nbohr1more Posted February 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 @Jedi_Wannabe thank you for the consideration. It will be up to the other authors to decide if you can join but I hope they all agree to it. I can understand if they decline though. 1 Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi_Wannabe Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 3 hours ago, nbohr1more said: @Jedi_Wannabe thank you for the consideration. It will be up to the other authors to decide if you can join but I hope they all agree to it. I can understand if they decline though. I can understand too and agree with what the masses decide. Either way, I finally released, and that’s all I wanted, to put something out for folks to play. I’ll be happy no matter what. Good luck to all! 1 Quote As my father used to say, "A grenade a day, keeps the enemy at bay!" My one FM so far: Paying the Bills: 0 - Moving Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 Bring Jedi on too! For me, at least, the whole point of the contest was to have fun creating something under a deadline. I think the more contestants we have the better! Bring him onboard 1 Quote FMs: A Good Neighbor Co-FMs: Seeking Lady Leicester, Written in Stone, The Painter's Wife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi_Wannabe Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Amadeus said: Bring Jedi on too! For me, at least, the whole point of the contest was to have fun creating something under a deadline. I think the more contestants we have the better! Bring him onboard Amadeus knows all the woes of my Duke Nuke’Em Forever dev cycle, haha. How many times did I push my personal deadline back? 10 times over the past two years?! I personally am happy with what everyone decides either way. While I was aware in the back of my mind the contest was happening, I’ve been oblivious up until today what’s been talked about. Seeing the influx of betas over the past few months did help light a fire under my ass to push my map out, so thanks for that. But I’m not here for fame or glory, simply making and releasing a map and having anybody at all play it and enjoy it is already a 10+yr long dream come true for me Edited February 14, 2022 by Jedi_Wannabe 1 1 Quote As my father used to say, "A grenade a day, keeps the enemy at bay!" My one FM so far: Paying the Bills: 0 - Moving Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wellingtoncrab Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 I am fine deferring to the other authors if they have no concerns, but if there is any concern at all about fairness in Iris being submitted, which is the impression I got from that original post, allowing it to participate in the contest mechanically, but not be eligible to win seems like a good middle ground to me as far helping out the community vs keeping the contest fair. Again I am not invested in the outcome of the contest, but am invested in the Dark Mod and am just happy we are getting so many great missions to play and that I could finally get mine out! 4 Quote -= IRIS =- ♦ = SLL = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingsal Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 No objections here! 1 Quote Volta Missions: Volta and the Stone, Volta II: Cauldron of the Gods Standalones: Snowed Inn, Hazard Pay (2.10 BETA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragofer Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 To be honest contests are first and foremost there to get people to enjoy mapping together, the contest result is inconsequential (though Id definitely say the contest mechanism is an important part of the experience). We've already got a multi-author FM in a mostly single-author contest that literally builds on a released mission - so I think that ship has sailed. Let's let all join who submit missions before voting ends. My only conditions would be that each FM describes: 1) what other FMs their story connects to 2) what new TDM features were used, if any 2 Quote FM: One Step Too Far | FM: Down by the Riverside | FM: Perilous Refuge Co-FM: The Painter's Wife | Co-FM: Written in Stone Dragofer's Stuff | Dragofer's Scripting | A to Z Scripting Guide | Dark Ambient Music & Sound Repository Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigh Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 I might have liked the contest to have been a bit more structured and with fewer changes during the contest, but the goal is to showcase 2.10 so I understand why the contest part is almost secondary. Perhaps the next contest could be another speedbuild or unusual gameplay contest, with more solid criteria. 1 Quote { 0 | 🞵 } = funk_tastic My missions: Stand-alone Duncan Lynch series Down and Out on Newford Road the Factory Heist A House Call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbohr1more Posted February 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 All 5 entries have been added to the first post! 2.10 is coming in with all guns blazing !!! 2 2 Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi_Wannabe Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 Wicked awesome. Is there anything else I need to declare about my map, or is the summary notes in my linked thread in the OP enough for y’all? Thanks guys. Quote As my father used to say, "A grenade a day, keeps the enemy at bay!" My one FM so far: Paying the Bills: 0 - Moving Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wellingtoncrab Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 I added the 2.10 feature list to my mission post, though admittedly I couldn’t quite bring myself to bluntly layout the nature of the connection(s) in the mission so I’ll take my knocks scoring wise there. 1 Quote -= IRIS =- ♦ = SLL = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigh Posted March 17, 2022 Report Share Posted March 17, 2022 Everyone, remember to get your votes in while you still can! 1 Quote { 0 | 🞵 } = funk_tastic My missions: Stand-alone Duncan Lynch series Down and Out on Newford Road the Factory Heist A House Call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbohr1more Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 I have collected the raw scores and applied corrections where votes were mistakenly placed according to the threads. I still need to calculate the weighted scoring ( gameplay has a 3x weight, etc ) and ensure that the features bonus votes are restricted to 30% of the votes. Anyway, I am being kicked off my PC for now so if someone wants to calculate the scoring early here are the raw scores: Connection_Contest_ Raw.txt 2 Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebarnin Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 Crud, I forgot to vote. I'll do it now - if it's too late, my bad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nbohr1more Posted March 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 CONTEST RESULTS! 1) Winner: Wellingtoncrab "Iris" 97.08% 2) Bikerdude, Amadeus, Dragofer "Written in Stone" 95.28% 3) Kingsal "Hazard Pay" 95.06% 4) thebigh "Down and Out on Newford Road" 81.01% 5) Jedi_Wannabe "Paying the Bills 0: Moving Day" 77.64% There was a little controversy about the gameplay score in PTB0: Moving Day. If I remove the votes from that user, the score becomes 79.92% so the results do not change. To cap bonuses to 30%, the math became a little convoluted: Spoiler 1) Take the number of votes and multiply by 0.3 ( 27 * 0.3 = 8.1 ) 2) Split that 8.1 into the constituent percentages of the bonus votes. So 6 perfect votes * 2 for two 2.10 features and 2 perfect votes for a 2.10 asset ( highest possible scoring ) becomes 14 total votes with 6/14 of the bonus being one 2.10 feature and 2/14 being the asset bonus. Multiply 6/14 * 8.1 = 3.47 3) Add the 3.47 value to the perfect five score votes ( 15 + 3.47 ) and multiply that times 5 4) Do this for each category and multiply each by it's weight ( 1, 2, or 3) 5) Account for the added vote scoring in the total possible denominator 30 * 0.3 = 9 ( a 3rd of the perfect voting ) Total Votes X 30 ( max possible score ) + 8.1 ( 30% of voting ) * 9 ( 3rd of the vote ) + 5 ( connection score ) (27 x 30) + (8.1 x 9) + 5 = 887.9 possible points ( if perfect ) 6) Add all the category scores together and divide by the max possible score from step 5 Here is my calculation scratch pad: Connection_Contest_ scratchpad.txt 1 5 Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigh Posted March 19, 2022 Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 Congratulations @Wellingtoncrab, and all the contestants. 2 Quote { 0 | 🞵 } = funk_tastic My missions: Stand-alone Duncan Lynch series Down and Out on Newford Road the Factory Heist A House Call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JackFarmer Posted March 19, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 Yeah, congratulations! However, I consider every mission release a win for the mod, and all you guys delivered really good missions! Thank you! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wellingtoncrab Posted March 19, 2022 Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 To echo @JackFarmerI am most pleased by the fine company I am in with all these great missions. My eternal gratitude to all who helped me along the way! 4 Quote -= IRIS =- ♦ = SLL = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingsal Posted March 19, 2022 Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 @Wellingtoncrab Congrats! What an incredible mission and a deserved win. Also congrats to all the contestants, this has made 2.10 a very special release! 4 Quote Volta Missions: Volta and the Stone, Volta II: Cauldron of the Gods Standalones: Snowed Inn, Hazard Pay (2.10 BETA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Amadeus Posted March 19, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 Way to rock everyone's socks off @Wellingtoncrab!!! You really knocked it out of the park with Iris! And another big congrats to all the contestants, it was a tough competition and we all got so many great FMs out of it 5 Quote FMs: A Good Neighbor Co-FMs: Seeking Lady Leicester, Written in Stone, The Painter's Wife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaz Posted March 19, 2022 Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 Congratulations, Wellingtoncrab! I, along with so many others, remain astounded that this was your first release, and I dearly hope you are able and willing to continue. I think the biggest winner, however, was the entire community, because we get to play all these wonderful FMs. Thank you, mission authors, thank you so very much! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nbohr1more Posted March 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 I am planning on doing a big moddb write-up. There were so many incredible developments among the contest missions that there needs to be something spot-lighted there. ( Just need a decent chunk of child-free time to get the write-up going... ) 5 1 Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigh Posted March 19, 2022 Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 I like reading your moddb writeups. They're well written and informative. Makes me wish I was good at writing longer documents. 1 Quote { 0 | 🞵 } = funk_tastic My missions: Stand-alone Duncan Lynch series Down and Out on Newford Road the Factory Heist A House Call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldwell Posted March 20, 2022 Report Share Posted March 20, 2022 Congratulations @Wellingtoncrab Your mission is absolutely incredible, one of the most refined and well built city missions in the entirety of TDM (imo). The visual fidelity, style and gameplay flow is absolutely top notch and while I did enjoy every entry in this contest, I thought yours did stand out as the top of the bunch! 3 Quote Shadows of Northdale Campaign ACT I: A Curious Mind | ACT II: Down The Rabbit Hole Stand Alone Missions Accountant 1: Thieves and Heirs | Accountant 2: New In town | Spring Cleaning | Lord Edgar's Bathhouse | Snowed Inn | Noble Affairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi_Wannabe Posted March 20, 2022 Report Share Posted March 20, 2022 (edited) ^what he said. IRIS!!! Whooo congrats @Wellingtoncrab its a good day to taff around! Edited March 20, 2022 by Jedi_Wannabe 4 Quote As my father used to say, "A grenade a day, keeps the enemy at bay!" My one FM so far: Paying the Bills: 0 - Moving Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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