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Orcnet: different author and a bad use of map description
Orcnet: different author and a bad use of map description
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Nevermore,Mirana,Pudge,GM Wars v2.1
- Author(s)
- keikashi244
- Tags
- Arena, Miscellanous / Other
- Size
- 1313.03 KB
- Rating
- Downloads
- 9
- Created
- Apr 14, 2013
- Updated
- Apr 17, 2013
- Resources
- 1
- State
Approved
This bundle is marked as useful / simple. Simplicity is bliss, low effort and/or may contain minor bugs.
At first, a description on the hive may be obsolete if you've made a very good list in-game.
Adding a description on the site, is one of the rules when uploading a map, so your map can get rejected if you did not do so.
The reason why a good description is necessary is to encourage users to play your game.
It will grip the attention of people who (accidentally) pass by, attention is one of the basic things a map must have, otherwise it will be forgotten in the thousands and thousands of maps in hiveworkshop.com.
Every time someone passes by your map and pays attention to the description, is a step closer for your map to get famous soon.
Not only will it get famous: more people will respond, more people will find bugs, more people will try to help you and not only the map will get better, but it might be possible that you will improve your own mapping skills.
I will now try to explain each part of important things in your map descriptions (You will see that each template has them as well)
Map Info
Map info is the place where your main description should be.
Write about how you've gotten the idea, what the map is all about, what the objective is,...
Paste links in your Idea Factory Threads...
Describe game modes...
Features
Best way to quickly describe your map and show people what your map has to offer are features!
Write here what is that that makes your map unique!
You used some crazy and awesome systems, well mention that too!
Some more stuff about map
This one should not bother people with too much information like Map Info or Features...
You can use it for fun to show people how many doodads your map has, how many abilities you added etc
or you can write hints, commands, explain game modes etc etc!
Screenshots and Video
BThe best way to show your map to users, is by posting some nice terrain pictures with combat scenes, awesome spells or scenes of epic team play. This way, you will promote your map and increase its popularity and fame really fast.
If one picture speaks a thousand words imagine what one video can do!
Change Log
Show users what you have changed in the new version, show fixed bugs or glitches so they can be up to date with newest map version!
Also good, is to check if the map is balanced, maybe recently added abilities are boring compared to existing ones, who knows, maybe once the map becomes really popular, then maybe your opinion will be less worthy than one told by a player!
Credits
Credits should always be listed even ingame, you may think that they aren't useful for your map or your map description, but trust me, a map without a credits list is fail.
Users spend a lot of time to create models, icons or abilities/systems, so at least write their name in the credits list.
How will you fill if some buddy use your map, that you created month or too, edit few things, add some more to it and use it as his own, no credits no nothing...
Author's notes
Place to write and give attention to important things about your map!
If you want to know more please check this:
The importance of a Description [09 May 2009 17:41]ap0calypse
--- DON'T REQUEST DESCRIPTIONS HERE, THIS IS A TUTORIAL! ---
--- Note: You can collapse Jass tag to make description smaller ---
Let's start!
THW Map Description Template:
Keywords:
wars
Adding a description on the site, is one of the rules when uploading a map, so your map can get rejected if you did not do so.
The reason why a good description is necessary is to encourage users to play your game.
It will grip the attention of people who (accidentally) pass by, attention is one of the basic things a map must have, otherwise it will be forgotten in the thousands and thousands of maps in hiveworkshop.com.
Every time someone passes by your map and pays attention to the description, is a step closer for your map to get famous soon.
Not only will it get famous: more people will respond, more people will find bugs, more people will try to help you and not only the map will get better, but it might be possible that you will improve your own mapping skills.
I will now try to explain each part of important things in your map descriptions (You will see that each template has them as well)
Map Info
Map info is the place where your main description should be.
Write about how you've gotten the idea, what the map is all about, what the objective is,...
Paste links in your Idea Factory Threads...
Describe game modes...
Features
Best way to quickly describe your map and show people what your map has to offer are features!
Write here what is that that makes your map unique!
You used some crazy and awesome systems, well mention that too!
Some more stuff about map
This one should not bother people with too much information like Map Info or Features...
You can use it for fun to show people how many doodads your map has, how many abilities you added etc
or you can write hints, commands, explain game modes etc etc!
Screenshots and Video
BThe best way to show your map to users, is by posting some nice terrain pictures with combat scenes, awesome spells or scenes of epic team play. This way, you will promote your map and increase its popularity and fame really fast.
If one picture speaks a thousand words imagine what one video can do!
Change Log
Show users what you have changed in the new version, show fixed bugs or glitches so they can be up to date with newest map version!
Also good, is to check if the map is balanced, maybe recently added abilities are boring compared to existing ones, who knows, maybe once the map becomes really popular, then maybe your opinion will be less worthy than one told by a player!
Credits
Credits should always be listed even ingame, you may think that they aren't useful for your map or your map description, but trust me, a map without a credits list is fail.
Users spend a lot of time to create models, icons or abilities/systems, so at least write their name in the credits list.
How will you fill if some buddy use your map, that you created month or too, edit few things, add some more to it and use it as his own, no credits no nothing...
Author's notes
Place to write and give attention to important things about your map!
If you want to know more please check this:
The importance of a Description [09 May 2009 17:41]ap0calypse
--- DON'T REQUEST DESCRIPTIONS HERE, THIS IS A TUTORIAL! ---
--- Note: You can collapse Jass tag to make description smaller ---
Let's start!
THW Map Description Template:
Keywords:
wars
Contents
Reviews
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2011
- Messages
- 1,864
Description is c'n'p :S
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2013
- Messages
- 12,333
The Description doesn't even mention a single bit about the map.
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2012
- Messages
- 5,113
Ah
yeah another child of DotA
Does anyone here have any uniqueness and originality? Oh God.
yeah another child of DotA
Does anyone here have any uniqueness and originality? Oh God.
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2008
- Messages
- 4,185
lmao the description
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2012
- Messages
- 5,113
LOL
Just realized that the description is just an explanation.
Please reject this Troll.
Just realized that the description is just an explanation.
Please reject this Troll.
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2011
- Messages
- 560
Not another damn Dota map. And I laughed hard at the description, it doesn't explain anything about the map and you just copied and pasted it from a tutorial. Another troubled soul, please reject this now. But I still laughed hard.
- Joined
- Jul 31, 2010
- Messages
- 5,246
you made good history here in hive!
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2012
- Messages
- 5,113
^ He is 
