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Ralle · Nov 21, 2007

I know we are not much into tradition celebrating here on THW. But I would like to change that.

[rainbow]HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE[/rainbow]

Thank you for being part of this community.
Thanks to the moderators for not making it total anarchy.
Thanks to the people who give the moderators something to do!
Thanks to the admins and global moderators for helping me decide what to do and what not to do.

Thank you all for reading this and may you have a good day!

Ralle

I know it might not be thanksgiving at your timezone but I live in Denmark and the time is 00.12 AM

Ralle · Nov 21, 2007

Hello everyone!
A few days ago I published the new chatroom (http://chat.hiveworkshop.com) which is located on our new server which we've decided to call Hurley. The new server will help us stay below bandwidth limits and also share the work between the servers.
A good thing about the new chatroom is the 0.6 second delay instead of 2.5 seconds. And also the automatic fullscreen mode.

I hope you all like the changes taking place.

I am currently developing a brand new models section which eventually will replace the current one. I will ofcourse import all our current models.
The new models section will feature:
- Easier displaying of models
- Icon view
- Option to select how many resources per page
- Better searching
- Comments = Posts which means you can report and give people rep for their model and comment.
- Search username with automatic name suggestions
- Hopefully less buggy upload page
And much more!

Bob27 · Nov 17, 2007

Well the results are done for the Cinematic Mini-Contest #1, and we have our winners. Congratulations to both ragingspeedhorn and Waldbear, who both tied for first place, with their cinematics The Escape, and The Premonition. Both their overall scores are 67, followed by Winter's Veil, which was created by Jaakko. The third place winner is UchihaSasuke.gr, with The End Of The Curse.

Aeroblyctos, the creator of Awesome Robbery was disqualified from the contest, as he created another account to vote for himself in the poll.

If you want to download any of the maps just click on their mini-map icon. For the rest of the maps, and their scores, there will be another post in this thread with a list of all the other entries, with their scores and reviews. Congratulations again to ragingspeedhorn and Waldbear, and to everyone else who participated in this contest. ragingspeedhorn and Waldbear will each be receiving their rep and award icon soon, and the rest of the winners will also be receiving their rep soon.

1st Place - The Escape, by ragingspeedhorn

JUDGING SCORE: 47/60
VOTES: 20
OVERALL SCORE: 67

Cameras Movement/Positioning:

+ The cinematic was in first person, which is something that not many cinematics have done in the past, but I think you have done it well in this cinematic (+2)
- Sometimes the cameras move a bit to fast for my liking, and sometimes it would do strange things, that didn't really look very realistic (-1)

Score: 6/10

Units / Animations:

+ Whenever I saw the chaser, he would always be moving, which adds to the feel that your being chased by someone (+1)

Score: 6/10

Terrain/Environment:

+ The lighting was excellent, it added to the feel a lot. (+1)
+ There was good detail in the terrain, although not all of it was completely visible because of the lighting, it looked really good (+1)

Score: 7/10

Sounds/Music:

+ Good music, that suited it well and hasn't been used before (+1)
+ You could hear the person breathing, which I think was a very nice addition to the cinematic (+1)
+ Footsteps and a whole heap of other sounds added a lot to the atmosphere of the map (+1)

Score: 8/10

Storyline/Dialouge:

+ I liked the basic story that you had in this map, with someone trying to escape from someone else, but then getting caught and getting killed (+1)
+ The dialouge was mostly good (+1)
- I didn't like the dialouge bit at the end, I think that he was basically just repeating himself a couple of times, which I didn't really like (-1)

Score: 3.5/05

Entertainment:

+ I found this cinematic very entertaining, and unlike many of the other cinematics that I had to watch a lot to do the judging, I never really got bored of this cinematic (+2)
+ There is no boring intro bits or anything like that in this cinematic, it gets straight to the chase and keeps on going until the end of the cinematic (+1)

Score: 10.5/15

Drama:

+ I think that because of the atmosphere you created in this cinematic, using lighting, terrain, sounds and basically everything else in the cinematic you have made a good dramatic cinematic, and I liked it a lot (+1)

Score: 6/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

+ The cinematic was always full of action, and never slowed down (+1)
- There was a bit at the start of the cinematic, where it shows the normal game screen, you should make it start cinematic mode using the map initialization event, so that doesn't happen (-1)

Score: 0

1st Place - The Premonition, by Waldbear

JUDGING SCORE: 52/60
VOTES: 15
OVERALL SCORE: 67

Cameras Movement/Positioning:

+ The camera movement was excellent, I could always see what was going on, and it made it a lot more interesting (+2)
+ The camera would follow the units at the appropriate times, so you could see what a unit was doing when you needed to (+1)

Score: 8/10

Units / Animations:

+ The Rocks rolling down the Hill look very nice (+2)
+ All of the animations and units used in this cinematic looked good, I liked the jump system you used as well to make the units jump (+1)

Score: 8/10

Terrain/Environment:

- Blizzard cliffs were used, which don't really look that good (-1)
+ The terrain was detailed, with grass, shrubs, rocks, etc (+1)

Score: 5/10

Sounds/Music:

+ Custom Music was used (+1)
+ Sounds were used well, especially during the battle (+1)

Score: 7/10

Storyline/Dialouge:

+ The storyline seamed good. (+1)

Score: 3.5/05

Entertainment:

+ I found this cinematic very entertaining, it was always interesting and there it was all made very well (+3)

Score: 10.5/15

Battle:

+ I enjoyed the battle a lot, wasn't just the usual 2 units fighting eachother or a heap of special effects (+2)
+ The things that happened in the battle I thought were very clever, such as the rocks rolling down the hill or using the net (+1)

Score: 8/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

+ I liked the cinematic system that you used in this map (+2)

Score: 2

2nd Place - Winter's Veil, by Jaakko

JUDGING SCORE: 47/60
VOTES: 8
OVERALL SCORE: 55

Cameras Movement/Positioning:

+ The cameras were always positioned well, and always moved well (+2)

Score: 7/10

Units / Animations:

+ The units always were animated at the right times (+1)

Score: 6/10

Terrain/Environment:

+ There was good tile variation (+1)
+ Wasn’t really that detailed in some places, but overall the terrain looked good (+1)

Score: 7/10

Sounds/Music:

+ Sounds were used well throughout the whole cinematic (+1)
+ Custom music was used throughout the cinematic (+1)

Score: 7/10

Storyline/Dialouge:

+ I liked this story, about how the brother of the dwarf guy is trying to get revenge about his brother (+1)

Score: 3.5/05

Entertainment:

+ I found this cinematic very entertaining, I enjoyed it a lot (+2)

Score: 9.5/15

Battle:

+ The battle looked good, the use of special effects was also good (+1)
+ I liked the use of doodads used in the battle, such as the rock falling down onto the bridge (+1)

Score: 7/10

+ / - MODIFIER:
Score: 0

3rd Place - The End Of The Curse

JUDGING SCORE: 29/60
VOTES: 11
OVERALL SCORE: 40

CAMERA MOVEMENT / POSITIONING:

- Slow Camera Movement (-1)
- To much Rotation. (-1)
- When the person used the fire spell, and the Camera started shaking, it kept on shaking, even after he had blinked away and the spell ended. I thought it looked a bit weird doing that (-1)

Score: 2/10

UNITS / ANIMATIONS:

+ The Wizard blinks to the start, which means less time and saves people having to watch her run down to the Beastmaster. (+1)
- The Beastmaster turns almost instantly at the start. (-1)

Score: 5/10

TERRAIN / ENVIRONMENT:

- There was no fog (-1)
+ There were birds and other animals like that running around in the background, which I think was a nice addition (+1)
- Wasn't really any sought of detail in the background, just a couple of trees, although at least there was something in the background (-1)

Score: 4/10

SOUND / MUSIC:

+ The custom music used did fit in with the Cinematic well enough (+1)
- No Voice Acting (-1)

Score: 5/10

STORYLINE / DIALOUGE:

- I thought that you used ... to many times at the end of each sentance (-1)

Score: 1.5/5

ENTERTAINMENT:

- The cinematic, especially the battle was way to slow in my opinion. Should of been spread up a lot. (-1)

Score: 6.5/15

BATTLE:

- Personally I thought that the battle was a bit slow. (-1)
+ Special effects looked nice (+1)

Score: 5/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

~ There was a Typo in the Map name. I won't take any points of for it, since it isn't actually part of the cinematic, but I thought I would point it out anyway. (0)

Score: 0

Bob27 · Oct 28, 2007

I have finished judging the entries for the Paired Mapping Contest #1, and have got the final scores here. If you have any questions about the way I judged the maps, or anything else you want to tell me about the contest you can send me a Private Message or Email. You can look at the reviews of each map, or download it by clicking on the Mini-Map, for the top three maps, or the name for the other maps.

Congratulations to Doctor-Pepper and Madome, who have won the contest, with a total score of 24.83, after getting 18 votes for his map in the public poll. Doctor-Pepper and Madome have each won 50 rep and an award icon, which they will both be receiving soon. The 2nd place winners frooker and Unhit will get 30 rep each, and the third place winners, Xsilver07 and Jandon will each recieve 10 rep.

City Of Drugs	Review
<a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/resources_new/maps/5196" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/resources_new/files_img/maps_5196_minimap.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a>	Position: 1st Author: Doctor-Pepper and Madome Description: Added Back-Door for Mafia, Many new units and structures have been created, Unit aura at the highest success level, new item C4, many small bugs fixed. Jail Break has been added. <fieldset> <legend>Final Scores:</legend> Judging Score: 41/60 Judging Average: 6.83 Poll Addition: 18 <fieldset> Final Score: 24.83 </fieldset> </fieldset>
Beer Beer	Review
<a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/resources_new/maps/5335" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/resources_new/files_img/maps_5335_preview.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a>	Position: 2nd Author: frooker and Unhit Description: Let's drink and enjoy! This map is a hero defence where up to 9 players have to defend 3 gates of a town against 20 waves of enemies and 5 boss waves. <fieldset> <legend>Final Scores:</legend> Judging Score: 46/70 Judging Average: 6.57 Poll Addition: 8 <fieldset> Final Score: 14.57 </fieldset> </fieldset>
Cardiators	Review
<a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=331561&postcount=453" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.bob27.hiveworkshop.com/Hive/paired1results/war3mapPreview.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a>	Position: 3rd Author: Xsilver07 and Jandon Description: Cardiators is a new kind of genre, combining minigame action with a new battle system based on summoning monsters in a real time, quick, finger race. <fieldset> <legend>Final Scores:</legend> Judging Score: 29/60 Judging Average: 4.83 Poll Addition: 5 <fieldset> Final Score: 9.83 </fieldset> </fieldset>

And don't forgot to check out the other entires that were submitted to the contest. Here they are, with links to their reviews, and if you want to download the map you can click on the map name.

Heaven Bound	Score: 7.75	Review
Deathly Nights	Score: 6.83	Review
Final Fortress	Score: 6.33	Review
Armaggedon	Score: 4	Review
Tides Of Elements	Score: 3.16	Review

Bob27 · Oct 19, 2007

Well its been a while since we had one of these announcements on hosted projects, so I thought I would make one now. I would also like to take this oppotunity to announce our new Hosted Project, Pyritie's Adventure! Congratulations on being hosted! Make sure you check out some of the threads that are linked to as well. Some of them are a bit old, some of them are new but they're all worth a look.

Also I would like to announce that a release date for Against The Darkness 2.0 has been set. You can find out more about it by looking at the Against the Darkness section of this announcement, or by checking out the announcement thread Here.

	Project	Updates
<img src="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/images_all/forumicons/wc3wowhostedproject.gif" alt="" border="0" height="40" width="40" />	Warcraft III: WoW	A new poll has been created, where you can vote for what contest you would like next in the Warcraft III: WoW forum. You can vote in the poll Here. Don't forget to check out the Terrain Showcase, and if you are intrested in the project, you can check out the Apply For The Team thread.
<img src="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/images_all/forumicons/reinventingthecraft.gif" alt="" width="40" height="40" border="0" />	Reinventing The Craft	Reinventing The Craft is a project that aims to add more functionality to Warcraft III, while at the same time keeping it a low size, so it's still useful for mappers. You can check out the project Here.
<img src="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/images_all/forumicons/arilens_tale_main.gif" alt="" width="40" height="40" border="0" />	Arilen's Tale	In the Arilen's Tale forum, a new story has been released, which you can find Here. The second part of the story will be released soon. You can also check out the threads Ship WIP and What do you want to see in Arilen's Tale?.
<img src="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/images_all/forumicons/piratetag.gif" alt="" width="40" height="40" border="0" />	Pirate Tag!	The author of Pirate Tag!, ragingspeedhorn, is currently looking for a Jass'er to help him with the project. If you want to help him with it, you can send him a PM. In the forum, you can check out the threads Terrain Ideas, Runes brainstorming and Arrange a game.
<img src="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/images_all/forumicons/hostedproject.gif" alt="" width="40" height="40" border="0" />	Broken Dawn – The Elementals	An update about the project has been made, and if you want to read the update you can find it Here. It mostly talks about what progress has happened with the project, and what has been done on the project so far.
<img src="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/images_all/forumicons/pyritiesadventure.gif" alt="" width="40" height="40" border="0" />	Pyritie's Adventure	Pyritie's Adventure is our newest hosted project here at The Hive Workshop! Congratulations on the hosting! You can check out some of the threads in the Forum, such as Become a beta tester!, What is Pyritie's Adventure? and Known Bugs / To Do List.
<img src="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/images_all/forumicons/againstthedarkness.gif" alt="" width="40" height="40" border="0" />	Against the Darkness	The release date for version 2.0 of Against the Darkness has been set! You can check out the announcement thread Here. We are all eagerly waiting the release of version 2.0 of Against the Darkness.
<img src="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/images_all/forumicons/rotgforum.gif" alt="" width="40" height="40" border="0" />	Requiem of the Gods	Requiem of the Gods is conducting a Loading Screen Mini-Contest! You can participate Here.

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