Guide to your Map Pack Not many people do Map Packs, I don't know the reason why but they are missing out on something awesome! A Map Pack is a collection of Maps made by you or anyone else(with permission of course!) This is a guide to showing you how to design one and make it good. Map Quantity Decide how many maps you want in your map pack. This can range from 2 to around 8 maps! Most of the time it's 3. It is actually good for all of the maps to be centered around a certain theme. Although this isn't a necessity, its really something to be considered. Pack Name Choose a very unique name for your Map Pack. The 3 map packs that I have made were called the Magnum's Choice, We Love Magnum, and the short coming Famine Map Pack which is actually on this forum list. Bungie has had a unique set of names, like Heroic, Legendary, and the Mythic Map Pack. They all 3 have something to do with the campaign and skulls. If you are going to make a series of Map Packs, try to make the names alike.q Teaser Pictures Teaser Pictures are one or two pictures of each map showing just a little eye candy before release. The reason for teaser pictures is to build up excitement around people resulting in more downloads and looks at your Map Pack. Give a good description and show the name of your map. Make the picture look nice with Photobucket's picture effects. Put them on your fileshare and start a thread for your Pack. Trailer Video This adds ALOT of excitement around people and showed that you actually put time into your Map Pack. To give it a Dramatic Effect, start out with a small fly around of your maps, put on some halo music, it really sets the mood. Next, turn on some cool music and show some gameplay and add cool effects. Give it a good ending and advertise it. Posting Show pictures and give the link of each map. Post your trailer video on the thread and the pictures. Advertise the map pack around the web and Xbox Live. If you follow everything on this thread you should be getting some good reviews about your map pack!
I like nice, neat, useful guides to this. For map packs the most important thing is they have a simmilar theme, or else they might as well be posted individually (bungie fails at this). Its useful because if you like one map, then you look no farther for a simmilar one. The one problem is that if the pack is posted as one thread, each map gets a fraction of the normal attention. Anyways, this is a good guide, thanks.