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[Neppy]

So, we have 4 shots this week. SotW will be starting tonight. Thanks to those of you that have entered a shot.

[Neppy]

I don't have any screenshot waiting in the dropbox. Need at least 3 in order to start SotW tomorrow. Thanks.

[Moon]

Well, I entered so now you have one less to worry about.

[Neppy]

I just have Dragonite's shot for this week so far, need 2 more to start. Hopefully we can start tonight, but if not, we'll start it up tomorrow afternoon/evening. Thanks!

[Neppy]

Still only have Dragonite's shot right now. Hope to get some more in this evening, otherwise this one will also have to wait until next week.

(Wondering if I should put SotW on a indefinite hiatus for a while.)

[Moon]

Come on guys!

You don't want Screenshot of the Week to die like Map of the Month once did, do you?

Send in anything you can! It doesn't matter if it's a joke shot or not, I want to keep this contest alive!

[Lightwulf]

Well, I entered just for the heck of it. It could kinda' be considered a joke shot, but it's from the new(er) version of my second Demo. Just a little different from the norm.

[Octorockoncrack]

I entered, so that should mean 3 shots at least.

(yay?)

[Orithan]

Come on guys!

You don't want Screenshot of the Week to die like Map of the Month once did, do you?

Send in anything you can! It doesn't matter if it's a joke shot or not, I want to keep this contest alive!

SotW already died once: 2010. September didn't get any at all and it only got 6 SotMs.
I might pick a shot (probably a substanceful jokeshot) to enter.

[Moosh]

Call me nuts, but I think SotW should be shelved for good. It only seems to be encouraging mock-ups which feed the dry spell of quest development we've been having and when people submit actual screens from their quests, they lose by a landslide to some mock-up Hyrule Field screen with a river running down the middle and a bridge crossing it or a glorified custom tile showcase. I dunno about other questmakers out there, but this shit just makes me want to give up on ZQuest altogether...

[Orithan]

Call me nuts, but I think SotW should be shelved for good. It only seems to be encouraging mock-ups which feed the dry spell of quest development we've been having and when people submit actual screens from their quests, they lose by a landslide to some mock-up Hyrule Field screen with a river running down the middle and a bridge crossing it or a glorified custom tile showcase. I dunno about other questmakers out there, but this **** just makes me want to give up on ZQuest altogether...

*+Seastorm slaps Moosh.
That is a really heavyhanded solution that would only cause problems with the ZC community. These problems come from the person, not the contest, and this problem only has arisen fairly recently within PZC. With that logic, you are saying that we should ban tilesets like DoR (especially) and PR from here, because they appeared to have caused people's standards to rise more than SotW (which is, unfortunately, a victim of this). I would expect that people would be attempting to flood the Screenshot critique thread with SotW-quality shots as a result and this would have little effect on the community's perception on screendesign. Look deeper and look at the heart of the problem.
A theory is that our expectations have risen because our generation of members joined as teenagers who are, by nature, rebellious and all wanted to be the best questmakers on the site. Screendesign was seen as the best (and most obvious) way to become the best and that's the direction that our community took.

Edited by Orin XD, 09 October 2012 - 03:30 AM.

[Shane]

How's SotW dying? Last contest was like, last week and there were five entries.

And seriously? "Making a mock up shot" isn't as bad as "I'm going to make a quest" *next minute* "Whoops, sorry! It's cancelled! Better work on more quests!", now is it? Also it's "Screenshot" of the Week not "Quest Screenshot" of the Week.

Edited by Shane, 09 October 2012 - 04:06 AM.

[Sheik]

Call me nuts, but I think SotW should be shelved for good. It only seems to be encouraging mock-ups which feed the dry spell of quest development we've been having and when people submit actual screens from their quests, they lose by a landslide to some mock-up Hyrule Field screen with a river running down the middle and a bridge crossing it or a glorified custom tile showcase. I dunno about other questmakers out there, but this shit just makes me want to give up on ZQuest altogether...

[Moosh]

@Seastorm: OK, I respect your opinions and agree to disagree. At least you're one of the few people here that still finishes quests.

And seriously? "Making a mock up shot" isn't as bad as "I'm going to make a quest" *next minute* "Whoops, sorry! It's cancelled! Better work on more quests!", now is it? Also it's "Screenshot" of the Week not "Quest Screenshot" of the Week.

Actually making mock-ups is just an extreme case of making the first level of a quest and giving up. The creator gives up after the first screen.

I never tried to deny this.

[Russ]

In a way, I partially agree with Moosh. Most of the SotW entries are just mock-ups, which really doesn't encourage quest production. When I submit to SotW (or S:CA even, for that matter), I make sure I'm actually going to use the screen in some project (and I've used every one so far, for the past 3 years or so, at least). Perhaps a rule banning mock-ups could help? Although that could just make people angry...

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