Hey, me and i friend of mine are right now working on a project. We are making a portal 2 map. We have gone from not even knowing what hammer was, to making a map with several chambers now and we are quite interested in take part in a contest. I've noticed that thinkingwithportals has had a few of them, are they having another one and in that case, when?

Contests depend on a few things, but at the moment the TWP staff doesn't have anything planned for the near future.

WinstonSmith wrote:
Contests depend on a few things, but at the moment the TWP staff doesn't have anything planned for the near future.

Your site is WEAK I tell you!... If I was in charge I would be lazy and do the exact same thing.

Saying, if we do start a competition, would we have more than two weeks to work with?

kwp21 pitts wrote:
Saying, if we do start a competition, would we have more than two weeks to work with?

All depends on the format of the competition, the suggested timeline, any possible partners we'd be working with, etc...

Long story short is nothing's really set until a contest is in fact decided on and announced.

A prize could just be a Community Spotlight and other good maps could be a Community Round-up. The prize doesn't necessarily have to be a material good. I would suggest doing Contests during school vacation breaks (i.e. Summer, <Holiday Name Here>, Spring Break, etc.) that way people have more time to work on their maps. I'm just throwing ideas out there.

Edit: For some reason <Holiday Name Here> turned into <Holiday Name Here>.
2nd Edit: Dang it, it did it again! <Holiday Name Here>
3rd Edit: Okay, the code that puts <Holiday Name Here> instead of <Holiday Name Here> isn't case sensitive. I'll try spaces this time: C H R I S T M A S
Final Edit: Hooray!

Not everyone gets month long holidays Lagger, I don't get any at all :'(

I think a competition would be brilliant however you must have some kind of theme to make sure that people have not been massively working on a project and waiting for a competition to come round so they can just plonk it down and win the competition.

I remember that FPS banana is holding a mapping competition that makes people make a spaceship themed map. (I already made one jokes)

EDIT: Actually I have http://www.gamebanana.com/maps/139440

MasterLagger wrote:
A prize could just be a Community Spotlight and other good maps could be a Community Round-up.

We are already praising the best few maps in spotlights and roundups every few weeks. How could you set that up as prize?

Release a good map and you may be within the next roundup or even in the spotlight, you don't need a contest for that

Djinndrache wrote:
MasterLagger wrote:

A prize could just be a Community Spotlight and other good maps could be a Community Round-up.

We are already praising the best few maps in spotlights and roundups every few weeks. How could you set that up as prize?

Release a good map and you may be within the next roundup or even in the spotlight, you don't need a contest for that

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Although, I personally think a Community Spotlight is better than winning a T-shirt or other stuff but that's just me.

I got an idea for a theme: Recreate a classic video game level from the N64 and PlayStation era (007, Silent Hill, Perfect Dark, etc) using Portal 2 Authoring Tools without using custom content. That would bring back some pleasant memories, as long as the maps aren't poorly made.

MasterLagger wrote:
I got an idea for a theme: Recreate a classic video game level from the N64 and PlayStation era (007, Silent Hill, Perfect Dark, etc) using Portal 2 Authoring Tools without using custom content. That would bring back some pleasant memories, as long as the maps aren't poorly made.

And the poor judges would have to research the background for each of those submissions if they don't know the game/level it bases on?

Djinndrache wrote:
MasterLagger wrote:

I got an idea for a theme: Recreate a classic video game level from the N64 and PlayStation era (007, Silent Hill, Perfect Dark, etc) using Portal 2 Authoring Tools without using custom content. That would bring back some pleasant memories, as long as the maps aren't poorly made.

And the poor judges would have to research the background for each of those submissions if they don't know the game/level it bases on?

Well, the mapper would have to identify what level/map they recreated. Since a lot of people post videos of games on YouTube, I don't think those poor judges would have much trouble. Also, the judges could always play the games themselves on a emulator or console.

My alternative theme is for mappers to make Rick the Adventure Sphere rolling down a hill yelling, "Ya'll just got Rick Rolled!"

There will never be a contest theme based on a meme. Grow up.

I was being sarcastic, oh wait, your probably being sarcastic too. This whole website has a big boil of sarcasm that needs to be lanced.

I wasn't being sarcastic. Memes are awful.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour. Which is why I NEVER use it.

Spam Nugget wrote:
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour. Which is why I NEVER use it.

sarcasm self test completed.

msleeper wrote:
I wasn't being sarcastic. Memes are awful.

I hate to point this out, but "thinking with portals" is a meme. Although, to be fair (at least from what I've read) you named this site before "thinking with portals" became a meme.

Spam Nugget wrote:
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour. Which is why I NEVER use it.

I could think of a few things worse than sarcasm.

I registered the domain shortly after seeing one of the original Portal 1 trailers, where GlaDOS says "now you're thinking with portals" at the end. As soon as I heard that, I knew that was going to be the name for the site.