This puzzle needs serious work. When you start the map, the sphere falls down, allowing you to skip everything. I didn't understand what it was for so I placed it down stairs, but a turret knocked it up in the funnel, so when I finally reached the upper stairs, the sphere was gone and I didn't understand what happened until I saw it in the funnel and understood what happened.

Also the jump you have to make to get to the sphere normally, I was not able to make it in any way. Every jump I make causes my head to bump against the bottom of the angled panel , so even if I painted the panel, which was way too difficult so only got it like half painted, I could not even bounce on it as I think should be possible.

Given that valve has trouble with us allowing to download maps, note that the following will happen to this competition:
Since you can still publish maps, the deadline for submitting your map will remain the same. However if necessary the deadline for voting will be extended.

Current stage: Submit your map.
Current stage: Vote for the maps.
Current stage: The competition is over.
Deadline: Friday 27-09-2013, 17:59 GMT+0

This weeks challenge was submitted by: Stagger Lee
The idea for this week is to do the following:
Use light bridges as it is a challenging entity to make as the focal point of a chamber. Anything else one would want to use in it would be fine. The light bridge would just have to factor in as a main componant.

Submit your map

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

Vote for the maps

The deadline has been reached. You can now play each submission and select the best 3. Place those 3 maps from best to worse, and remember, don't vote for your own map, and you may also vote if you have not created a map. In fact, we would love that.

Post your votes in this discussion before the next deadline is met.

And we have a winner!

Congratulations to Cyhborgh, who made the best map. Can you reply here before the end of sunday GMT +0, and tell us what you'd like to see in the next competition?

updated above post, added a few lines here and there and an entire section derived to what one can suggest for a next competition. All is based on common sense of course, but better state the obvious. :)

I'll add the tag [sp] to the map, given that the workshop gives it as sp too. If there's a 2nd version that is co-op, feel free to link it here too, so we can change the title to [sp][coop]

I wonder how this map both works in an sp and coop mix if its just one map though. :)

I guess, if I would have a life, I'd not start a group like this... XD

Cool! Hi guys :) Welcome.

Originally posted by DeathWish808:

That's about all I have to say right now. ;-) Oh, I'm also a crazy random mofo that enjoys joking around and shit like that. I guess I'll be the black sheep for you guys. heh.

You're joking around and you think you'll be worse than me? I guess you'll learn new things every day XD And I think you'll feel at hime here too :) now... where's that kick button... :P j/k

Every other week, a competition starts. 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 two weeks to submit your entry. The next ten 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 bi-weekly competition.

Maps for the this competition should be single player maps only. Coop maps will have their own separate competitions.
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.
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. Typically, a competition starts on Monday (As soon as the post has been made with rules set that is, which can actually be on Sunday already, or earlier if possible).

The deadline of the competition is Monday on 0:00 GMT+0 (Sunday night). 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.

We've made this section for maps you are proud of and like others to see as well. If this map is new and you want it to be tested before releasing, please use the Showcase new maps (betatesting) and read its read me to see how you deal with beta maps.

The idea is that you can share your maps that should be fine, but you'd like to get more votes on. You publish it for everyone and create a new discussion. Paste the link to that map in the first post and optionally add some text. Others can then play your map and respond here on the forum giving feedback etc.

Maps that have been in beta, but have been stated as ready for the public, will be moved here as well.

Create a new discussion. In the title, start by adding [sp] or [coop] to indicate if your map is for single player or co-op play. (this makes it easier to test the map because not everyone always has a co-op partner, and when they do, they want to be able to find just the co-op maps. Please only use [sp] and [coop], not [singleplay] or [co-op] because then you can search for the same tag and find all maps. Failing to do so may not get your map played.

Also, please do not create a topic and link to more than one maps. If those maps are part of a collection, you may link to a collection instead, given that from this moment on, that collection won't change anymore. This is not a "post all your maps to get publicity" section. If you want feedback on all your maps, you'll have to post a topic for every single one of them.

We've made this section for help testing your maps and find possible flaws before releasing the map to the public. If you already made your map public, please use the Share existing (public) maps section.

The idea is that once you made a map that you want others to test, you publish it as friends only, and create a new discussion. Paste the link to that map in the first post and optionally add some text. Others can then play your map and respond here on the forum giving feedback etc. Once the map is ready and doesn't need any more feedback, make a reply that you will change it to the public. We can then move your map to the public section to keep the beta maps place tidy.

Create a new discussion. In the title, start by adding [sp] or [coop] to indicate if your map is for single player or co-op play. (this makes it easier to test the map because not everyone always has a co-op partner, and when they do, they want to be able to find just the co-op maps.
Please only use [sp] and [coop], not [singleplay] or [co-op] because then you can search for the same tag and find all maps. Failing to do so may not get your map played.

Hey there, this is the introduction topic. You can say who you are and tell us a bit about yourself. That way we can get to know each other a little bit.

My name is LPChip, and I founded this group with Stagger Lee for the interest in Portal2 level creation and it sounded nice to share this love with others who are similar minded.

I live in the Netherlands and I am a Network-/Systemadministrator for a living.

I've started my own company as a musician, and I am working on my first cd.

In my spare time, I manage a few communities, among the MODPlug forums (for music software OpenMPT), the Nifflas Support Forum (for indie developer Nifflas, who has a few games on steam too: NightSky, Saira and soon Knytt Underground), CTGMusic, a music website for tracked music and Armina, my spiritual forum.

I am also a gamer, and I mostly play Portal2, GRID2, CnC3, CoD:MW3. There are more games I like and play, but these are the games I come back to.

If one of these items sparked your interest, feel free to ask me about it.

I'd like to know you too. Care to reply here, and tell us a little bit about yourself?