Weekend Mapping Madness #2 - Defense

[Vengeancekael]

Yes please.
Except if you're talking about a WiP, then no a screenshot will do.

 

[bowser499]

I'm talking about a map. Some description in this thread will not be unacceptable I think.

 

[Vengeancekael]

It has to be opensource.

 

[bowser499]

Where the map must be uploaded - to this thread or to Hive Map Database or both?

 

[Vengeancekael]

Here, attached to a post.

 

[Bugz]

Wip

 

[Foronisus]

18:31:15 - Greenwich time so i guess 14 hours and 29 minutes remaining

 

[PROXY]

WIP:



Main-Goal is to protect and guard the women which needs to be exorzisted, while she is aiming to get to the end of the path in hell. :3

 

[Vengeancekael]

@Bugz, ooh neat, but those trees are a bit off lol
@Foronisus, actually 30 hours left.
@Fan, ah mah gad that looks awesome D: Also lolwomen
Also I hope there will be a lot of fire traps (the doodad I mean), etc.

 

[Luchsohr]

oho i bet nobody remembers my post but i think i quit this contest cause im not fast enough to fix all the bugs <.<

 

[Vengeancekael]

oho i bet nobody remembers my post but i think i quit this contest cause im not fast enough to fix all the bugs <.<

D'aw come on, you can do iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

 

[Bugz]

Palm in a desert? should be fine atm

 

[Vengeancekael]

... That's supposed to be a desert? The ground tiles are a bit misleading ;_;

 

[Bugz]

Well, i kind off ;v

 

[Jazztastic]

~Tidal Defense~
A Work in Progress

What is Tidal Defense?

Tidal Defense is a survival map revolving around the concept of pushing enemies into water. You cannot attack, but the water will hurt the enemy units (and yourself as well). Players are given four unique abilities to push and pull enemies into the water. The game takes place over the duration of 10 rounds, in which you gain an additional skill point for usage at the end of each round. You can play this game solo or with a friend, the difficulty adjusts to compensate.​

How do I play Tidal Defense?

With style of course! No more auto attacking or spell spamming survival games. This game relies solely on spells, designed to push and pull your fiery enemies into their watery tombs. This game rewards quick thinking and ingenuity, and punishes players for being cornered or chased into the water.​

Game Information

• Units take 20 damage per second from standing in water
• Players have 100 health and mana. At the end of each round, you gain full mana, and an additional 10 health.
• Units will only have 66% of their regular health if only a single player is present
• Units will automatically move back to land if pushed into water, and move in a designated loop

Category	Accomplished	To Do	Percent Done
Terrain	Finished base terrain, is playable and fully functioning. Sufficient trees/enviroment doodads placed.	Maybe add moving/dynamic doodads	90%
Object Editor	1 Hero, 1 enemy unit, 1 spell tooltip created.	Finish 3-4 more enemy units, finish the rest of the tooltips for spells	35%
Trigger Editor	Finish movement/return to systems, and finished water damage system. 1 Spell fully functional.	Finish spells, create wave settings and player difficulty. Maybe add multiboard	55%
Imports	Imported and credited 3 different models	Import matching icons	75%
Miscellaneous	Changed gameplay constants to fit game	Fix some UI stuff	60%

Screenshot, showing a Mage Power Pushing a Flame Elemental into the acidic water


An Alpha version of the map is attached. Only 1 spell is currently available. It is not in a playable condition. Don't whine that it isn't fun yet. I will almost certainly be able to finish this map inside of the deadline.

Comments/suggestions to my idea/map are very welcome, especially from our judges.

 

[bowser499]

The Minefield

The Minefield is Survival Defense map where are two sides. One side (miners) must blow up another side (sappers) using not attack but a limited amount of mines!
Sappers have a lot of counter-abilities but miners have a lot of mines to choose for killing sappers.
Red player choosing the mode.
Modes: -easy, -norm, -hard
Info about modes can be found ingame (Press F9).

This is beta version of the map. If I upload some fresh stuff later count it as final.

Credits:
Awesome Editor, Standard Icons [Blizzard Entertainment]
Nuclear Mine [icon - Matarael | model - RED BARON]
Auto-Exploding Mine [model - shamanyouranus]
INV_Misc_Gear_01 has an unknown author so I don't know who must be credited :[
Autoblow [icon - Muoteck]
Explode [icon - bigapple90]
Nuclear Missile Ready Sound [Blizzard Ent. - StarCraft]
Rocket Explode [icon - 4eNNightmare]
Swiftness [icon - Eraser|85]
Sapper Chance [icon - CRAZYRUSSIAN]
Interface [by unwirklich]

Post your ideas and comments below please.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Oh dear, so far I don't have any suggestions everything seems so perfect, the triggers, the terrain, the idea, ...
Although that fire elemental model is really bad, I would suggest you find a different model.


edit:
@Minefield, looks very nice, except for those river rushes, the model is terrible D: Try finding a better one in the Ultimate terraining map.
Next why not just show a dialog to the host for the difficulty selection?
Also why are the buildings placed in a weird way?
Oh and a preview image? :3
Custom models for the environment would've been nice, a custom tree model, fitting stone models(the default ones are too bright).

 

[Jazztastic]

Yeah, I perused the model section and the skin section, and I liked that one the best. I'll try using the default Lava Spawn for now. My other imported materials are the [self=http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/lavacolossus-158880/?prev=search%3Dlava%2520colossus%26d%3Dlist%26r%3D20]Lava Colossus[/self] and the [self=http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/skins-552/heroavatarflame-blp-126391/?prev=search%3Dflame%2520avatar%26d%3Dlist%26r%3D20]Avatar of Flame[/self], should I toss them or keep them?

Thanks for the feedback VengeanceKael. It's nice to know a judge thinks I'm on the right track

 

[Bugz]

Any suggestions for me ?

 

[Foronisus]

Wow the maps are great im waiting for all maps and for final version of them

 

[bowser499]

@Vengeancekael
This is the swarm where a town was someday. That's and atmosphere time gap.
Can I upload my final map on GMT 12:20? bad bad timezone :[

 

[Vengeancekael]

Of course you can. You have a few bonus hours after the deadline to upload your map.

Any suggestions for me ?

Not really ;_; It's just a screenshot with a misleading terrain and I don't exactly know what the map is about.

This is the swarm where a town was someday. That's and atmosphere time gap.

lolwat

@Jazz, those models are nice <3

 

[bowser499]

I've done that with a land for an atmosphere.

 

[Jazztastic]

Wait, how much time do we have left? I'm not that familiar with GMT

 

[Bannar]

Oh dear, so far I don't have any suggestions everything seems so perfect, the triggers, the terrain, the idea, ...
Although that fire elemental model is really bad, I would suggest you find a different model.

Bro I see you're not coding a lot
I like the idea, terrain is nice (Jazztastic please, in the middle of map you put small island - remake is into small mountain with waterfalls or boiling waterpool, it will make the circle much more attractive) but coding can be improved. Should I tell the details? No, because it gonna be unfair for others although I can warn him that code can be much more effective (small tips: one of triggers leak, two triggers can be cut with formula usage).

@Fan you gave only pictures but I already love it. Great idea with woman (guess whats the award for that guardian after succesfull escape ^^).

@Bugz terrain seems nice, but again screenshot provide no gameplay informations.

@bowser499 checking your map.. will add info in a sec.

EDIT: Is your map supposed to be multiplayer one? Since writing mode doesn't change the fact that hero can defeat nothing.
Codings seems okey (MUI/lagless) although if we are talking about Jass you can improve it much further than Jazztastic his GUI scripts. Terrain fits the 'mine' theme. Keep it going.

 

[Jazztastic]

Thanks Spinnaker, I found the leak right after you pointed it out. And I know the coding is somewhat inefficient on two of the triggers, the ones that deal with unit movement. If I have free time at the end, I shall try to address this. It's fine right now though, it works like I need it to, and there are other things that aren't working at all, so you might see where this is in my priority list.

I don't think I'm going to edit the terrain too much, especially since the unit movement is down and I don't really want to do that part again. Maybe I'll add a small volcano in the middle which can't be walked upon, and a small mountain in the corner with a waterfall. I'll probably import some terraining materials if time permits, the whole "Get stuff done taht needs to be done" is still taking precedence though.

 

[Bannar]

^Since it's not coding contest you won't lose much even if your triggers are ineffective, just make sure they are MUI/bugfree and 8/9 score is 100%.
Leaks, non MUI, bugs, inaccurate OE ability manipulation, lags -> -1 point for each issue in most cases.

 

[M0rbid]

So be it...

 

[Vengeancekael]

... It be so
Looks nice
Although what's the green part in the middle?
I guess those are holes and it's just the terrain tile.

Weekend Mapping Madness #2 Day 2 over! 1 Day to Go! (Ends on sunday, the 4th september)

 

[Figueiredo00]

wip, the terrain is basically finished
working on the triggers now.

 

[D a w n]

some update from me:
planned 8 heroes, decided to go for 3 or 4 for the weekend, because I simply could not finish in time otherwise
Finished my tavern and my 3 heroes aswell(1 tank, 1 healer, 1 supportive melee damage dealer). might aswell add a ranged caster or damage dealer if I find some more time tomorrow, but I doubt it, because I still have to set up the wave triggers, the move triggers and I guess even some basic ai.

I also included the map this time to get at least somefeedback on it. I also wish that I could have worked more on the terrain, but I doubt that I can make some mayor edits on it in my missing time(maybe some trees here and there might work) :/

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin.php?id=kmj9am

 

[SA Dashie]

I have worked hard on finishing my map and should be 100% bug and lag free but once again I have made a map that requires many people to play with so i don't expect a lot of votes once again D:.
Anyhow Spinnaker the water puddles are just an added effect to the terrain but thanks for feedback even though I couldn't read it until now.
Also if anyone has some suggestions I may update the map or else I may just leave it at this until the main contest starts.
Also note that this is the fist time that I have ever used village tile set and also any terrain familiar to using village doodads so this was new to me.

 

[Bugz]

	Bugz Presents
	Ancient Hero Defense * Work in progress * Map Info: In the ancient times of history, a Warlord was chosen to attack the secret's of the tomb. A Lich was the only one back to defend it. Trough force and might will he change the destiny? Features: * Unit spawn system * Ultimate hero control More to come Something else about map: Map will be continued in the mini-mapping contest #5 Screenshot: Notes: Terrain: 100 % Triggers: 0% Unit's and hero: 0%

 

[Magtheridon96]

Progress:
Terrain: 100%
Code: 75%
OE Work: 20% (Lua scripts weren't working out -_-')

Oh and I came up with an awesome name for my map
Destromath TD!
Waffles TD sounds wierd :3

 

[Bugz]

Terrain is 100 % done, might do small changes. But nothing fancy

 

[Jazztastic]

I will probably submit my map a few hours after deadline. This is due to the fact that I'm on the West Coast, so like right now is midnight for me. I'll try to get it in close to when everyone else does though.

 

[bowser499]

Edit: Preview is attached.
AI for computer is coming too.

 

[PROXY]

A question, I'd like to make teh demons to jump from the lava on the path, am I allowed to use Paladon's jump ability for that?

 

[Vengeancekael]

@Figuer, add some water doodads
@, ¦@#¦@##°|¢¬§, that is a HUGE map. Yeah the castle area still looks empty, also y u no add custom spells.
But I suggest you start working on the main triggers right away if you wanna get finished.
@DeathChef, instead of all those bridges, just use a tile from the Ultimate Terraining map and then put some Wall End doodads to the sides.
The city also looks very weird, there are almost only houses and trees, but no benches, people, fountains, ...
And the way you've used those 2 terrain tiles makes it even weirder, how about a road going around the map with its own terrain tile.
I haven't checked the triggers yet.
@Bugz, doesn't that seem a bit short? It seems like there are going to be 2 heroes fighting each other until one of them wins and I don't understand the terrain, it looks like a maze
@bowser, looks nice and great idea!
@Fan, yes of course.

 

[Bugz]

It is a maze, you control a hero. And then levels of unit comes?

 

[Vengeancekael]

Oh. I see lol, well seems kinda cool but why did you go with such a small map?

 

[Bugz]

It's singleplayer :/ might make it multi in the mini-mapping contest

 

[Bannar]

Progress:
Terrain: 100%
Code: 75%
OE Work: 20% (Lua scripts weren't working out -_-')

Oh and I came up with an awesome name for my map
Destromath TD!
Waffles TD sounds wierd :3

And what I have told you? Even you were talking about bugs with Lua, and I'm pretty sure you lost a lot of time on it. In normal (not weekend) contest you have enough time to experiment but.. it's not that contest unfortunately ;/

Ok guys, I probably won't comment anything today since.. TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!

FUCK EVERYTHING!!!

 

[PROXY]

Who says Vulcano doodad looks horrible?!



Okay, it's just the vulcano doodad and a clusterfuck of crystals and glow, but it looks nice :3

Anyway, I'm going to work non stop on the triggers this afternoon to get finished, hopefully I'm going to make it.

Also, I've thought of a special ability system:

You have 2 base abilites. When killing a demon you'll earn a demon soul, which will show at the place of lumber. When having for example 5 demon souls, you'll get a speacial ability.

 

[bowser499]

@Vengeancekael, thank you for such a comment.
Will AI influence the points I can get there?

 

[bowser499]

I will complete AI and upload my map here, sorry for passing the deadline...

 

[baassee]

LOL just ask Nest about the lua. Gosh less than 14h left and I have so much left... and homework til tomorrow, lovely.

 

[M0rbid]

I post WiPs because it is fun to do so....

Show

 

[bowser499]

I've done some minor changes since I can't write AI in time...

The Minefield v1.0b:
- Fixed an issue that lets players upgrade their skills before red player choose a mode.
- Fixed a problem when red player can't be found ingame so mode cannot be entered.
- Added an ability 'Select Command Center'.
- Added minimap preview.

The only cons I see is the map is not single player.

 

[Vengeancekael]

@bowser, yes an AI player would increase your points.
Also don't double post, use the edit button.
@M0rbid, lookin goooooood, hope you get finished in time.