Mapping Contest Judgement
- (No Name) by spare8ball
- Afterburn by Amran
- Dyad by Mevious
- MotanumsTest by Motanum
- Aperture Rockets by Crabby
- Aperture Facility Delta by Soga
- temprising by Jthm
- 19 by elpieo
Maps will be rated on a scale of one-to-five based on four main factors.
** - Adherence to your chosen theme.** Did you follow the guidelines for the theme you chose? Was your Reveal, well, revealing enough? Did you have your three difficulty chambers?
** - Visual and technical design.** Is your map well put together? Does your budget go crazy? Does the environment pop out and wow the player? Do brushes overlap, are faces missing, and does lighting leak?
** - Judge appeal.** An overall score of how one of our four judges rates your map.
- And lastly, Community appeal. The score on your map's Download page means something! The rating on this page will be a part of your map's final score as well. Post your map around the internet and get people to play and rate it!
As for our four judges, let's go ahead and meet them:
** - Duffers, two-time TWP Community Spotlight holder.
** - MrTwoVideoCards, long time Source mapper and member of Gear Dev.
- Relative TWP newcomer wstrika, a personal friend of mine and artist/web designer for several sites we have worked on together.
- And obviously, myself, another veteran Source mapper and Alpha and Omega here at TWP.
Questions about the judging process, or want to discuss the contest overall? Post it here!
Play fair, it's not worth cheating!
Anyway, I'm downloading everything now, I'll start playing them in sequential order as per this page.
A brief overview about myself:
I play mostly Team Fortress 2 at the moment, but back in '07 I bought the Orange Box for Portal alone. I am a decently experienced graphic designer with about 5 years in the field, having worked on various projects from signs and letterhead to web development. With that said, I have appreciation for the elements of design and visual appeal. I'll be sure to evaluate this along with gameplay for a coherent judgment.
Best of luck everyone!
-wstrika
Waiting for results ^^ Could we get an estimate?
elpieo wrote:
By post on the internet what kind of crowd are you after? Do you want large amounts of people to see it or just to keep it mainly in the TWP community?
Judging by your avatar, I'd say "not 4chan". Your best bet is other mapping sites or Steampowered, so you can get some actual feedback and not a generic "good map 5 star would play again" type of responses.
Use this URL to share a link to the news post and get people to download these maps: http://bit.ly/e2iHWI
Motanum wrote:
Waiting for results ^^ Could we get an estimate?
I did find your map very creative, and pretty challenging too. That's about all I'll say.
I guess if life doesn't get in the way for too many of us, perhaps a decent estimate would be Friday or Saturday.
I'll be checking every 4 hours! (Yes, I have no life and I cannot wait to know the results 
)
I am subscribing right away!
Anyway, glad a bunch of people entered the contest. Good luck to everyone!
WinstonSmith wrote:
I didn't realize people still used RSS besides me anymore. All I have is the XKCD feed and the iPhone Dev Team feed. I gave up on the WIRED Gadget Lab a long time ago.Anyway, glad a bunch of people entered the contest. Good luck to everyone!
Hell ya, I use it all the time. I've got a whole bunch of websites RSS'd, including but not limited to:
- my youtube subscriptions
- mspaintadventures
- myaperturelabs uploaded files
- the Cake is a Pie (although its kinda dead now)
- this one computer enhancement (err...modding) website that often has cool stuff on it
Any news on the progress? I am dyingof uncertainty! :p