TF2Maps.net 72HR Jam: Winter 2016

[Muddy]

(Personally i'm hoping somebody writes some tf2 fanfiction)

Finally, my time to shine!

 

[Davekillerish]

Finally, my time to shine!

Yay writing! I might be doin that too. Theres been an idea in my head for a year that ive been dying to expand on.

 

[LeSwordfish]

I've added a poll to the first post of this thread: When do you want the jam to be held? Note that we can still have individuals do different times as we usually do.

 

[Zed]

All of these dates are Wednesdays though.

 

[Davekillerish]

Yeah can you add some weekend dates?

 

[SC PL]

(Everyone is a winner!)

That will be probably 1st time I'll won on this site

 

[Phe]

noice

 

[Fruity Snacks]

All of these dates are Wednesdays though.

Yeah can you add some weekend dates?

EDIT:

Scrap that, they are all Saturdays.
Sword, they should be Fridays.

 

[MegapiemanPHD]

The long answer:

Basically, as sword said, it was super hard to reasonably judge all the entries. It's no fun for anyone involved. So, we set out to find a solution to this. There was a lot of different ideas proposed. Eventually, we just decided to chuck the competition all together. Why? because many times, especially with our competitions, they're super limiting. "Making a CP Map. Make a Payload map. No collaboration" ... it's limiting, even for a 72hr contest where the only limit was time and a couple other things. Competitions can sometimes limit creativity, and make people 'play it safe' instead of trying new things or pushing for some innovation.

We want people to feel comfortable trying new things. Pushing limits, being kind of silly. Removing the contest part of the 72hr, and opening it up to anyone and anything, lets everyone try and make what they want to make. No reservations, no holds. Want to get a couple modelers together to make a new theme pack in 72hrs and then a map to go with it? Go for it. Want to make some killer MvM missions? No one will stop you. Want to use this time to learn how to model a hat? Awesomesauce. Try new things, don't be afraid to take some risks and try new things that you might have felt wasn't 'safe' before.

Go, my friends. Be creative and make awesome shit.

While all that makes sense, can't people just do that anyway? Why limit yourself to 72 hours when you can not and make whatever you want in however long it'll take to finish it.

 

[Zed]

Because it's an opportunity for us to do something all at once in the community.

 

[Crash]

Because it's an organized day to have fun as a community and all create stuff together.

 

[killohurtz]

And because cramming something into three days of work and depriving yourself of sleep is a thousand times more fun when everyone else is doing it with you

 

[Fantaboi]

Since we're changing the way we're doing it, could also possibly do it more often? Since there aren't issues with post-contest?

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Because it's an opportunity for us to do something all at once in the community.

This, like x10.

It's also a lot different that doing something over a long period of time. You think a lot longer about decisions, sometimes you talk yourself out stuff. When you're put on a time limit, you just go. You make whatever, you don't care what the end product is like, as long as it gets done. What do you lose? Like 2-3 days of work for trying something new and weird? Thats a fair trade-off in my book.

Since we're changing the way we're doing it, could also possibly do it more often? Since there aren't issues with post-contest?

Lets wait and see how this one goes.

 

[MegapiemanPHD]

Ok.

 

[LeSwordfish]

EDIT:

Scrap that, they are all Saturdays.
Sword, they should be Fridays.

I'm aware of when the contest starts- I'm just identifying the weekends that way.

EDIT: to be clear, the jam will run at the same times as usual unless there's a good reason not to- on GMT that's from Friday evening to Monday evening.

 

[LeSwordfish]

I'm going to close voting for this on Wednesday, so you have about 48 hours if you haven't voted yet!

 

[Geit]

It's pretty neck and neck, so don't forget you can also change your vote by hitting the "Change your Vote" button if you've voted for one of the dates that clearly isn't going to win.

 

[Kube]

So, if there's a tie, I'm assuming they'll be a re-vote with the tied options? Is there a margin that the winner has to win by to not prompt a re-vote of the highest contenders?

Am I overthinking this?

 

[Davekillerish]

So, if there's a tie, I'm assuming they'll be a re-vote with the tied options? Is there a margin that the winner has to win by to not prompt a re-vote of the highest contenders?

Am I overthinking this?

Perhaps a flip of a coin.