[Contest] Official Christmas Spell Contest

[emjlr3]

[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

Do not think too hard into this, it is not complicated

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.

 

[emjlr3]

Entries​

*This post is reserved for the display of entries as they present themselves.

1. Hatebreeder - Frost Mortem
2. Arkan - Arctic Maelstrom
3. Elumork - Calling of the Frost Goddess
4. Trollvottel - Ice Thingy
5. garet10 - Blizzard Spell
6. turok255 - Frost Ring
7. darkRae - Hailstorm
8. PiCkstix - Prison of Ice
9. Grymlax - Frozen Vessel
10. The Undaddy - Snowball
11. T3rm1nat0r - Shards of Ice
12. Naminator - Frozen Expansion
13. waaaks! - Frozen Death
14. Smith_S9 - Frozen Spirits
15. FroznYoghurt - Chilling Alchemy
16. Überplayer - Ice Burst
17. ~Gals~ - Shiva Faeries
18. DrinkSlurm - Cool Whip
19. Bloodydood - Ice Cage
20. Pyrograsm - Borealis Beam

 

[rodead]

oke nice to see the second spell contest!

sign me up i am glad there is a new one.

 

[0zaru]

sing me up, this may be my first vjass spell that i will make =D

 

[Hatebreeder]

Sighn Me Up !!!
I have such a good Idea
Just have to think about how to code it xD Anyways, do you get extra points for the spell to be MUI?

 

[Grymlax]

Last spell contest was a blast! good job with it.

I am definitely in. I however need to be done before Wednesday next week after that I'll be gone celebrating Christmas in a place far away from computers.

But since I’m ill at the moment I got some time to spare.

 

[Doom-Angel]

seems nice and i think i got an idea for a spell for the contest (mabye)

 

[Trollvottel]

Got an idea, count me in.

 

[T3rm1nat0r]

i might join, will have decided by tommorow

 

[Geelottaja]

If I come up with a good idea and have the time for it, I'm in.

 

[emjlr3]

Sighn Me Up !!!
I have such a good Idea
Just have to think about how to code it xD Anyways, do you get extra points for the spell to be MUI?

if by extra points you mean your spell will lose less points, then yes indeed it does

 

[turok255]

Can the spell start out as water and turn to ice?

 

[Naminator]

Count me in.

 

[hell_knight]

Im In
but can I write my own mui gui system to go with the spell? Or will I will lose points fo that.
Does custom skins / custom lightning effects count as a model or icon?

 

[The_Kingpin]

Wait, so we CAN'T use vJass?

 

[0zaru]

no, i think that you can use vJASS

barring a generic game cache system, or vJASS

 

[turok255]

I really wish I knew JASS :banghead::banghead::banghead: You pretty much lose points if you use GUI before you even start, Its impossible to make good MUI spells in GUI, Guess I should stop typing and go back to the JASS tutorial page, I might enter anyway, Depending on how he answers me previous post.

 

[emjlr3]

Can the spell start out as water and turn to ice?

sure

Im In
but can I write my own mui gui system to go with the spell? Or will I will lose points fo that.
Does custom skins / custom lightning effects count as a model or icon?

how about this, no imports

I really wish I knew JASS :banghead::banghead::banghead: You pretty much lose points if you use GUI before you even start, Its impossible to make good MUI spells in GUI, Guess I should stop typing and go back to the JASS tutorial page, I might enter anyway, Depending on how he answers me previous post.

you think you got it bad , i gotta read through that GUI crap and am forced to grade it...

 

[hell_knight]

Mmm ok no imports at all , what about my other question can I use my own MUI GUI system even though if I code it , it will be extremely similar to the one we do have as that is what I believe is the most effective way to do it.

Off Topic

Emjlr3 really quit being so bitter about GUI , some people have just tough time learning it... ( me for example )
One of my favorite quotes are " Don't call people noobs , everyonce was once new even you perhaps "

Didin't you once use GUI before you learned JASS no?

 

[waaaks!]

ill join
for this will be my first spell contest

just curios?
can we use some spell enhancement systems?
for example, knockback system?