(15 Jan 15, 11:52PM)Pi_Halo Wrote: There is more to a map then a layout. If a map has a good layout and no sounds, no textures, no lights, or detail then its not a good map. Half the points going to layout would be pointless in a MAPPING contest. Its a mapping contest, showing what different users can do mapping, not creating layouts. Its the combined items that create a map.
ladies and gentleman, this is the attitude that created stellar. i, too, was previously a victim to this mantra, but i have since broken free from its oppressive grasp.
i'm sorry, if you're really allocating 1/6th (1/6th? wtf.) of the points to gameplay, you're encouraging people to create terrible (but pretty) maps that won't get played. look at the difference in quality between the official cavern and cavern1.2, despite cavern1.2 being worse in terms of the other 5 aspects of your list.
i also find it amusing that the most qualified judge to judge based on gameplay quality is you.