Contest idea thread!

[Vincent]

I rarely ever participate in the major contests, don't know why..

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Secret ingredient might be OK, but seems wide open and generic. Possibly quite gimmicky too. I guess it depends on what the ingredient is, right now it's a vague idea.
It could also be a limiting factor on decent maps.
Say I'm making a space based plr map and the ingredient is a pond. How would that work? Or would the ingredient be given first and everyone ends up with a pond in their map?

This is why I told ardy I'll do a test run for him... I'm looking for something like this to do...

Let me be a guinea pig ardy

 

[ardysqrrl]

I will let anyone be a guinea pig I just need to make the ingredient

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Bring it oooonnnn...

 

[sniprpenguin]

Count me in as well, I guess. Depends on if I can find the time.

 

[Vincent]

I will let anyone be a guinea pig I just need to make the ingredient

Asdfasdfasdf
I'm in.

 

[red_flame586]

Sure, why not.

 

[DrkEagle]

I think a good contest idea would be a new game play mode, Payload Tug-O-War.

Basically a PL map with the cart in the very middle of the map and a team has to control it back to their base. The more people on it, the faster it moves.

Watch out for the other team with a demo+krit medic. Wipe out the entire other team, then jump on it and bring it back towards your side!

I think it could be really fun.

 

[Prestige]

I think a good contest idea would be a new game play mode, Payload Tug-O-War.

Basically a PL map with the cart in the very middle of the map and a team has to control it back to their base. The more people on it, the faster it moves.

Watch out for the other team with a demo+krit medic. Wipe out the entire other team, then jump on it and bring it back towards your side!

I think it could be really fun.

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=4432

wasn't exactly perfect as a gamemode so i'm not sure if it'd be interesting or fun to have a whole contest about

 

[(-TN-) Ben2]

Best castle themed map, any game type, just has to have the med-evil theme.

 

[clayton]

could do something akin to chelsea flower show. have a big floor space (within a giant marquee), and allocate a number (32 perhaps) of strictly defined (1024x1024x512) lots for individuals to design/build (either first-come-first-served, or chosen based on an initial sketch). and create one big arena map out of the resulting entries. then pick the best lots -- perhaps have a panel who give out gold, silver and bronze medals (3 of each?), and have a people's choice award. probably more of a beauty contest than anything else..

 

[littleedge]

If everybody's getting a 1024x1024x512 prism, and there are 32 of them, that is one gigantic arena map with the lowest roof ever.

 

[EArkham]

Has there been a contest to create the best intel room yet? I know there was the control point contest, but don't recall if there was a similar one for intel rooms.

Personally I'd like to do a little project rather than another full blown map, since I already have several projects in various states.

 

[clayton]

If everybody's getting a 1024x1024x512 prism, and there are 32 of them, that is one gigantic arena map with the lowest roof ever.

the marquee tent ceiling is way above, it's just each plot that's confined to that height, but they don't have to have a ceiling, just walls between adjacent plots.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Has there been a contest to create the best intel room yet? I know there was the control point contest, but don't recall if there was a similar one for intel rooms.

Personally I'd like to do a little project rather than another full blown map, since I already have several projects in various states.

iirc, yes. check the archives (I think contest #6? Mini contest that is)

 

[littleedge]

There was an intel contest room. I remember Snark's entry vividly.

 

[YM]

So now we've proved we (or, well, some of us) can make a map in three days, can we have shorter deadlines on the bigger contests? Say 2-3 months tops?

A deadline is a much better motivator than no deadline it seems.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

So now we've proved we (or, well, some of us) can make a map in three days, can we have shorter deadlines on the bigger contests? Say 2-3 months tops?

A deadline is a much better motivator than no deadline it seems.

Agreed. Although, a large 2-3 month "Free map" contest would be interesting. Map whatever you can, in that time period. Although, it would be very VERY tough to judge... You'd almost need a set of categories "best overall" "most creative CP map" etc... Like the Saxxy awards, for maps.


That sounds like a horrible idea.

 

[Godslayer57]

Maybe have a payload final point detailing contest in a summer-ish theme? or something along those lines.

 

[3Dnj]

A multi stage arena or koth or small tc, like in decadence for who know. It's like a tc but with only 3 map, a middle like a classic 1 point map and each base with the two other maps with an advantage to defensers.

It's a shame tc is not more popular but it's probably becuase it's too complicated for the mapper AND for the player (too many different stage) but with a small number of stage, it' can be interesting.