere with lighting colour and contrast. There was a lot of just bright white lighting everywhere, and it didn't seem to work so well with the run-down look everything had.

(Hey there - I'm Kralich, the organisation lead for this competition. I'll be leaving a little paragraph on each entry with my notes and opinion in lieu of posting on Discord given the nature of this competition.)

JUDGE'S NOTES: Shadows is the first entry (of the five I've judged up to this point) that actually made me tense and, by the end of it, hesitating before every new room. The introduction of a new threat - and one that was so, so cleverly used to great tense effect - makes it a standout entry from those I've seen so far. "Eerie" it certainly is, and personally I angle more towards wanting horror from these entries given the time of year. The visuals of the map were fine - not as high fidelity as some of the other entries so far, but the mechanic was remarkable and makes the experience of playing Shadows incredible. Easily my favourite so far. Well done!

Very SCP, but all grown up. Tense as fuck, but a lot of trial and error. Overall, I enjoyed it greatly.

Dr richard keller approved light dampening