entryway Posted July 20, 2007 Hello, mappers. I want to make the popular Russian competition available for you. This contest is known there as "Freak Map Competition" and was organized 3 times lately. If you want to beat them you should join us. What is the Tuning Contest? The purpose of the competition is to decorate a base level generated by the fastest mapper in the world - the megawad generator Oblige version 0.94. You get started on something ugly and uninteresting and make something wonderful and unusual within the limits of the rules. RULES Requirements: IWAD: DOOM2.WAD v1.9; Level format: BOOM; Your PWAD can contain anything you like, but the map itself should be MAP01; The initial geometry provided by Oblige should be a natural and integral part of the final geometry; The Work should not exceed 5 Mbytes in a ZIP archive; You have 2 weeks for building. After this time, if the number of competitors is more than 10, the judges will choose the top 10. The final winner will be selected from the top 10 by means of public voting on this forum; Deadline: 5 August, 24:00 Greenwich mean time. Send your finished maps to my Email. It is: andrey.budko at gmail.com; Not allowed: Using any non-BOOM features, except for MAPINFO or similar features in other ports to prevent jumping, crouching, etc., or setting parameters to provide maximum compatibility with BOOM; Using tags that are specific to the level's number (e.g., Tag 666); Changing the position of the base vertices. The 2D-projection of the base geometry must be kept unchanged; Allowing the player to walk outside the bounding rectangle of the base level. This bounding box will be added to the map before publishing and can be deleted; Additional sprites; Additional sounds; Dehacked; Allowed: More than one level by the same author; Splitting the base linedefs (to add vertices); Adding new sectors as you please, inside the base area, or outside it; Changing the properties of the base sectors (please don't abuse this); Removing and changing the positions of things and adding new ones; Additional music in mus or midi format; Additional textures; Welcome: Large but inaccessible areas outside the bounding rectangle of the initial geometry; Demos in the following formats: Boom 2.02, ZDoom 2.1.7, GZDoom 1.0.24; Judging: The list of judges is defined by your offers in this thread with maybe subsequent two-day voting and should be announced before deadline. There is a condition: two vacant places are reserved by the countries of the Former Soviet Union Region; The judge can participate in competition, but can't vote for his level; Each judge should play each level and evaluate it from 1 up to 5. The result of voting is total sum of scores. Competitor with the greatest sum becomes the winner. If several competitors have identical sum, then preferences are given to levels were sent earlier; Maps should be tested in BOOM, PrBoom(-Plus) -complevel 9 or (G)ZDoom; Duration of public voting is one week; In case I forgot something vital, some rules may change. Phase #1 Base level: http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/tuning_contest.zip Participants: Post in this thread if you wish to participate in this contest. 1. Alexander "Eternal" S. (aka Deadall) 2. 3DFace 3. Wraith 4. Far]ASTS[ 5. Ak-01 6. 3EPHOEd 7. Falcor 8. EDEdDNEdDYFaN 9. JS-Raven 10. Detonator 11. daimonreloaded Judges: Post in this thread if you want to be a judge or want to suggest someone. 1. Chris Hansen 2. Liberation 3. BoldEnglishman 0 Share this post Link to post
entryway Posted July 20, 2007 Later I shall announce the list of competitors from the countries of the Former Soviet Union Region. 0 Share this post Link to post
deathbringer Posted July 20, 2007 Wasn't there a SLIGE editing megawad a while back? i saw some shots that looked pretty damn awesome, but never heard anything after that. I think it was buried under a "lol if we wanted random levels we'd make them ourselves" mound of cyncism and insults at the hard editing and improving work which had gone into them (and i should think making crappy architecture good is harder than just making good architecture to start with) 0 Share this post Link to post
Chris Hansen Posted July 21, 2007 A chance to be judge for a day!? I wouldn't miss it for the world! Sign me up, sir! 0 Share this post Link to post
BoldEnglishman Posted July 21, 2007 I'll judge :). I have way too much time on my hands anyway so I'll be happy to play through every level :) 0 Share this post Link to post
RottKing Posted July 21, 2007 Actually, I think I'm gonna drop out, haha sorry about that. 0 Share this post Link to post
daimonreloaded Posted July 22, 2007 Ok, i'll see what can i do... sign me in 0 Share this post Link to post
Liberation Posted July 22, 2007 I'll be up judging, sounds intresting. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dutch Doomer Posted July 23, 2007 Is there any chance the deadline will be pushed back an bit cause I don't think I will have enough time to finish something. 0 Share this post Link to post
entryway Posted July 24, 2007 dutch devil said:Is there any chance the deadline will be pushed back an bit cause I don't think I will have enough time to finish something. yes, we can if you will participate 0 Share this post Link to post
Dutch Doomer Posted July 24, 2007 Allready working on an map so sign me up :p 40% done. 0 Share this post Link to post
entryway Posted July 25, 2007 EDEdDNEdDYFaN said:How far is everyone so far ;)? daimonreloaded already finished his level and that's what I wanted to see from this competition. Good job. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dutch Doomer Posted July 25, 2007 Is posting screens allowed or drop an link here for people to download I guess the latter isn't allowed. I'm working on seed 13 its an medium/large sized map I'll do my best to complete it it won't be anything too fancy on the looks. 0 Share this post Link to post
entryway Posted July 25, 2007 dutch devil said:Is posting screens allowed or drop an link here for people to download I guess the latter isn't allowed. You can post your screens if you want. dutch devil said:I'm working on seed 13 its an medium/large sized map You should use base level generated by me (seed 999, small). See the rules:Base level: http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/tuning_contest.zip 0 Share this post Link to post
Dutch Doomer Posted July 25, 2007 Shite I all this work I've done is for nothing then, I thought we could use any seed we wanted. I thought the link was just an example of what you had in mind, I'm going to drop out sorry I have no strength left to start all over again. I blaim my own stupidity I should have read the rules better. 0 Share this post Link to post
entryway Posted July 25, 2007 dutch devil said:I'm going to drop out sorry :( 0 Share this post Link to post
Tango Posted July 25, 2007 dutch devil said:Shite I all this work I've done is for nothing then, I thought we could use any seed we wanted. I thought the link was just an example of what you had in mind, I'm going to drop out sorry I have no strength left to start all over again. I blaim my own stupidity I should have read the rules better. Ah, sorry to hear that DD. I'd love to see what you did so far, though. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Dutch Doomer Posted July 25, 2007 I still might finish it but don't expect something groundbreaking its just an pimped Oblige map :p 0 Share this post Link to post
Ismaele Posted July 30, 2007 I am sorry, but I am out, because I've done pretty nothing, because of lack of time. :( 0 Share this post Link to post
daimonreloaded Posted August 2, 2007 hello, how contest doing? Some one over do over is map? 0 Share this post Link to post
entryway Posted August 3, 2007 some competitors have already done the level one of them has made two 0 Share this post Link to post
EDEdDNEdDYFaN Posted August 3, 2007 im taking way too long for this...i was trying to find a common theme but its just hard, im not sure if ill be able to finish :(. 0 Share this post Link to post
entryway Posted August 8, 2007 http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/freak4.zip This archive contains WAD with all levels. There are seven levels from five competitors. The first level is a base level by Oblige. Others are sorted on similarity to the base: MAP01 - by Oblige MAP02 - by Far MAP03 - by Daimonreloaded MAP04 - by Eternal MAP05 - by 3EPHOEd MAP06 - by Wraith MAP07 - by Eternal MAP08 - by Eternal Now you can play all levels and estimate them at one's true worth: 3 points to the most worthy. 2 points to the second cool 1 points for bronze. You should give your points to the competitor, not to a level. Competitors: Daimonreloaded, Eternal, Far, Wraith, 3EPHOEd Reviews of the liked (or unliked) levels are welcomed. 0 Share this post Link to post