Tremcentral Mapping Contest

[Confess]

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*Sponsored by AMD and Tremcentral.com

Introducing! The first Annual Tremulous Mapping Contest! Who is the best of the best?!

Tremcentral.com, with cooperation of some of the developers, is proud to announce that it will be sponsoring a mapping contest. If you have any experience in mapping, and want to see how you compare, or just want to submit one for giggles, we want YOU to submit your map!

Rules:
1.   Must be playable. No glitchy, epilepsy causing, crappy maps!
2.   Must support 16+ players.
3.   Must be a NEW, never released map.
4.   Cannot be ported.
5.   Must be your or your teams work, no one else’s.
6.   Group projects are okay! But, you must credit EVERYONE that helped.
7.   You must signup by the signup date or risk losing points!
8.   Must follow the theme! (Currently, no theme)
9.   Cannot release the maps before the winner has been announced.
10.   Must submit the map by the due date and time!
11.   Must be ORIGINAL!
12.   Can submit as many maps as you want – no limit!
13.   You may only beta test it on 1 server. Otherwise, use your own computer!
14.   Must include .map
15.   Must include, somewhere in the map, “Brought to you by Tremcentral.com”, and must also include the maker of the map (your nickname or groupname).

Judging:
The judges will be anonymous. The judges will play the maps on a private passworded server. The judges are already picked, so do not ask to be a judge.

Here is a list of what you will be judged on and how deeply we look into it:

Total available points – 200.

#   Name         Points
1.   Playability      10   - Does it meet the playability requirement?
2.    Glitches      20   - Are their glitches?
3.    Texture      10   - Is it textured well?
4.    Color         10   - Are the colors nice and clean?
5.    Sound         10   - Did you add sound? Is it good?
6.    Overall Gfx      20   - Do the graphics blend together?
7.    Overall Sfx      20   - Do the sounds blend together?
8.    Originality      30   - Is your map and idea original?
9.    Balance      30   - Do the humans and aliens win equally?
10.    Overall         40   - Overall, is the map good?

Reward:
Oh, so you WANT something for doing all this? Well okay. Tremcentral will be pleased to offer you the cash prize of $25 for your work! Payment will be made via Paypal. But that’s not all! You will also gain:
-   Your name on the Tremcentral.com website, congratulating you. (Real and/or Nickname).
-   Rotation spot on the SST Server for 1 week minimum.
-   Icon/banner (designed by:
-   Bragging rights
Oh yes, and did I mention that AMD will be sponsoring us?!?! AMD agreed to send the winner of this competition One AMD 580X Motherboard! This board is valued at $150, so if you don’t personally need it, sell it!

Signup:

So, how do I signup?! Simple! Email admin@tremcentral.com with your nickname and any forms of contact (AIM/MSN/IRC/YAHOO/ICQ/Alternate Emails). You MUST email this address in order to enter – no shortcuts! (IE, PMing me >.>). If you are working in a group, email the group name plus the nicknames of all the players that helped make the map. Must signup before June 19th.

Due Dates:
You are required to send us portions of your map as you go along. This is to prevent cheating. You must email us your unfinished map on each of the due dates. Remember, your map is never truly done! Always make adjustments down to the very end. If you are a procrastinator, like me, then play it smart – send in at least the blank .map!

Must be sent by 11:59PM Central
1.   June 20
2.   June 30
3.   July 5
4.   July 10
5.   July 15
6.   July 20th – Final due date, FINISHED map.
Submit your maps to admin@tremcentral.com. Remember to send the .map and .pk3!

Releasing:
Tremcentral will release all of the maps at the end of the contest, after the contest winner has been announced. Do NOT release the map before the winner has been announced or you risk being disqualified. The winner will be announced by July 30th.

[blood2.0]

theme ideas
weapons manufacturing plant
underground military base infected with aliens really old unvisited by humans in hundreds of years
a steal mill  that happens to find a frozen granger humans get there once aliens have built a base
cargo ship   
a island in wich there is an undergroud brewery abaned centurys ago aliens infected ship and it crash landed there
an afrincan vilage
meteor crash landed
mini everything is ultra big and located in an average American home 
high class beach hotel

[Confess]

There is no theme. Submit any theme (or no theme at all...) which you so choose.

To clarify: You may use any textures, sounds, or graphics which do not belong to you to put the map together however they must conform to the Tremulous Media License.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Remember, the more original, the better you will score.

Balance and playability will be judged using stock bps on a 20 slot server with 16 players.

[David]

It will be very hard to make a playable map without play testing....
Same goes for bug hunting.
Also your scores seem to be way more weighted to looks (and sounds) awesome than plays well.

But looks nice.  Well done.

[Confess]

Theres only a few more hours left if you are going to sign up for this contest! If you're going to signup, follow the signup directions!

[mooseberry]

I think you should give the Tremulous community more than 4 days to sign up...

[Confess]

You've got till the 19th to signup - I posted a lil premature.

[Lava Croft]

I think this needs to be moved to the appropriate section and stickied, since I see no difference between this mapping compo and the one ran by Survivor.

[mooseberry]

Survivor's isn't sponsored.

[X-20]

Well i just signed up for it, Good luck everyone.

[Hugoagogo]

Yay hugo loses who else is going in it

[Survivor]

Nice, hope we get some more maps out of it.

[Supertanker]

I'm in; expect another space map.

[TRaK]

I'm in as well, although I probably won't have time to finish a map before the deadline.

Anyhow, good luck to all who participate, let the best map win

[Hugoagogo]

why the best map cant you say let hugoagogo's map win

[Confess]

Just a quick note: Remember, a map is never truly done, you will probably always think of something new to add to it, and because of that - the map you release does not necessarily have to be your final release - It just has to be the playable beta release (But remember, it must follow the rules! IE, Few glitches/etc).

Regards,
Meow11

[epsy]

15.   Must include, somewhere in the map, "Brought to you by Tremcentral.com", and must also include the maker of the map (your nickname or groupname).

erm, does that actually mean that the maps in competition will belong to tremcentral?

[Confess]

No, although by submitting the maps to Tremcentral you agree to having them published - the link to the website is just supposed to be an "easter bunny", a form of advertisement for Tremcentral.

[Supertanker]

Just to clarify, there is *no* size limit correct, besides those imposed by common sense (EG, if I tried to send you a 100 mb Pk3, assuming I could ever upload it, it wouldn't be a very good idea)?

I tend to design maps that look great but have huge .bsps, and can't seem to get my textures small enough.

[Confess]

The Tremcentral maximum upload limits are 32mb - so I'd base it around that, but yes - pretty much common sense, dont make it too large. While there is not necessarily a limit - too large, you probably won't win unless its a REALLY REALLY good map.

[n.o.s.brain]

Comp is closed for entering now? 

darn, missed out...

[TRaK]

Comp is closed for entering now? 

darn, missed out...

I was under the impression you had until tonight to sign up.
I may be wrong though.

[your face]

I hope so... 

[Confess]

You still have some time to signup, about ~ 5hrs 29 minutes left.

If you didnt get an email back saying that I got your email - then I did not recieve your registration. (It was a simple (Thank you - Regards, Meow email).

[your face]

yay!  is it okay to post wip shots along the way on this thread?

[Confess]

Yes - as long as the map is not released itself before the final due date.

[Confess]

Final List of Contestants!

Odin
Trak
MGr}{supertanker
X-20
doomagent13
Kaleo
hugoagogo
seeeker
Rezyn
Xiane
Group -Yourface & Brain
Group - Gamez-host

Please remember to submit your map by today!

Regards,
Meow

[doomagent13]

You mean a WIP version, right?

[TRaK]

He does 

[Bissig]

You mean a WIP version, right?

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Due Dates:
You are required to send us portions of your map as you go along. This is to prevent cheating. You must email us your unfinished map on each of the due dates. Remember, your map is never truly done! Always make adjustments down to the very end. If you are a procrastinator, like me, then play it smart – send in at least the blank .map!

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There you go.