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Build A World Map Making Contest!

Announcing....
FML's "BUILD A WORLD" Map Making Contest!

Season 24 is still only mid-way through, but its time to start looking ahead to Season 25! For the upcoming season we want to see the community get in on the fun and start building new and exciting worlds for us to visit! In addition to the landscapes we've all grown to love, we hope to also journey to new lands and battle across Azeroth in places we've never seen before!

For this contest, we will be asking members to open the World Editor and create a new battleground!
Each battleground will be judged by a Tribunal based on a 100 point scale. The following people will be judges for this event:

:USA: WorpeX
:Germany: PinballMap
:Bulgaria: Magadansky

The judging criteria is as follows:

Landscape & Terrain (total 50)
-Making the world look alive and natural. This is about proper use of the Terrain and Doodad Palette including: Textures, Cliffs, Height Mapping, Trees, Props, Water, etc
 - Map Structure & Layout / 20
 - Use of Doodad and Terrain Palette  / 20
 - Theme / 10

FFA Balance (total 30)
-Every good maps needs proper placement of creeps which are easy enough to defeat yet challenging enough to be fun. Item drops, Creep selection, Creeping Routes, Camp Size and positioning are all factors in this category. Proper start distance to trees, mines, creeps are considered as well as gold counts and racial advantages/disadvantages.
 - Items & Creeps / 20
 - Other / 10

Creativity (total 20)
-We are looking for creativity of the final project and how well polished it is. We are looking for maps with few bugs and as much attention to detail as possible!
 - Uniqueness / 10
 - Overall polish / 10

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Points / 100

Rules:
  • No existing maps! We want only brand new maps for this
  • 4+ Starting locations required
  • Please create as many maps as you'd like! No limit to your imagination
  • Map must be a "Melee" map. Custom maps will be not accepted.

Submission:

Deadline for submission of maps will be February 12th, 2017! Two months to design, build and play-test your world! Please submit a finalized copy of your map in a reply to this post. You can attach the map file directly to your post or link to an external website.

And finally...

The Loot!

-Creating a map with a score of 80 points or higher will be featured in FML Season 25
-In addition, the highest scoring map will receive a monetary prize from the purse below.

PRIZE PURSE: $51
$51 (Donated by red7z7 and DV-)

Additional Resources and Guides can be found in the comments of this post.

Good luck everyone!!!  :hu: :ne: :orc: :ra: :ud:
December 15, 2016, 09:21:41 am 		1
Site Downtime :FMLN:

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December 16, 2016, 08:53:43 am 		1
Re: Player Streams List
Quote from: FollowSerrey on December 16, 2016, 07:08:35 pm
I play FFA yes, but not for 100% of the time, will look forward for that if i get a stream here ;)

Just heard about that page and wanted to make wc3 bigger, if u add me i will ;)

Well with that attitude, how can I refuse? Consider yourself added!
December 16, 2016, 07:29:56 pm 		1
Re: Player Streams List Awesome, thank you :)
December 16, 2016, 08:00:22 pm 		1
Re: Build A World Map Making Contest! I'll be entering this competition. It's time to expand my melee map pool to something more then 1v1's. Expect something similar to my other maps:

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/the-red-swamp.255393/
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/renegade-city.253141/
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/synergy.277952/

Will be streaming the map making process.
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/filmting

Salutations from the hive - Filmting
December 17, 2016, 02:40:52 am 		1
Re: Build A World Map Making Contest!
Quote from: blast870 on December 17, 2016, 11:56:05 pm
Hi, I am a melee map maker from Hive.
1v1 map is my current field of expertise, but I would like to give FFA a shot.
Would anyone explain me about the rules in making FFA maps?
Below this message are the links of my maps.

Really nice terrain work there! Very impressive job, glad to see you participating! Making FFA maps isn't overly different from 1v1 honestly. FFA players love diverse maps and can adjust to different situations. Hell, we played a game on Hurricane Isles this season! (footnote, almost everyone hates that map)

I'll outline a few core principles to keep in mind, but otherwise its fair game.

FFA Maps:
  • Minimum of 4 start locations fairly spread out from each other and with equal access to the maps resources.
  • At least 1 natural expansion and a secondary expansion for each player is a must.
  • Lots and lots of creeps! 4 players means the camps will get crept fast. Try to include a Red camp in there somewhere as well.
  • Wide pathways. Most battles in FFA are 100 food armies and any sort of land composition can be cumbersome to move on maps with small passages and choke points.
  • Taverns are a requirement for FFA balance purposes. Maps with Observatories and Shops are also very heavily preferred.
  • Keep in mind that FFA matches last an average of 2 hours. Keep resources high for gold and lumber.

Thats pretty much it!

For an example of FFA maps that are very well liked in the community, check out: (8) Twilight Ruins, (6) Silverpine Forest, (4) Deathrose. All 3 are staples for their map size and are played in every FFA Masters season.
December 18, 2016, 09:41:37 am 		1
Re: Build A World Map Making Contest! Here are some screens from my first map (yep, I plan on making more than one if I have the time). Decided to mash up the ashenvale and sunken ruins terrain types. Note that this is very early WiP though, most doodads have not been placed.
December 19, 2016, 08:58:03 am 		1
Re: Wrecktify reported for swearing in Russian and flaming And of course we see Culo hurrying to defend his Master. I bet he'd let Wrecktify cum inside his asshole if Wreck so much as suggest it.
December 19, 2016, 09:06:41 am 		1
Re: Wrecktify reported for swearing in Russian and flaming Wreck can you get this GameOfThrows guy for a kings corner interview segment? He needs to be trolled harder.
December 19, 2016, 10:56:14 am 		1
Re: Build A World Map Making Contest! @ZsSuperCumulo You can add any weather effects (like snow, rain, moonlight etc) from Scenario -> Map options. Do experiment with it, it can breathe a lot of life into a map. Also experiment with fog too, but don't make it too dense or hard to see through.

@Ugrilainen The limit is now 128MB, no?

@FML|WorpeX Will do, but the map is far from getting finished. Even though it is barely 50% finished, I'm already over the doodad limit :D Just 12-player map things. It's essentially a much larger version of my 3-player Hidden Glade map.
Here's overall what's finished:
December 21, 2016, 05:32:02 am 		1