ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Comment on the news articles here.

ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby msleeper on Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:19 pm

ThinkingWithPortals.com is hosting their final Portal Mapping Contest before the release of Portal 2, starting on October 1st, 2010. Here's what they have to say:

Let's give the 2007 Game of the Year a proper send off before the sequel, Portal 2, is released in February, 2011!

Here is a look at the prizes:

1st Place Prize - Portal 2 Logo T-shirt, a $50 Steam gift, and Portal 2 pre-order as soon as Portal 2 is available for purchase!
2nd Place Prize - Choice of Blue Robot or Orange Robot Co-op T-shirt, and a $20 Steam gift!
3rd Place Prize - Choice of Blue Robot or Orange Robot Co-op T-shirt, and a $10 Steam gift!

Contest rules, theme and deadlines will be posted up on the starting day of the contest. Check ThinkingWithPortals.com on October 1st, 2010 for full information!


You can find out more about the contest on the ThinkingWithPortals website.
Last edited by msleeper on Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:46 am, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
msleeper
Regular
Regular
 
Joined: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:08 pm
Location: Atlanta, Jawjuh

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby Armageddon on Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:38 am

Quite some handsome prizes. :jingle:
User avatar
Armageddon
Forum Goer Elite™
Forum Goer Elite™
 
Joined: Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:53 am

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby source-maps on Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:05 am

too bad mapping for portal 1 isn't very interesting to me
User avatar
source-maps
Forum Goer Elite™
Forum Goer Elite™
 
Joined: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:50 pm
Location: The Netherlands

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby Ark11 on Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:39 am

I am so entering!
"Drop kick me Jesus, through the goalposts of life." - Robert Bare
User avatar
Ark11
Senior Member
Senior Member
 
Joined: Mon May 24, 2010 10:02 pm
Location: Sydney, Australia

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby MrTwoVideoCards on Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:52 am

source-maps wrote:too bad mapping for portal 1 isn't very interesting to me


Then why post?

Anyways I hope we see plenty of entries on this one, we already have a few from TWP getting in, and it be great to see a some lopers' enter.
User avatar
MrTwoVideoCards
Monothetic
 
Joined: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:18 am
Location: IN YOUR SOUL

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby msleeper on Sat Sep 25, 2010 4:21 am

Yeah I agree! I'm trying to cross-post this to as many places as I can think of. It would be great to give Portal a final farewell before the sequel comes out. :)
Image
msleeper.com :: digital entertainment design
ThinkingWithPortals.com :: Portal mapping community
F7Lans.com :: TF2 Gaming Community
User avatar
msleeper
Regular
Regular
 
Joined: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:08 pm
Location: Atlanta, Jawjuh

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby Ark11 on Sat Sep 25, 2010 4:31 am

msleeper wrote:It would be great to give Portal a final farewell before the sequel comes out. :)

That's so beautiful. :smt023
"Drop kick me Jesus, through the goalposts of life." - Robert Bare
User avatar
Ark11
Senior Member
Senior Member
 
Joined: Mon May 24, 2010 10:02 pm
Location: Sydney, Australia

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby source-maps on Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:14 am

MrTwoVideoCards wrote:
source-maps wrote:too bad mapping for portal 1 isn't very interesting to me

Then why post?


because I can :)
User avatar
source-maps
Forum Goer Elite™
Forum Goer Elite™
 
Joined: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:50 pm
Location: The Netherlands

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby MrTwoVideoCards on Sat Sep 25, 2010 5:16 pm

source-maps wrote:
MrTwoVideoCards wrote:
source-maps wrote:too bad mapping for portal 1 isn't very interesting to me

Then why post?


because I can :)


:/
User avatar
MrTwoVideoCards
Monothetic
 
Joined: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:18 am
Location: IN YOUR SOUL

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby Armageddon on Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:07 pm

Let's not start going off-topic here, did you post this on map-core? I think there are a lot of portal mappers there.
User avatar
Armageddon
Forum Goer Elite™
Forum Goer Elite™
 
Joined: Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:53 am

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby BubbleQ on Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:23 pm

Have never mapped for portal, but I will deffentely give it a try. Though it feels very hard to make something good, like eighterway it will hit big, or fail totaly :D It will be awesome.
And by the way, I could not agree more with msleeper :)
---------------------------------
I am a happy mapper!
Archlinux
User avatar
BubbleQ
1337 p0st3r
1337 p0st3r
 
Joined: Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:03 pm
Location: Sweden, Steungsund

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby Groxkiller585 on Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:21 pm

Wow this has almost perfect timing, my first test chamber map for Portal is nearing it's completion. Though it may seem noobish to enter my first released map to the contest, I put a fair amount of effort into it, between leaks, bugfixes, and all the playtesting. (have yet to give it to others to test but as soon as beta is done that will happen too)
User avatar
Groxkiller585
Sir Post-a-lot
Sir Post-a-lot
 
Joined: Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:43 pm

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby msleeper on Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:02 pm

Armageddon wrote:Let's not start going off-topic here, did you post this on map-core? I think there are a lot of portal mappers there.


I did not. I'll re-post this there as soon as I can. Thanks for the tip!
Image
msleeper.com :: digital entertainment design
ThinkingWithPortals.com :: Portal mapping community
F7Lans.com :: TF2 Gaming Community
User avatar
msleeper
Regular
Regular
 
Joined: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:08 pm
Location: Atlanta, Jawjuh

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby Armageddon on Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:54 pm

So what's gonna happen if you get a lot of maps with a portal 2 theme? Like remaking portal 2 stuff.
User avatar
Armageddon
Forum Goer Elite™
Forum Goer Elite™
 
Joined: Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:53 am

Re: ThinkingWithPortals.com Mapping Contest

Postby msleeper on Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:50 pm

Armageddon wrote:So what's gonna happen if you get a lot of maps with a portal 2 theme? Like remaking portal 2 stuff.


Well I know that seems to be the trend recently, but I'm going to specifically state to try and keep maps definitively "Portal 1" themed. Again, the idea is to give Portal a proper send-off before the sequel. I won't disqualify any maps that are Portal 2 themed, though.
Image
msleeper.com :: digital entertainment design
ThinkingWithPortals.com :: Portal mapping community
F7Lans.com :: TF2 Gaming Community
User avatar
msleeper
Regular
Regular
 
Joined: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:08 pm
Location: Atlanta, Jawjuh
Next

Return to Site News

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot]