Current stage: Submit your map.
Deadline: Tuesday 31-03-2015, 23:59 GMT+0
View general rules for this competition: here

This challenge was submitted by: Talisac
The idea for this challenge is to do the following:
For this challenge, you will need to solve one significant part of the puzzle without actually seeing it. In other words, prepare / setup something in the map which will solve the puzzle that you have to "activate" from elsewhere.

Do note, the player must be able to figure out how to solve the puzzle by walking in the room and seeing it (antlines, signage etc) just the execution has to be "blindfolded".

Small example: in an adjacent room, there's a cube dropper with a portalable surface below it, and one on the wall. You shoot the portals in place, walk to the button in the other room, you press it, and a moment later, the laserfence near you deactivates.

Thats it, hope to see an entry from you too. Reply here and post a link to your workshop map once done.

If you have any questions to Talisac about the competition rules then you can post them in this topic

Current stage: The competition is over

This challenge was submitted by: camerson1313
The idea for this challenge is to do the following:
Create a map with two rooms where the first one introduces a concept, and the second uses the same concept in a more advanced way. All elements are available, but the only requirement is that the second room must have at least one more element than the room before it (if the first uses only a laser, the second must use a laser plus something else. If it uses a funnel and a light bridge, the second must use a funnel and a light bridge plus something else, etc).

And we have a winner!

...with a nice total score of 14 points.

This weeks runner ups are: GBMusicMaster who came second with 11 points, and Der HammerMeister who came third with 6 points.

Quaternary, you are entitled to give us the next weeks challenge. Can you reply here before the end of this month GMT +0, and tell us what you'd like to see in the next competition?

And we have a winner!

...with a nice total score of 24 points.

This weeks runner ups are: olshi who came second with 17 points, and quaternary who came third with 11 points.

Camerson1313, you are entitled to give us the next weeks challenge. Can you reply here before the end of this month GMT +0, and tell us what you'd like to see in the next competition?

Toncica is correct. Additionally, every competition has a link to the rules in its post which also explains what you can and cannot do. :) Its worth reading. They're stickies too in case you want to quickly find them.

Nice!

Current stage: The competition is over

This challenge was submitted by: LPChip
The idea for this challenge is to do the following:
A practical joke is creating a situation where someone is doing something while something completely unrelated happens to them that they do not expect. They may be scared or not, but it should give them a feeling of joy afterwards (otherwise its just a bad joke)

For Hammer Q2'15 I'm going to suggest you to build in a practical joke into your puzzle. The rules for the map are as follows:
- The map must be a regular puzzle that the player must solve.
- Somewhere along the way, you fabricate in the practical joke. While the player takes an action to advance in the puzzle, additionally to that action, something unexpected happens. This can be a lightshow, singing turrets, glados being funny, doing something with the puzzle elements, and reset to the stage after the joke is finished (cubes dancing around, etc...)
- The practical joke cannot be part of the puzzle: eg. after it is triggered, the new situation is what is required to continue with the puzzle. (if somehow the player was able to skip your practical joke, they still can finish the map just fine)
- More than one practical jokes may be present in your map, but the focus should be on the puzzle, not the practical jokes. So don't overdo it.
- The player must be able to continue the puzzle without having hinder of the practical joke. (eg. making the player continiously shake so they can't walk straight, causing them to die easily is bad, unless it wears of after say... 10 seconds)
- You may force the player to become unresponsive during the practical joke (for cinematics)
- The player cannot die during the practical joke.
- The player should not be able to abuse the practical joke to skip part of the puzzle.

An example of how this could work:
- In a room there's a pedestal button attached to a cube dropper. You press the button expecting a cube to come out of the dropper, instead, the player is locked so it can't move, then out of the cube dropper, there falls like 20 cubes due to some defective. Then out of the wall comes a tube that sucks up all cubes, then one cube falls out of the dropper, player can move again.

And we have a winner!

...with a nice total score of 1 point.

This weeks runner ups are: No one who came second with 0 points, and No one who came third with 0 points.

Due to the lack of interest, the Hammer competition will not be continued until enough interest is being shown.

@Douad Baba: Could you please only vote for the top 3? I will use the top 3 from this list for tailoring the votes.

The idea is that you create a fresh new puzzle for the competition. If you started making the map after the competition started, I'm okay with you using it. Its more that everyone has a fair chance that the development time and no one before the competition played it (unreleased).

Edit: beaten by toncica because I got an urgent call from a customer. lol

Have you tried to verify your gamecache?

Current stage: The competition is over

This challenge was submitted by: Talisac
The idea for this challenge is to do the following:
For this challenge, you will need to solve one significant part of the puzzle without actually seeing it. In other words, prepare / setup something in the map which will solve the puzzle that you have to "activate" from elsewhere.

Do note, the player must be able to figure out how to solve the puzzle by walking in the room and seeing it (antlines, signage etc) just the execution has to be "blindfolded".

Small example: in an adjacent room, there's a cube dropper with a portalable surface below it, and one on the wall. You shoot the portals in place, walk to the button in the other room, you press it, and a moment later, the laserfence near you deactivates.

And we have a winner!

...with a nice total score of 14 points.

This weeks runner ups are: Innocentive who came second with 13 points, and nintendo.erk who came third with 9 points.

Josepezdj, you are entitled to give us the next weeks challenge. Can you reply here before the end of this month GMT +0, and tell us what you'd like to see in the next competition?