Image from Upside Sounds for the Buku Art and Music festival.

About This Thread

This map was built to submit for Forge Hub's 2v2 Dust Up contest. It was released on March 28th, so I could submit it. However, I consider the map to be a work in progress still and will try to get one or two better versions out.

Buku Defined

Buku means roughly "a lot of" in Cajun French. I chose this for the title of my map because I live in South Louisiana where everyone loves their Cajun culture. Perhaps, you could say I put buku effort into this map.

Inspiration

"Buku" is the first map that I have released for Halo 4. Originally, I began the map with inspiration from Ivory Tower from Halo 2 which one of the best maps in the series in my opinion. This is something I wanted to do since Halo 3. Also, I wanted to make the map seem like it could be in Quake which is something I also wanted to do for a while. Thirdly, I thought back to my favorite contest map which is Crown of Flies.

Layout

Now it may seem hard to compare Buku with any of the maps that inspired me, but I think that's the best way to deal with inspiration. The map itself mixes elements of asymmetrical,multi-room, and arena style maps. The central chamber is open with an elevated ringlike walkway. On either of the central area, there are "side chambers" that grant access to the lower and upper levels of the center. A fourth chamber connects the other three and has access to a basement style area. The last area is a hallway that connects the main three chambers on the opposite side somewhat similar to Ivory Tower. The layout of the map was carefully crafted to create circular map movement as well and movement between different levels and between the sides and the center. Below are pictures to better illustrate the layout.

Weapon Set

1 Sniper Rifle 180s 1 clip
1 Railgun 120s 1 clip (not at start)
1 Sticky Detonators 120 1 clip (not at start)
3 Battle Rifles 30s 2 clips
1 Oversheild 240s
1 Damage boost 240s

Pictures

Overview of the central chamber

View from the bottom

View from Sniper Spawn

View from the elevated part of Blue Side

View from the other side including jump up to center/ Railgun Spawn

View from the lift including Sticky Detonator Spawn (on bridge)

View from the other side

Yellow Side that connects Red and Blue with ramp to center and drop down to basement

View of the basement from the bottom of the drop down including Damage Boost Spawn

View of the Hall with Sniper Spawn and Oversheild Spawn

Special Thanks

I would like to thank xSharpshooter94 for being the first person to check it out as well as Black Theorem and Titmar for playing.

Please feel free to tell me if something is wrong with the map. I will certainly take it into consideration.