GMOD VR: Exploring 3 Liminal Space Maps 

If I had to point to a reason why the Adventurer's Club feels so much like a liminal space, it's probably due to the excessive amount of detail in each room coupled with the vast amount of space. Your eyes are always occupied which makes it feel like it's moving (something normally achieved with the lines transitional spaces use) but it's all static and immobile, making it feel off.

12:06 that room was originally designed for Disney staff to puppeteer the Colonel’s arms which hence why it opens up to him.

2 maps I know well, that are liminal. 1st. Gm_mallparking. It has this lonely feeling, a bit of the after hours aesthetic. And kind of a comfy feeling, but lonely aswell. I love this map. 2: Gm_oldspace. Its a liminal map, like gm_liminal but with SCARES!!!!

The planetarium room is a reference to myst (a puzzle-adventure game) that had a similar room, it is a very dream like game with a great atmosphere.

32:08 I like that you can visibly see him going "the fuck?" without any words through him backing up

25:40 Yeah I commented on an earlier video, Garry's mod doesn't have an oxygen system, unlike Half-Life 2. But there ARE mods to restore it. Without those you can stay underwater as long as you want and nothing will happen.

The "planetarium" from the Adventurer's Club map is a reference to Myst.

6:07 That's Stardust. Recognizing it made me feel immediate dread

I am 100% certain that as a little kid I had at least 3 different dreams based inside of that first map you played, it always had a horror/murder mystery type vibe even though I was the only one inside of the building. I never really explored outside rooms, purely that central one and it was more of a point and click adventure game type beat than walking place to place. I say that specifically because I also remember parts of it being on that railing section that seem to be a floor higher. Wacky stuff.

The Adventurers Club holds a special place in my heart. I don't talk to him regularly but I know the creator personally. Well not personally, I just have him friended on steam. He's actually the person, with this map, who inspired me to be who I am today; a 3D artist.

That planetarium is a nod to the planetarium in the game Myst A VR version of it released on PC a few months back, I think you'd really like it

probably may have got this before, but a map that would be nice to see is rp_littletown, underground is really creepy and has liminal spacey/kenopsia-ey soundscapes.

"We shouldn't be mad at Chef for leaving us, we should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains"

I will have to try that Adventurers Club one. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I agree about reviving defunct attractions via VR. I would love to see a good reconstruction of Horizons, or the original Journey into Imagination. As for GMod maps that actually exist, I am going to continue to promote Xanthys. I feel it would be right up your alley.

14:45 is the planetarium from Myst! great game with liminal vibes

Dear god I absolutely love this first map. The music, visuals, and straight attention to detail is absolutely amazing!!

15:05 that is a reference to the game called Myst. That chair you would sit in and a small screen with a date and time controls would slide in front of your face allowing you to set it to certain dates and times to gaze at certain constellations to give you clues to help solve a certain puzzle. If you get the chance you should play Real Myst Masterpiece Edition. Which is a beautiful recreation of the original Myst. I do believe it's on Steam.

15:05 oh my gosh the Myst planetarium! that's such a cool reference :)

Every time I try to play a gmod map that is supposed to be a horror map or a liminal space, I end up leaving dissatisfied because they almost always have logic that doesn't work as intended, objectives are unclear, or they're basically just large empty spaces. Spooky environments are cool, but at some point, you realize that the scare you expect to be hiding in the darkness will never come and you lose any fear you might have had. Or the scare is overused and it stops being scary, such as with Room Inc. In defense of liminal maps, they do seem conceptually like they'd be hard to pull off in an interesting way.

The Adventurer’s Club is a place I wish I was able to go to at an old age. Just to be there and soak in the good times with friends, it just feels right. I can see myself dancing with a lover to Artie Shaw’s Stardust (the music that plays in the library) and just melting away. All the self-inflicted pain gone in an instant to make way for what life truly is about. gm_adventurers is something else man. I really need to set up AirLink.

Adventurers club is a recreation of a closed down location in downtown Disney actually! It’s cool someone recreated it so faithfully since it was a very special location to a lot of people.Defunctland talked about it quite a bit in his videos on downtown Disney and disneys pleasure island if you guys feel like pursuing it further

Someone should recreate Kowloon walled city.

It's weird how many no-longer-existing or inaccessible places are now best preserved through Gmod. My personal favourite is ttt_waterworld - a recreation of Leith Waterworld, a leisure pool in Edinburgh, Scotland that I used to go to with my family but got shut down in the early 2010s, with the map even being mentioned on the pool's Wikipedia page. Doesn't hurt that it's a fun map for TTT as well.

Have you thought about playing custom maps for Half Life: Alyx? There are some horror maps on the workshop.

The Bicycle is there so workers can get where they need to be quickly. When someone needs to interact with a few boxes that are scattered across the whole archive, a bike with a basket is the cheap and easy solution to make life easier for everyone. You just make it a rule that whoever uses it has to return it to its spot by the entrance when they leave, so it's ready for the next guy; which is why it's where you found it. Walking speed is maybe 4KM/Hr, a bike can do 20KM/Hr or faster without much trouble. It's more than good enough for the job since your speed is limited mainly by your ability to avoid collisions.

"This guy knows what's up!" That brings a smile to my face.

I love the adventures map, had so much fun exploring it for the first time, i bet in vr it would be awesome.

In the first one everything's huge because it's from the perspective of the type of kid that would go to one of these attractions it's supposed to fit that nostalgic vibe

I believe the first map is actually a recreation of a place at Disney a long time ago...? Don't quote me on it.

lets gooo 3 map video i love adventurers and your content man keep up the work

the dentist chair room on the first map is a myst reference, its an old school puzzle game and you can play the remaster on game pass if you have it

=> more minecraft maps of horror and calming like the first one

I love the vibe of the adventurers club, id totally go there in real life, it feels like such a chill place to just hang out

I DREAM WITH THIS CLASS OF THINGS!!! scenarios almost Like a odd place familiar like a movie but that one u never saw!

Gmod: The game that is every game you want it to be

14:45 I had a really big smile on my face here. It's the observatory from Myst

Amazing videos Librarian! Loving the content. I recommend you play these 3 maps for a video!: Paranoia, Insomnia, Hypnophobia, (BE SURE TO PLAY THEM IN THAT ORDER FOR THE STORY). Not to give anything away, but the ending of one map segues into the beginning of another. I'm sure you'll have a blast with these. They're interesting maps. Thanks for the videos, Keep them up! :)

you gotta play gm_oldspaces, may be the best liminal map yet

2:05 the face! I saw it before he read, but as he spun around, it was a jumpscare to me. Also, the only jumpscare was the ad, where the vid was quiet but the ad was loud and started with a human voice immediately at 30:00.

Oh, Garry's mall certainly gives me a liminal vibe!

gm_adventurers makes me so nostalgic since I remember exploring this almost a decade ago

3D recreations of real places are really cool. The second and third maps are pretty spooky.

14:52 MYST Seriously, the theme and the music is just straight out of the vibs of MYST... The moment the door swung open i was a little confused, then the music started and i was like "MYST!!".

Have you played *CONTROL?* Speaking of exposition, they have multiple ways (many unique) ways of clueing the player in. But it is a very story-driven adventure, with loads of info sandwiched between insane amounts of action and exploration, plus a liberal dose of Monty Python-esque humor. IMO, just about the *_best_* TPS RPG SciFi game going.

22:41 Bahaha the source ladders are so much worse in VR

gm_adventurers, a classic map. I had some good times messing around with friends on that map.

That Myst reference made me want to cry 😭 ❤️

love these videos

the first one feels like if the bowling alley animations was a place

15:00 this is a reference to the game Myst, I could tell what it was once I saw the chair in the middle then the music cued

The weird room with a red chair and a bunch of lights on the ceiling is a reference to myst

Oh wow! I helped with this map in a capacity! I saw Brer Ben's first version of the map and I sent him the 1,100 photos I took of the Adventurers Club's artifact collection at Disney's Pleasure Island! My name is on the Jungle Cruise Boat in the Treasure Room!

omg I remember being a little kid watching venturiantale play on that first map

Hey, gotta say big thanks for introducing me to Gmod VR! I've been having a blast playing through the Half Life 2 campaign through it!

absolute banger video my guy

I remember back when gm_adventurers very first dropped around 2010. Back then I remember it having a bit of a spooky feeling, but I love it so much. The nostalgia this map brings. I once actually played a round of zombie survival on this map that I hosted years ago. This map is an all time favorite.

These videos actually bring me so much joy, your commentary on them is awesome

YESS GM ADVENTURE

24:17 Another thing barricades do very well when they're in the middle of a corridor? Asking you the question: Which side was it intended to keep safe, and are you on the right side of it.

15:00 - I'm pretty sure that's suppose to be a tribute to planetarium in the classic 1993 PC game _Myst_ (which definitely has that whole "liminal space" thing going on in it, now I think of it; even BEFORE it became a thing.)

16:00 the planetarium looks like a reference to Myst.

Man I would love to get vr just to go Into that first map you played and just hang out in the rooms listening to the jazz and smoking a cigarette

Coop_stairwell would be funny for a quick gag I think

Need to make more parts of This was amazing

OH MAN, I LOVE YOU, THANKS FOR TAKING THESE MAPS ! (This is food for my minecraft liminal space map)

WOOO MORE LIMINAL SPACE STUFF!

Cool, But we all know gm_construct is the OG of all Liminals

Look at that. The second video which is 1 day old got 2k views and this one which isn't even 1 day old got 3 times that. Thats how you know people wanna watch this kind of stuff.

I'm not sure if this counts, but I do know a map called gm_explore_laboratory. basically, an abandoned laboratory next to a dam. it's on the 'spooky' side, but I don't think there are any actual scares in it. it's on the 'medium small' side.

On the archives I remember when I saw a black shadow (there is but don’t know the trigger) and scared the shit out of me

As an archivist, the last map scared the hell out of me.

"what is this?" It's Myst! I know I'm late but it's Myst! :D

I can't remember the first GMod Workshop map Iv've ever explored, but Adventurers Club is definitely the earliest ones I played.

The first one feels like something you would see at Disney land

16:00 ok at this point i gotta see you play the Myst series by Cyan, in order they are: Myst (there is a vr version) Riven (has yet to be revamped in 3d with vr planned iirc) Myst III: Exile (could probably do it in vr as is seeing as it is a bunch of 3d panoramas) Myst IV: Revelation (pancake mode only) Myst: Uru (pancake mode only, sometimes needs a fix to run properly) Myst V: End of Ages (pancake mode only)

The chair room is from myst the game with the music too that is really cool🤘😁

You missed it but in the middle of the club there's this deer head thing that physically turns its head to look around the room. It's really freaky but I actually channel it into something really cool. Like it's a dream and what you said about it being a kid's imagination really amplified the creepy and cool feeling from that deer head thing.

Pretty sure the chair room is a Myst reference

You guys remember the popular Gmod RU-vidr known as Spikewess? Well at the beginning of the video I think this is the map they played. And my God it brings so much nostalgia.

Getting back rooms vibes from Game 2

I have to wonder how maps like these would be in something like H3VR, imagine having to find your way out of a Liminal Space but you can have the comforting presence of something like a SIG or a Garand in case the map maker decided to be cheeky.

I love it that the second map reminds me of a few levels in the game Manhunt 1

loving the gmod videos and playthroughs! (Used to not watch most of your playthroughs but the recent ones have been really good!) Hoping for some more readings soon!

For some reason this dud easy the voice of a guy you can only hear in the next section over in a target.

When you said go to places that no longer exist I instantly thought of the titanic.

When you started the game/map, the outside looked like the bar from *Casablanca* even with the crashed plane (not crashed in the movie) it even was on a dessert 😎🍪👍😷

:what a liminal space is [BY MY THINKING]: a liminal space is a abandoned and warping to other looking places kinda vibe and could cause the feeling of fear, loneliness/not loneliness[SINGLE] wich could take the looks of many places like a school/mall/office/house/hospital, ect

This is the only kinda obscure channel that I actually watch alot. Thanks for the videos librarian

I love this videos

2nd map reminds me of an old ps2 (I think) game called project eden. That game creeper me out as a kid.

is the planetarium room a reference to myst, perhaps?

The first map is so awesome I think I'll need to download this masterpiece instead of one building you have a whole island to roam around outdoors like this is so cool man I hade a dream of this in 2012 when I was a kiddo

Man how I WISH there were more Disney Ride themed Maps...

The first map is beautiful

i wish the adventurer’s club wasn’t dragged down with the rest of pleasure island

At some point, you might want to check out some maps called paranoia, insomnia, and hypnophobia.

That picture with the name Stan Lucas was from the movie The Boondock Saints 😂

IT's so weird hearing someone talk about the club who has no idea what the club is.

The librarian: i bet we are in the pyramid Also the librarian: has a absolute heart attack stroke

You're supposed to press a button in the storage room for the credit room to open in Gm_Archives, also weird that there was no ambiance because there was when i made a video, maybe the map got updated?