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I noticed a severe shortage of contests at the moment, so taking matters into my own hands, i give to you RETROMORPHOSIS .

Each week, i will announce a map, which will be one of the original 500 N-game maps. You will have to change it, giving it your own unique touch. and here's the catch:

YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE TWO MAPS.

One keeping the original tileset and using completely different objects.
One using all the original objects and building a new tileset around them.

Both maps will be judged by (hopefully) 3 judges (one of them being me), and the contestant with the highest combined score wins, while the lowest combined score gets you eliminated.

There will be 5 rounds to this contest. You will have a week to submit your maps for each round. Number of eliminations each round depends on the number of entrants.

There will be NO n-reality maps and NO DDAs allowed in this contest. Each map must use exactly one ninja and at least one exit. You are obviously not allowed to cover up objects with tiles. I don't think i have to go into detail on that one, you all know the drill from previous retiling contests.

IMPORTANT: Each map will come with a series of modification options, which you may or may not use. This is to ensure a certain level of diversity between the entries. There will be object and/or tile modification options. Obviously, object modifications refer to your RETILE MAP, while tile modifications refer to your REOBJECT MAP.

Example for an object modification: "You may add up to 15 mines", "You may change the laser drone to a chaingun drone".
Example for a tile modification: "You may change (which includes removing) up to 6 tiles".

Judging criterias are as follows:

Map A (old tileset, new objects)

Gameplay */25
Aesthetics */15
Originality */10

Map B (old objects, new tileset)

Aesthetics */25
Gameplay */15
Originality */10 ,

making for a total of 100 points per judge.

I won't force you to submit your maps to numa, but if you do, use the tags "RM1", "RM2" etc., according to each round of the contest. You have to post the map in this thread for it to be an official entry to this competition.


CONTESTANTS:

*Daikenkai//DDRave
*lj11
*crescor
*ENT474
*bufar
*da_guru
*Brainwasher

JUDGES:

*sTalkR
*wumbla


ROUND THREE

14-4 industrial zone 3 (another industrial zone? yes, i'm that unimaginative. also, they fit this contest perfectly :P).

tiles: objects: object modifications:
1. you may remove as many bounce blocks as you wish. however, you can NOT add bounce blocks.
2. you may change the laser drone to a chaingun drone.

tile modifications:
-none-

Good Luck!

so like.... retile/reobject?

sure...addme...

Will each contestant get the same map or will they get different ones? I'd think the latter would bet better because there would be more variety.

i agree with life247, but then again, that could become unfair. anyway, i'm in.

signing up. put me on teh list mane :P

Put me down as a maybe. It depends on whether I get eliminated from the retile contest.

Sure, I'm in

every contestant gets the same map to guarantee the conditions are the same for everyone. anything else wouldn't be fair. also, i edited the first post. please read.

sTalkR wrote:But to be honest... we all know Germany is gonna win it, so what's the point in watching anyway? ;)

YEAH

anyways, this sounds good. have to see if I have enough time/motivation to dare it or not.

I am volunteering as a judge (should have plenty of time after my exams).

i'll add you, seneschal. nevershine, i'll put you down as a maybe.

I can go. (Most likely)

It's summer and all, so i'll see this pan out. Sign me up as a contestant.

Sign me up too, I guess.

How are we going to get the data for the maps?

i will post everything you need once the contest is under way, don't worry about it.

You will probably need this:
http://metanet.2.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=4072

The attached file in the first post contains leveldata for every map in N. Hopefully that'll make things easier for your contest.

i already have all the data needed for all 5 rounds of the contest. but thanks anyway ;)

Sometimes, when i read thread like this, or just generally any mappers talk, i feel like you're all in prehistoric age. No offence, but did you ever hear of NReality? You can download it here http://n.infunity.com/ . I'm not going to write all it's advantages, just one: when you play through it, and you die playing a level (you have to die in normal way, not hitting kill button), you can hit Shift+R instead of just R for replay, which will open a web browser with the level data AND the death demo (doesn't work in opera for me, though). You're welcome.

Sign me up seeing as how I'm basically out of ReTile.

let's get this going. if any of you know any other people who might like participating in this contest, please ask them, so maybe we can get a few more entrants. i'm gonna send out a few PM's myself. 2 judges is fine i guess.
this will start on monday. late entrants will be accepted until the end of round 1.

Somehow, I didn't get eliminated from retile. Take me off the list please :(

I'd be another judge, if you need one.
If not I'll sign up as contestant.
Somehow I got eliminated from retile. ;)

right now i need contestants more than judges ;) i'll sign you up.

this contest has started. good luck everyone.