mapstalgia:

Mapstalgia is all about looking at stuff people drew and being like “oh man, that freakin’ game, yeah!” So welcome, and browse away!

But it’s also about sitting down and drawing something up yourself. It doesn’t have to be fancy, it almost certainly won’t be accurate, but you’re dragging these…

Mapstalgia is my favorite new blog of the moment - and not just because I know a bunch of the people who drew the first maps for it before it even was a blog. I have been playing video games for getting on twenty years now; enough time to see the medium change radically in many ways. One constant throughout the period has been the sense of space that games create; in much the same way as your morning commute imprints itself indelibly upon your brain, the opening series of movements playing defense on, say, pl_Goldrush will stay locked in my head for ages to come.

And yet my memory — my visualization — of that space is concretely different than someone else who has played the same game, the same map, for the same period of time: everyone has different priorities, as in life. To see several different people all try to recreate the layout of game maps from memory is interesting to me in how it reveals the played experiences of those games — of how each person approached them.

tl;dr — Mapstalgia is neat and you should contribute a map.