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#16 Russ

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Posted 16 March 2012 - 05:37 PM

Well, I submitted my map. Now let's get other people submitting and get this contest going!

#17 Supindahood

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Posted 16 March 2012 - 06:25 PM

Submitted a map~

#18 Rambly

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Posted 16 March 2012 - 07:33 PM

Thanks!

We have three entries, so Map of the Month will start next Friday. You guys are welcome to keep submitting any maps you have until then, however! The bigger the contest, the better!
(I'm not really sure if I should be posting that in the MotM Reminder thread instead, but for now, I think it's okay in this thread)

Also, if someone wants to take a crack at making a signature banner that wasn't made in Blingee, they can feel free to. I'd be interested in seeing what people come up with! I'd do it myself, but my graphic design skills are, uh... not there.

#19 kurt91

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Posted 16 March 2012 - 07:44 PM

Just finished sending in my submission. Never entered a contest before, so I hope I do well!

#20 Cukeman

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 04:05 AM

I took a shot at a banner for MotM... if you like it, you can add a title:

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Edited by Cukeman, 17 March 2012 - 04:05 AM.


#21 Jared

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 02:58 PM

...I entered. Anything to save MoTM. :3

#22 Geoffrey

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 02:07 PM

Here Migokalle, take my bland side-scrolling map! and enjoy it!

#23 Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 05:08 PM

Guys, I just wanted to say this. It makes me so happy to see that there is at least still some sort of interest in MotM, other than the one-map-per-month we've been getting lately.

I realize making maps takes considerably longer than making a single screenshot, and thus the entire model that MotM is based on (which was more or less that of SotW, with week swapped out for month) doesn't really work all that well considering. I think MotM can be saved by making changes, which is what I was trying to do a while back, when we decided to run the contest only when we got three, or more maps.

This, obviously, didn't work out all that well. It did bring up the general activity by a little, as we at least got some new contests out, rather than absolutely none, so it wasn't a total failure, but I think it needs more changes than that to really make a difference.

Which is why Rambly's here, more or less. I have a few more ideas that I'd like to discuss with him about brining into MotM, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Hopefully we'll be able to get things back to the way they were for the first 12 contests, and if the response this thread has gotten is any indication, I think we will be just fine.

QUOTE(Geoffrey @ Mar 18 2012, 08:07 PM) View Post
Here Migokalle and Rambly, take my bland side-scrolling map! and enjoy it!
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#24 Jared

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 05:18 PM

So, how many maps do you have, and when will it go up?

#25 Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 05:21 PM

QUOTE(Jared @ Mar 18 2012, 11:18 PM) View Post
So, how many maps do you have, and when will it go up?
Six! Pretty cool, been a loooooooooong while since we've had that many. I blame Ben, I really do. There will be no consequences, Ben.

As for when it'll be up, I'll let Ben have his first (what she said), so it's up to him.


#26 Nathaniel

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 05:30 PM

While some may disagree, I think that MotM does more to encourage people working on quests than single screenshot contests do. So for that reason it's good to see people showing their maps. Sometimes people make screenshots for SotW and especially CA just for the contest. With MotM, submitting a map for just the contest often would seem like a wasted effort, knowing that you have no plans to do anything with it afterwards.

Also, I think the average screen for MotM is going to look different than the average screen for the other two contests. One screen contests focus on only one screen, which for ZC, are quite small, and can only show a very limited view of one's work, plus the fact that one screen alone might fail to show as much as you might hope. Thus you are more inclined to pick certain types of screens than others. A map contest would also better focus on elements such as the flow from screen to screen and how each screen conforms to a bigger picture, which for one screen contests at best would leave someone to only guessing about. Thus you get an overall better representation of one's work.

#27 Jenny

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 04:15 PM

Maybe you could make it map of the season, so people have more time to make their maps?

I don't know, just giving ideas.

#28 Mero

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 04:21 PM

I like Map of the Month better. I think it has more spunk.

#29 Jenny

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Posted 24 March 2012 - 04:21 PM

I just meant, in map of the season, we would have a contest every 3 months, so people could have more time to make maps.

Edited by Dragonite, 24 March 2012 - 04:22 PM.



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