(https://www.vgmaps.com/NewsArchives/MotM-2013-04.png)
Xargon (https://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/PC/index.htm#Xargon)
For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to Zerker's Xargon (PC) maps.
Malvineous Havershim, an archaelogist, finds his way into another world. Apparently, it is a world ruled by an evil being named Xargon, but, hey, Malvineous has the power to defeat him! And so, another computer game adventure ensues.
Xargon (the game) is a platforming action game, perhaps not so much different in style than other 1990s shareware games, but is of decent length and quality. Zerker, who has mapped a number of PC games for VGMaps.com, took it upon himself to map this game, but not by the common screenshot-by-screenshot method. Nope, he looked at the game's code, and found a way to render maps based on it.
But what really impressed me about Zerker's effort was not just that he mapped this game this way, but that he took the time to teach us all how to do it. In the forums (https://www.vgmaps.com/forums/), he has a topic called "PC Game Hacking and Mapping Tutorial: Xargon (https://www.vgmaps.com/forums/index.php?topic=1867.0)" where anyone can learn to map like him!
So to acknowledge the effort put into advancing our mapping skills, Zerker's Xargon (PC) maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for April 2013.