MapCraft - Cross-Game Single Player Mapmaking Contest

[Jayborino]

Alright folks, I made a preemptive, fact-finding Arena post about this, but there was some confusion around it being hosted on Hive. To clarify, this will span across many games, not just WC3 and we therefore were not specifically looking to be hosted here. Rather, I am hosting it out of my YT channel and discord, but felt this was an important community to try to involve (if Hive mods/admins like the idea and are comfortable promoting it, that would be cool too <3).

We hope you'll consider participating if this is in your wheelhouse. My channel and community is built around single player stuff, which is why the contest is this way. This contest is primarily for fun and community-building so the stakes and rules are purposefully mild. Join our Discord for more details and where submissions will be posted:

Discord - Free voice and text chat for gamers


Welcome to MAPCRAFT 2017 - Single Player Edition! presented by Jayborino, DeltronLive, and Pr0nogo

CONTEST RULES:
-Your entry must be playable in one of the following: StarCraft Brood War; WarCraft III; StarCraft Remastered; StarCraft II

-Your entry must be playable in singleplayer from start to finish

-You must submit your entry on or before 11:59 EST on November 10th, 2017 -One submission per person/team

-After the deadline has passed, we’ll review and play all entries and declare the winner(s). You can submit and update your map any time prior to then. Submit early to allow your map to get feedback from your peers, as submissions will be posted on discord for other folks to play.

-Do not use others’ content without permission and credit


CONTEST PRIZING
-1st Place: winner's choice of the following: SC: Remastered key, SC2 DLC worth $15 USD, or World of WarCraft timecard worth $15

-An opportunity to chat/interview with the MapCraft team to discuss their submission and mapmaking/design topics.

-Prize counts may change depending on how many entries we receive. For example, we may give a separate prize for each game if there are enough submissions.


SUBMISSION STEPS:
-You may upload your map using any service you wish (offline file and/or published online to Battle.net), as long as you send the link to [email protected]

-Submissions whether online or offline must be sent to [email protected] with the subject line “MapCraft 2017: [Map Name]” with a clear indication of who the submitter/s is in the body of the email on battle.net and on our discord.

-Your email must include instructions for how to play, whether it be in offline mode for StarCraft 2, on Battle.net, through the custom campaign interface of WC3, etc. Please include any pertinent map/mod files.

-That's it! As long as you send your entry in before November 10th, you're all set!

JUDGING

-Judges include Jayborino, DeltronLive, and Pr0nogo.

-All submissions will be played by Jayborino, DeltronLive, and Pr0nogo and showcased on their respective YouTube channels once the deadline passes.

-All three of us have extensive involvement with playing custom content from all 3 games, so hopefully that instills some level of trust when we say that fun factor really is number 1 in terms of possible judging. We play each of these games and do not really prefer one over the other. We understand that, for example, the SC2 Galaxy Editor opens the door for many more possibilities, but can also be much more time consuming, so there are many balancing factors that we're very aware of.

-Besides creating an enjoyable map, other factors to consider when creating your game include accessibility, creativity, story/theme, and balance.

This Contest is not sponsored by Blizzard Entertainment

 

[Kyrbi0]

Huh.

 

[Naze]

That's some nice idea! Contests here are run diferently though, so this is why you may have had problems inside our Arena forum.

This is certainly a place with a lot of dedicated and talented mapmakers nonetheless, so it's nice you're advertising this here. Hopefully some of them will see this and submit their entries.