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Posted by Loco on Tue Sep 20th at 12:43pm 2005

Oh come on...! Is it really that bad?!
Edit: This was posted after agent smith, before he edited the post, and before Andrei's comment appeared.



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Posted by Agent Smith on Tue Sep 20th at 12:48pm 2005

LOL. I haven't played yours yet Loco, but from the screens I wouldn't give it a 1/10. Pulling off the concept is worth 2/10 at least <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">.

As to the general quality of the entries, they accurately reflect the mappers who made them. A number are fairly new to mapping so there work isn't going to be as swish as the veteran mappers. I think thats the thing, it seems that none of the veteran's here or on other sites have been able to enter. A sign of the times I guess, having less time to do the things you love.





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Posted by Andrei on Tue Sep 20th at 12:54pm 2005

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Oh come on...! Is it really that bad?!
Edit: This was posted after agent smith, before he edited the post, and before Andrei's comment appeared.


No, actually saturated was one of the best in the lot. Stop torturing yourself <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> . There were some othe entries that I thought looked good aswell, but I really didn't fancy one of the maps (i'm not giving any names) since it had some very tight and dark areas and was very hard to navigate.




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Posted by BlisTer on Tue Sep 20th at 3:14pm 2005

interesting.. always better than uninteresting i suppose <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">

for those wondering about why my 2 entries etc, check my profile news or their respective profiles.

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Posted by moonracer1313 on Tue Sep 20th at 3:46pm 2005

I downloaded the Orderlies_vs_Patients map a couple of times and it said the file was corrupt. Anyone else have a problem with getting that one to work?

Just took a quick run through of the other maps. I guess I can't be too critical since I couldn't muster the energy to sit in front of the computer all summer making a submission myself. But as someone with a surrealist art background I felt like maybe I was expecting too much. But then again, I really like a couple of these.

It's tricky making someting surreal and yet playable as a fun DM map. There's a lot of give and take choices to make. I spent a lot of time working out ideas in my head when the contest was first announced and spent hours trying to mork them out. (one was the magic hallway of doors from cartoons made with a series of teleports- I'd love to see someone make that work).






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Posted by Andrei on Tue Sep 20th at 4:47pm 2005

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I downloaded the Orderlies_vs_Patients map a couple of times and it said the file was corrupt. Anyone else have a problem with getting that one to work?






Yeah I get the same thing.




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Posted by BlisTer on Tue Sep 20th at 5:33pm 2005

? quoting Andrei

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I downloaded the Orderlies_vs_Patients map a couple of times and it said the file was corrupt. Anyone else have a problem with getting that one to work?






Yeah I get the same thing.

me too. i sent him a pm about it more than 2 weeks ago, but to no avail :/




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Posted by rs6 on Wed Sep 21st at 8:22pm 2005

I have looked at all the maps, and have pretty much picked the best one in my opinion. A few are pretty cool looking, while a few aren't that good. Orderlies verus Patients does not work for me either.



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Posted by Agent Smith on Thu Sep 22nd at 1:48am 2005

It probably doesn't work because it's part of a mod, not a HL2 DM map. Really I'm not sure why it was submitted, since it seems to be for a medical training simulator that hasn't been released. Not very surreal.


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Posted by rs6 on Thu Sep 22nd at 3:00am 2005

No, it is a HL2DM map(you're thinking of a different map.) It is not the bsp that is corrupt but the zip will not extract.



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Posted by Castor on Fri Sep 23rd at 6:58pm 2005

Ah! Sorry about Oderlies_v_Patients, the zip was inexplicably corrupted. I fixed it now, and e-mailed Leperous about fixing the file. If anyone is really desperate to play it, it's fixed in my profile. Sorry for not believing you at first, BlisTer.




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Posted by BlisTer on Sat Sep 24th at 1:02am 2005

mkay np. maybe you had bad experiences in compos before but i was just trying to help.



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Posted by Gwil on Tue Jan 31st at 1:04am 2006

Unlocked?






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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jan 31st at 1:10am 2006

? quoting Gwil
Unlocked?

Yaaa.

/me hugs.

On topic: I know that this has been brought up before but apparently not within the last 4 months as I was forced to request this thread unlocked.

How would everyone feel if we 1st, voted on a representing body to determine the winners and 2 have a site wide vote for these maps? Somehow, having them lost into abandoned obscurity seems a gross misconduct to me.

I would also request volunteers to write some review type pages for the event.

IMO, the very delay of this event precludes punishment to those who were tired of waiting and released their maps before the results and I feel no adverse penalty should be imposed on any entrant. Opinions?

Anyway, If the outlook seems favorable, perhaps we can get an admin to release the maps to the voted representatives????





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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Jan 31st at 3:10am 2006

I'm all for getting a winner selected, but alas I wont be able to help test and therefore can't vote.

I hope we can get things rolling though...




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Posted by BlisTer on Sun Feb 12th at 11:09am 2006

? quoting Orpheus

How would everyone feel if we 1st, voted on a representing body to determine the winners and 2 have a site wide vote for these maps? Somehow, having them lost into abandoned obscurity seems a gross misconduct to me.


idd
While i'm all for a 2006 competition, to start it up when not even finishing the 2005 one would be quite unfair to us <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">

Gwil had some great intentions on finishing it by starting to put them on the server. maybe a way to round it up is to organize playtests with the judges and/or interested members. Since Lep isnt here a seperate voting site might not be easy, so maybe just have an official poll in general banter after the playtests?




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Posted by ReNo on Sun Feb 12th at 2:21pm 2006

Sounds like a plan to me, though I think we should only count votes made WITH a post confirming their vote, as otherwise it would be too difficult to judge the authenticity of the poll.



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Posted by Andrei on Sun Feb 12th at 2:38pm 2006

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I think we should only count votes made WITH a post confirming their vote, as otherwise it would be too difficult to judge the authenticity of the poll.



Well if someone is patient enough to create multiple accounts as to vote more than once means that they're also patient enough to post 3 words as to validate their (fake) votes.

How about having a thread to nominate judges?




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Posted by ReNo on Sun Feb 12th at 3:09pm 2006

But at least we can see who is voting - this contest is so late to be judged that the possibility of it pulling in new faces is highly unlikely, so if we DO see lots of new accounts springing up and voting, then something may be amiss.



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Posted by Gwil on Mon Feb 13th at 11:52pm 2006

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? quoting Orpheus

How would everyone feel if we 1st, voted on a representing body to determine the winners and 2 have a site wide vote for these maps? Somehow, having them lost into abandoned obscurity seems a gross misconduct to me.


idd
While i'm all for a 2006 competition, to start it up when not even finishing the 2005 one would be quite unfair to us

Gwil had some great intentions on finishing it by starting to put them on the server. maybe a way to round it up is to organize playtests with the judges and/or interested members. Since Lep isnt here a seperate voting site might not be easy, so maybe just have an official poll in general banter after the playtests?



Yeah, sorry about that - there's a couple of maps on there already but nothing concrete. I've just been overwhelmed by starting university and having a full timetable to cater for.





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