Terrain Contest #6 - Theme Poll

[Gilles]

Which terrain theme you would like to see for the next contest?


Mysterious: Create a terrain that invokes a sense of mystery. Perhaps a spooky wood, or a lone corpse in a field.

Lord of the Rings: Create a terrain based on the lands and cities from Middle Earth. They can be anything from the trees of Trees of Valor to the white city of Gondor.

Mythology / Ancient History: Create a terrain based on places of legend, or from ancient history.

High Resolution: This choice sucks. Don't pick it.

Armageddon: What would the final minutes of Earth's existence look like?

Underground: About as lame as High-Res.

 

[~Void~]

Mythology or LOTR, either is fine with me. I voted mythology to even the scales.

 

[Oziris]

Why put Mysterious, we allready had gloomy terrain, diden't we? either way i voted for Mythology / Ancient History.

 

[X.e.r.e.X]

Mythology / Ancient History = Win

 

[AirHead]

Mythology FTW! Now does it matter what mythology we make? For instance if I made Japanese mythology and someone else made Mayan mythology would both be valid, or would the theme be specified to one culture?

 

[X.e.r.e.X]

Any culture should be allowed imo
Gives more freedom

 

[Gilles]

Mythology will be tough to really describe as a theme. Anything from ancient history will be accepted, and anything out of old legends. I've always been easy going with the theme.

 

[Nbah]

LOTR all the way for me

 

[Linaze]

Armageddon all the way, sounds like it could result in a number of very epic terrains.

 

[~Void~]

I think either Greek or Norse, we should pick one, but any location/scene. I'd imagine it'd be very hard to judge two good terrains if they were from different themes.

 

[Gilles]

I don't.

 

[NinjasDontFight]

1. Make a terrain based off a book that you choose?
2. Make a terrain that would resemble a RPG?

But I would go with Ancient History... btw does it include stuff made up in your mind as ancient?

 

[Elenai]

AWWW! I can't decide...

LOTR, or Mythology...

EDIT: WAIT!....LOTR is 'technically' a mythology that Tolkien created for England's history.

I WIN!

I can haz both?

 

[~Void~]

England? Really? Where the hell is Mordor in England? o.o

 

[AirHead]

I don't think it was England it was in Europe though.

In ancient times things had different names and we don't have complete history from the 'barbarians' of Europe like we do from the 'great' Romans and Greeks, such things were not cared for, when people like Julius Caesar invaded southern Europe. My point is, there could have been a Mordor, Europe. My brother took a class on J.R.R. Tolkien and he told me what tLotR was supposed to be (European mythology).

 

[Gilles]

I don't think it was England it was in Europe though.

Yeah, people speculate that he based his work on early Europe.

 

[~Void~]

Looks like it's going to be Ancient History theme. Sweet. Let's pick a culture, ok? Greek, norse, egyptian... japanese?

 

[CoBrA b]

Yeah, people speculate that he based his work on early Europe.

Yeah. Have you ever noticed that Mediterranean (the sea) literally translates to "Middle Earth." I think, if we got mythology, we could do the myths that LotR was based on, like Celtic myths. I find those kinds of myths (Norse, Celtic, Barbarian, etc.) to have some serious potential for epicness, although Native American trumps all, in my mind.

EDIT: And, ~Void~, I pick Native American for the culture. If I have to be more specific than that, I'd say something mezo/south-american because they have the most rich mythology.

 

[~Void~]

Mayan sounds cool, but I've already done 3 mayan terrains D:

 

[AirHead]

Yeah. Have you ever noticed that Mediterranean (the sea) literally translates to "Middle Earth."

Wow really? Awesome! I like Japanese myths and history but it's so overused, maybe Chinese myths/history would work.

Ancient American myths/history is really interesting but what about ancient South African myths/history? (raincallers and shamans and the like)

As for an actual choice... I'd say South African, and if people don't like that, a second of Chinese.

 

[CoBrA b]

Mayan sounds cool, but I've already done 3 mayan terrains D:

How About Inca?

 

[~Void~]

They are too similar

How about... Assyrian or Persian? ^.^

 

[Belgarath]

Inca and maya are SO different, you wouldn't believe me if I told you!

LotR m'good man. And LotR is sorta the history for... middle earth. Which is... THE WORLD

PS: I'm a hobbit.

 

[~Void~]

I'd want to make the shire, with the fireworks. So if we have LOTR, I reserve that as my entry :3

 

[CoBrA b]

Inca and maya are SO different, you wouldn't believe me if I told you!

Very true. The Maya lived in the jungles of mesoamerica, and developed lifestyle, mythology, architecture, etc. to suit this environment. The Inca lived in the mountains of South America and built huge cities atop their peaks, and this is just the start of it. Technically, I'm still just voting for choosing any Native American culture you want, because I also think something like a "plains indians" terrain would look cool.

If I made a LotR terrain, it would probably be Mordor.

 

[~Void~]

Hmm, a pueblo kind of thing. Like those clay cities built into the sides of the mesas. Sweet.

 

[AirHead]

Despite my opposition to the LotR theme I do have an amazing idea for a LotR theme. So are we decided on Ancient America?

EDIT: OMG the Inca were crazy! their architecture looks like they are like the ancient-race-that-had-super-good-technology from all of those video games
see!

 

[NinjasDontFight]

The first picture looks better

 

[~Void~]

I don't really want to do ancient america. I still would like to make Norse or Greek. If we do ancient america everyone will do aztec pyramids or machu picchu.

 

[X.e.r.e.X]

Why must "Mythology / Ancient History" be restricted to one culture?
Seriously, my vote goes to free choice of the culture for more variation etc

 

[NinjasDontFight]

Can we do WoW troll design?

 

[thedeathunterxx]

im down with LOTr.

but if we do mythology, id have to agree with XEREX. Retstricting it to 1 culture would be so boring.
People should do which ever clture they think they would do the best in, becuase ill tell you know, im BAD at jungle terrain >.> Im better at serene hills and shit.

 

[~Void~]

Well we need to constrain the theme a little then, maybe ancient temples, ancient religious places, or even something more global than that. How about design a terrain of one of the various "heavens" from an ancient culture? Or a hell? But most of the hells are the same... so I say heavens.

 

[Belgarath]

Void, stop being so restricting on the ancient culture, and stop trying to get things exactly how you like them, the contest isn't about "let's do a theme we pwn at" after all. Ancient culture would most likely end up with Greek, Roman, Norse anyway. And it's a great theme to perceive in different manners, I could make a bunch of shacks in the snow and call them a Norse village. (Which would actually suit)

 

[~Void~]

I think I may be hosting this, so in the end it really is going to be how I like it. I'm not going to host a theme that I don't like, but I'm happy to hear your suggestions.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

i think what is gonna matter here is not the theme.

Its gonna be how creative you are with the theme, and how you place your doodads and what not ( execution )

If its too restricting, people wont get a chance to get creative.

I think mythology in general is restriction enough... As long as we dont see any WENDIGO's or SPACE STATIONS in the terrains..than i think well be fine xD

 

[Belgarath]

Void if you're hosting AND participating, you really shouldn't be having the last say on the theme. That sort of stuff is a bit obvious to see why it shouldn't be.

 

[Oziris]

Void if you're hosting AND participating, you really shouldn't be having the last say on the theme. That sort of stuff is a bit obvious to see why it shouldn't be.

Void, you can do anything, so why not judge and be in the contest?

 

[X.e.r.e.X]

I think I may be hosting this, so in the end it really is going to be how I like it. I'm not going to host a theme that I don't like, but I'm happy to hear your suggestions.

What's the point of the poll then?

Seriously, shouldn't the hoster of the contes host it for the people in hive instead of themself?

 

[Belgarath]

My point exactly there, xerex. Oziris's post is pretty much it too.

 

[Oziris]

We should stop the poll because Mythology / Ancient History won all ready. Void should make the actual contest now in my option.

 

[~Void~]

What's the point of the poll then?

Seriously, shouldn't the hoster of the contes host it for the people in hive instead of themself?

Well let's just think about it this way. The poll is so you can suggest themes, and I will base my decision off the views of the community, but I'm putting a restriction on it. That restriction is that I don't want to host a contest with a theme that I, personally, do not like.

It's a compromise, so let me say what I want, and then you can tell me what you want. I want an ancient mythology theme that is refined to one culture. So now you can tell me which culture you want for the theme. Fair enough?

 

[thedeathunterxx]

lol im not in it if its aztec >.>

 

[~Void~]

I think we've pretty much ruled that out already, anyways. I'm just going to throw this idea out there, and see if you all like it. How about to recreate one of the "heavens" of an ancient culture, for example Valhalla or Mount Olympus? But you could choose which culture you want to do. The theme would basically be Heavens, but you would need to actually pick one that existed in mythology.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

ummm one problem in the culture thing.

what if someone doesn't know, or mis interprets what the culture is.

I though Valhala was the land of elves...not necisarily a heaven, but a place unreachable by men.

Ive always imagined it as a plain of infinte trees and grass....

 

[~Void~]

Really? Valhalla is where, according to myth, the Norse gods dwelt. It's supposedly some kind of enormous castle high up on a mountain.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

lol

i definetly didn't know that xD

 

[CoBrA b]

Well, if Aztec's out, my pick for culture would be Mid-West North American cultures, or Celtic/Barbarian culture. If, however, we are now doing things like heaven of a culture, I'm going for the underworld of each culture, or, to put it in a better light, the land of the dead of each culture. This would be kind of like the idea for heaven of a culture, but I think that was more like dwelling-places of the gods.

 

[~Void~]

Well whatever category places like Valhalla and Olympus fall into. The thing with lands of the dead is, in most cultures they are boring or just too vague.

 

[Restor]

Why just heaven/hell? E.g illiad&odysea has also good places to terrain. (yes, there is styx also)




And I think Middlearth has nothing to do with Mediterranean Sea, its name is taken from Midgard