Dungeon Making Contest

[PureOwnage]

Dungeon Making Contest

Contents

• Theme
• Rules
• Criteria
• Deadline
• Prizes
• Contestants
• Requirements

Rules

• Nothing should violate the Hive's Rules.
• 3rd party programs will be allowed.
• You can not use the Ultimate Terraining Map.
• No imports into your map except custom icons made by yourself.
• No contestant will be allowed to use a map from any other contest.
• All submissions should be turned in by the deadline date.

Requirements

• One Boss Battle
• One Custom Hero with Custom Spells
  

Criteria

Criteria	Description
Terrain	How good your terrain is and how it goes with your setting.
Variety	If there are different creeps instead of one creep the whole entire dungeon.
Balancing	Was it to hard to beat?
Bugless	Was there any glitches?
Creativity	Was your dungeon creative or was it another blizzard made one?
Boss Battle	How balanced was it? How creative was it?

The entries will be marked with 60% judging, 40% public poll. Once the deadline has been reached, all entries submitted into the contest will be marked, and a public poll opened.


Deadline
The deadline for the contest will be (Not decided).

Prizes
Below is a list of all the prizes that will be awarded for this contest.

1st. 40 reputation points, and an unique award icon.
2nd. 20 reputation points.
3rd. 10 reputation points.

All of the winners will receive their prizes once the judging is completed.


Contestants
If you would like to enter the contest simply make a post in this thread, stating the information about your entry.

Contestant Name	Entry Name

 

[Gausslander]

What exactly is it? There are zilch details.

 

[PureOwnage]

I was going to add more after some people would agree.
I'll do it later.
EDIT: Done

 

[LightBloOD]

I like the idea very much, i hope there will be a contest like this
great job!!

 

[Aeroblyctos]

You can not use the Ultimate Terraining Map.

The best rule.

 

[PureOwnage]

The best rule.

I agree.

 

[Gausslander]

As do I. That's really the only rule I do like.

 

[PureOwnage]

Yeah, but...
Is this a good idea or not?

 

[Gausslander]

The idea is to make a new warchasers map correct?

 

[PureOwnage]

The idea is to make a new warchasers map correct?

Warchasers?
Just make a dungeon that is fully playable including all the requirements and rules.

 

[Ziggen]

This seems fun, but one question: Can you only have a hero through the whole map, or can you have units with him too? And can you gain units along the way?

 

[PureOwnage]

This seems fun, but one question: Can you only have a hero through the whole map, or can you have units with him too? And can you gain units along the way?

Yeah, go ahead. You think I should put in requirements:
Must Have Rescuable Units?

 

[Ziggen]

Yeah, go ahead. You think I should put in requirements:
Must Have Rescuable Units?

It's not necessary to have it as a requirement. I just thought, some people may find it boring to just play with a Hero through a whole map, and it could be fun with some additional units when fighting. But at the boss battle I think the Hero should be alone against the boss, or that depends on if the boss have units that helps him too

 

[LightBloOD]

Think it over!
Its not necessary to have units or even rescueable units, you can use only a simple hero, and there can be quests, or something, when NPCs join your fight

and in addition: i think the dungeon might be much more interesting if its like an RPG dungeon (but alone) than something like warchasers. There should be an entrance with some vendor and questgiver NPCs, and many ways to go, some bosses, special items, even sets!
Id be happy if this contest will be hosted )

 

[PureOwnage]

Think it over!
Its not necessary to have units or even rescueable units, you can use only a simple hero, and there can be quests, or something, when NPCs join your fight

and in addition: i think the dungeon might be much more interesting if its like an RPG dungeon (but alone) than something like warchasers. There should be an entrance with some vendor and questgiver NPCs, and many ways to go, some bosses, special items, even sets!
Id be happy if this contest will be hosted )

Thanks for agreeing with me.

 

[The_Silent]

can't seem to find any deadline, when is that?

 

[PureOwnage]

can't seem to find any deadline, when is that?

I can't really seem to find any without any judges....

 

[Ribenamania]

Hmm ... interesting, hope this contest will be hosted.

 

[Hawkwing]

I'm considering hosting this. Would you be interested in having users team up for this? This could be the next Paired Mapping Competition.

 

[Ribenamania]

This contest needs a team or what? I wanted to join..
Should I make the map by myself or in a team ?

 

[Hawkwing]

We'll see. This will be a bit hard alone.

 

[Ribenamania]

Well.. the requirement seems to be easy..

 

[LightBloOD]

well, i know what will i do
however i have no paired experiences, and i have no idea how to get start in a team :S

 

[PureOwnage]

Hmm ... interesting, hope this contest will be hosted.

Yeah, pairing would be better. Pairing would give more quality to the maps and have other benefits.
Do as you please.

 

[Hawkwing]

And how about judging? Have you thought about that?

 

[PureOwnage]

And how about judging? Have you thought about that?

Yes. I have posted percents and we will need some active and respected Hive Workshop users to judge this.

 

[~Void~]

Get good mappers to judge it. People who know every aspect of mapping and know what to look for when judging.

Anyways, I'd be happy to judge if you need me. I know enough jass to inspect code, and I certainly know if the terrain looks good

 

[Hawkwing]

Okay, could you get a moderator to post here who is willing to host this?

 

[Bob27]

This is a good idea for a contest, and if it is made I would be interested in joining this, since I haven't really been able to join a map making contest here at hive yet. And with holidays coming up soon I should have heaps of time. My only suggestion with the rules would be this.

• No contestant will be allowed to use a map from any other contest.

Just to make it absolutely clear I would change that rule to no contestants may use a map started before the contest, not just from another contest.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

All in all the theme of this would actually work well as a potential 4th Paired Mapping contest? It has been awhile since the 3rd ended and I would like to see a 4th sometime soon and the idea of this would work well as a 2-mans job. I'd enter atleast, if I could find someone to partner up with.

 

[Hawkwing]

I want to get this hosted soon, but until I see a judge it's not getting hosted.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

If it was to be the 4th Paired Mapping Competition, it could just be decided by a public poll, like the 3rd one was? It is hard to find anyone who is willing to spend the time needed on judging a map making contest as it is much more time consuming than any other contest.

 

[Linaze]

Yeah one can understand that finding a judge for half a dozen maps who needs to in-depth review all of them, and keeping the same standard at each and every review to make it fair. Anyways I do hope that this get's hosted. If I find a partner, i'm sure to be one of the contestants.

 

[Bob27]

Its going to be hard to find a judge for any mapping contest, as they do take a long time to judge, and a lot of work, so I think that this contest should go ahead whether there is a judge or not. A public poll will do just fine if there isn't a judge.

 

[Hawkwing]

If this takes too long I will host it at 100% Public Poll, but polls can cause lots of problems and are quite unfair sometimes. So I still want to see if we can get a judge.

 

[KKRP]

I so hope this is hosted. This contest would be awesome!

 

[PureOwnage]

I so hope this is hosted. This contest would be awesome!

First, we would need a judge.

 

[AirHead]

i don't think it would be too hard if it were 1 person teams (although i only say this because i map better with just me). but really if this is about to get dropped even though i have no experiance in judging I'll judge it.

 

[PureOwnage]

Well, this idea has gone down the drain. I guess moderators don't like this idea.

 

[Hawkwing]

Well, this idea has gone down the drain. I guess moderators don't like this idea.

*sigh*...

It's going to be hosted, we already covered that. We have to wait for some of the other contests to end first.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

The minigame contest has already ended? And that was the only one that was completely focused on Map Making, the rest are mixtures. What's holding you up?

 

[Hawkwing]

I'm going to host this on Saturday, which is really close to the end of one of the contests in there. If I really wanted to I could host all the contest submissions, but then I'd have about 13 contests I'd have to keep an eye on all at once.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I was not advising you to host all contests at once, re-read my post. I was asking what was holding this one from getting hosted, as no other Map Making contest is currently running. If you hosted some of the other contests in here there would be several Map Making contests running at once.

 

[Hawkwing]

Of course, I'm simply trying to say that there are a lot of contests which should be started soon, but the Arena is already full.

Planned Contest Start Date: 9/20/08

• Five days before the end of the Modeling Competition.

 

[PureOwnage]

Of course, I'm simply trying to say that there are a lot of contests which should be started soon, but the Arena is already full.

Official Contest Start Date: 9/20/08

• Five days before the end of the Modeling Competition.

Nice! Can't wait!

 

[PureOwnage]

Of course, I'm simply trying to say that there are a lot of contests which should be started soon, but the Arena is already full.

Planned Contest Start Date: 9/20/08

• Five days before the end of the Modeling Competition.

Isn't it the 20th?

 

[Hawkwing]

I don't wake up at 8:00 in the morning on a Saturday, be patient. Anyways, I'll see if I can get this hosted today. I have a lot of work to do and this isn't exactly on the top of my priorities.

Anyways, I've had a bunch of homework and studying to do throughout the week and that's got me behind on hosting this. So I will have to delay it until 9/22/08.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

That's really lame. How hard can it be to setup a new thread? It's what, a 20 minute job at most.

 

[Hawkwing]

Yes I know. I'm extremely sorry. But I don't have any rules set up or anything.

Edit: I have a WIP going.

Edit2: The contest will start 2 days earlier than I had originally posted.

 

[~Void~]

Where is it?