[Contest] Official Christmas Spell Contest
The idea here is to give people a reason to sit down and make neat spells, to encourage friendly competition, and to, hopefully, challenge people to create the best spells that they can.
Prize:
The prize for this contest, and, hopefully, future contests, will be a not yet determined added amount of rep, or a custom icon*, which will be displayed below your avatar, boasting of your spell making prowess.
*Conditional upon an OK from TH.
Rules:
- You can use GUI or JASS. However, all spell related code must be written by you, barring a generic game cache or attachment system, or vJASS
- Your entered spell must be made specifically for this contest, and must not have been started before the official start of this contest
- Imported models / icons are not allowed, period.
- You may receive no help from anyone in the creation of your spell
- Your spell must fit the theme, if you have questions, pm me
- I reserve the right to cancel this contest at any time for any reason
Grading:
Grading will be done as follows:
There will be a public poll following the conclusion of the contest. All TH.net members are permitted to vote for their favorite spell.
However, votes for the poll mean nothing if not accompanied by a reasonable explanation as to why you voted for who you did.
Following the voting, Rheias and I will go through the spells and grade them ourselves.
Final scores will be 50% determined by the public poll and 50% by the two graders' scores.
Places will then be assigned based on the highest average score.
The two judges grading rubric will consist of:
- 50% - coding
- 25% - aesthetics
- 25% - intangibles
Theme:
This contest's theme is Ice.
Your ability must involve water in its solid physical state. However, what happens with this, or as a result of it, is completely up to you.
An example of such a spell is Blizzard.
This gives a distinct theme of an ability to make, but leaves a lot of room for creative ideas to spawn.
Deadline:
The deadline is 2 weeks from now, December 26th, 2007 at midnight.
It is expected that you maintain good conduct in this thread.
No spam, no useless comments, no boobery, no grading, no bashing.
WIPs are allowed and encouraged.
Have fun and good luck to all.