[Contest] Official Spell Contest #1
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 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, unless they have been made by you specifically for this contest (unless special consideration is given - pm me for more info)
- 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 users 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, me and (insert 2nd judge here) 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 channeling.
Your ability must be channeling. However, what happens during this channel duration, or after it, is completely up to you.
This gives a distinct type of ability to make, but leaves a lot of room for creative ideas to spawn.
Deadline:
The deadline is 2 weeks from now, November 4th, 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.
*If you would like to be the second judge, keep in mind that you will be unable to enter this contest, please pm me with why you want to and why you think you would be good for the position.