Contest idea thread!
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did we really need this? It's not halloween, it isn't even october!
I don't think a randomly posted picture without any text or anything else whatsoever in a thread that has a pretty specific topic is very acceptable, regardless the current month.
What are the current ideas on the table for contests coming up? (since I don't like stepping on people's feet with ideas AND I can't read all of this thread + everyone's minds)
Unofficially I have a few ideas, and I believe others do too. I don't even want to hint before I know how my schedule will shake out over the next few months though.
Fair enough.
In that case I'm firing away.
1: Has there ever been a "Make a new artstyle" contest? I know it'd be more centered around textures and models, but so many interesting artstyles have already been created just as ideas, what would happen if there was an actual contest around it?
2: Gamemode contest? I've seen so many promising prototypes all over TF2 of alternative gamemodes, like CP Domination and MVM Payload, but I'd imagine within the construct of Hammer there's many more to be discovered! Why not have a contest where entrants are asked to make a map with a "New" (meaning unused by Valve) gamemode? It would encourage people to experiment with making certain game modes viable, and making more finished maps with that in mind.
3: I think everybody would still love another Artpass contest. Granted, this time Valve likely won't interact, but the sheer ammount of ways to detail a single play space is absurd, and it's very fun to try and find your own way of turning this blank template into a real environment...
Frankly, you could even Alpha-ify an existing Valve map, and center a contest around re-populating that space with TF2's artstyle.
In that case I'm firing away.
1: Has there ever been a "Make a new artstyle" contest? I know it'd be more centered around textures and models, but so many interesting artstyles have already been created just as ideas, what would happen if there was an actual contest around it?
2: Gamemode contest? I've seen so many promising prototypes all over TF2 of alternative gamemodes, like CP Domination and MVM Payload, but I'd imagine within the construct of Hammer there's many more to be discovered! Why not have a contest where entrants are asked to make a map with a "New" (meaning unused by Valve) gamemode? It would encourage people to experiment with making certain game modes viable, and making more finished maps with that in mind.
3: I think everybody would still love another Artpass contest. Granted, this time Valve likely won't interact, but the sheer ammount of ways to detail a single play space is absurd, and it's very fun to try and find your own way of turning this blank template into a real environment...
Frankly, you could even Alpha-ify an existing Valve map, and center a contest around re-populating that space with TF2's artstyle.
Yes, a new or custom gamemode contest would be amazing. Making a fun layout combined with a fun and exciting new gamemode would be very fun to see. Maybe not necessarily "new", but untraditional per se. Like PD, medieval, arena respawn, SD, and anything else custom!
I specified "Not Valve" because there's already lots of resources (templates) for making those "untradtional" gamemodes floating around, but what I was looking for was more of an "Innovation within Hammer" contest, revolving around gamemodes. Hence, allowing Valve game-modes would lead to a slew of new Watergates and Doomsdays, not fully new modes like, say, a 4 CP map.
I am technically looking for more innovative map gamemodes similar to Watergate, Doomsday, Standin, Byre, Powerhouse, and so forth, but I don't just want copies of those map's logic. I want people to take Valve's I/O system, and use it to create somthing totally new!
How about a April Fools contest? Make an April Fools map of any standard gamemode (no VSH, Jump, or DB), and the most fun, original, and hilarious map wins!
Edit : Challenge Mode - No KOTH maps.
Edit : Challenge Mode - No KOTH maps.
I'd really like to see another serious 72hr mapping contest, rather than a jam. Just to push the limits of what people can do.
We usually have something like that for fun on April Fools though. An unofficial mini-contest would be fun though (like what Crash does)
Here's an idea I've been sitting on for a while.
The "Mother-Forking Mapping Contest", or just the "Forking Contest" for short, is where all entrants are given a VMF file of an map in alpha/pre-alpha state (either made specifically for the contest or taken from a finished/popular map). From there, they can make any changes they want, and the end of the contest the best maps are picked and compared, to see how similar and different the maps are from each other.
The contest named after and inspired by "Forking", a practice in software development where "developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software" (Wikipedia).
The idea originally came to me while playing the "A1s-Of-Popular-Maps Gameday" a few months ago, and shortly after I made "Stilleto", an edit of Borneo's A1 to try this out (I plan to continue it, although it's currently on hold). Obviously, a map can drastically change when a different mapper picks it up, but I want to see and compare how much. Like how different people can see different shapes in the same Rorschach test, I want to see how different mappers see different potential and options in the same map, and how they apply it.
You can compare this to the art-pass contest back in 2010, although instead of just detailing, you go the whole nine-yards and develop a map all the way from pre-A1 to RC1.
The "Mother-Forking Mapping Contest", or just the "Forking Contest" for short, is where all entrants are given a VMF file of an map in alpha/pre-alpha state (either made specifically for the contest or taken from a finished/popular map). From there, they can make any changes they want, and the end of the contest the best maps are picked and compared, to see how similar and different the maps are from each other.
The contest named after and inspired by "Forking", a practice in software development where "developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software" (Wikipedia).
The idea originally came to me while playing the "A1s-Of-Popular-Maps Gameday" a few months ago, and shortly after I made "Stilleto", an edit of Borneo's A1 to try this out (I plan to continue it, although it's currently on hold). Obviously, a map can drastically change when a different mapper picks it up, but I want to see and compare how much. Like how different people can see different shapes in the same Rorschach test, I want to see how different mappers see different potential and options in the same map, and how they apply it.
You can compare this to the art-pass contest back in 2010, although instead of just detailing, you go the whole nine-yards and develop a map all the way from pre-A1 to RC1.
Skittelz
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Nice! I had a similar idea where people would take an a1 of any map and artpass it w/o making any drastic changes.
it's like making a "pro" version of a map?
No. Not at all.
A Pro version of a map is more than just an artpass. It's supposed to contain changes specifically tailored for the Competitive scene.
kuletxcore
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Hmm.. How about a "forgotten gamemodes" challenge?
Like the users must make a map that's either:
There's not enough TC or Medieval maps these days. especially TC.
Like the users must make a map that's either:
- Territorial Control
- Medieval
- Pass Time
- Player/Robot destruction
- Special delivery
- Arena
There's not enough TC or Medieval maps these days. especially TC.
