Hi Toothless2603, welcome to the group. Hope to see some maps by you in our competitions as well. :)

Hey there TeamSpen210. Good to see you here. :) Hope you'll have fun here.

Hi there Ivo. Welcome to the group. Don't mind DeathWish808. Ever since the accident he just isn't the same.

DeathWish808: Huh? What accident?
Me: Wait, you were born this way? XD

Anyway, hope you like it here and can contribute with our competitions.

@DeathWish808: Just that? I'm building a second universe, and I have time to make maps too. You all have little excuses... :P

@Bat: A bit late from me, but welcome anyway. :)

@Talisac: you too, welcome to the group. Hope to see some maps from you in our competitions. :)

Every month, a competition starts on the first of that month. At the beginning of the competition, the theme/rules will be given for that particular contest. If you want to participate, create a puzzle for Portal2 that follows the rules and once done, publish your map to the Steam Workshop. You'll get an entire month to submit your entry. The next twenty days, people can vote for the entries until its deadline has been met.

Aside from the fame and respect, you may give a suggestion for what the next challenge will be. If its reasonable to all members, and you have submitted your idea within the given time, your idea will be the rules for next monthly competition.

Maps for the this competition has to be single player maps only.
Create a new map from scratch following this competitions given concept. One entry per competition, unless the rules of that compo states otherwise. Do not make your map be dependent on having additional programs or addons installed (for example: when using beemod with custom items, some items such as the sendicator do not pack and only work if others have beemod installed).
Just make sure it is accessible on the steam workshop so people can subscribe to it.
Second, make sure you submit your entry within the given deadline. The competition starts as soon as the topic has been made with the rules for that competition.

The deadline of the competition is the last day on 23:59 GMT+0. If you are unsure what time that is for you, feel free to contact me and check what timezone you have. NOTE: your GMT timezone changes when daylightsavings are in effect.

When the first deadline has been reached and you can no longer post your maps, you are also not allowed to edit your maps anymore. So make sure its bug free at that stage.

Play all the maps, and then post the best 3 maps (or their makers) in a list from best to worse. You cannot vote for your own map, but if there are only 3 or less maps, place yours at the bottom of your list. Post your votes in the same discussion as the map submissions.

If you have trouble completing a map, please ask for hints or the solution before considering this map as bad.

Voting starts as soon as the deadline for the competition is over, and ends when its deadline is met. Votes will be calculated and a winner will be announced. The winner can then make a suggestion for the next rounds rules.

When you vote for a map, you name 3 maps in order from best to worse. The first map you name gets 3 points, the 2nd map gets 2 points and the 3rd map gets 1 point. All points are counted to give a total per map. The map with the highest points win.

If 2 or more maps tie for a place, then the map who has the most 3 points win it from the others. If they tie there too, then the map with the most 2 points win. Would they tie there as well, which is very unlikely but possible, they tie for that place.

Congrats, both have won. Given that you can say what the next challenge will be, both of you get to name what you want to see in the challenge. Both ideas will become part of the next challenge. If one idea says you cannot use something while the other idea says you should, the person who says you should wins it. If that means the first idea no longer does anything, that person can suggest something else.

Example: Person 1 says: no gels, person 2 says use blue gel.

Blue gel is to be used, but person 1 can give a new set of rules which can be: don't use the other gels.

So basically, allowing goes over denying.

Well... no. You can suggest most things, but not everyone is skilled in hammer or have mods installed. So your idea must be made possible using just a stock Portal2, so everyone can participate. You can suggest complex or real simple things, but remember, the more complex your suggestion is, the more prone it becomes to misinterpretation.
If you have the idea people may not think of being able to do your idea without a mod, but you know there is a way, add an example. :)

Any questions, feel free to ask me, and I will happily explain or clarify. If it seems something in this text is not clear, I will of course edit it to make things more clear.

I had a chat with Stagger Lee, and we decided we'll change the bi-weekly competitions to a monthly one. This means that I'll convert the current: 3 puzzle one to the new format, and the Circular one will remain bi-weekly. More on this will follow.

Originally posted by DeathWish808:

For example... Would my Cohesion map ( I know I can't use it.) follow your rules with the exception I allowed the player to play the 2nd & 3rd areas in whatever order they wanted?

Given that each puzzle opens the doors for that puzzle rather than an element in it, and that the puzzles are not accessible from the start, no. Otherwise, yes.

I've posted the next competition. Today is the 1st. This means you currently have over 3 weeks for that competition.

Current stage: The competition is over

This challenge was submitted by: LPChip
The idea for this challenge is to do the following:
Create a map with 3 or more puzzles. The player has to solve puzzle 1 to activate a key feature of puzzle 2. Solving puzzle 2 enables a key feature of puzzle 3, and solving 3 activates the exit. You are allowed to make more puzzles, as long as each puzzle is activating something in the next puzzle until the last puzzle activates the exit.

A puzzle is a problem where the solution is not immediately obvious. Eg. pressing a button to get a cube, or using a few portals to retrieve a cube is NOT a puzzle.

Each puzzle must be separate from each other and it should not be a mystery which puzzle you have to play in what order. Separation can be done by putting them in rooms, or on islands, or separate them with glass, etc.

Once a puzzle is done, you should not require the player to revisit it again. The entire map should be accessible from the start though. The key feature for a puzzle cannot be whatever is needed to go to that puzzle.

And we have a winner!

...with a nice total score of 17 points.

This weeks runner ups are: Talisac who came second with 11 points, and LPChip who came third with 11 points, but less 2 poitt votes.

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

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