Paired Mapping Contest #2 Poll

Here is the poll for the 2nd Paired Mapping Contest. For this contest the contestants, in pairs had to create a party style map. The four entries we got were:

Hell Scream's Party - By Taur & ragingspeedhorn
When Servers Collide - Deskalada & Pyritie
Trials Of Kalimdor - Maelstrom_ & The_Twinz
Mini-Games - Spammy & Joelimphi


Rules - Please Read!

1. You must play EVERY map before casting a vote. You should make a post giving a comment on EVERY one of the maps entered into the contest.
2. Creators of the maps can vote in the poll, however they can not vote for themselves.
3. You can not create multiple accounts and vote for your map. Please note that if an account that has the same IP address as the map is voted for, the vote will not count.

Well i already played mini-games when they released it.

So i'll go play the others

Is it possible to post a slightly newer version of my map? While playing it on bnet I discovered a bunch of bugs I didn't notice before.

Otherwise nothing else is changed in the map.

I'll play the other maps when I get home.

Nah, all of the other maps have got heaps of bugs, and they won't be allowed to edit it from now on either, so no.

Oh.

Never mind then.

EDIT: Question for bob: Will you be playing these in single player or on bnet?

Um.. my comment is on the other thread so I won't bother repaeting myself.

I also wrote band instead of bang in reference to the hellscream match XD

Good luck all maps

ya but i have the goodest luck of them all

looks like the pools are tied
who will vote for my map and sway the balance of votes?
no one knows

I can't access the hellscream map.. right now I'd give my vote to ToK because it has some good minigames, good AI (most of the time), and pretty good terrain, not super large filesize, and not very many bugs.

Servers collide is very unique, but like 13lack.1)ragon said, very confuzzling and the AoS part is totally imba... the minigames were pretty good.

Mini-games is well... minigames =D

Originally Posted by Dreadnought[dA]

I can't access the hellscream map.. right now I'd give my vote to ToK because it has some good minigames, good AI (most of the time), and pretty good terrain, not super large filesize, and not very many bugs.

Servers collide is very unique, but like 13lack.1)ragon said, very confuzzling and the AoS part is totally imba... the minigames were pretty good.

Mini-games is well... minigames =D

How can you not access the game? The link works fine.

besides it looks like blackdragon is the only one who's actually followed the rules.

I think Dread was refering to the link on the other thread, which doesn't work. This is because the link on the other thread isn't updated with the lastest attachment of your map. It appears that you updated your map 8 hours after the competition had closed :P
Contest Closed at Yesterday, 03:16 AM
Last Edited by Taur: Yesterday at 11:32 AM

I think that's a bit unfair :P There is plenty of bugs in our map that we realised needed fixing after the contest was closed, but we thought updating it was not allowed.

We shouldn't be voting for who's is most balanced, etc; we should be judging based on how good the idea was. If it was original and unique then it should win, because I'm sure most (or all) of these maps will still be worked on afterwards and finished.

ya because juging it on somiting as lame as AI
isnt a good way to rate it

take the map in hole then vote

Originally Posted by Jacek

then you lose because AoS isn't original

The fact that users aren't permanent is innovative. It makes it so one player can't just choose one hero and qq everyone. So you need more strategy and less choosing the right hero.

Anyways, I'm not going to vote, but I am going to give some feeback.

Trials of Kalimdor
Easily the most polished, well done of the 3 maps that were not ours. A healthy amount of minigames, a small starting cinematic so everything isn't abrupt. It's in a good playable state. However, I would also say that it is easily the most boring of all 3. I just found it like another worse Uther's party. I saw very little originality in making the minigames, it was like 'run away from this' or 'collect this' or 'build this'. When you can make an AI for each minigame within a month, then the minigames are too simple. I felt like they took no skill, which is very important in a party map. The map is polished given the time limit, but not that fun.

When Server's Collide
What can I say... You took a simple concept, a party map, and convoluted it. I dont think it's that fun either and there are very few minigames. The point of a party map is to have enough minigames to play and right now it doesnt. Unless something is just a stupid mistake, I dont think people should vote based on potential for it to be better. The terrain and custom models however are pretty good and the idea of adding users and stuff is cool, but it seems to me that you put too much effort into adding users and not enough into the actual minigames.

Minigames
I actually thought that some of these ideas were not that bad. I didnt like the cursed circles game, but others were okay. A bit more polish and stuff would do a lot for this.

Originally Posted by The_Twinz

I think Dread was refering to the link on the other thread, which doesn't work. This is because the link on the other thread isn't updated with the lastest attachment of your map. It appears that you updated your map 8 hours after the competition had closed :P
Contest Closed at Yesterday, 03:16 AM
Last Edited by Taur: Yesterday at 11:32 AM

I think that's a bit unfair :P There is plenty of bugs in our map that we realised needed fixing after the contest was closed, but we thought updating it was not allowed.

I did ask bob if it was okay, and he said yeah. All I changed really was to add pathing blockers around the trees on the ninja game to make it more fun. Before you could walk through trees. Insignificant really.

Originally Posted by Taur

When Server's Collide
What can I say... You took a simple concept, a party map, and convoluted it. I dont think it's that fun either and there are very few minigames. The point of a party map is to have enough minigames to play and right now it doesnt. Unless something is just a stupid mistake, I dont think people should vote based on potential for it to be better. The terrain and custom models however are pretty good and the idea of adding users and stuff is cool, but it seems to me that you put too much effort into adding users and not enough into the actual minigames.

Yeah I got a bit too carried away with the awesome UI. That and DesKaladA's minigame triggers didn't work at all so I had to basically redo everything. That and he got sick and couldn't work while I was in egypt for 10 days.

But yeah, we kinda put off making minigames until the last minute. D: