Sound and Audio Contest

The Contest:

Create a map where users can make music.

Rules:
-Solo map
-All terrain MUST be customized beyond any recognition of default terrains.
-At the end each player gets to view/hear the music each user has created. All players judge for the best music and beats at the end for, what else, bragging rights!

Judging:
-Use of color
-Ease of use/control
-Design
-Sounds


Suggestions:
All users can create at once (complex, large map, multiple designs)
One user-creation at a time (simple, small map, one design)


How you go about creating the map, given the "Rules" and "Judging", is up to you.

oo i think i was working on a map like this called drum hero where i used different drum sounds 0_0 it was funny half of the time...

Originally Posted by Cheeder

The Contest:

Create a map where users can make music.

Rules:
-Solo map
-All terrain MUST be customized beyond any recognition of default terrains.
-At the end each player gets to view/hear the music each user has created. All players judge for the best music and beats at the end for, what else, bragging rights!

Judging:
-Use of color
-Ease of use/control
-Design
-Sounds


Suggestions:
All users can create at once (complex, large map, multiple designs)
One user-creation at a time (simple, small map, one design)


How you go about creating the map, given the "Rules" and "Judging", is up to you.

Most of that doesn't sound like a sound or audio contest.

Yeah i'm, kind of confused as well if its a map or a sound contest.

How is it not both?

If you choose crappy sounds it's going to be crappy. Ok, so maybe the contest name is off, but it's the ability to create music in-game that is the point.

Madcat2, i, too was making such a map before i deleted WC awhile back. I have a cool idea for a new one that is nothing like what this contest would require. I'm sort of working on it now, but it's going to be an entire map of people working, going from one place to another and it's going to be a cycle. Each unit will hit rects that trigger a sound. I might add some vocals to turn the music into a song.

Originally Posted by Cheeder

-Solo map
-All terrain MUST be customized beyond any recognition of default terrains.

-Use of color
-Ease of use/control
-Design

All users can create at once (complex, large map, multiple designs)
One user-creation at a time (simple, small map, one design)

These parts confuse me.

Err, solo, you have to make the map by yourself.. No teams.

If you must customize the terrain than you are going to use color to do it.. I guess i didn't do a good job in specifying that it SHOULD be colorful.. Magically delicious kind of colorful.

Ease of use.. Well that sort of goes with design. If you are going to make a map where the player can create music, how exactly are you going to go about doing that? Well, you're going to need to make rects so when a unit enters it it plays a sound, so what is going to be your design? There is no "right" design, but you do need one...
So you have your design and you have some units on the map that you can use to patrol over the trigger points. Well, your map sucks because i can never get a good tempo or beat going. It's not easy to actually get music going so your map sucks!

When i began to create a map like this before i made one design using raised walls where each unit had a runway to patrol on. I then made 11 more throughout the map in an intracate design using similar but different patterns. So, i went from one design to 12, one for each player. That means they could all create music at the same time by modifying how "far" the sound reached, where each design had different sounds, and at the end each player camera would have gone to each one to listen before a vote would take place.

Clear?

Does it even have to be in a map? Modeling competitions you just make the models, skinning competitions you just make the skin. Why make a whole map when the only purpose of the contest is sound/audio?

Originally Posted by Cheeder

Ok, so maybe the contest name is off, but it's the ability to create music in-game that is the point.

What more do you not understand?

Well it's just that contests are made for one aspect, i.e. modeling, animating, skinning, etc, and not multiple ones. It sounds like this is a tileset skinning/mapping/audio contest.

Originally Posted by Pyritie

Well it's just that contests are made for one aspect, i.e. modeling, animating, skinning, etc, and not multiple ones. It sounds like this is a tileset skinning/mapping/audio contest.

it does... but actualy the audio idea is good... although I dont think it should be made this way.

So what if it does? Where does it say it has to be about one subject? When did people start thinking this? Where do they store these assumptions in their brain?
A contest is a contest and it's rather a simple map to create.

RED BARON, if this contest is not made "this way", then it's not the contest it was intended to be, but probably, as you are thinking, voice-acting skills.. But that's not the point. The point is to have FUN! hahaha.. The point is to make music in a game.

How hard is it to throw some crazy colors and apply some filters to a terrain tileset. And to find acquire some soundbytes off the net. At one point in time i collected over a gig's worth of sound effects, it's not hard to find these copyright-free sounds.
And if you have 2 months to do it, if you need 2 months, do you think you couldn't do it in that amount of time. This is a contest anyone can get aboard with if they know the basics of creating a map.

There is a map called Sound Factory which, when i first entered the hosted game, i thought it was going to be like this.. Instead you hear sounds from WC and have to name which unit it belonged to... BORING! Utterly mindless.
Just use your imagination.

Well for my opinion this would be more interrresting if the idea was this:

It is a hero styled map, but the heroes a musicans.. playing somekind of instrument or singing. Their ability's match what they play / sing. And when they are used (also normal attack) a music sound will be heard. something like that.

This is starting to sound more like a map idea than a contest.

Originally Posted by Pyritie

This is starting to sound more like a map idea than a contest.

It was from start an map idea (called a contest)... I just suggested something which would be more usefull.

(Think his idea with audio is good, but not the way is tends to be just a map contest, with all what should be in it plotted down) My suggesten was meant to say: Good idea with a contest involving use of sounds as gameplay, but not this way, so it should be user choice how the audio is used in the contest map.