[Contest] Official Tower Contest - 3rd Edition (Now With Award Freshness)

[Ghan]

Tower Contest - 3rd Edition

Welcome back! It's been a while since one of these was hosted. I hope you're all ready for another round. Well, to the specifics!​

1. The Theme
   
   The theme, as it has always been, is fairly open. Don't make an ownage tower that kills everything on sight. That's pretty much it. Make it creative, and eye candy is good to have.​
2. The Rules
   
   There will be some rules here, so listen up!
   

   1. Your tower must be unique to the contest. In other words, it must have been created specifically for this contest.
   2. Imported icons, models, and whatever are fine for use.
   3. Code may be done either in GUI or JASS. Systems such as a Casting System and vJASS are fine to use.
   4. Please include importation instructions with your tower.
   5. I will create a testing map that will be posted in this post. Please use this map when submitting.
   6. Your tower may upgrade. However, having tons of tiers will not get you any more favor. So don't be silly about it.
   7. You may have more than one tower if both towers must work together to produce the effect. I would rather not see a second tower that simply increases the damage of the other or something like that.
      Download here.
3. The Rewards
   Ah, yes. The rewards. I'm pleased to announce that we will be implementing the new Award system with this contest, barring objection from The Helper or others on the Staff. The amount of awards will be based on the number of entries I receive, so if you want more awards (3 max), then join up!
   
   In addition, there will be some rep handed out from me to the winner(s).
   Here's the breakdown:
   
   1st Place - 15 rep
   2nd Place - 10 rep
   3rd Place - 5 rep
   
   And anyone else who wants to give rep will certainly be welcome to do so.
   
   
4. Anything Else
   
   The due date of the contest is below.
   The winners will be decided the same as last time, which is to say, by a poll where people can vote for their favorite tower. However, I will reserve the right to shuffle people around based on things such as coding and how well the person stuck to the rules, so don't think you just need to be popular to win!

This Contest Will End On

January 2nd

That is to say, it will end three weeks from now. Plenty of time to join!


The Gladiators

• rodead
• Darkchaoself
• 0zaru
• Demonwrath
• Somatic
• C0mput3r
• emjlr3
• N2o)
• T3rm1nat0r
• Bloodydood
• jonadrian619
• DrinkSlurm
• emootootoo
• Oninuva

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[turok255]

I might have to enter in this, Dang im so busy :nuts:

Question, Does it matter if the tower upgrades or is this a single tier tower contest?

 

[Ghan]

> Does it matter if the tower upgrades or is this a single tier tower contest?

Your tower can upgrade. That's fine.

 

[C0mput3r]

Shouldn't there be a max for the tiers? Cuase im sure judges won't like having to look at a building with: i dont know, 100 ups, 5 branches that kind of thing.

Also I'm quite new to this; WE and thehelperforum. So do we need any qualification for this or is anyone allowed, sorry if this is a dumb/obvious question, but other forums do have restrictions...:banghead:

 

[waaaks!]

Shouldn't there be a max for the tiers? Cuase im sure judges won't like having to look at a building with: i dont know, 100 ups, 5 branches that kind of thing.

Also I'm quite new to this; WE and thehelperforum. So do we need any qualification for this or is anyone allowed, sorry if this is a dumb/obvious question, but other forums do have restrictions...:banghead:

all are allowed to join no restrictions

 

[Ghan]

> Shouldn't there be a max for the tiers?

Who would want to make 100 tiers?

If you have a ton of upgrades, people probably won't even look at them.

 

[turok255]

Do we get extra points for having a COUPLE (like 2) upgrades instead of a non-upgrade tower?

 

[Ghan]

> Do we get extra points for having a COUPLE (like 2) upgrades instead of a non-upgrade tower?

Points?
What ARE you talking about?

This is a public poll.
And if I want to move people around, I probably won't do it because of an upgrade or two. Doesn't really make any difference to me.

 

[Somatic]

where do I submit the map?

Also is it ok if I were to make a tower gem another game?

 

[Ghan]

> where do I submit the map?

Right into this thread.

> is it ok if I were to make a tower gem another game?

...

Don't know what you mean, actually. What's a tower gem?

 

[Somatic]

sry fr that mistake, I mean from another game. Hate typing from I touch

 

[Ghan]

So, you mean you want to make a tower from a non-warcraft game?

I would rather you came up with your own idea.
Thanks for asking, though.

 

[T3rm1nat0r]

so all you have to do is just to make a tower that is eye catching?

 

[rodead]

sign me up

 

[~GaLs~]

>>Systems such as a Casting System and vJASS are fine to use.
Omg?!
Caster system?!... It is a great system that allows you to do most of the things.... people won't really be counted as coding the whole code themselfs as they are relying everything on CasterSystem.
They would do anything with just 1 call with CasterSystem.

 

[Ghan]

> so all you have to do is just to make a tower that is eye catching?

I want a tower that has triggered abilities.
Not just a ton of special effects.
If you just throw a bunch of special effects on your tower, I'll probably move you down.

> sign me up

You're in.

> They would do anything with just 1 call with CasterSystem.

I will be disappointed if that's all that someone gives....

 

[rodead]

oke i am allmost done with my tower so when can i get the map where the tower needs to be in when i submit it.

 

[Ghan]

> i am allmost done with my tower so when can i get the map where the tower needs to be in when i submit it.

If I might give you some advice:

Keep working on your tower. Polish it. Add some more features.
There's no hurry.

I will post the map as soon as I finish it.
I don't yet know when that will be.

 

[rodead]

i didn't say i was done But i was almost done

still needs lot of improvement ^^

 

[Darkchaoself]

Glad to see those debates of yours are over and this baby back up

I'm in. Count on me submitting this time.