Facepunch official mapping competition discussion thread - Developers

Co op, micronations is fine with me.

How a ASW-based competition? You know, to breaking ASW Mapping. One rule could be that you can't just use a TileGen map, it has to has detail, and all that.

[QUOTE=Sodisna;23562490]to breaking ASW Mapping.[/QUOTE] Please don't. I don't haven't even tried it yet.

Not tilegen its not really that creative compared to using hammer.

[QUOTE=~ZOMG;23562716]Please don't. I don't haven't even tried it yet.[/QUOTE] It's really nothing new in terms of mapping, all you have really is a handful of new entities.

Please don't say we are using tilegen, if we are i'm out.....

Just plain old collaborative mapping would be awesome, or an abstract theme.

^ sibmoR ^ I like the idea of micronations and collaborative.

Yep sibmoR, I noticed nobody has commented on it, I don't blame them, it's not the best to my ability I believe, if I spend a month on it, it will be trippy as fuck, also Rombis my good man, I shan't be on tonight, going out for my friends 18th, to a nightclub :ohdear:

Oh :\ Well be carefull my friend. The release sections doesn't get so many views as this area maybe give it a little time and the thread will be back and kicking.

Yeah you never no, cheers for the good luck :frown: /offtopic Once all the current competitions are out of the way a collab or an abstract competition would be awesome.

Don't half to use TileGen.

Yeah but you can only use TileGen for Alien Swarm and I think most people here want to do Co op Micronations.

What about a competition where a pack of textures is given, and you can only use the textures in that pack. Whoever uses these the most creatively wins. Or a contest similar to that of TF2's art pass competition. A default map layout is made. People have to detail it and do other things to it. There wouldn't be too many limits like the TF2 contest. You could add in a lot more stuff if you wished. I think it would be interesting, though, to see the layout applied to different games in many different ways. Just my two cents

No offence Blah360, but I don't really like either of those ideas.

Blah360's second idea is a great idea in my opinion. But a basic, easy contest would be good for beginner mappers like me.

[QUOTE=Blah360;23634050]What about a competition where a pack of textures is given, and you can only use the textures in that pack. Whoever uses these the most creatively wins. Or a contest similar to that of TF2's art pass competition. A default map layout is made. People have to detail it and do other things to it. There wouldn't be too many limits like the TF2 contest. You could add in a lot more stuff if you wished. I think it would be interesting, though, to see the layout applied to different games in many different ways. Just my two cents[/QUOTE] That would be a bit limiting.

So when is this going to take place? Hopefully this year, right?

I'd guess when the current compettition is over.

I was thinking of making a group project, rather than a competition, where each person makes a room with a Saw type trap. Are there too many things like that going on or should I post it?

Well we have the community houce at the moment so I would wait till that is done.

I don't know if that'll ever finish considering the speed it's going, but I'll wait a bit.

Well either way I wouldn't make a thread because you will get moaned at.

Rombis is right, people will moan at you just wait

Ha. If you wait, it'll never happen, because someone else will start a competition before this ends and you'll wait for that, then you'll wait for the next one.. and the next. Sometimes in mapping it has to be a case of fuck what other people think, if people like the idea of the competition they'll join it.

[QUOTE=Rombishead;23726899]Well we have the community houce at the moment so I would wait till that is done.[/QUOTE] I'm sure the community houce will pick up speed after the single player competition is done, I know I'm holding back on the houce until I enter my submission, and I'm sure others are doing the same.

Make a map. And release it for download. I think I speak for everyone when I say this is the best idea ever. Why? Because no-one ever fucking releases the work they've finished. I don't see why they don't to be honest. It would be pretty fun to see it in-game.

[QUOTE=Black-Ice;23767483]Make a map. And release it for download. I think I speak for everyone when I say this is the best idea ever. Why? Because no-one ever fucking releases the work they've finished. I don't see why they don't to be honest. It would be pretty fun to see it in-game.[/QUOTE] I don't even finish my maps.

[QUOTE=Pelf;23768488]I don't even finish my maps.[/QUOTE] So true, it's almost painful to trawl though old projects and see all the work that'll never see the light of day at times...

[QUOTE=Pelf;23768488]I don't even finish my maps.[/QUOTE] Agree. I have 120 unfinished maps in my folder, going back to August last year.