Wc3 Fun Mapmaking Challenge

[WaterKnight]

Back to business. The next Challenge can take place. Here's a poll for dates in August. In any case it will be from 8pm to 8pm (UTC+2) of the next day.

This will be the 4th round and as already previously mentioned, there are rule changes:

• The amount of needed key words is reduced to 1 (from 2). There will still be 2 key words to choose from.
• You may revive and continue one of the entries of your own you did in an earlier Challenge. The conditions are that you are not currently working on the project and that you insert/match the key word criteria of the current round.
• As you may have presumed from the changed time range, the Challenge no longer overlaps with the Funmap Evening. Infact, there is one hour break time in between.

Genre pool for this round (from which 2 will be rolled):

aeon
arena
capture the flag
survival
escape
footmen wars
misc
rpg/adventure
tower defense

Update: Poll ended. The 4th round of the Challenge will be held from 15th to 16th August 8pm to 8pm (UTC+2). Here is an online countdown timer.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

I'll likely not be able to participate in August, but I hope you guys get good turnout!

 

[muzzel]

If you roll cool genres (like RPG) i might actually participate

The conditions are that you are not currently working on the project and that you insert/match the key word criteria of the current round.

This means im allowed to recycle old projects, as i didnt open the world editor for months .. ? I mean its not a contest, so creating cool maps is more important than 100% standing to the rules, right?

 

[WaterKnight]

This means im allowed to recycle old projects, as i didnt open the world editor for months .. ? I mean its not a contest, so creating cool maps is more important than 100% standing to the rules, right?

Projects which you entered in the Challenge before. The idea is just that those are not abandoned. Gives more of a motivation than being dedicated to a single round.

 

[muzzel]

You know i never participated in a Challenge before ^_°

But since you are allowed to import any resource you want its just a matter of how you define "resource"...

 

[bhusta]

Hell yeah!

But since you are allowed to import any resource you want its just a matter of how you define "resource"...

I think this aspect is quite open. The goal is just to have something playable after the given time.
From my point of view it depends on the amount of "old" resources your conscience let you use.
You are simply missing the point of this contest if you just post one of your current maps which you are working on instead of starting from zero.

 

[WaterKnight]

Poll ended. The 4th round of the Challenge will be held from 15th to 16th August 8pm to 8pm (UTC+2). Here is an online countdown timer.

 

[bhusta]

4 Days left

 

[LordDz]

Ok.. This is on friday, I'm going on a untz untz then.
So..

Going back home, drunk, make a wc3 map. Check.

 

[imforfun]

oooh!

so all you do is start making a map (within the conditions) when the timer runs out for fun and then after 24 hours release what you've got for just pure fun!?!?! : D

sounds like fun, i'm in!!!

 

[LordDz]

Yes. Make sure it's multiplayer for around 10+ people.

 

[Frotty]

so all you do is start making a map (within the conditions) when the timer runs out for fun and then after 24 hours release what you've got for just pure fun!?!?! : D

sounds like fun, i'm in!!!

Yes!
Looking forward to some good entries.

 

[imforfun]

yehehe!, I hope to see many fun maps too!

is misc and capture the flag of limits due to being picked last one? misc would have been nice lol ^_^

(that moment when you get a good idea and the last event had the perfect stuff for it hehehe X3)

 

[Frotty]

is misc and capture the flag of limits due to being picked last one?

yes.

 

[Zhall]

When does this start PST/PDT - UTC-7?

I hope to participate this time, as well as record my development and all of the entries as I did 2 times ago.

 

[Frotty]

When does this start PST/PDT - UTC-7?

I hope to participate this time, as well as record my development and all of the entries as I did 2 times ago.

Take a look at the countdown timer

 

[Zhall]

ah yes i forgot about that thank you

 

[imforfun]

your very helpful frotty! ^_^ ty

 

[Frotty]

Since WaterKnight is currently not able to post the rolled results to this Thread, even though this Challenge starts in 10 minutes, I will post it temporarely for him:

Rolled Genres:

• Survival
• Escape

Rolled Keywords:

• Eruption/Birth
• Hate/Love

This is the new Countdown that indicates the end of the Challenge (24 hours from now).

1 hour after that, the funmap-evening will take place, where we will test all entries (if possible).

Have fun and create some good entries!

 

[WaterKnight]

Thanks, I was online but could not properly post from this device, so I relayed the info to Frotty. The partial co-relation of the keywords is coincidence but as you are hinted by "eruption", "birth" encloses more than sexual reproduction. I have already some vague ideas of what I could build.

Good luck, have fun!

edit: Please refer to this timer for the correct UTC+2 offset.

 

[bhusta]

Whoa nice conditions. I know exactly the kind of map I want to make.
Going to use: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/maps-564/dusk-gardens-256040/

 

[Zhall]

Dont starve!

Development video

Map attached

 

[LordDz]

Instructions were unclear, I did get drunk but I also fell asleep.
Won't have time to play tonight, hope you guys have fun anyways!

 

[imforfun]

soooo

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Survive the eruption by either finding a cave or making it to the beach. don't get to close to dinosaurs or they will kill you (planned to have tall grass you could hide in but ran out of time lol) and lastly you can find axes to chop tree's out of your way and spears to kill raptors with as a small form of defense! Oh and use the arrow keys to move, just walk into items to pick em up.

... I also ran out of time to add different difficulties so one fits all for now Wahahaha!

(done entirely from scratch at the start of the timer, enjoy!)

Update: woops, forgot to add the credits on the map too XD only worked for about 6-8 hours
didn't get a chance to test it but, caves (goldmines) don't work and the spears r hard to use... and the timers are not right and the ash clouds don't stop spawning and crash the game lol ^_^ total fail but probably will continue to fix it and finish it to put on hive.

 

[WaterKnight]

Far from finished, first I wanted to go wurst but too many starter problems, then switched to vJass but you just need too many basic stuff setup before you can efficiently work. But oh well.

edit: some fixes

 

[Crigges]

By Raldir and Me Hf

 

[bhusta]

Yes I did it!
Thanks to Crigges, who helped me a lot.


Don't forget to join the channel for playing the maps.

 

[muzzel]

Arctic Booze Defense
Defend the penguins while they are getting drunk!

Written in WurstScript
Terrain by Heinvers

(try "-help")

 

[Zhall]

When will we be playing?

 

[muzzel]

We are playing the maps right now.

http://webchat.quakenet.org?channels=inwc.de-maps-fa

 

[bhusta]

 

[Retera]

Aww, I clicked the first of 2 timers that was linked, and it said the contest still had about an hour and 10 minutes to go.

I started something about 4 hours ago, been working, but I just clicked an updated contest clock and it's already over

 

[WaterKnight]

Does not matter. Just post what you have. We can also test it in private.

 

[imforfun]

hehehe, it was fun and hard with the limited time I had this weekend but it was really cool to see the other maps too! : D

 

[Zhall]

Here's an overview of SOME of the maps (I showed up late)

 

[WaterKnight]

Thank you all for participating. Everything has been pushed to the first post with the exception of Frotty's entry because I do not find it uploaded. I have taken the attachments from your post (linked to them), if you have any updates, feel free to post it/contact me.

The maps were indeed very different in gameplay and theme, although everyone took the seemingly more difficult genre survival. The keyword criteria, on the other hand, was rarely matched. Keyword means it should play an integral role and be emphasized. That is easiest be relayed through text and objective clarification, so the player gets the theme, unless it can be deducted from the environment if it's a keyword like "beach". But I agree it's not easy to carve out the concept in the limited time frame.

Round #5 could still be in September. Until then it's normal Funmap Evenings again, although my bot currently behaves like Gandalf.

 

[Ralle]

I have moved the thread back to The Arena for the next round!

 

[WaterKnight]

As you may have seen in the ticker, round #5 is scheduled for October 31st/November 1st. Meanwhile daylight saving time will end here, so it's UTC+1 then. Anyway, the timer considers it. So it will again be from 8pm (UTC+1) to 8pm of the following day. An hour afterwards we can playtest the results at a funmap evening.

Genres and keywords are to be posted up to 15min before start.

Genre pool for this round (from which 2 will be rolled):

aeon
arena
capture the flag
survival
escape
footmen wars
misc
rpg/adventure
tower defense

Everything else is like in the last round, no rule changes this time.

 

[Paillan]

Yay another round

 

[bhusta]

This is just a reminder that the #5 round starts tomorrow evening.

 

[Frotty]

This is just a reminder that tomorrow evening starts the #5 round.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/satzstellung_2.htm

Might not be able to participate this time.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

I don't really have time to participate fully, but depending on the rolled genre I might spend a few hours making a map tonight on start.

 

[WaterKnight]

Round 5 starting...

genres:

• capture the flag
• misc

keywords:

• desert
• elves

 

[bhusta]

Nice draw. I love it if misc is rolled.
Everything is possible again

 

[rulerofiron99]

Sliding CTF
A CTF on a slippery thing of ice, so gameplay will be similar to Tribes.

Sliding System - Done (Update: unit collision with relative mass interaction added)
Hero selection - done
CTF system - done
terrain - basic terrain done
heroes - 2, each with 1 ability

EDIT: Ugh, didn't quite read the rules regarding inclusion of keywords correctly. Time to add elves.

EDIT2: Playable version attached. I might not do much more than this, didn't think a theme would make me so disinterested.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

I didn't find time to participate, didn't even start a map. sorry. maybe next time

 

[bhusta]

I didn't find time to participate, didn't even start a map. sorry. maybe next time

There is still time.

 

[rulerofiron99]

Won't be doing any more with mine, but at least this has inspired me to make a new map.

I intend to update the sliding system to allow 3D movement. E.g. if you go up a ramp really quickly you become airborne, any hero can slide down a cliff but only heroes with a jump ability can go up cliffs.

 

[WaterKnight]

Well okay, a lot of trickery and half-bakedness
See you in an hour.

 

[Crigges]

By Raldir and me