Spells & Systems Mini-Contest #16

[Eccho]

You have 13 days to work on and submit your spell.

The deadline is: 23rd November (Sunday), 00:00 GMT.

The contest is not 14 days. Anyhow I have looked through the whole thread now for entries. Here they are... And, if this day would be accepted Im going to change my spell too...

doom_sheep's entry

MistAssass' entry

StaberFire's entry

Vestras' entry

Flood's entry

Ribenamania's entry

raft_pl's entry

Zack1996's entry
Zack1996's entry (late?)

xD.Schurke's entry

IncubiProtocoL's entry
IncubiProtocoL's entry (late?)

BlackShogun's entry

Justify's entry

Paladon's entry

Joe-black-5's entry

-BerZeKeR-'s entry

Avator's entry

terradont's entry

The_Reborn_Devil's entry

-JonNny's entry

Eccho's entry
Eccho's entry (late?)

Heman's entry (late?)

Dr Super Good's entry (late?)

 

[Paladon]

Uh, that´s a huge amount of contestants. And much work for PurplePoot.

 

[Eccho]

Hmm... if this day counts, here is my final entry.

It still requires JNGP and the GC utility in the trigger next to the spell.

 

[Kwah]

Meh, it's time to declare a state of 'no-life' for Poot.

But, the judging is probably going to take him a while, seeing as he has a giant school project. (On a + note it ends this tues/wed)

 

[Ribenamania]

Oh~ What the, if that day counts.. I could have taken away much more BJs from the spell I made.. and now I can't.. abit unfair huh!?

 

[StaberFire]

Haha that wouldn't be the entry I woulda used cause it has a ton of leaks. >_>
Ah but whatever I didn't even make it MUI so who cares. =P

 

[Kwah]

I imagine that the cut off date is going to be the auctual deadline.

 

[PurplePoot]

Since so many people misunderstood the deadline, I'll let it slip. Contest closed as of now.

Anyhow, I won't be able to do the marking for at least a week.

 

[-JonNny]

Hanky, thanks that really helped.

Jonnny too bad you didnt have time to finnish it. It looks really great so far. Heh I know you didnt have time to finnish it, but if you are, here are some points to think of.
*It targets your own units.
*It targets dead units
*The attack animation only works first time. After that it instantly gets the target unit and plays the 'drag animation'.

lulz , thats my To-Do-List
also i need a duration for the spell + removing the effect + Death Animation

I was interrupted by this map issue while working on the Levels for the spell and adding a condition which units should get dragged
Then , while trying to fix this problem my Keyboard said "lol , fuck you" and died... cuz i was on a lan party i had no other keyboard...
looks like everything was against finishing this map...

Anyway... my keyboard works again (i wonder why) and im going to finish my Spell in the next days to upload it in the Recourse section

 

[Eccho]

Oh~ What the, if that day counts.. I could have taken away much more BJs from the spell I made.. and now I can't.. abit unfair huh!?

I totally agree with you. But hm... If its only BJs removal I am sure Poot will be understanding.

Haha that wouldn't be the entry I woulda used cause it has a ton of leaks. >_>
Ah but whatever I didn't even make it MUI so who cares. =P

But it was the final entry of your spell >.>

Since so many people misunderstood the deadline, I'll let it slip. Contest closed as of now.

Anyhow, I won't be able to do the marking for at least a week.

Np, Ill be around waiting.
/me walks all over the place impatiently.

And -JonNny, feel free to vm me when you get your spell done. I want to see the result.

 

[terradont]

/me walks all over the place impatiently.

Hey, that sounds like what i'm always doing on the hive when i wait for someone to start a thread or reply to my comment

 

[Eccho]

Aotch... I just saw I forgot to null a local trigger in my code :/

 

[raft_pl]

Aotch... I just saw I forgot to null a local trigger in my code :/

Heheh, and that's why i finished my spell as soon as i could cause i dont have to stress now D:

 

[-JonNny]

Since so many people misunderstood the deadline, I'll let it slip. Contest closed as of now.

Daaaaaamn , if would have known that before i would have been able to finish my Spell for teh contest

Now its just a demo of what the finished Spell will look like

 

[Herman]

Holy Christ there are alot of spells uploaded

I noticed alot of them had to do with 'trapping'. I feel like Poot will get so tired of seeing spells that trap, he'll score the later ones less ><

I wish I thought of something better. I was actually going to go more detailed with my spell, there was going to be a wisp explosion, 6 wisps fly out and explode, and maybe or maybe not have treants spawned, as well as remove/destroy the trees. (The trees would destroy, one after another in a cool domino effect, then they'd all removed after a few seconds)

I didn't want to use any extra systems for this spell, so I had a problem with the destroying/removing (needed another timer system). But now I remember I could've just used TriggerSleepAction()

Gah, I will plan the spell for the next contest much better, so as to get all of it done.

And on a sidenote, too many nature spells have to do with 'entangling' 'trapping' 'roots' 'obstruction' etc.

 

[Eccho]

And on a sidenote, too many nature spells have to do with 'entangling' 'trapping' 'roots' 'obstruction' etc.

I think my spell slipped away on that point? Sure, a shield may be counted as an obstruction but...

OH DAMN! Apparantly its not only 1 trigger variable I have forgotten to null. I also created a trigger somewhere else for no reason (leak + no nulling here) >.<

 

[terradont]

And on a sidenote, too many nature spells have to do with 'entangling' 'trapping' 'roots' 'obstruction' etc.

That's what i was trying to avoid, even though i have a root based hero(the 2 birds with one stone thingie i was talking about), but i still managed to take seeds instead

 

[PurplePoot]

Don't worry, Herman - if I find a sub-theme unoriginal, I go back and edit the previous originality marks to reflect it.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

So is the contest over, and if not, when will it be?

 

[Ribenamania]

woot! Can I actually still update my spell? It's abit... uneffecient..
I wanted to take away the BJs

Edit: after seeing Paladon's post, I knew the answer, No. =)

 

[Paladon]

So is the contest over, and if not, when will it be?

The contest is over, PurplePoot´s judging is running.

woot! Can I actually still update my spell? It's abit... uneffecient..
I wanted to take away the BJs

Since so many people misunderstood the deadline, I'll let it slip. Contest closed as of now.

Anyhow, I won't be able to do the marking for at least a week.

Enough said

 

[xD.Schurke]

i only want to say, that I wish you all good luck

 

[Paladon]

i only want to say, that I wish you all good luck

Same for you.

 

[Eccho]

Yarh you all too. I might get high better scores on the visuals this time people, but due to leaks which I appeared to forgotten in the stress will probably sink me down. Good luck all.

 

[xD.Schurke]

Yarh you all too. I might get high better scores on the visuals this time people, but due to leaks which I appeared to forgotten in the stress will probably sink me down. Good luck all.

maybe you're right!

 

[Ribenamania]

Yarh you all too. I might get high better scores on the visuals this time people, but due to leaks which I appeared to forgotten in the stress will probably sink me down. Good luck all.

maybe you're right!

My spell aren't effecient enough! Ahh, why didn't I update it =(
Anyway, good luck to all =)

 

[Paladon]

Yarh you all too. I might get high better scores on the visuals this time people, but due to leaks which I appeared to forgotten in the stress will probably sink me down. Good luck all.

How would you judge your spell?^^

Judging criteria:
1. Idea (5 points)
2. Triggering (10 points)
3. Overall Aspect (5 points)
4. Visual effects (5 points)
5. Theme (3 points)

 

[Eccho]

Hm...
Let see... If you want me to be honest^^

Idea: (4) There is alot of shields out there, but not with that effect. Im hopefully sneaking by that one mildly.
Triggering: (6-7) Its coded nice but could maybe be more efficient I guess (or not). Created a trigger which I didnt needed and leaked it as well, and then forgot to null it. On another place I forgot 1 nulling as well.
Overall Aspect: (4) It works properly in game and does not lag (tested without the leaks). The tooltip could have been better, and as well some more options to change the spell data effects/level.
Visual effects: (5) Looks neat in game with missiles moving like a sphere around the unit. Overall, great (thats what I think yes^^).
Theme: (2) Does the spell fit the theme? Maybe the visuals are, green and so on, the tranquility does too... But the shield could more or less be created to any unit from any race.

Thats probably how I should judge it. Critisism may be responded.
What about yours?

 

[Paladon]

I think you may deserve 5 for the overall aspect but surely for the idea. I think it´s very original since you made the whole shield effect by the triggers (no use of imports).
(Personal opinions).

 

[Eccho]

You could be right, but I mean, a shield is a shield and isnt very original. But yeah, the effects are made with triggering only (except a dummy unit using the slow poison ability).

Whether or not it would turn out this way, Im just satisified with the score I get.

 

[xD.Schurke]

maybe the idea "shield" isn't that original but the way how you did it is realy original

 

[Herman]

Don't worry, Herman - if I find a sub-theme unoriginal, I go back and edit the previous originality marks to reflect it.

Oh ok

 

[-Berz-]

Purple? You still with us? =)

 

[Paladon]

Purple? You still with us? =)

Checking this thread once a day. *collapses*
I hope he is.

 

[xD.Schurke]

maybe he got crazy because of all those spells! XD

 

[spiwn]

Maybe he has a life

Nah, off course not. His entire existence is devoted to this contest.

P.s. Seriously, he may be busy.

 

[-Berz-]

Yeah thats possible D:

 

[xD.Schurke]

what he's doing other things then judging this contest.... my entry view of life is totaly destroyed... there is no more sense for me left

 

[Paladon]

I honestly don´t care so much^^
But well, it´s still kinda exciting.

 

[04gusigo]

Maybe someone should start a new contest since this one is already expired?

 

[-Berz-]

Maybe someone should start a new contest since this one is already expired?

We are still waiting for the final word from Purple. And most likely this is the last mini contest. :S

 

[IncubiProtocoL]

And most likely this is the last mini contest. :S

Aww I hope not.

Edit: 100th post w00t

 

[Paladon]

We are still waiting for the final word from Purple. And most likely this is the last mini contest. :S

Uhm, i´m maybe not up to date here but why should it be the last mini contest?

 

[spiwn]

Because:
Purple_Poot is no longer a member of the Hive Workshop moderation team.
Purple_Poot is not obliged by anything to 'host' this.
The contest was started as a combined effort by several people, but all the rest(except Purple_Poot) lost interest or something.

And so there will be no next contest until someone decides to host it(could still be Purple_Poot). But heck, this one didn't even manage to get sticked.

There is no point of this going on all the time - it is a contest. Still, it should be more regular than the other contests.

Anyway there is a thread about the contest as a whole not about this particular 'instance'. Ask questions like "when is the next one" there. Be sure to give some ideas for a theme(and do NOT forget to read the first post).

For everyone that submitted - be patient. Poot is a serious person - he will eventually review ALL of them.

 

[Eccho]

The contest will be continued or not due to Poot. It appears that no one else is tempted to host it. Dr Super Good and Wyrmlord made some of them. But they started to lose interest and Poot hosted it instead. Its sad... I think we need more spell/code contests.

Poot said something about examins and such last week, so thats probably why. Or he just ought to have a life.
The reason why it didnt become stickied was due to rui. He was off the early days of the contest, thus why it might have been forgotten.
The contest is usually every month, but we will see about that.

 

[04gusigo]

What was the last prize for winning the mini contest?

 

[Paladon]

The winner's prize will be 10 reputation points, and earn a spot in the "Spells/Systems Hall of Fame" (the list of winners of this contest).

Reading the first post often helps a lot.

 

[04gusigo]

Can only some kind of moderator do that? or can you after the end of the contest ask the admins to do that?

 

[Eccho]

Specific amount of rep for a contest is delivered by the moderators after a contest. Do not ask them about it unless it hasn't happened anything within two weeks or so.

 

[Herman]

Uhhh, yeah there was a f*ckload of spells, I haven't even gotten around to seeing all of them yet. I give PP all the credit he deserves for such an arduous task.