Map Section - send us your thoughts!

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Rui

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Rui said:
Guys, it's about time we start worrying about the map types/labels.

Suggest your map types/labels here, please, or suggest separating/merging and most important of all, their descriptions! Correct me if I'm wrong in any of these too.
  • Aeon of Strife (AoS): AoS is a popular map type that was brought to Warcraft by a map named Aeon of Strife. A very well known map of this type is DotA.
    AoS is a map type where you have 2 AI/Trigger-controlled computers that constantly send creeps from a base in their possession, in order to fight each other. Each team has an equal number of players, whose objective is to hire one of many different heroes and defeat the opposite team. In case the hero dies, it will revive.
    Examples: Aeon of Strife; Age of Myths; Defense of the Ancients (DotA) Allstars.
  • Altered Melee: Changed Melee maps to add new features. A good example would be Warcraft IV.
    The Altered Melee maps are common nowadays. They are usually created for the purpose of adding new races or a variety of new elements to the game.
    Examples: Creep Rebellion, Eternal Chaos, Warcraft IV
  • Arena: This map type is very common. You pick a hero and, together with your team (or just you) you enter an arena to fight creeps.
    Examples: (NEEDING POPULAR ARENAS FOR EXAMPLES)
  • Campaign: Manipulatable with the Editor ever since the arrival of the Frozen Throne. A very good example would be Return of the Dragons by Darky28.
    A campaign is a set of missions that reveal a story chosen or created by the author. They are usually led by a single or multiple main characters. Please do NOT categorize individual maps as Campaigns.
    Examples: Nature's Call - Return of the Dragons, Return of Alisia Dragoon, Wanderers of Sorceria
  • Capture the Flag (CTF): Capture the Flag speaks for itself. Any map in which you have to capture a flag in order to win the game is suitable for this label.
    Examples: (NEEDING POPULAR ARENAS FOR EXAMPLES)
  • Cinematic: Cinematics are like movies/films, you do not play a game. Instead, you watch a story chosen/created by the author.
    In Blizzard's campaigns these map types were known as "Interludes".
    Examples: Creatures of the Night, Cult of the Damned, Shipwrecked
  • Defense / Survival: In this type of maps you have to survive waves of enemies that are thrown at you constantly.
  • Escape / Maze: Escape a maze or pass series of traps. Only then will you achieve victory.
  • Footmen Wars / Footmen Frenzy: You own a main in which footmen constantly spawn. You can upgrade your main in order to spawn better units, and you usually own a hero to guide your forces.
    Examples: Footmen Frenzy, LotR Frenzy
  • Hero Arena:
  • Life of a Peasant (LoaP):
  • Melee:
  • Mini-Game:
  • Offense:
  • Role Playing Game (RPG):
  • Shooting / FPS:
  • Strategy / Risk:
  • Template / Terrain:
  • Tower Defense/Tower Wars (TD and Maul):
  • Miscellaneous/Other:

Tell me if it should be changed. The description sure is a bit large.
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This.

I need descriptions and examples for EVERY of them.
 

Arvedui

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I don't know if this fits but Island Defense could be an example for the Defense/Survival Category
 

NearbyHermit

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Peace of cake

  • Aeon of Strife (AoS): AoS is a popular map type that was brought to Warcraft by a map named Aeon of Strife. A very well known map of this type is DotA.
    AoS is a map type where you have 2 AI/Trigger-controlled computers that constantly send creeps from a base in their possession, in order to fight each other. Each team has an equal number of players, whose objective is to hire one of many different heroes and defeat the opposite team. In case the hero dies, it will revive.
    Examples: Aeon of Strife; Age of Myths; Defense of the Ancients (DotA) Allstars, Land of Legends.
  • Altered Melee: Changed Melee maps to add new features. A good example would be Warcraft IV.
    The Altered Melee maps are common nowadays. They are usually created for the purpose of adding new races or a variety of new elements to the game.
    Examples: Creep Rebellion, Eternal Chaos, Warcraft IV, 12 Races
  • Arena: This map type is very common. You pick a hero and, together with your team (or just you) you enter an arena to fight creeps.
    Examples:Orc Gladiators, Micro Arena
  • Campaign: Manipulatable with the Editor ever since the arrival of the Frozen Throne. A very good example would be Return of the Dragons by Darky28.
    A campaign is a set of missions that reveal a story chosen or created by the author. They are usually led by a single or multiple main characters. Please do NOT categorize individual maps as Campaigns.
    Examples: Nature's Call - Return of the Dragons, Return of Alisia Dragoon, Wanderers of Sorceria, Pyritie's Adventure, The Chosen Ones, Lord of the Clans, Age of Draenor
  • Capture the Flag (CTF): Capture the Flag speaks for itself. Any map in which you have to capture a flag in order to win the game is suitable for this label.
    Examples:Elimination Tournament, Quake Wars
  • Cinematic: Cinematics are like movies/films, you do not play a game. Instead, you watch a story chosen/created by the author.
    In Blizzard's campaigns these map types were known as "Interludes".
    Examples: Creatures of the Night, Cult of the Damned, Shipwrecked
  • Defense / Survival: In this type of maps you have to survive waves of enemies that are thrown at you constantly.
  • Escape / Maze: Escape a maze or pass series of traps. Only then will you achieve victory.
  • Footmen Wars / Footmen Frenzy: You own a main in which footmen constantly spawn. You can upgrade your main in order to spawn better units, and you usually own a hero to guide your forces.
    Examples: Footmen Frenzy, LotR Frenzy, Skeleton Frenzy,
  • Hero Arena:You are in the posession of a single or multiple hero units,having the main goal of defeating the enemy faction,either by score or in duels.
    Examples: Angel Arena, Diablo Arena, Anime Wars
  • Life of a Peasant (LoaP): In this genre you control a unit/hero and easily grow into simulating your existence.Have a house,get hired,get married and of course response in front of the law or probably the mafia.
    Examples: Life of a Peasant Deluxe,Gold,Reloaded , City of Drugs
  • Melee:The original RTS genre of Warcraft,here you are in the non-player appearance and control your default/selected race and evolve until you reach the maximum of your tech tree.Gain resources at the same time mobilize your troops in order to gain advantages or strategies in front of your enemy.
    Examples: The Warcraft RoC,TfT Melee Maps
  • Mini-Game:Simple and funny games that are either player or non-playable affiliated.Here you must complete some simple goals in order to gain a type of score that will determine you as the winner.
    Examples: Uther's Party. Hellscream's Party, Pirate Tag
  • Role Playing Game (RPG):The genre that includes a hero and the gameplay,in which you must level yourself and complete a series of quests that are related to each other.An important note about this genre is that it has a set storyline and the gameplay is strictly related to it.
    Examples: Diablo Maximum Impact, Imagica RPG, Trynton RPG
  • Shooting / FPS:In this game type you control an armed unit and you have the goal of shooting everything that comes in sight.In most maps, this genre has the main goal of escaping masses of hostile monsters or to eliminate your enemy.
    Examples: Night of the Dead,Aftermath,Special OPS, Resident Evil, Doom
  • Strategy / Risk:In this game type you are in control of several regions on the whole game map and these regions are in control of some main bases that spawn creatures of all sorts.The goal is that of conquering the other regions,controled by enemy players or AI.
    Examples: LoTR Risk, Conflict for Sereg'Dor,Sereg'Nen, Middle Earth Risk, Pimp my Peon
  • Template / Terrain:The informative and artistic maps that tend to impress or to teach players about terraining.Non-Playable
  • Tower Defense/Tower Wars (TD and Maul):Tower Defense/Maul is a genre that consist in a group of monsters that spawn from a point and must reach the other.You are in the possession of a worker unit and must create towers,at the price of a score that consits in lives you must not let the creeps reach the other point,or else you are defeated.The Maul version has the same gameplay,but a difference from TD is the specific terrain shapped like a ''W''.
    Examples: TD:Gem TD, Green TD, Ryoko TD. Maul: Pokemon Maul, FF Maul, Marvel Maul
  • Miscellaneous/Other:Here are included the hybrid genres and other map types,such as :Spells,Triggers,Party-Wars and other map types,ORPG.

Here they are Rui,didnt modified yours,since they are perfect and added some examples,wrote the definition.
 
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