CrossbowVille Mapping Competition

[planetphillip]

I am pleased to announce my next mapping competition
CrossbowVille.

Full details can be found on its page: http://www.planetphillip.com/projects/crossbowville/

This competition is being sponosred by SteamContests.Com and Tt eSports.

First prize is a MEKA G1 keyboard and $50 cash paid ONLY via PayPal.

Second prize is a Black Element gaming mouse and $25 cash paid ONLY via PayPal.

Other prizes may be added at the discretion of the sponsors and Phillip.

The timing is incredibly bad, seeing as GameBanana has a mapping competition at exactly the same time and very similar. Unfortunately, I had this planned for a while and the sponsors already set up.

Closing date: Monday 9th January 2012

[joe_rogers_11155]

Don't worry, Phillip, GameBanana is a cesspool. Plus, real money and real swag will trump Steam credits all day long. Your competition is much better.

[Major Banter]

ZONBIE AND BANTER GOING ONE ON ONE.

[The Giblets of Jesus]

Ah well, I only set up the Gamebanana one for a bit of fun

[joe_rogers_11155]

@ Banter: WE WILL WIN NOTHING IF IT'S JUST YOU AND ME. We need to seduce some young defenseless mappers into this competition as cannon fodder.

[stoopdapoop]

If phillip allowed entrants to ship their own binaries (even if under the pretense that your code must be mostly isolated from everyone elses entries) then I would soooooooooooooooo be in.

I'd really like to see some game-related programming challenges every once and a while. Not necessarily from phillip, but just in general. Most competitions seem to be really algorithm, math, and efficiency based. There are really no game/fun themed challenges that are relevant to gamedev

[Major Banter]

Be in anyway.

[Dr. Delta]

Lets team up

[Armageddon]

Lets team up

Me, pick me!

[darkpivot]

Hmm, this may be just what I need to get back into mapping.

[shadowmancer471]

When I first looked on planetphillip and saw a new competition, I initially though I had some sort of chance.
Then I came on interlopers to find everyone else on here is entering

Well shit

Ah well, it should be fun. Best of luck all

[joe_rogers_11155]

dude you should totally enter!! the more the merrier!! it doesn't have to be a long map. maybe you could just do a shooting range that gets attacked by the combine? or you could do a mission where the player has to defend a rooftop from combine who are pouring in from all sides???

seriously, the more the merrier.

[Major Banter]

Pah, firstly not 'everybody' is entering - just a few I've seen so far, and most people won't have the staying power to get it done over the Christmas break.

Go for it. I lost PP's writing competition and I'm supposed to be doing an English degree!

[shadowmancer471]

I was always planning on entering, don't worry
I'm just...not planning to win anymore

[Gary]

If phillip allowed entrants to ship their own binaries (even if under the pretense that your code must be mostly isolated from everyone elses entries) then I would soooooooooooooooo be in.

I'd really like to see some game-related programming challenges every once and a while. Not necessarily from phillip, but just in general. Most competitions seem to be really algorithm, math, and efficiency based. There are really no game/fun themed challenges that are relevant to gamedev

I tend to agree. How do you think I feel about the lack of shadow mapping support such as the rendertartget=<framebuffer limitation, lack of parenting, and over-filtered projectedtextures in stock binaries(though EP2 using the 2009 engine should help with shadow mapping itself)?


Though, he talks about adding winner's entries to a mod. So multiple binaries might not be easy to combine, especially if one interferes with another.