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printz said:
I don't think so, as a player. For authors it might be a rewarding experience seeing their styles acknowledged by others, and a motivation to actually work, but for players it will look like a mashed-up set where authors limited their creativity and awkwardly aimed to mix it with one that wasn't their own (copyright ethics ring-a-bell!), resulting in unremarkable levels.
I have to disagree on the grounds that prior contests involving a certain limitation have consistently produced good-to-excellent results (10 Sectors, 1024, 1994 Tune-Up, etc.). Granted, the former two weren't asking the authors to change their style, but I don't see any reason why the product wouldn't be quality if the authors put in a decent effort. In some ways, there's the potential for a product greater than the norm to be produced should the styles mix together in unexpected, enriching ways (possibly paving the path for said author's future style, should he/she enjoy the final result enough).
Also, I don't understand where copyright ethics come into play here seeing as this would, in all likelihood, be limited to willing participants. The only ambiguity that would exist would be if a decision to include well-known authors such as Torm or Gusta without asking for their approval first, but Torm gets imitated so much anyways that it sort of reached the point of being an old, redundant joke... Which basically leads me to my point that there are already wads that imitate the efforts of others, and thus far, no one has verbally spoken against this (1994 TU aside, as that wad direct map-imitation as oppose to mere style).
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