Rantako on 1/6/2005 at 20:59

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There's been talk sbout needing a contest to give the T3Ed community a jump start, and I completely agree. Since it looks like Komag's contest won't happen until July, here's something little to keep us occupied:

***The T3 Small FM Contest***

Basically, you must make a mission with only one load zone (map file) and using no custom resources. Whatever the community votes is the best one will win.

The contest will run from Saturday 4 June until Saturday 16 July - that's six weeks.

Here are the rules (they may change before the contest starts)
Entries must only have one map file (this doesn't include the Entry map, which is needed to play missions from the main menu).

Entries must not use any custom static meshes, textures or sound files - only the stuff that came with the game. The reason for this is that not everyone has a copy of Max 5.1 or sound editing software - it makes it fairer. You should also not modify the gamesys (though you can do what you want with concretes in your map) so that the missions can all run with the gamesys from a fresh T3 install.

You are allowed to include as many custom readables as you want.

The missions can have any setting or style - it's completely up to you.

Also, custom trigger scripts are allowed; hopefully the distribution of them will have been sorted out by the closing date.

Entries should all be in (though I don't know where 'in' is yet) by Saturday 16 July.


The missions will not be *judged* as such, instead people will vote for their favourite in the forum.

The prize is... well, there isn't one yet, and I'm afraid I can't supply one. If anyone around here is kind enough to provide a prize I'll be eternally grateful, but if not, the winner will still be able to say they won the first T3Ed contest.

If you think you'll take part, post in this thread, and get designing!

scumble on 1/6/2005 at 22:23

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Not a bad idea, Rantako. I'll stick this thread for now as we see what sort of response there is.

SubJeff on 1/6/2005 at 23:17

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I'm in. I can only start work on it after the start date, but that's not true of everyone. Doesn't Komag usually keep the exact rules a secret until the start date to stop cheating? Not that I mind - I'm in for the fun of it.

One thing though. One load zone is potentially pretty large. Don't know if you can call it a small FM. Do we need a size (volume) max?

Aja on 2/6/2005 at 00:37

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This is exactly what we need. People are getting discouraged with T3ed because we haven't seen many results yet. If a few missions, even small ones, are released, people who haven't really been able to use it yet (like me, for example) will be inspired to start, and maybe the whole thing will finally take off.

You should probably let people start building now, if restricting time means fewer entries. We need as many as we can get.

Krypt on 2/6/2005 at 03:18

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Why no custom triggerscripts? Without the ability to use custom scripts, the maps will have to be very simple with no interactive elements or game logic that there aren't any existing scripts for. One of the biggest hinderances would be the inability to do anything involving objectives. There are a lot of stock scripts, but it would take a lot of digging and unnecessary work to try to shoehorn them into whatever scripted event you have planned, as opposed to just creating them yourself quickly.