Contest idea thread!

[Fogold]

I would rather like an arena map contest. They are rather small, so it would probably get lots of contestants, and they are actually proper maps that are played for fun, unlike from the previous 2 competitions. What I liked so much about the single-stage payload competition was that there was so many great entries to play .

 

[Icarus]

Spytech Contest

Who can make the spytech area?

 

[l3eeron]

Some of this has already been mentioned, most is just brainstorming....

- 3d skybox
- Payload explosion scene
- Best use of water
- Best alpha lay-out
- Custom 2d skybox

 

[What Is Schwa]

During summer people have a lot more free time and a full scale project contest might be appropriate. Something starting within the next month and ending September 1st would be an excellent timeframe.

The community loves 3 stage A/D maps. Re-treading that ground isn't a terrible idea.

 

[Inqwel]

A google sketch layout contest. http://sketchup.google.com/

 

[Shaar]

I wouldn't mind seeing a mapping contest which is over a 24 hour straight period. Give like a pre-designed layout (E.g. if its a 5cp map, have a base one done which has to be built around, (E.g. no brushes done; just entity set up; which are not allowed to be changed)

the mapping would be done for 24 hours straight (or 12 & 12; which ever people prefered to do) and then the results are posted and the one which plays the best/looks nicest wins


would be an interesting thing to do

 

[Mick-a-nator]

I know! A "Who can help 'The Mick-a-nator' the most" competition! just kidding...

How about... a passive one. a bi-monthly "best newcomer award" or something. For the best first map by someone.

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

Since we had better than badwater, maybe prettier than pipeline?

 

[An Icy Mouse]

Since we had better than badwater, maybe prettier than pipeline?

Poor Dario won't be feeling too good if we did! :lol:

Personally I hope its around multistage CP maps like dustbowl, since there are next to none of those, and the ones that do exist are pretty bad (castle, egypt, bloodstained etc)

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

Careful what maps you say there Icy, you might get yourself banned from these forums

 

[Armadillo of Doom]

I'm rather fond of Castle cp_aqua is another good one.

 

[MrAlBobo]

Personally I hope its around multistage CP maps like dustbowl, since there are next to none of those, and the ones that do exist are pretty bad (castle, egypt, bloodstained etc)

Careful what maps you say there Icy, you might get yourself banned from these forums

castle has decent gameplay if a little large, but really isn't tf2
egypt has a good amounts of parts that are very unbalanced/ not fun
ive heard youme say at least once that he doesn't like the direction bloodstained took, something about listening to the wrong person in regards to layout >_>

aqua doesn't work in so many ways, tf2 doesn't transition with water terribly well and tends to result is slowing the combat, there are also quite a few long sightlines where you find sniper spam
boulder as a whole tends to kill any server its played on, as blue team you get a strong impression that you are fighting an uphill battle the entire time

yeehaw looks interesting but its only one stage and is quite large
then there are several others that I never got past the absolutely terrible lighting or failed entity setup
and finally there are a lot of them that never made it past alpha for whatever reason <_<

 

[Tom Hoen]

Maybe multistage CP map but the layout would be like high-rise. Or anykind gametype but it should take place in high-rise

 

[zpqrei]

I'm going to say it's ctf_slate style. I do hope, however, that we're allowed to work in pairs (if we split the prize).

Edit: This was before my modship, and hence, was a lucky guess :3

 

[littleedge]

I has idea! This is from what I had told Immortal relating to my Swamp.

We should do a "most complicated displacements"

 

[Zwiffle]

One of the most well received Quake community mapping competitions was the 100-brush competition, where the goal was to make the most detailed, well balanced and lengthy single player map using maximum 100 brushes, including triggers, doors, etc.

While the limitations would need to be updated to handle all the different things (max 10 displacements, 100 models, etc) something like that could be a lot of fun working within the challenge and almost definitely not need an extension since the map could only balloon up to be so big. The challenge isn't "I have to make the best x ever" but "How do I best maximize my limited resources??"

Anyhoo, just a thought.

 

[Inqwel]

If we ever do another detailing contest, its to give everyone the same dev block building and tell them to pimp it anyway they want but it has to be somewhat recognizable.

 

[Vigilante212]

If we ever do another detailing contest, its to give everyone the same dev block building and tell them to pimp it anyway they want but it has to be somewhat recognizable.

I like that idea

 

[Terr]

How about giving people a VMF with a bunch of player clipping planes for a maximum playable area, already shaped into a rough shape. Designate a gametype.

That way the rules of "somewhat recognizable" are very clear: You can make anything you want as long as you don't remove the outside-bounds that constrain player movement. For a given area, you can choose to make a wall with two tunnels through it, or a displacement hill, a building, or leave it a canyon, etc.

 

[mtv22]

I'd love to see a TC map contest.