Contest idea thread!

[Belli]

Custom theme contest. Make a map in a theme unused by any official maps. Deserts are boring.

Yep, the percentage of desert-themed maps is way too high.

However, I'd say a contest based on existing themes would probably work out better.
I mean, not even valve can make new themes (like Soho , or Grordbort items) without half the community complaining about "breaking the art style". Custom themes would probably go the way of Hydro and Junction...how many commonly played maps have the swamp theme, for example?

But why not make something out of the themes we already got?

Halloween, Soho, and Spacecraft/spytech are all rather rare.

 

[tyler]

Mountain Lab is about half swamp, you know. That's why Valve bought the swamp pack. Also, "spytech" isn't a theme, it's a sub-theme. The theme is where the facade is. That's why people don't like Junction's detailing.

 

[Prestige]

how many themes you can combine into one map contest

 

[Ptimz]

No props. wood textures only.

 

[Pocket]

Mountain Lab is about half swamp, you know. That's why Valve bought the swamp pack. Also, "spytech" isn't a theme, it's a sub-theme. The theme is where the facade is. That's why people don't like Junction's detailing.

I thought it was the cramped size they hated about it. The detailing is fine considering how little space it accounts for; the problem is that a whole map shouldn't be that small in the first place.

 

[LeSwordfish]

Nucleus is an example of how all-spytech can work- though in practice it's mostly industrial.

 

[TheKieranator]

how many themes you can combine into one map contest

A winner is Aly

 

[Dr. Spud]

Still haven't had a shit map contest. We need more traingrids and ritalins.

 

[Okrag]

Still haven't had a shit map contest. We need more traingrids and ritalins.

You need more ritalin.

 

[henke37]

We didn't? I could have sworn that we did a bad map event for Aprill fools.

 

[Micnax]

Still haven't had a shit map contest. We need more traingrids and ritalins.

This! We need more fun and silly contests, like the dev contest we had.

 

[Eyce]

Guerrilla competition where we all submit to gamebanana and compete for the lowest rating.

 

[Player1]

Medieval contest?

 

[tyler]

Are you insane?

 

[Seba]

What year is it?!

 

[Prestige]

This! We need more fun and silly contests, like the dev contest we had.

no fun contests we are more serious about mapping than valve

 

[Tarry H Sruman]

Any gametype, variant, whatever, but you must work exclusively on the 128 unit grid.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Medieval contest could happen, but is unlikely, for a few reasons.

We do the contests as a way to promote and help develop a gamemode, a long with helping developers improve themselves, in how they think, make design choices, etc. Medieval would good because you would really need to think differently about design theory and about the game mode in order to make something fun.

But, I doubt anyone will participate, because people are too stuck in the "it's too bad and it can't be saved" mentality. And as such, it probably won't happen.

EDIT: Ohai, 4k posts.

 

[Ilyass]

But, I doubt anyone will participate, because people are too stuck in the "it's too bad and it can't be saved" mentality. And as such, it probably won't happen.

It's a good idea and i agree with design challenge argument. About medieval map contest obviously.

 

[Tarry H Sruman]

It's because it is bad and cannot be saved.