Mini-Mapping Contest #12 - Organisation

[Shar Dundred]

Organisation
Contestants are to organize/grow something to make it better until certain goal condition has met (e.g. building (growing) civilization / kingdom / company / industry / anything).

• No submission may violate any of the site rules.
• If a submission does not follow the map submission rules the creator will be disqualified.
• All submissions must follow the current theme.
• Your submission must be posted before the deadline in the contest thread. The post containing your final submission must also contain the following:
  • Several screenshots of terrain and gameplay.
  • The file in the appropriate format.
• You must show at least one unfinished preview of your submission, before the deadline, as proof that it’s yours.
• Your submission may not be started/made before the official launch of the contest.
• Judges may not participate.
• Your final submission must be bug free.
• Teamwork is not allowed.
  • Finding testers and voice actors to help you with your submission is not considered teamwork.
• Imports may be used in the map, however they must all be credited. You may make new models, icons, etc specifically for the contest.
• All multiplayer maps must be under 8mb, so they are playable on Battle.Net.

• First Place: 45 reputation points and your entry on the award icon
• Second Place: 30 reputation points and an award icon
• Third Place: 15 reputation points and an award icon
• All other participants, including judges: 5 reputation points

• StoPCampinGn00b
• Ardenian

Originality	Does the entry bring any new ideas to the table? This may include gameplay mechanics, genre or different iterations of an existing concept.	25%
Gameplay	The fun factor: Does the whole package create an enjoyable experience for the player? e.g. Are the spell effects satisfying, is there replayability, is the plot compelling, ...?	25%
Theme	Does the entry conform to the contest's assigned theme 'Organisation'?	20%
Aesthetics	The beauty of the map: how well-made is above all the terrain? This includes the right choice of doodads for the theme of the environment, the lighting, the proper use of imported models, etc. Overall, the visuals of the map are judged in this category, thus the terrain and, additionally, the spell effects, the atmosphere of the map (which may include the use of an atmospheric soundtrack), etc.	15%
Triggers/Performance	Does the map run well performance-wise? Factors which influence this category are: efficiency of the triggers/coding, memory leaks, etc.	10%
Polishing	Does the map have a title, an in-game description, a quest log? Is the in-game text clear to read (this may include proper use of colors)? Are there assigned hotkeys for skills and are they easy to use? Are the hero/skill tooltips clean and easy on the eyes? If custom icons were used, were their counterparts (e.g. 'DISBTN', etc.) properly imported?	5%

• 65% of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
• 35% of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.

• The contest shall begin on October 7th, 18:00 GMT and conclude on November 12th, 19:30 GMT, GMT

Assigned moderator: StoPCampinGn00b

 

[Shar Dundred]

Date will be set once it gets a moderator approval.

 

[Ardenian]

Haha, this is going to be fun.

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

Everything looks ship shape, though this may be a bit contradictory.

Your final submission must be bug free.

vs

Does the map run well performance-wise?
Factors which influence this category are: efficiency of the triggers/coding, memory leaks, game-breaking bugs, etc.

I presume that bugs don't get anyone disqualified unless they make the game unplayable. I think you should just take out the bug rule to avoid confusion.

If you fix that, I'll approve it. Maybe I'm wrong that and it doesn't contradict, but even if it doesn't, I believe it's unnecessary. Cheers

 

[Shar Dundred]

Everything looks ship shape, though this may be a bit contradictory.

vs

I presume that bugs don't get anyone disqualified unless they make the game unplayable. I think you should just take out the bug rule to avoid confusion.

If you fix that, I'll approve it. Maybe I'm wrong that and it doesn't contradict, but even if it doesn't, I believe it's unnecessary. Cheers

Fixed, can be approved now. :3

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

Contest approved. Put meh as the assigned moderator

 

[Shar Dundred]

Contest approved. Put meh as the assigned moderator

Done.

The contest will start tomorrow on 18:00 GMT!

I will, of course, participate.

 

[Flux]

Interesting..
Is the deadline final? It can't extended any longer?

 

[Shar Dundred]

Is the deadline final? It can't extended any longer?

It's final. Around a month is absolutely fine for a mapping contest.

 

[Heinvers]

Thread title is kinda vague atm since it's just Mini-Mapping Contest #12 instead of Mini-Mapping Contest #12: Organization.
Maybe StoPCampinGn00b could fix that.

You'd better disable signature in the first post. It's rather distracting atm.
Also, good luck to all.

 

[bear_369]

Looks great for me. I'm in.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Thread title is kinda vague atm since it's just Mini-Mapping Contest #12 instead of Mini-Mapping Contest #12: Organization.

Darn, I knew I had forgotten something.

You'd better disable signature in the first post. It's rather distracting atm.

Happy?

Also, good luck to all.

Thanks.

Less than an hour, folks.

 

[LordDz]

I'll follow this.

 

[Shar Dundred]

First WIP
Not *really* a screen of the map and doesn't count as a "real" WIP, but felt like posting it anyway.

 

[Ardenian]

Another attempt recycling your Arkain for a contest, Shar

 

[Arad MNK]

Can't attend due to School -__-

But good luck everyone!
I hope that there will be GREAT maps here

 

[Empirean]

hello how does mini mapping contest works? i would like to join

 

[Ardenian]

hello how does mini mapping contest works? i would like to join

Develop and create a map in the given time. It is considered a 'mini'-mapping as one month is not much, so you will have to work under pressure and think about what your map needs and what not.
For the rules, they are listed in the first post, but it is basically pretty much the same as with other contests like Zephyr.

 

[Empirean]

Thank you so much ardenian. ill join the contest

 

[DEE-BOO]

I feel like joining, but the concept is hard.

 

[Ardenian]

I feel like joining, but the concept is hard.

Hu, why do you think this way?
I myself have so many ideas it is hard for my to go for one. It is a pretty generic and simple theme, in my opinion.
The originality aspect is going to be hard, though.

 

[DEE-BOO]

Hu, why do you think this way?
I myself have so many ideas it is hard for my to go for one. It is a pretty generic and simple theme, in my opinion.
The originality aspect is going to be hard, though.

I only have one idea and it's quite complex in the mechanics. I can't think of any simple ideas of organization.

 

[Ardenian]

I only have one idea and it's quite complex in the mechanics. I can't think of any simple ideas of organization.

Ah, I am sure you will get some more ideas, there are so many
or maybe I played too many flash games...

 

[bear_369]

Here's my WIP of my map for this contest.

The map was created yesterday ago. (I didn't mean that this map is created BEFORE the contest begins.)

 

[Sclammerz]

ooh. nice theme, I really like to join but urgh. I just can't. Good luck to all.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Another attempt recycling your Arkain for a contest, Shar

I killed the campaign, but that doesn't mean I can't use the universe anymore.

 

[PublishedShadow]

Hmm, I don't forsee myself joining this one... Good luck to everyone who does participate

 

[Empirean]

so i am planning to make a hero arena map that will match the theme of the contest. the whole thing hasnt been thought all throughout but i will post my wip next week when theres actually a real progress.

EDIT: I cant resist not to ask. Im planning to make a map where players kill each other and each kill reduces the time for the monster to grow. when it grows it will kill players that doesnt own the monster. I need to ask if this counts as grow or im way off?

 

[DEE-BOO]

IMO, I think you are way off.
My interpretation of organization is a game that requires lots of planning where each move must be made delicately with a great deal of thought put into it, otherwise it may jeopardize the outcome of climax and final targeted accomplishment. It may also be a team game that requires each player to input their specialty of dominant traits to work as a group. Strategy, Community and Planning are the key words.
I have about three ideas now, but they are all quite hard.
EDIT: Your idea still would work, maybe if these "monsters" become active when the players collect certain items to give to it to make it stronger instead of it only being based on kills.

 

[Empirean]

now that u explained it. i would agree that my idea is way off. i think i should pass this one and observe what will happen then join on the next contest. good luck to all participants. keep kicking DEE-BOO

 

[PublishedShadow]

Actually I think Empirean has a concept that can work. If getting kills makes the creature more powerful over time and you have to "grow" it's strength through a series of events to destroy the enemy then I don't see why it wouldn't work. Or I'm just completely misunderstanding this contest.

 

[Majkowski]

I agree with PublishedShadow, I think that it fits the theme in a original way.

Btw, I might participate in this contest, but first I need to have some ideas.

 

[Empirean]

Thanks guys ill continue.

 

[bear_369]

I planned the gameplay of my map so here it is.

The players start with a main base and a hero that can be used to protect his/her base or attack the enemy's base.
What they suppose to do is to capture an outpost that owned by an AI Enemies to increase the income so they can able to grow their army's strength.
The more outpost they caught, the faster that they can grow their army's power.
Not only capturing the outposts and win, they need to protect their newly captured outpost as well.

There's two ways to win the map.
1. Destroy all enemy players' main base.
2. Be the first player who captured the Temple Core.

Please let me know if this ideal gameplay fits for this theme or its way too far for this theme.

 

[DEE-BOO]

Instead of the competition having the word grow, it should be "develop from the ground up". To me, the words grow and organize are conflicting, which makes it hard to grasp the concept. This is just me though.

 

[bear_369]

There's nothing else that I know about Organization but a word "grow".

 

[pick-a-chew]

Organization "an organized group of people with a particular purpose, such as a business or government department."

Granted, you can interpret organization in a number of ways, as loosely it means a collection of people pursuing the same goal together. The first concept that jumped to mind was the Orc campaign where you have to harvest X amount of lumber, which requires you to organize your bases so you can reach the objective efficiently.

IMO that's the point of this contest, to create a map where players have to reach goal Y by organizing Z properly.

I'm unlikely going to participate, so for those of you struggling with ideas, you could create a map with an objective of:

- First player/team to complete construction of a building wins (making use of human builders, or have the building progress achieved by other ways)
- With allies, reach X resource to win the game (e.g. an adapted kodo tag or orc campaign)
- First player/team to reach a net value of X (e.g. player with the biggest town/city wins)
- Simply a straight out conquest or domination type map (think melee), as the better organization will be more powerful
- More unique concepts based around organizations and what they can achieve (e.g. a map where players can choose the type of organization they are, such as research or military)

 

[Empirean]

Btw guys i still have a question. Regarding with the submission of wip or final work the attached map must be unprotected? Or the open version must only be seen by the judge?

 

[DEE-BOO]

That's a good question. It would suck to have to bust your ass making a map, then someone else can just swoop in and steal your map. I hate map thieves, 99% of the time, they don't even know how to map make, then they crap all over your map and slap on their name, stealing all the credit.

 

[Empirean]

Thanks for the support. I hope someone can address this

 

[Tickles]

Btw guys i still have a question. Regarding with the submission of wip or final work the attached map must be unprotected? Or the open version must only be seen by the judge?

In previous contests, only the judges needed the unprotected version.

I still think it's better to leave them completely unprotected so that other people can learn how you did certain things or point out more efficient ways to set up your triggering. Just make sure you at least PM an attachment of your unprotected map to the host and/or the judges.

 

[Empirean]

Thanks for clarification

edit:how do u attach anything on pms?

 

[Tickles]

You can use the pastebin to upload files and add a link to the PM.

I'm going to try to make something wacky and humorous for a change.

 

[Empirean]

Thanks for the info

EDIT1:
WIP Post
I do not want to spoil how the whole mechanics works and not everything has been realized. Ill just give u a hint is a Hero Arena. Ill just post bunch of screenshots on what ive done. btw is it required to post an unfinished map?

EDIT2: Also tell me if this is a sufficient WIP to qualify as a WIP. If so, then my next post will contain my final work.

 

[pick-a-chew]

EDIT2: Also tell me if this is a sufficient WIP to qualify as a WIP. If so, then my next post will contain my final work.

I think that would obviously classify as a WIP, because your final work will likely contain the terrain and triggers you've shown.

 

[Empirean]

Thanks, ill maximize the contest time before posting my final work. Good luck to all of us.

 

[Majkowski]

Ok so I decided that I will participate in this, and here is... something. A few pictures, consider it as a WiP. I haven't done much, basically just the intro and figured out the whole concept of the map. (Oh, and don't mind that czech interface, I'm making the whole map in english)

 

[edo494]

Im a bit tight on my schedule, but hopefully I will be able to hammer something together(e.g. I wont like I "did" with all the other contests I "joined" )

 

[pick-a-chew]

Changed my mind, after toying around with a system, think i might give this contest a go

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

I'm Judging.