8th Official Mapping Competition!

[Felix-The-Ghost]

These map contests should run much shorter in my honest opinion.
Get a theme you have no interest in and it's just too bad for you.

[DogDancing]

Agreed less time maps people want to map more and gives em some pressure and incentive.

[ExodusS]

These map contests should run much shorter in my honest opinion.
Get a theme you have no interest in and it's just too bad for you.

This is why you'll have no map from me for sure. It's everything but creative, lack of interest IMO.

[YesWeCamp]

This is why you'll have no map from me for sure. It's everything but creative, lack of interest IMO.

History is interpretation isnt it? Anyway you cant really reproduce history with a couple of cubes. Feels not like a barrier for me in being creative.

[Duckett]

Is there still no maps for this yet?

[PhaNtom]

I'm hoping to have one. Kinda hard to do something that fits with both this theme AND the cube engine :P

[Cemer]

DUCKY HOW ARE YOU

[Andrez]

I would have joined this, but my lack of ideas and the theme itself made a hard time. :/

[Oracle]

Honestly there's not a huge incentive to participate in these. Sad but reasonably true.

[RKTnoob]

Incentive?

How about some tiny trophies then?

[Snoosnoo]

Hey guys, sorry for my lack of activity over the recent weeks. Sometimes the real world takes over. :c

As Halo mentioned, there is just under a month to go, and there is very few contestants (Well, actually 1 entry.) at the moment. I agree with the majority that there is no incentive, but there is little I can do. If I was to offer a reward, then the competition wouldn't be about making a good map, but just to win.

Despite a certain someone saying this theme isn't creative, any one with the slightest knowledge of history could conjure several ideas in their head. The theme was specifically thought of to overcome what the previous competitions have had issues with, and that is a lack of diversity. Implementation of the theme is a different subject all together, and I think it works in favour for the competition, as it adds a challenge.

I hope we see some entries toward the final days like most mappers seem to do, but I can tell this competition isn't a success. Regardless, I will judge the maps and part with my advice (No matter how shit you think I am as a mapper.) in an effort to promote mapping to the generation that will have to follow in the footsteps of the now lazy bunch. (Myself included, providing one more map. Yet to come.)

As mappers, we can either dismiss and quit mapping all together, or encourage others. I'm for the latter. The bare fact of it is that without the veterans encouraging the new-comers, you'll quickly see a dying art.

[Felix-The-Ghost]

Incentive?

How about some tiny trophies then?

Actually that's a pretty good idea for an account badge (like the AC logo badge for staff)

My personal aversion to this theme is for me there'd be three variables to line up: a map following a historic theme, a map that fits the "AC" theme at the same time, a map that doesn't use custom content and it's just too much for me to bother. The average person isn't ultra excited about history in the first place to be motivated.

[Nightmare]

People, start recreating Westeros from Game of Thrones.
ac_winterfell.

[ExodusS]

Incentive?

How about some tiny trophies then?

Actually that's a pretty good idea for an account badge (like the AC logo badge for staff)

^ I had the same though when I saw those cubes :P
A colored cube with the year of the contest (ex: gold cube 2014).

[Oracle]

Yea I guess the badges are some form of incentive.
What about something a bit bigger though, like if you win the map contest your map becomes has a reasonably good chance at becoming official? (I have faith in the scoring of the judges for this map contest)
Perhaps some may think that's too risky, but hey, better than nothing. Not like any of the winners of the map contests (where actual judges have decided the winner - sorry unfrozen) weren't decent maps.

[Waffles]

cumulative score above 9.5/10. RK on the judges panel. then MAYBE there could be a chance at that.

but seriously, incentive is exposure of your maps (although popular demand often gets more exposure than these competitions).

i'm willing to bet a certain judge would provide additional incentive, but would not do so without a spectacular achievement.

as long as one new map comes out of the competition and new mappers learn and put forward product i'd call that accomplishment. [cliche]rome wasn't built in a day[/cliche]

[Cemer]

[cliche]rome wasn't built in a day[/cliche]

thanks for the idea waffles!

[Waffles]

i have had no part in helping anybody :D

[Z3R0]

Been postponing posting this cause I'm lazy.

Entry #1 homies.
ac_pompeii By Z3R0

Spoiler

Download here.

[MathiasB]

Damn, that looks great!

My map is also on it's way, however it needs some more refinements...

[Luc@s]

Nice !!!

I made it compatible with 1.2 and uploaded it to akimbo :
http://ac-akimbo.net/showthread.php?tid=587

You can try it with the SVN w/o downloading manually.
just type "/getmap ac_pompeii" in game and vote it.

[Waffles]

Fuck you're awesome lucas

[Pi_Halo]

svn_chernobyl by Halo

I must stress that this map is only available in svn. The new paths will make this map have far to many errors to be loaded in 1.1. Because it is all official content for svn, the map would be entered as a regular map entry.

Spoiler

download

[Oracle]

And now we wait for cemer's map...




Could be a while.

[MerCyKiL]

map

i dont really care what others think of it but this is the best map i have ever seen. holy shit.

[Z3R0]

Thanks Lucas, that's awesome! Seems Halo was waiting for me to go so he could steal the spotlight ;)

[Pi_Halo]

Will all contest maps be uploaded to be compatible with the autodownloader from akimbo?

[Luc@s]

they already are.

(http://ac-akimbo.net/showthread.php?tid=589 )

[Pi_Halo]

I knew about those two, I was more or less talking about any entries that would be posted in the future. Would they too be available for auto download features? I'm assuming yes

[ExodusS]

@Z3R0: wtf
@Halo: 644 mapmodels