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Posted by Leperous on Thu May 26th at 1:18pm 2005

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Posted by Loco on Thu May 26th at 5:37pm 2005

Says to check in the forums if you're not sure, so here goes. Would this sort of thing be reasonable?

http://www.snarkpit.net/pits/loco/images/concept01resized.jpgimage

Just a quick sketch that I did (that was water below, but it kinda got lost in the scan). I'm fairly sure it's okay, but just checking. It's not entirely "unreal" strictly speaking and not very imaginative, but is it allowed?



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Posted by satchmo on Thu May 26th at 6:46pm 2005

I suggest that the panel of judges should consist of all previous competition winners (I mean first place winners) only. They've earned their rights to be judges by their mapping prowess.


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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Thu May 26th at 9:29pm 2005

I'm going to be rehashing my "Persia" concept from the previous competition, except with a few twists. Right now I'm torn between semi-realistic / cel-shaded. Semi-realistic kind of goes against the spirit of the competition but is easier with some photo-whoring for textures. Cel-shaded would definately be cooler, but would probably require actual artistic talent to draw good textures. Argh!

Loco: Looks fine. An underwater-themed map would be great! There's already plenty of beached ship props you can use and stuff. I think the most important thing is that it isn't related to HL2 / City 17.




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Posted by Captain P on Thu May 26th at 9:32pm 2005

I'm brainstorming at the moment. Perhaps I'll take an old idea and mess it up the surrealistic way, or take a fresh approach. I'll see.

But I'll definitely be joining this contest. I'll be happy to have some more finished levels... really, after 3 or 4 years you want something of your own to play in...

EDIT: Something more than 2 levels, that is.



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Posted by moonracer1313 on Fri May 27th at 3:51pm 2005

hehe, I chose a good time to start learning mapping. I love surrealist/fluxus/discordian work. I just hope I can make a half decent map for this by august.

Looking foreward to seeing everyones maps.





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Posted by KoKo5oVaR on Fri May 27th at 4:15pm 2005

Hey, are you sending the reward in france too ? ^.^



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Posted by ReNo on Fri May 27th at 4:21pm 2005

If its anything like the time I got a prize, I think he will just order something off the internet and have it delivered to wherever you are, so I don't think there will be an issue with most EU and US locations.




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Posted by zeOx on Fri May 27th at 7:57pm 2005

omg, this is the perfect theme for a competition!. I have a feeling we're going to see some crazy stuff here.

btw, I posted this comp as news on the norwegian modding site "spillmodding.no". the more, the merrier:D


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri May 27th at 8:19pm 2005

I saw it posted at Planet Half-Life too.




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Posted by ReNo on Fri May 27th at 8:21pm 2005

CJ, post it up on the VERC news if you can still do that I posted about it on mapcore.




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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Fri May 27th at 9:27pm 2005

Slapped it onto VERC. Spread zee news!

EDIT: Oh, and I just picked up Psychonauts - AMAZING game. If you're stuck for surrealism/unrealism ideas, do yourself a favor and get this game! It is most definitely "surrealism" incarnate, and will surely turn a few cogs in your brain if you have mapper's block. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Orpheus on Fri May 27th at 10:40pm 2005

? quoting Agent Smith
I'm entering, but is it alright if I judge as well? I promise to be impartial .

The odds are that I won't have time to enter but you never know.

It is my opinion however that if you do not vote for yourself, then you are not cheating by entering a submittance and being a judge as well.

On the first point, I would like to submit my request for a judges position, subject to the discretion of the rest of the snarkpit membership of course.

On the second point, since I never feel my maps are worth a s**t, you won't see me voting for one of them as a judge.





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Posted by ReNo on Fri May 27th at 10:54pm 2005

It would be easy enough, provided there were say 4/5 judges, for people to simple not comment on their own maps. By the way, when I said a judging panel, I was envisioning something like the one that did geocomp a fair while back. So not just picking favourites and assigning scores, but doing little write ups similar to Lep did for each of last years entries summing up their opinions of the levels.




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Posted by Orpheus on Fri May 27th at 11:03pm 2005

? quoting ReNo
but doing little write ups similar to Lep did for each of last years entries summing up their opinions of the levels.

Hey... Mine were... misplaced, but I did do a review of all the maps in one of our contests..

I would consider doing another if it were guaranteed that they could not come up missing again.





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Posted by Hugh on Sat May 28th at 10:54am 2005

I'm going to make something that'll end up really crappy/not surreal at all, so long as I manage to get HL2 by August. :P I'll work on the architecture or something similarly boring.

Just to clarify, the maps don't have to be particularly surreal so long as they're (somewhat) unique? That's the gist of what I got from the details page but I wanted to be sure.




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Posted by Myrk- on Sat May 28th at 12:01pm 2005

Surely this whole thread should be in the maps forum?


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Posted by Orpheus on Sat May 28th at 12:42pm 2005

? quoting Myrk-
Surely this whole thread should be in the maps forum?

I disagree. The maps forums is such that people talk/discuss specific maps. This is a general information thread on many maps. Yeah it is about maps, but it is also about judging and themes and a whole plethora of things not maps.

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Posted by Orpheus on Sat May 28th at 10:41pm 2005

For what its worth, I added the competition to PFL's front page.. Perhaps we will get a few hits from that direction.





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Posted by StickFigs on Sun May 29th at 12:55am 2005

Dear judge, is it ok to submit a join project?

I mean like we split the prize, you know.






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