SPELL CONTEST | theme: Hell | 29.06.08 - 13.07.08

[Andrewgosu]

After some ten days, over 40 submissions later - here are the results!


It was a very close battle, but MoonSlinger snatched the victory with just only a single point!

Smith_S9 was close behind and jnZ finished 3rd.


I am sorry, but I had to disqualify Exide.

Using a GUI-JASS hybrid was not allowed.

Congratulations to winners and all the other participants!

 

[Hatebreeder]

Hehehe xD
1 Point mor than Trollvottel xD
Kewl :3
Gratz to Moonslinger =)

 

[monoVertex]

Damn, was so close xP. Congrats Moonslinger and all the contestants! Now, waiting for a new contest .

 

[UndeadDragon]

Congratulations to MoonSlinger! As Smith just said, let's hope that another competition comes soon.

 

[XeNiM666]

finally! i know the limit of my spell making!!

Congratulations to Moonslinger!!
and all the other contestants!!

 

[AdamGriffith]

Blah
Well done guys. (Y)

 

[cr4xzZz]

Wow, Hatebreeder, Trollvottel, Emototo, we're the best at coding
Congrats, MoonSlinger

 

[vypur85]

GG . Damn it my coding sucks >.<. Now waiting for the Hero Contest#2 result . Waiting... and wait...

+R to Andrew with fast response in everything . And also to others who I can possibly spot.

 

[emootootoo]

Grats to moonslinger.

Not really sure why I got such a bad score on balance, I put a lot of effort into balancing it for melee. Maybe someone can explain it to me?

Anyway, gj with the contest.

Edit: K thanks for fixing that up, even if I still disagree with the new score, atleast it's a pass .

 

[MoonSlinger]

Thanks everyone for the congrats...

Guess I was lucky to have thought of a "cute" idea which is easy to balance. :thup:
It helps greatly for "Balance", "Wow-Factor" and "General Feeling"
If the contest is based on coding skills and effects arrangement, I don't think I would have won


@ Andrew
I always known that Integer A was a call function,
but I never thought making it more code optimal, thanks for the tips :thup:

 

[UndeadDragon]

If the contest is based on coding skills and effects arrangement, I don't think I would have won

You did get some of the highest points in coding

 

[Larcenist]

Congratulations to you MoonSlinger, and to everyone else who finished. And a special thanks to whoever summarized all the submissions somewhere on page 20-ish (saved me from going through 23 pages).

Edit: How awesome isn't the top 5?

67, 66, 65, 64 and 63 points.

 

[Trollvottel]

Congratz to the ones who won.
Seems like my coding wasnt as bad as i thought but the rest was crap x(. Well, there will be a next contest....

 

[Exide]

I am sorry, but I had to disqualify Exide.

Using a GUI-JASS hybrid was not allowed.

-I don't get it. There's not GUI-JASS hybrid in my map?

EDIT:
Unless you consider:

Message
    Events
        Map initialization
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set Hero = Soul Lord 0002 <gen>
        Selection - Select Hero for Player 1 (Red)
        Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for Player 1 (Red) emitting Visibility across (Playable map area)
        Game - Display to (All players) the text: |c00FF8000Commands:...

To be a GUI-JASS hybrid.. Whatever that is?

 

[Miz]

When I signed up to judge, I thought it would be like the poetry contest or terrain contest, not that many people...

I graded on everything besides the coding, and many of you, I was extremely impressed and I play your map for maybe 5 minutes longer; though for some, I ether found, not much differences in the original spell...

Although, I believe I should get a medal for grading all these

Hoped you enjoy the contest, Congrats to MoonSlinger

 

[Exide]

When I signed up to judge, I thought it would be like the poetry contest or terrain contest, not that many people...

I graded on everything besides the coding, and many of you, I was extremely impressed and I play your map for maybe 5 minutes longer; though for some, I ether found, not much differences in the original spell...

Although, I believe I should get a medal for grading all these

Hoped you enjoy the contest, Congrats to MoonSlinger

I'm sure you did a great job.
However, I'm still surprised about my spell and waiting for an answer on why it was disqualified. So I can't appriciate what you have done, as of now.

 

[Sevion]

Why is the spell in two different triggers?

Because I have two separate effects

1. The spell itself.
2. Hell Fire.

Also, you do a very funny thing, compare if the variable "target" is equal to "null" and if it is, set it to "null", again. Not needed.

o_o That's really strange. It's probably because I coded everything at 2:00 - 3:00 AM (My time) ._.

And I sort of stopped looking through my code about 10% of the way through I didn't feel like doublechecking anymore -_-'

On the bright side, I now have more tipzzz from Andrew :O And I have all these resources to look through :O

And a special thanks to whoever summarized all the submissions somewhere on page 20-ish (saved me from going through 23 pages).

That was me. Post #250

 

[monoVertex]

You don't need to remove the “TriggerRegisterAnyUnitEventBJ” function no matter it is a BJ – it keeps your code inlined and in term of speed, it really does not matter because it runs on map initialization.

That coming from a guy who didn't support seeing that BJ in triggers and said he likes to code with no BJ in it .

(Usually I don't remove that, but since I remember that quote of yours, I thought you would like it more that way ).

EDIT:

Handle Variables are pretty much obsolete.

I agree, but since I just do spells from time to time and I don't plan on releasing any map, I won't bother to learn to use anything else as it would just waste my time. I'll keep doing it in my old fashioned way. I keep thinking at the first spellmakers. Imagine that they didn't had even this obsolete system and they couldn't transfer information and handles like that .

 

[AdamGriffith]

@ Exide

It was probably because your spell was a mix of JASS triggers and GUI triggers... even though the GUI ones were disabled.

Though usually, a GUI-JASS hybrid is something like a GUI trigger with a random line in JASS that is not for removing leaks. Or using local globals or whatever they are called:

    local unit udg_Caster = GetTriggerUnit()

Sort of thing.

 

[Exide]

@ Exide

It was probably because your spell was a mix of JASS triggers and GUI triggers... even though the GUI ones were disabled.

Though usually, a GUI-JASS hybrid is something like a GUI trigger with a random line in JASS that is not for removing leaks. Or using local globals or whatever they are called:

    local unit udg_Caster = GetTriggerUnit()

Sort of thing.

-That's what I thought, too.

So I'm curious why I was disqualified..

EDIT:
The GUI triggers are disabled because in case anyone wanted to know what the triggers looked in GUI, I kept them in the map. -It's not like they're being used.