Really appreciate the feedback monitor! For future maps I really need to enlist the help of more people, I didn't even get a real chance to playtest Castaway, and the only comments on TL were positive without being very constructive.

Hopefully I can squeeze something out for MotM9

Good luck to the top 5 in MotM8!

prodiG

Canada2016 Posts

August 11 2011 15:03 GMT

#162

DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOOOOOOOOOOOU SUPEROUMAN!

gl to top 5 <: D

transience

Belgium74 Posts

August 11 2011 15:12 GMT

#163

Pity Lost City didn't make it into the top-5. As far as aesthetics go, that map was by far my favourite.

dezi

Germany1536 Posts

August 11 2011 15:35 GMT

#164

Slightly reduced the size of the mains on Dylarian and also fixed a pathing issue. Mapfile has been sent to submitblablablabla. Will go on vacation next week so if there are any further questions/... let me know asap.

SmashHammer

United States148 Posts

August 11 2011 16:11 GMT

#165

Congrats to the finalists! LoS fighting! Really looking forward to this months tourney, always wanted to see iGrok's 5 spawn map in action.

sCnDiamond

Germany340 Posts

August 11 2011 16:34 GMT

#166

On August 12 2011 00:12 transience wrote:
Pity Lost City didn't make it into the top-5. As far as aesthetics go, that map was by far my favourite.

Same here. I thought we'd see that map in the top5 for sure.

ihasaKAROT

Netherlands4730 Posts

August 12 2011 09:03 GMT

#167

Queu the special awards

Icetoad

Canada262 Posts

August 12 2011 13:49 GMT

#168

Yeah I want to know the special award.

FlopTurnReaver

Switzerland1980 Posts

August 12 2011 16:11 GMT

#169

Special Awards haven't been planned really since they got 0 attention last month and for this the effort is a bit too high.

ihasaKAROT

Netherlands4730 Posts

August 12 2011 17:25 GMT

#170

Zero attention? I recall people allways loving that, even last month. Also I won the dustin browder for the 2nd time, gotta know who to hand the trophy to

Gl!tch

United States573 Posts

August 12 2011 17:47 GMT

#171

This is the first MotM i participated in, let alone knew about. So i had to check last months to see these "Special Awards".

LOL you gotta do them.

Soluhwin

United States1287 Posts

August 12 2011 17:57 GMT

#172

On August 13 2011 02:25 ihasaKAROT wrote:
Zero attention? I recall people allways loving that, even last month. Also I won the dustin browder for the 2nd time, gotta know who to hand the trophy to

Or you could get your third one, and be a Browder Bonjwa.

IronManSC

United States2119 Posts

August 12 2011 18:40 GMT

#173

So no awards? I wish you guys would tell us these things on DAY ONE of the map contest.

Fearlezz

Croatia176 Posts

August 12 2011 18:57 GMT

#174

Awards are the thing I look forward the most, come on :D

iGrok

United States5142 Posts

August 12 2011 19:00 GMT

#175

There will be awards. I command it!

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Mereel

Germany895 Posts

August 12 2011 19:18 GMT

#176

rofl

NewSunshine

United States5938 Posts

August 12 2011 20:26 GMT

#177

idk, I like city of the damned the most.
Does that mean you'll send yourself an award?

Randomaccount#77123

United States5003 Posts

August 13 2011 00:04 GMT

#178

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EatThePath

United States3943 Posts

August 13 2011 00:18 GMT

#179

I wrote a response which was lost to the battery gods, which I'll remake at some point. It wasn't very divisive, but I still want to share my thoughts. Anyway, Barrin basically delineated in examples and details what I said in a metaphor about mapping being like writing a piece of music and how 4player maps are like different performances of the same song.

I don't think mediocre 2player maps should replace them but we should only hold up the most finely crafted and progressive maps. As to the idea of map challenges to get creativity flowing, I like it. However, against metaphor: that's like writing a catchy musical phrase. You still have to do a lot of work to put it in a song that turns out masterful, and you can't just evaluate it without context. Maps are exactly the same and you can only evaluate something by seeing the obvious and subtle interplay of the map elements and how they are used by players.

So, great for generating ideas but they still have to go into maps which are crafted over long hours in order to see "is this really something worthwhile I've hit upon?". That is why I want to see the innovations in the more breathable 2player maps to see how these paper planes fly, not just bend the wings differently on the same old style. Not that I don't like seeing a sweet fucking paper airplane regardless.

Ugh I'm a broken gumball machine of metaphors.

[edit] By the way, I specifically mean 4player rotational that gives left and right thirds. I think there is room for innovating with mirror symmetry, and there is a TON of space to do shifted symmetry style.