Competition 33 Created 11 years ago2012-12-09 07:24:42 UTC by TheGrimReafer

I want a new compo! Map your dream home?

Not only is that idea awesome, I could still work on The Core while I entered it! So, it's... double awesome. Aweawesomesome.

No... no... I want to enter but I'm too busy

No excuses! pimpslap

Not sure if TWHL can handle TWO competitions. It might explode.

There's nothing saying we can't start or own compo aside from the Mods and Judges.
Even a community project.
Things just need to be well organized and people actually need to dedicate time.

I love this site and the compos, and it's a real shame to see the compos fail to get judged on time - but people have lives and responsibilities.

There's a community project just getting off the ground if you would like to contribute toward something in the meantime.

http://twhl.info/forums.php?thread=18368

I'll willingly host a contest~! I do it all the time so its not really a hassle and I'm good a keeping shite on schedule.
I'd just need to know whether you guys like prizes and stuff, and if so what type of stuff? Also, would need help judging (since I'm not exactly the all knowing mapping extrodinary, and I would probably be judging on whether it looks good and plays nicely), but that would be easy I'd get Scotch to help me and anyone else that would like to assist but not compete.

Hell, I'd be willing to organise monthly contests if you guys were interested. XD

I prefer a long time to work on submissions, at least 2 months.

Can think about the time frame if people are interested. XD

So.... Are people interested?

I'll be interested in December.

It's time for the obligatory once a month question:

So is this contest dead?

I say it's been so long, why not reopen/relaunch the contest to New contenders for 1 month, and then have an official judging and prizes, no matter what?

This give peeps a second chance to join, and those who already entered time to further polish their entries. (win-win)

and den after that, we should seriously have structured and regular contests like we used to.

if there is no official prizes, I would(and I'm sure others) be willing to donate. We could also. Accept "mystery gifts" like we are trying to do with the minicontest.

Nobody at TWHL maps anymore. I thought that was common knowledge.

Urby stop you're doing it wrong! =)

Grim was trying to recover some "lost" compo entries (dead uploads) by sending PM's to the users, however I haven't heard from him since. I think he's just way too busy to sort it out, so your idea sounds pretty good, CapT.

Edit: And done. Sorry for the delay everyone, and thanks for being so persistent

Next is Invert-X

Haha....one thing at a time >_>

Did Grim get my entry? It should be the best map of the lot. Top notch map, really good stuff.

JK I didn't make one.

@Skals: LMFAO.

@Pengy: Welkome backh!

Anyone feel we should start allowing for team submissions, or rather keep it traditional?

I suppose i can enter...

Good luck, chaps.
Who wants to take bets though that the contest wont be judged until sometime next summer

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well said

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He burst the bubble of happiness. :c

The end date for entries is a Friday for a reason.

happiness bubble?
I"m stoked for this.
Lost interest in my entry for various reasons. I have a newly found drive to complete it.

Indeed! I'm starting a brand-new map, can't wait to start building it =)

Solely based on the fact that a new competition was started.

I used to do these things for fun, we'll see. Don't want to offend anyone who's been appropriately participating...

Trempler, your name says it all hehe. Sorry to hear if you had any hardships to deal with, hope you still enter. Pst, let us know so we know how hard to try.

Ninja you're third screenie showed some cool architecture and texturing.

Moaby, whoa that was looking awesome, I wonder how it looks now. Have you made any progress since?

Rimrook, your entry was looking astounding. I love the design and texturing. I really hope you do something with this!

Docrock, large scale is one thing you sure know, looking awesome. I hope you've been working on it.

Doodle, pretty sure i'll have to play through that one! I'm curious if the gears move

Lajron, nice name hehe. Cool clean design.

Tetsuo, did yours end up turning out like the sketches?

Kraken, looks great especially with those bleeding textures added . It would make for some nice cs gameplayage.

Urby I agree that most twhl members probably don't map anymore. I myself had to reinstall hammer for the purpose of this competition. Being a website based on level design i'm sure most designers/ developers here will never completely lose similar interest.

Captain, sounds like myself in many ways . I've began editing and assembling textures so far.

@zeeba-G

Actually...

http://twhl.info/vault.php?map=5884...now I look back at it, I could improve it so much. The tiling textures and rather smooth displacements didn't give my entry much credit. Pretty half-arsed, but I cut corners for the deadline. I'll stick with this as my entry even though I NOW have more or extra time, depending on how you look at it.

From your screen zeeba i see our ideas are looking very similar(so far..) =P

Looks really cool Moaby! Seems like it would be a lot of fun to play, and those waterfalls are epic.

Cool Captain, can't wait to see! I will be merging the natural land masses with man/alien made architecture.

Thanks Zeeba, but they were my first attempts at making textures from scratch, they aren't terrible, they tile well, but they don't look that good. Next time I'll try digital photos or something.

Also not sure I'll do an update for my map. I did PM it late to grim but its also in the vault. If I update it, I will submit it through the competition and probably PM you Pb just to be on the safe side.

edit: Is Ant actually judging?

Time for forward thinking on these contests. Need to start a Halloween themed contest now, then a Christmas themed map right after that.

maybe even just judge based on screen shots to get people practicing portfolio scenes instead of full on maps. Its a lot easier to get 1 angle looking pimp, than to worry about a full on map.

Just my $0.02

^^ what Don said. I can't fathom twhl never did a halloween coop/compo!

<3 Don punch
no homo

While i'd love to do a twhl halloween coop, i think it would be a mistake to postpone C33 any longer....

BUT, maybe we can still pull some sort of Halloween project off? Perhaps rescue Alberto's coop? Something small and manageable of course!

I nominate Don to manage it whatever we do

Is anyone still working on their entries?

I'm working on upgrading mine, it's just coming along slowly due to Uni.

I bet! I'm supposed to start working again tomorrow so mine will suffer greatly. Also I restarted a few days ago... I'm just going to try and crank out a fun level.

mine is slow rollin

Pfft, mine is what better than all of yours. Check this out.

Better than mine no doubt.

Mine is progressing slowly too, i think the countdown timer seems to be running fast...hmm =P

i finally have the frame/concept down now, so i can start testing the gameplay tonight i hope

Glad to hear, keep up the work. I've neglected reality the past two days.

Sneak peek, err this vm!Testing stuff video

Had to test making floating islands hollow so gauss wouldn't reflect and kill you. Also tested hollow floating chuncks that you can actually go in.

I also remade my door from radcore for the map and tested some other iris doors including but not shown the hexagonal iris door from Metroid prime. It worked great in single player but glitches in multiplayer so I couldn't use it.

Even your tests are awesome and promising, zeeba. We shouldn't be letting you in here

And what? No Sledge?

Zeeba that looks quite good. Don't know why I bother trying to keep lag down for multiplayer when I could just map for half-life.

Thanks! More wips coming soon, anyone else want to share for inspiration?

I've checked out Doc Rock's entry so far and it is really nice. I'll post a review on it soon. I'll also have to check out the rest that are posted so far.

mehMade a prefabp
Will release after the compo

Whoa, that's amazing! Hehe you should have seen how I tried to pull off something similar in goldsource. What did you use to make it?

Your map is looking good so far too! The land masses have a very nice look to them.