Electric – Shameful Advertising!

God knows I would never use this blog to advertise my own tracks and such. But God also knows there’s an exception to everything.

Today I was meant to write a Track Review. I was also meant to work on an oral presentation for school (thank God it’s not due to tomorrow!), call my grandmother (which I did, just not at the time originally planned), etc. So what is it that’s been holding me up?

TrackMania. What else?

Since the good old days when Nations was still in the center of the spotlight and ever since my own first days playing TrackMania I’ve been trying to make a good track. We all know the stage when you’re new to the game and produce tracks at the speed of rabbits multiplying. We’ve all been there, but to be honest I think I got stuck there longer than most. I hid in shame behind my contests and projects (ever seen me produce a good track since I started this blog?) :P

When United came out I was no longer new to the game, although I was new to all the older environments. I’ve done plenty of experimenting but learned not to upload all of the results. Still, if you have a look at all my old tracks on TMX United you’ll find that none of them are very good.

We’ve all got to learn sooner or later, don’t we?

Where exactly am I going with all this, you ask. Hell, who am I trying to kid? Ignore everything I’ve written so far and start over from here:

SHAMEFUL ADVERTISING FOR PERSONAL GAIN!

Electric

My latest track, as you may have guessed – and in the Island environment even. What I tried to say earlier was that I think I’ve actually made it – after almost two years of playing TrackMania I’ve actually created a track that I think meassures up with “international standards”, so to speak. And now that I’m already so shockingly advertising this track of mine, let’s put some extra butter on it:

• Fast

• Challenging transitions

• Cool stunts

• Full MT (the essentials plus some quite cool extra in-game stuff – best MT stuff I’ve ever made!)

Now, as I already hinted there is at least one somewhat more justified reason for me to advertise my track like this: the fact that otherwise I wouldn’t have posted at all. I’ve spent 5-6 hours on this track today (MT only, not 5-6 hours on the entire track), so that planned Track Review never stood a chance.

Anyway, I hope you’ll enjoy racing the track as much as I enjoyed making it. Tomorrow I’ll feel ashamed for having used the blog for personal gain, so better publish this before I change my mind…