Contest idea thread!

[DaBeatzProject]

You could also try to do a contest per 2. The task: to do the most amazing thing and to surprise everyone with your entry.

Just another idea..

[Zwiffle]

1.) "Fill in the missing area." If someone has a map that's not finished, we could have a contest to fill in the area that's missing using that map. Of course, it would have to be a map that's pretty easy to map for, be relatively easy to understand, not require a super computer, among a bunch of other high-end requirements, so it might not work out/be too hard to set up.

2.) "Interesting cap point design." Design a single CP that's interesting/innovative in both looks and game-play. Assume a 5 cap point, symmetrical map? An attack/defend cap point, asymmetrical map? Some different kind of cap point map? Open to interpretation?

3.) "Make a haunted house/mansion map for Halloween." Or something.

[Sgt Frag]

I like the prefab idea myself. I've done a few contest maps for the Thief Community
One thing that is alwasy consistant there is that the promoter always picks a size area (much like the last contest) to build within.
This is cool 'cause you get alot of variety and everyone does their own thing.

But I think the prefab thing would be cool soley for the fact that everyone starts with the same thing and in the end you know they'd all be different. I think it's a great idea to show how many ways a certian area could be laid out.

Also, if it's just a small area it won't be a map, so it's not like we'll end up with 10 playable maps that all have the same layout but 10 areas with similar layout that could be prefabed into maps.
So maybe I end up liking Snipergen's area, I might choose to use that in a map, but not the other 9. Or maybe one for red and one for blue on a symetrical map.

It might also be cool to have 2 prefab bases that could be chosen from. Both would need to be similar in size and style just to keep time/limts similar.
example: either both are a 'dead end cap point'. or both are a middle area that has access on both sides.

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Another idea is a 'Displacements Contest'.

Some of the other contests seem to be a 'Learn How to do something new' contest so I think this would fit in. Give everyone a little more practice making nice cliffs, etc... See what comes up.
I know some of the newer missions are starting to get pretty decent looking cliffs but alot of older ones are pretty blah.

[cornontheCoD]

for the custom texture contest, a larger version of that could be a texture pack (all with the same type of theme)

I love the smaller contests, because I have time to do them. I can't see doing a normal map and a contest map at the same time.

[ll4mma]

Team-Based Texture Competitions? Such as best Red-team Wood / Blu-team concrete.

How about a tree making contest? We need some Alpine trees now that its picking up prop development.

The only other one I can think of is the best prefab, displacements only in the desert/alpine theme.

[nfreader]

1. Build a prop room (those areas with all the computers and stuff) along with the adjacent room (can be a hallway, spawn room capture point etc).

2. Fit a complete CP map within a small space 1024x1024x1024 (Yay trends! )

3. Make an asymmetrical CTF map.

4. Round robin. Not really a contest, but what if everyone works on one map? IE: Person A starts it, passes it to B, who adds a section, passes to C etc... Everyone adds their own "touch" to the map. Could make an EXCELLENT learning opportunity (everyone groups their addition on a separate layer).

[Username]

Hm. I like that 3rd one. Perhaps extend it to "Make an asymmetrical cp or ctf map."

[laghlagh]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nfreader

4. Round robin. Not really a contest, but what if everyone works on one map? IE: Person A starts it, passes it to B, who adds a section, passes to C etc... Everyone adds their own "touch" to the map. Could make an EXCELLENT learning opportunity (everyone groups their addition on a separate layer).

YES!

[YM]

And what happens when one person fails to submit their part to the next? the project will fall though. I don't want to stifle such enthusiasm but there are way way too many ways for that type of project to fall though and never happen.

We can't really do a tree making contest since we're a mapping site not a modeling site, very few can actually model so entry numbers would be miniscule.

An asymetrical CTF map is one we've thought about, making an entire map is more along the lines of propper contests like the payload one and the CP one we had ages ago, the ones its hard to pick topics for are the smaller contests really.

Did anyone like the idea of us just giving a theme and a short-ish timelimit with one criteria: 'impressive'? (so that could be a model, a prop-room, a cap point area, a skybox, textures, combinations of those.. anything really)

[MangyCarface]

3d skybox suggestion has my vote.