Sorry for the late notice!

This week's challenge is Turrets. They're cute, they're friendly, they're deadly.

Can you use them effectively in your puzzles?

Rules for this challenge:

1. Your puzzle must contain at least 3 turrets (more permitted).
2. All 3 of the minimum turrets must be guarding SOMETHING needed to solve the puzzle: An element, room, portal wall, etc.
3. All 3 of the minimum turrets must be defeated by different methods. EXAMPLE: If the player can use a laser to kill the first turret, the player will not be able to use the laser on your second & third turrets.
4. Absolutely NO instagib allowed. "Congratulations, you're dead!" is not a fun use of turrets; they are to be obstacles between goals, not punishment just for exploring.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=instagib

To submit puzzles to this challenge, link them here:

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/disc ... ?appid=620

The three best entries will be selected and featured on the Monday Madness episode of the Portal2Cast, 9-10-12.

Puzzles are graded on:

1. Presentation & Lighting: Is it pretty?
2. Navigation & Layout: Is it needlessly hard to traverse for reasons unrelated to solving?
3. Transparency: Does the player have obvious goals? Is it clear what everything does?
4. Elements-to-Difficulty Ratio: The harder your test is to solve, the fewer elements it should contain. (Anyone can make a test so clogged with buttons and triggers that it's hard to see what to do.)
5. Playtesting: Can your test be beaten in unintended ways?
6. Did it meet the requirements for the challenge?

Good luck, and as always, thanks for mapping!
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The Portal2Cast is a 15-minute daily show with one goal: Making you a better builder.

www.youtube.com/user/portal2cast

BenVlodgi wrote:
3 days?... and i just found this link today, and I work all day the next 3 days e_e

Portal2Tenacious wrote:
Is it necessary to post this on this forum as well as the workshop forums?

Wow. Back to back. I really couldn't have explained it better if I'd tried.

ChickenMobile wrote:
What do you get for doing these exactly?

Nothing tangible; it's just a friendly weekly contest for bragging rights. Some enjoy seeing their puzzles on the show, but YMMV.

Lomerell wrote:
Nothing tangible; it's just a friendly weekly contest for bragging rights. Some enjoy seeing their puzzles on the show, but YMMV.

Why bother then? I mean why put all the effort to follow those precise rules by making a map when you aren't going to get anything?

I am disappoint.

BenVlodgi wrote:
3 days?... and i just found this link today, and I work all day the next 3 days e_e

From the looks if it, it's all pti maps.

portal2tenacious wrote:
Is it necessary to post this on this forum as well as the workshop forums?

It is if he's going for wider participation and audience. Not everyone visits both.

ChickenMobile wrote:
Why bother then? I mean why put all the effort to follow those precise rules by making a map when you aren't going to get anything?

Most people are more creative under specific restrictions. In addition, exposure and an in-depth review of one's own map are far from worthless.