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A new competition is about to start and this is a good time as any to look at the results. Its clear people would like a 2x2 more than an 1x1. There is question for 2x1 too which basically mean that people don't want to spend so much time in voting. Therefor we have considered that it is probably a good idea to make the voting deadline set to wednesday on the 2nd week. If the winner announces his new challenge early, you'll have over 2 weeks to work on your map.

We'll start with this for week 005's competition.

Given that for week 004 we'll go into voting next week too, we'll make that a 10 day voting time as well, so they overlap nicely.

1) Fetch - Camerson1313 3 points
2) Replacement - Aetoss 2 points
3) Broken Button - nintendo.erk 1 point

if we do 2x1 we cannot overlap 2 competitons or one will end prematurely. doing 2x1 also means that voting only takes 5 days instead of 7 which means people who have little time have to play all maps in those 5 days.

Based on recent events, I started to wonder if the way we're doing competitions now is the right one. I've had a chat with the entire staff and the following proposal came out.

How would you feel if we changed the weekly competition to a bi-weekly competition?

In essence this means you have 2 weeks to make a map test it to get it bug-free and enter it in the competition. Then the following 2 weeks you would have to play the maps and vote for the entries. This means that during a timespan of 2 weeks, you can make maps for the new compo, and vote for the old compo.

Please reply to this topic and write a 1 if you are for 1 week of making a map and 1 week of voting, or write a 2 if you are for 2 weeks of making a map and 2 weeks of voting.

I personally feel for 2, but I'd like each and everyone's opinion. If you are fine either way, reply as such.

1x1 week: 1
2x1 week: 4
2x2 weeks: 9
no opinion: 0

I've had a chat with Stagger Lee about updating your map during the competition, and it seemed we had different visions about what should be allowed and what not.

For me it is all about the fun. Making levels according to a theme, and playing other levels with a similar theme. So naturally, when your levels contain flaws or bugs one should be able to edit them to get a proper level. One should be able to get an impression of the level regarding those errors or not. Its about the fun.

Stagger Lee mentioned he feels it should not be allowed to edit levels during voting. If necessary, make someone test your level first and if deemed good, you can release it and only make small edits during the map submission stage. We discussed a bit, and we came to the following agreement: Levels should not be allowed to be altered when voting starts. But when the map is still in submission state, you should be able to edit the map to fix mistakes.

For that reason, I've edited the rules to reflect this decision.


As for using hammer, a mod or PeTI, this is very simple to me.

Everyone should be able to participate in whatever tool they feel works best. The competition rules state that the challenge for that week should be possible in just PeTI. But if you can do a good map in hammer within a week of time, then by all means do so. I want many people to participate. I want that more than to restrict what people can and cannot do.

That is aside of the problem that once you install a mod, uninstalling it for a competition is really hard.



Your third item about not voting for the 2nd contest... Well, there's not much I can do with that. We try to keep the weekly compo something that spans in a week. You can play most maps already during the first week/weekend, and I'm sure you can play the remaining maps in the evening. If it really does not work out for you, then thats kind of unfortunate.

Changed the rules to address editing a map during the competition. As long as you can submit your maps, you may still edit it to fix bugs. But when voting starts, edits are no longer permitted. Of course when the competition has ended, you may edit your map again.

And we have a winner!

...with a nice total score of 10 points.

This weeks runner ups are: RolandWood1024 who came second with 7 points, and LPChip who came third with 7 points as well, but RolandWood1024 had more 1st place votes.

Nintendo.erk, you are entitled to give us the next weeks challenge. Please reply in this topic before the end of sunday (GMT+0) so we can create a new challenge.

I've edited your topic title so it makes sense. See also the sticky in this forum.

Fine entries for this week too. Some were above my skill level though, but with hints I managed to get a good idea of the level so I could weight it in my votes.

1. Nintendo.erk (3pt)
- I love the simplicity of the level, yet making you think. Its like doing the same puzzle but each time it is different. I loved it quite a lot.

2. Rolandwood1024 (2pt)
- Great concept too for blocking the lasers. I didn't play it intended because when I was at the end and I had to get the other cubes, I realised it would've been much easier if I had brought them along. But that is an error on my side, not yours.

3. Stagger Lee (1pt)
- Quite a different map than the rest. Focus seems more on the painting than the laser, and some times I had a bit of trouble finding out where to go. But the little easter eggs (glados speaking when you open an empty door) and the fact that this is not a really hard map made the little twists that made vote this for the 3rd place over the rest.