Tutorial contest?

[~Void~]

This is a little idea I had, and I want to see people's opinions on it.

Fact is, I'd like to see more tutorials here. I also want to see more different kinds of contests. Why not have a tutorial contest? Creating a theme would be hard, but I think it's worth a shot.

Of all categories, I'd like to see either a terrain tutorial theme or a texturing tutorial theme.

 

[Videosurfer101]

Hm, that does sound like a good idea, and we really do need more tutorials. But other than that I don't see how this would work, it's not like people train to be better tutorial makers.

 

[~Void~]

I don't see why not. It's a nice thing to be good at.

 

[Gilles]

We had a tutorial mini-contest. It failed.

 

[~Void~]

Shame.

 

[Hawkwing]

Yes, well, you'd need a fairly lengthly deadline and, still, you'd only get a few submissions and maybe only one or two decent ones.

 

[AirHead]

Yes, well, you'd need a fairly lengthly deadline and, still, you'd only get a few submissions and maybe only one or two decent ones.

I wrote a tutorial in two days... it got accepted... I only spent 4 hours (at most) on it. I think you get what I'm trying to say.

 

[~Void~]

I wrote my first terrain tutorial in about 1 hour and my longer one in about 2. Why does everyone take so long to do everything? D:

 

[Gilles]

People generally don't get excited about tutorials. They're rather boring work.

 

[NinjasDontFight]

It ain't to bad to make one, but I'm limited on what to discuss that to my knowledge. I could thoroughly and correctly explain. So I'd join in if I could manage some time into it.

 

[Linaze]

Perhaps the reward would motivate people. I'd say we go for it, I mean, it'd still get more submissions than the campaign contest *whistles*.

The weirdest thing though, is that I thought of just his before I went to bed last night, and when I wake up, I see this...

 

[Gilles]

Perhaps when there are a few less contests going on.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

A tutorial contest would 'require' no wips, cause if you release a part of a tutorial, then the other contestants might either learn from it, or realize a way to make it better.

Normally this would be good, but if its for a contets, it would be like stealing.

 

[Gilles]

I would make it optional to post WIPs. If someone stole, I'd just disqualify them.

 

[Linaze]

You could just let them PM the wips to the contest host.
Either way, please, no more contests for now, there are too many going on at the moment already.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Not neccesarely stole, but just the fact that a WIP could give you an idea would make it troublesome.

Thus, i think different themes for each tutoriall would be better.

 

[Gilles]

Perhaps a mini-contest would be better. We don't have many of those anymore, I'd like to see more. Have less big contests, and more mini.

 

[Linaze]

Agreed with Gilles. I think for example terraining should fully go over to mini-contests like Void hosted an elven themed one, just that imo there shouldn't be any more big terraining contests. Paired mapping, Cinematic and such should remain, but at the moment, there are usually just to many contests at the same time.
Either way, none should be hosted for about a month or so, I think.

 

[Kwah]

Texturing theme would be teh best.

 

[Just_Spectating]

we also dont want noobs attempting this contest to noobify anyone who listens to their tut

 

[Gilles]

Agreed with Gilles. I think for example terraining should fully go over to mini-contests like Void hosted an elven themed one, just that imo there shouldn't be any more big terraining contests. Paired mapping, Cinematic and such should remain, but at the moment, there are usually just to many contests at the same time.
Either way, none should be hosted for about a month or so, I think.

There will still be terrain contests, there will just be less.

 

[Linaze]

Roger that. In the post above, I was just stating my own opinion regarding the terrain contests.

 

[Devine]

I made my modelling tutorial in 10 minutes
although the text took me about ... 15 minutes so all together 25 minutes.
It's not finished yet though.

 

[~Void~]

Agreed with Gilles. I think for example terraining should fully go over to mini-contests like Void hosted an elven themed one, just that imo there shouldn't be any more big terraining contests. Paired mapping, Cinematic and such should remain, but at the moment, there are usually just to many contests at the same time.
Either way, none should be hosted for about a month or so, I think.

Why? Every major terrain contest gets more entries than any other contest type does. And why wait so long to host another one? Again, we have enough activity to get submissions anyways.

 

[Kwah]

lrn2minicontest.

EDIT: To make this less spammy, we need more mini contests, less large ones.

 

[Gilles]

That's the plan hawk.