This is a good idea, we'll have to revisit if we have enough entrants. Deltron added a line to the info channel saying the "rewards" may change if enough people submit :)
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We had no idea how to forecast realistic participation. I'd like to split the games into their own categories, but only if we have at least 3 participants per game, which seems like a lot for a community run contest. We'll see how it goes. There is no point making it more detailed for absolutely no reason, especially if there is low participation, but feel free to expand your thoughts for us. I can't glean anything from "I'm disappointed" with no elaboration.
The prizes and overall stakes are purposefully low here and it's more to give a basic excuse for folks to show off their mapmaking chops and have them showcased to a large audience. The reason is to encourage someone to participate even if they don't necessarily intend to be the absolute best, plus it also makes it easier for us as administrators too.
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Thank you for your input. This will not be more than a few months because it is a light-hearted contest, not a call for the best maps ever to exist. The scope needs to be clear and we can't just let a deadline creep out for months and months and months.
We're between 2 or 3 months right now and 3 is on the table mostly so that anyone who finds out about it late can still jump in. RTC was 3 months and a lot of folks appeared to pick it up late and submit right near the end so mimicking that seems appropriate.
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I'd say playable from start to finish. That doesn't mean it has to be perfect, but there can't be anything gamebreaking. Thanks for pointing this out, I will add it to any official rules we put out.
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Hi everyone! I'm Jayborino, but my friends call me Justin... probably because that's my real name and it would be weird if they called me by an online username. Anyway, you may be familiar with my YouTube channel where I showcase boatloads of single player content across Blizzard's RTS games.
Two other community members, Pr0nogo and DeltronLive, and I are looking to bring about some cross pollination of these communities around our love for some good, ol' fashioned single player content. Creators from any of the three games can submit! We are really just looking to gauge interest and participation here at first with something more official coming later if we think enough folks will join in. These are all early ideas as we're looking for feedback at this point and we'll add more of the semantics later.
If you are interested in participating, please let us know here in the thread or by PM, thank you!!
Contest Rules and Conditions
Submissions must be playable in StarCraft 1, StarCraft 2, or Warcraft 3. To be clear, for ONE of these games.
Submissions must be single player only. Mission 1 of a possible campaign, a stand alone scenario map, or Arcade-y type maps which could include virtually any style of gameplay.
Submissions must be new maps, started at the time of the contest
Submissions must include instructions for how to play, whether it be in offline mode for StarCraft 2, on Battle.net, through the custom campaign interface of WC3, etc.
One submission per person/team.
This is still in brainstorming phases, we're looking for any feedback that could make this appeal to more contributors. We want the barrier of entry to be fairly low. See judging section below for answers to inevitable questions of imbalanced cross-game judging.
Prizes
Depending on # of submissions per game, we may have a winner per game, then an overall winner of those three
Prizes may depend on which game the winning map is for or perhaps just winner's choice. Please leave feedback on what below may incentivize you to participate.
Bragging rights; the thrill of winning; good exposure to my viewerbase; SC: Remastered key/s, SC2 co-op and/or collectibles DLC; WoW expansion or time card; StarCraft Risk Board Game; attention from your friendly, neighborhood senpai Jayborino
Judges
Jayborino
DeltronLive
Pr0nogo (unless maybe he submits)
YouTube viewer polls
Judging/Voting Criteria
Deltron and I have extensive content on our channels and our experience hopefully instills some level of trust when we say that fun factor really is #1 in terms of possible judging. I play each of these games and do not really prefer one over the other. We understand that, for example, the SC2 Galaxy Editor opens the door for many more possibilities, but can also be much more time consuming, so there are many balancing factors that we're very aware of.
We'll nail the judging criteria down in stone if this becomes official and are looking for feedback to again make this as appealing to creators as possible to participate.
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In reply to TChosenOne:
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We had no idea how to forecast realistic participation. I'd like to split the games into their own categories, but only if we have at least 3 participants per game, which seems like a lot for a community run contest. We'll see how it goes. There is no point making it more detailed for absolutely no reason, especially if there is low participation, but feel free to expand your thoughts for us. I can't glean anything from "I'm disappointed" with no elaboration.
The prizes and overall stakes are purposefully low here and it's more to give a basic excuse for folks to show off their mapmaking chops and have them showcased to a large audience. The reason is to encourage someone to participate even if they don't necessarily intend to be the absolute best, plus it also makes it easier for us as administrators too.
Visit my channel where I showcase custom content! Send me a PM or respond to my YouTube thread if you'd like to see your map/s on my channel (eventually!)
FYI, We'll probably we starting this sometime near the release of SC:RM
In reply to DrSuperEvil:
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I'd say playable from start to finish. That doesn't mean it has to be perfect, but there can't be anything gamebreaking. Thanks for pointing this out, I will add it to any official rules we put out.
Visit my channel where I showcase custom content! Send me a PM or respond to my YouTube thread if you'd like to see your map/s on my channel (eventually!)
Single Player Map Contest (IN PLANNING)
Hi everyone! I'm Jayborino, but my friends call me Justin... probably because that's my real name and it would be weird if they called me by an online username. Anyway, you may be familiar with my YouTube channel where I showcase boatloads of single player content across Blizzard's RTS games.
Two other community members, Pr0nogo and DeltronLive, and I are looking to bring about some cross pollination of these communities around our love for some good, ol' fashioned single player content. Creators from any of the three games can submit! We are really just looking to gauge interest and participation here at first with something more official coming later if we think enough folks will join in. These are all early ideas as we're looking for feedback at this point and we'll add more of the semantics later.
If you are interested in participating, please let us know here in the thread or by PM, thank you!!
Contest Rules and Conditions
Prizes
Judges
Judging/Voting Criteria
Related Hive Workshop thread: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/cross-game-single-player-map-contest-wc3-sc1-sc2.295339
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