May/June 2014 Voting

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I'm just leaving my votes here. I don't think I'm doing a review...

Single Player
  1. Seraphic Skylands
  2. Glacier Gear
  3. Clock Towers
  4. Sand Valley
  5. Egg Outposts
  6. Sacred Woodland
  7. Floral Road
  8. Midnight Caves
  9. Emerald Lake
 
Here are my votes for the contest:

  1. Midnight Caves Zone (my map)
  2. Seraphic Skylands Zone
  3. Glacier Gear Zone
  4. Sand Valley Zone
  5. Clock Tower Zone
  6. Sacred Woodlands
  7. Egg Outposts Zone
  8. Floral Road Zone
  9. Emerald Lake Zone
 
Gonna drop these votes off here, will add comments as I further explore the levels.

Single Player
1)Seraphic Skylands
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2)Clock Towers
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3)Sand Valley
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4)Glacier Gear
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5)Egg Outpost
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6)Floral Road
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7)Sacred Woodland
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8)Emerald Lake
Hello Glaber, been awhile since you've made a map! Then again, it has been awhile since we had an OLDC, but let's take a look at what you have for us this time shall we?

When I load up the level I smile at the fact that no more those same triangle textures are plastered everywhere, but you added into the mix some orange JNGL walltextures giving my eyes a break.
While I would have still liked to have seen the large triangle textures be cleaned up a bit, the assistance of the new texture helps out some. Although, I kinda wonder why you picked making the underwater floor using the Cyan "TF2" Flat, seems somewhat odd at first.
Also, I find it funny how people say your level is void of details, since I clearly remember there being some flowers scattered about above ground, and seaweed underwater to give the place a small sense of life to it. Also, didn't seem to have the issue of non-working motobugs, as I was able to use them as robot-bounce chains because they were coming at me granting me the chance to use them to cross areas quickly.

As for the level itself? The layout is very decent, had some good platforming, nicely planned layout, and had plenty of areas that had me coming back wondering what was there. While not as explorative as Sphere's level, this one holds its ground when put against some of the other starting zone levels in the OLDC.
The main issue with your level is that it lacks defining gimmicks for me, the only defining gimmick you have are the slopes at the very end, those could have been put to some pretty cool use if you ask me. Like having the player roll down a slope to gain speed and be launched off to reach a far away platform, or maybe have them build up enough speed to climb up them.
One thing I would suggest is speeding up the moving fofs just slightly, they are quite slow right now and can kill the flow of the level sometimes.
9)Midnight Caves
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Match
1)Climat Chaos
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2)Moonlit Precipice
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3)Crystal Coast Zone
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CTF
1)Techno Laser 4.0
hi d00d64
2)Quicksand Caverns Zone
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3)Forbidden Woods Zone
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4)Old Sport Zone Act 1922: New Money vs Old Money
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5)Wtf? Ctf
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Make that "voting closed", I suppose.

I didn't vote. Oh well. I didn't see too much in SP I didn't like, anyway.
 
Voting results are now complete:

Single Player
1st - Seraphic Skylands Zone - 424 pts
2nd - Glacier Gear Zone - 376 pts
3rd - Clock Towers Zone - 345 pts
4th - Sand Valley Zone - 334 pts
5th - Sacred Woodland - 180 pts
6th - Floral Road Zone, Act 1 - 176 pts
7th - Midnight Caves Zone - 124 pts
8th - Egg Outposts Zone - 100 pts
9th - Emerald Lake Zone, Act 2 - 65 pts

Match
1st - Climate Chaos Zone - 32 pts
2nd - Moonlight Precipice Zone - 31 pts
3rd - Crystal Coast Zone - 0 pts

Capture the Flag
1st - Forbidden Woods Zone - 67 pts
2nd - Techno Laser 4 - 61 pts
3rd - Quicksand Caverns Zone - 48 pts
4th - Old Sport Zone - 40 pts
5th - Wtf? Ctf - 4 pts

FRZ 23552333213134433243452625444343340024233441634234401233213 = 176
SWZ 36113145134643342611335353332224221531842333340342223345332 = 180
GGZ 87678767566777766467547587758575665676787558478776886567765 = 376
CTZ 78765674745566555356764764566857158855566677766665777856647 = 345
ELZ 11431212802001000000111400000100503300124200002500010002001 = 65
MCZ 42224421421322124132223211113032432213311112111421142410180 = 124
SVZ 54346558377455677585688048885466777467455765555187555688556 = 334
EOZ 00000000050210211824000132221611016142000024223013334121424 = 100
SSZ 65887886688888888778876876677788884788678886887858668774878 = 424

CryCZ 000000000000000000000 = 0
MnlPZ 221222112111212111221 = 31
CliCZ 112111221222121222112 = 32

OSZ 1343114121211111131331 = 40
QCZ 4212231213124223412213 = 48
FWZ 3130443344342434224442 = 67
WCZ 0004000000000000000000 = 4
TLZ 2421322432433342343124 = 61
 
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Results finalized. The space in the full vote listing is because the forums disallow words beyond a certain number of characters to prevent you from breaking the tables. If you make a word with too many letters it'll put a space in at regular intervals.

This was an amazing contest. Congrats to not just to the winners but everyone here, because we got to play some awesome levels this month.
 
Unfortunately I never got to do my HUGE REVIEW I planned due to time constraints and my ultimate unrivaled ability of procrastination. But maybe I'll write it up some other time.
 
This was truly an amazing contest and I am sure that everyone put a lot of effort in these maps. I was knew there will be awesome stuff now that we have skyboxes, lua and all that. Thank you guys, your maps are appreciated and I hope the next contest will have this kind of quality maps too.
 
The contest is held every two months. The next deadline is August 31st. While I have to admit we probably won't get quite as awesome a turnout, I do really hope we can continue to get at least enough to continue running the contest for a while.
 
I was one point away from tying with EvilEternity. :(
Oh well, congratulations to the winners and everyone else for giving it their all to make some great maps, this was hands-down one of the highest quality contests ever.
 
Congratulations everyone! This was an awesome OLDC! I liked almost every single map, which is a rarity.

I really hope this continues. I don't expect quite this level of quality in the next OLDC, but I hope we can keep it up for a while. (Is every two months a little too frequent? Should it be three months instead, or is that too long?)
 
Long ago it actually was every month, but that was when the standards for content were a lot lower. The issue with extending the contest beyond two months comes more to how someone who enters their entry at the beginning of the entry period may have forgotten why they made some of their level design decisions by the time judging comes around. While having a lot of entries is important, getting people timely feedback is also important. It's a hard balancing act.
 
Perhaps it is a good idea to have themed contests like the folks over at tf2maps or smwcentral? It would be pretty exciting to have a 24 hour contest, a or a boss contest. It might give some people more of an incentive to make something good.
 
This was attempted once, about a year or so ago.

It didn't work.

Granted, said contest focused on a theme that nobody could tell you what was (Horror? Actually trying to scare people? Just halloween stuff?), so few people even bothered, and this brought the contest concept to an early grave, but still.
 
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