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[center]Summer Modding Contest[/center]

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Summer Modding Contest
Brought to you by members of Clan [MM]

Host Message:"The idea was to revive the modding community from their summer inactivity and let them know that the computer is the right place to be, better than Canada, South America and even Europe "



Ok so what is this?
It's a modding contest...duh

How do I enter?
Simple, just post in this thread that you are actually going to participate

What else?
As I know modding It's a very hard job, most of the people will not want to mod so I decided to set up a prize for the winners.

Is there an entry fee?
No, Totally free however, we are accepting donations.

Now here's some more specification as you all know we always need rules.

Rules:
+Mods must be submitted before the dead line (august 31th)
+You must say in advance that you are going to participate, if you quit you will have to let us know and if you made a donation it will not be returned
+You must not submit an already made mod, neither a mod that It's already in progress.
+Team Projects are allowed (no more than 2 persons)
+No Entry Fees, You may donate minerals.
+You may submit Updates
+You should not make you mod public, what if somebody steals your ideas?

Judging Criteria

Complexity
Was your mod easy to create? was It hard? It will be evaluated by the judges
This will be worth: 15 Points

Content
What exactly did you do? Did you just edit a few units? Was It a TC? if you just modded a zergling you will be judged with that zergling. oh.. just imagine...
This will be worth: 20 Points

Glitchness
How well does your mod run? Does it have Glitches?
This will be worth: 10 points


Originality
Is your mod a copy of another mod? This will be highly evaluated.
This will be worth: 30 points

Fun
Is Your mod fun? boring? another important thing highly evaluated.
This will be worth: 25 points

Making a total of 100 Points.

The part You all wanted:


Prizes

Donations will be sent to my account, not Moose's not Voy's, the prizes will be divided when the deadline has been reached.
Means that I will divide the ammount of minerals I have, if I gain minerals by posting I will give them as well as if I get them for donations

First Place: 60% of the minerals.
Second Place: 20% of the minerals.
Third Place: 10% of the minerals.

The rest will be dedicated to noteworthy mentions. divided equally among them. if there are no noteworthy mentions the rest will be divided and given to the donator list.

Contestants:
Lord_Agamemnon
Pyro-Fire
Voyager7456(MM)

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Credits:

Donators:
Corbo(MM) - yay! my own name in here! (Undefined Minerals)
Killer_Kow(MM) - En taro Yoshi, young Modders. I bid you good luck in your modding conquests and look forward to critisizing your crappy mods. (770 Minerals)
[Your name Here] - I didn't donate, I'm a cheap illegitimate child

Judges:
Corbo(MM)
Killer_Kow(MM)

Other:
Clan [MM] - Redifining Starcraft[/left]


PS: You can click the names in case you didn't ntice the ugly white line below them.

As a judge in this contest, I look forward to seeing what you people can accomplish. It's free, so EVERYONE ENTER!!!

Lol....that was like "it's free everyone enter You got nothing to lose "

Wouldn't it be more fun to create a mod that has crashes and bugs everywhere,
you could give the users a list of where the crashes are, so they have to find and fix as many as they can in the time limit.

I think that would be more fun and useful for modders, that way we can teach them to spot their own mistakes and fix them.


how would they win?
The users would be judged on how many crashes they fix, how fast they fix them, and how little is unchanged.

how much would each thing earn?
all crashes fixed - 50 points (if you have perfect score, otherwise is based on how many glitches where left)
ammount of extra things changed from original - 30 points (the lower the ammount the higher score)
time required - 20 points (each day subtracts 5 points from this, and it can go into negatives)

That would be most likely a modding marathon or a competition but hell it sounds fun. next time i'd come up with more creative ideas and will host them. maybe when voyager comes we'll discuss about an [MM] Contest that can involve various modding games instead of a modding contest, for now i invite people to join this contest

i wanna be involved. i was hoping for another modding contest

just a few questions:

how is it going to be judged? (like a ffa battle of you and other players, ect)
What are the rules (such as we arent allowed to make invincible units)


Ill get started right away!

Well, I'm not judging (I think), but this is how I would do it:

- Evaluate Complexity, Content and Glitchiness by using a testing map containing every unit. Make sure they all work, etc. Check what units were modified.
- Evaluate Fun and Originality via a few FFAs.

I don't think that there's a rule against invincibility, but it would probably decrease the Fun score, since its no fun playing against an invincible unit.

Voyager condradicts his own mod

Yep, voyager is right.
You can just make a 99999999999999999999x10^99999999999999 HP unitthat hits the same ammount +1.
But i find it pretty boring.
Remember Balance it's always a very important part in all games.
btw voy would you like to judge?

Yeah, go work on FG .. what the hell are you doing posting here? go work on FG!

Why are you still in the thread? Go work on FG!

Heck, count me in. Got nothing to lose except my pride, and arguably not much of that to start with. Anyway, it's time to see what we can do with ICECC and DatEdit. DoA, go work on Firegraft; I'm waiting for it to start exe modding. Or maybe I'll start doing it with 13e just to improve my entry in this contest...

I think its morely the severity of the glitch and how it affects gameplay. And plus, if something crashes, they didn't test it enough, unless its something extremely specific that would only happen once every three years that we happen to come across And plus, if it does crash, that'll take down more than just the glitchiness score.

Uh... mmm... that... doesn't... count.

Although seriously, I didn't consider it since the Base Builder has no weapons, so its not a threat.



I think I'll enter instead.

Figures I just *finished* a mod though.

Everyone, Fear Voy!

You have nothing to fear... I have to come up with an idea first!

Make a mod with the unit "Korbow", a feces throwing zergling. That'll get you a bonus point

make a unit named killer_kow and make it newbie

Then make a unit called Corbo and make it made of feces and its attack is 0 dmg suicide.

Now, now guys...

I'm sowwy...