Map designing contest

[Pyros]

Hi,

I was thinking about organizing a small map designing contest.

What do you think (theme etc...)?

cheers,
Pyros

[Skirmisher]

Hi,

By small do you mean the map size? How about 100 wide x 80 high. Theme could be summer countryside with towns and or villages.

[Pyros]

Hi,

I was thinking about having (3) categories for small, medium and large maps.

As for the theme it could be fixed or it could be open.
In a case of a "fixed", I would be very interested for a "Vietnam jungle" or "Vietnam city" maps but this should be decided in a democratic way.

Anyway, we should wait for a while to see more opinions on the subject.

cheers,

[dita]

I`d be interested in having a go at this. Map design is a key element in good scenario design, and as I have no experience of it, it may be a good place to start. Now, if I could just get it to work.....

[Pyros]

Paul,

It must be terrible... to have the game, but not be able to play it...

cheers,
Pyros

[danstudentvcc]

Hello Pyros.

A custom map contest sounds good. Categories of S/M/L sounds good also. Will this be in European measurements or other .. haahhahahahaha. [Hexes versus Yards or Metres].
I prefer hexes first, followed by Metric. The Imperial measurements mean nothing to me since Pierre Trudeau made sure that Canadian children learned the Metric Measurement System. Immediately, gas stations changed over to metric measurement pricing. Since most adults were not adjusted to doing the conversions back to Imperial measurements [English or American gallons] they were able to increase the price of gasoline without much conflict.
That's one smooth and smart politician. To be able to get what you want and what is needed in one step.

dvcc

[Double_Deuce]

Pyros said:
I was thinking about having (3) categories for small, medium and large maps.

Here is the format I used for the one we did at SZO way back in 2003 (geez, how time flies)! Of course the Map dimensions are based on SPWAW and not SPMBT so these would need re-adjusting for the larger width maps/shorter height.

Maps must be submitted to Double Deuce no later than midnight, November 30th, 2003.

Maps will be categorized by total playing area (total # of hexes). To determine the map size use the following formula (Width * Height = Total Hexes). This total # of hexes determines what category the map will be grouped into.

The 4 categories will be;

SMALL < 4000 total hexes (i.e. 100x40).
MEDIUM < 6000 total hexes (i.e. 100x60).
LARGE < 8000 total hexes (i.e. 100x80).
GIANT > 8000 total hexes (i.e. 100x81+).

A panel of judges will be selected by Double Deuce from WarfareHQ Ladder Members who have NOT submitted any maps for the contest. Judging will commence shortly after the submission period ends. Each judge will score every map on a scale of 1-10. The map with the highest average score in each category wins. Maps will be posted to the WarfareHQ Download Section once all judging has been completed for general SP community enjoyment.

[Pyros]

Double_Deuce said:

Here is the format I used for the one we did at SZO way back in 2003 (geez, how time flies)!

DD,

The judge system is great, but what do you think about a mix system; 50% based on the judge vote and the other 50% based on a forum POLL? This way you will have the opinions of both the experts and the public!
Also, what do you think about creating thematic categories like conversion of topographic map (submit also the topographic map), highly bombarded/destroyed city environment/battleground etc..?

cheers,
Pyros

btw, how do you prefer to participate in this; as a judge or as a map designer? LOL...

[Double_Deuce]

Pyros said:The judge system is great, but what do you think about a mix system; 50% based on the judge vote and the other 50% based on a forum POLL? This way you will have the opinions of both the experts and the public!
Also, what do you think about creating thematic categories like conversion of topographic map (submit also the topographic map), highly bombarded/destroyed city environment/battleground etc..?

I was thinking about incorporating a Poll, open to the public. This way we could limit votes to 1 person = 1 vote.

I think we should be open to any categories, just wanted to post what we used before as starting point. I like the topograhic category addition. Would they have to include the scan/image of the map for comparison?