Dungeon Tennis v2.3

[Moderator]

17:30, 13th Aug 2010
ap0calypse: Approved

 

[krisserz]

Is 'protected' in the map name really needed? ...

 

[Spoontoobig]

Why not... ?

BTW: I tried it with my friend and ball 2 times got bugged... He stuck in the middle... ;<

 

[krisserz]

Coz it`s... unprofesional. In the map file name it`s ok but not in the map name itself.
Is wc3 name 'Warcraft 3 protected'?

 

[Aesthetics]

Is 'protected' in the map name really needed? ...

It is necessary because you must notify people in the description or map name if it is protected.

 

[krisserz]

It is necessary because you must notify people in the description or map name if it is protected.

It`s enaugh.

 

[Aesthetics]

It`s enaugh.

If he wants to put it in the map name, that's his problem. Besides, people may download it from a host on BNet and they probably won't see a description...

And for those who do may not read the description long enough or at all to see "This map is protected!"

 

[Herbie]

Btw. I added the protected, because I#ve got them in one folder and I want to know which one's are the protected ones. And no, the protection is not necessairly needed.

I didn't do much on this map since half a year, but I uploaded it to get some feedback on my work.

@Spoontoobig: The bug with that stucked ball didn't occur when i tested it^^ so maybe I will try to fix it and put a new version on hive someday

 

[Herbie]

Ok, updated to 2.3

Fixed:
Ball-stucking by ricochet^^
Graphic improvement
Runes can be disabled

 

[2many4u]

Omg thats the best map i aheve ever seen in my whole live but what about adding some fans on the side?

 

[duke-zip]

i love w3 sports/mini games, def gonna give this one a go!

 

[SOangeldust]

me too, with mr. duke to hold me puny little hand! XD!!!!!!!!!
and titanhex to slap me across the face!

 

[Lag_Reviews]

Here is a review P:

Well I was recently saw this map and as it looked good, so I decided to give it a review.

So here is the review, Hope you enjoy and use my ideas and criticism to help improve your map.

The Review!

*NOTE I PLAYED A VARIETY OF MAP TYPES and ARENAS*

Things I liked:

• Pudge as the character
• The number of power-ups to change the ball
• How you can change the speed/score of the game
• The mechanism to hit the ball over the net
• The loading screen

PRO's:

• No Bugs
• No Glitches
• All of the game worked

CON's:

• Hard to control the ball
• Terrain is a bit dull

Things you can do to improve the description:

• Include the credits in the description and you could also include a Youtube video to spice up the map before people download it.
• Add a full change-log and/or an upcoming updates log so we know what you are working on fixing/adding

Things you could add to the map to improve it:

• A Custom map preview image would make the map look 100x better!

Suggestions

Suggestion Terrain:

Okay I was playing the game and was thinking I'm a bit bored of the same old fire tennis field.

So I was thinking when the game starts you could type "-terrain Fire" for example if you want a your tennis field to be fire.

The different fields could be:

• Dirt
• Fire
• Water
• Grass
• Ice

Suggestion Weather?:

Okay I was playing the game and was thinking why not add some weather effects to the field?

So I was thinking when the game starts you could type "-terrain Snow" for example if you want it to be snowing on your field.

The different Weather effects could be:

• Snow
• Rain
• Hail
• Wind
• Sun
• Sandstorm

Also different weather effects could have different effects on the game, for example sun could make it really bright and hard to see whereas Sandstorm could slow down move speed and ball speed.

Suggestion Night/Day:

Ontop of the above two suggestions I was thinking it would be cool if we could make it day or night time on the court.

We could type "-Day" which would make it day and "-Night" which would make it night.

Making it night would be hard mode and Day would be easy mode as Night time the ball would be harder to see then it would at Day thus making Day easier than Night.

Overall, the map is a fun and enjoyable map with a unique game-play. The map also has hours of fun before it gets boring! Everything on the map seemed to be working and there were no major glitches/bugs or errors.
I would suggest this map to friends and anyone who likes a custom map or anyone who likes tennis.

I Vote for Approval and would give it a 4/5 It doesn't get 5 as there are still a few CONS and you need to make it so we have more control over where we hit the ball

All in all hope you liked my review as much as I enjoyed playing your map,
Lag_Reviews P:

PS: I'd love to here your feedback on my suggestions and can't wait to see what you can bring to this map and many others! Hope you can somehow give us more control over hitting the ball

 

[Herbie]

Yeah, thank you for your positive responses
I like your suggestions for the terrain, because I was also thinking about making the terrain different, but I didn't know how to make it without loosing the play factor and creating less overview. So I will definitely give this terrain improvements a GO!

I was also considering about if I would add something like an easy mode for beginners (for me the controling of the ball is easy^^) which would work like moving the ball always a little bit more to the enmies' field.

Thank you, I will definitely improve this map again with that super suggestions (although I don't know how to do a custom map preview yet)

EDIT: By the way, I think you forgot to rate Lag_Reviews

 

[Lag_Reviews]

Yeah, thank you for your positive responses
I like your suggestions for the terrain, because I was also thinking about making the terrain different, but I didn't know how to make it without loosing the play factor and creating less overview. So I will definitely give this terrain improvements a GO!

I was also considering about if I would add something like an easy mode for beginners (for me the controling of the ball is easy^^) which would work like moving the ball always a little bit more to the enmies' field.

Thank you, I will definitely improve this map again with that super suggestions (although I don't know how to do a custom map preview yet)

EDIT: By the way, I think you forgot to rate Lag_Reviews

Glad you liked my review and thank-you for taking the time and effort to read it.

I'm glad you liked the terrain suggestions, I can't wait to see what terrains you come up with and add into the game.

I also like the idea of your easy and hard mode it would make the game a bit more fun P: (Although I still think we should be able to choose if we play at night or day)

Also you say you don't know how to make a custom preview image atm? Well never fear I have found you a guide: Click the link --->Custom Minimap Preview Tutorial<--- click the link!

Thank-you for liking my review, it is much appreciated and I hope that tutorial I found you is proven helpful,
Lag_Reviews!

PS: I rated it above, hit the green thumbs up approve button and rated it in my review at the end where I said "I Vote for Approval and would give it a 4/5 It doesn't get 5 as there are still a few CONS and you need to make it so we have more control over where we hit the ball"

 

[Herbie]

Hell yeah, you are right

I am working at the Terrain at the Moment, but It takes a long time to change all this terrain with the Gui editor

The tutorial is really easy, thank you for sending me the link, I will definitely use a custom preview in my next version and I was thinking about that day/night thing and was asking myself what the actual idea is behind^^ do you mean like you get less vision? maybe u can only see the ball at the enemies' side or what?

Herbie

Ps: If you want to you can get credits in my next version for that terraining ideas

 

[Lag_Reviews]

Hell yeah, you are right

I am working at the Terrain at the Moment, but It takes a long time to change all this terrain with the Gui editor

The tutorial is really easy, thank you for sending me the link, I will definitely use a custom preview in my next version and I was thinking about that day/night thing and was asking myself what the actual idea is behind^^ do you mean like you get less vision? maybe u can only see the ball at the enemies' side or what?

Herbie

Ps: If you want to you can get credits in my next version for that terraining ideas

Glad your working on the Terrain as we speak, I can;t wait to see it finished even if it takes you all year.

P: Good to see you like the tutorial and have been able to follow it and put a preview image on your map.

My view on the day/night idea

Hmm well with the Day/Night Suggestion I made it is sort of up to you how you implement it as I am not too sure.

I was sort of thinking something like this:

DAY MODE:

Would be really bright easy to move around and see the ball, might even have rays of sun on the field.

NIGHT MODE:

Would be really dark on the field and hard to move around and see the ball. The tennis court could even be pitch black/limit sight except for a few rays of moonlight on the court which you could use to see the ball.

Also you said you were thinking of making a Easy/Hard mode option for us to choose, maybe you could call the easy mode day and the hard mode night and to symbolize which mode it is for day it would have the sun and night would have the moon up the top.

As I said I'm not entirely sure how this would work just an idea.

Also if you want to put me in the credits for the terrain suggestion that would be very good indeed and I would much appreciate it.

Can't wait to see what you bring to the map in the near future,
Lag_Reviews!

 

[Herbie]

Map preview done

Ok if it works there should be my first Idea for the map preview as attachment. What do you think?

Download here^^

View attachment Dungeon Tennis Map preview.tga

Damnit, you have to download it...

I didn't do much yet, because I want to handle the terrain better at the moment

 

[Lag_Reviews]

Ok if it works there should be my first Idea for the map preview as attachment. What do you think?

Download here^^

View attachment 78989

Damnit, you have to download it...

I didn't do much yet, because I want to handle the terrain better at the moment

Looking good P:, I can understand you haven't done much to the map but the preview image is good.

Only suggestion is maybe you might want to keep the preview image different from the loading screen image (Personally it doesn't worry me if they're the same). Also in some places the text is a bit hard to read, other than that it is looken great!

Nice preview image,
Lag_Reviews!

PS: If you don't want to make that people have to download the image to view it, then you can just upload to TINYPIC.COM then copy the forum image code into here and you will have yourself an image that does not need to be downloaded P:

 

[Herbie]

Looking good P:, I can understand you haven't done much to the map but the preview image is good.

I mean the other way round^^

Dust area and function to change arena is done

Herbie

 

[Herbie]

Btw. the video Frozen Throne would look nice to be the net at the Ice Arena if there wouldn't be that cave thing with it. Can someone tell me if and how to remove that cave from the Throne or do it and send it to me?

EDIT: 11/04/10) Ok i removed that cave now I just got another problem: I haven't got enough textures to do the different arenas, can one somehow remove textures from the texture safe while ingame?