Techtree Contest #12 - Discussion

[Kam]

What I would like to see:

-Start date in December to take advantage of holiday time off
-Run time of two months
-Theme:

Recycle, Revise, Reinvent

Use any of your past entries or creations as a basis and improve upon it/them. The only restriction is that they be your works.

-If a contestant uses a previous entry they will have a section in their score that reflects if and how they addressed issues the previous judge(s) noted.

Why do this?

People spend a great deal of time on these entries and it is a shame they are not able to continue improving them for critical review. I feel we would see both more developed and more entries in general with this structure.

Thoughts?

 

[Kyrbi0]

Recycle, Revise, Reinvent

Use any of your past entries or creations as a basis and improve upon it/them. The only restriction is that they be your works.

Thoughts?

*Looks at hard-drive*
*Cracks knuckles*

My body is ready.

~~~

Lol, what an amazing idea. Also kinda obviously geared towards poor schmucks like me, with, like, a million (i.e. two) half-baked, half-done race WIPs.

I love it, and think we should do it every so often (if I can't convince you guys to make "mini-race" Contests the standard/default, this is a good alternative). Until then, I'll just have the hard time deciding what to finish... My kooky Alchemy Goblins, or my familial Earth Elementals?...

For me personally, I got some intense family-stuff going on that might very well preclude me working on this despite being over the holidays... But still, it's the best shot I am likely to have (especially after December & with ~two months). So yeah.

'Course, if a Hero Contest pops up, no promises. xD

Oh wait, I figured out a question important enough for the DEADLY DOUBLE POST:

If we're re-using our own old works, that's cool... But what's to stop a guy like me from seeing this notice, taking one of my works, & starting work on it now? Like, I could 'start' the Contest with an entirely completely-done custom race. Oh wait, I think you said that was a thing too?...

 

[Kam]

There nothing to stop you and that's fine.

The whole point is to get people to take a second look at their work. Someone who has spent 100 hours can compete against someone who has spent 10. It's all about the level of refinement and quality of ideas.

Edit:

The contest run time is to provide an official announcement and a due date. Anybody who enters has already spent a great deal of time on their race so the concept of making sure people don't start until a certain date is a bit irrelevant. It's what makes this particular TC contest different.

 

[Kyrbi0]

There nothing to stop you and that's fine.

The whole point is to get people to take a second look at their work. Someone who has spent 100 hours can compete against someone who has spent 10. It's all about the level of refinement and quality of ideas.

Edit:

The contest run time is to provide an official announcement and a due date. Anybody who enters has already spent a great deal of time on their race so the concept of making sure people don't start until a certain date is a bit irrelevant. It's what makes this particular TC contest different.

Ooh... Edgy.

I suppose now that I think about it, it is by it's very foundation impossible to standardize the starting point. Well how interesting is that gonna be?

... Now I'm gonna feel extra loser-ish if I still don't finish. xD x/ :< :'{

 

[Spellbound]

100000% for that idea, even though I'm not guaranteed to participate.

 

[Murlocologist]

What about those people who never before entered this contest?

 

[Yours Truly]

What about those people who never before entered this contest?

Was gonna say that.

Also,holiday is still irl holiday and I'm having a happy family fun time with splashy splashy for a week,next week, so I don't think I'll able to manage this contest.

But two months decides.

 

[Kam]

What about those people who never before entered this contest?

They can enter if they wish. Perhaps knowing they are facing developed concepts will encourage them to push their ideas.

But two months decides.

?

 

[Spellbound]

What about those people who never before entered this contest?

They can enter if they wish. Perhaps knowing they are facing developed concepts will encourage them to push their ideas.

Hmm, I didn't think about that: what if someone never submitted an entry to the Techtree contests, does that automatically bar them from entering? What if they do enter, what are they going to make? Since the theme is 'remake an old submission' and they have none to remake, kinda means they can't join.

 

[Yours Truly]

?

What I meant is if the contest runs for two months,then I may have a chance to join this contest.

 

[Kam]

Hmm, I didn't think about that: what if someone never submitted an entry to the Techtree contests, does that automatically bar them from entering? What if they do enter, what are they going to make? Since the theme is 'remake an old submission' and they have none to remake, kinda means they can't join.

It means they can make whatever they want - or put more clearly this is an open concept contest. There is no design theme, merely a directive to create a well thought out race.

What I meant is if the contest runs for two months,then I may have a chance to join this contest.

I think that is an appropriate run time.


What needs to happen to get this going?

 

[Spellbound]

So a free for all, huh? Could work...

 

[Kyrbi0]

Yeah, I was gonna say; for all intents & purposes, this is a 3 month (2 + 'from now until start'), free-themed, use-any-amount-of-previous works Contest. I'm in no way bashing it; like I said, this is the best chance a schmuck like me has (even though it rankles every fiber of my "Contests are a fair test of skill" being xD).

But essentially, @Murlocologist, if you don't have a WIP techtree from a previous Contest... Make one. Starting now, just make whatever, and it is the same as if you had.

Crazy... But it just might work.

 

[Dehua_Darbuya]

This is a great idea! I'd love to see how people can refine and expand on their previous creations.

As for those who have never entered before, I was thinking that maybe they could select a past entry to use for this contest. It's a free-for-all anyway and would be intriguing to see what a rookie could pull off with an existing techtree. Thoughts?

 

[Spellbound]

There should probably be a limit on how far back you can go, maybe something like the past 5 contests?

 

[Kam]

That is going to be an issue to moderate as I have a feeling we will end up with four variations of the same race.

If this contest ends up being more geared towards previous contestants I think that is ok.

 

[Dehua_Darbuya]

Fair enough. Thought I'd put it out there. Nevertheless, great idea. Good luck to all the contestants!

 

[Yours Truly]

So, is this gonna launch or what?

 

[Kam]

December 1st was the plan.