calamarain
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Right, here's the voting for the Limited Space II contest. Rate the holds based on how fun you found them, it's perfectly acceptable to vote 10 for your own hold. Please be honest.

Voting will close in a week. The next message in this thread will contain a zip file containing all sixteen entries.

Due to having some spare modpoints, I am revising the scale of prizes.

First prize: 7 modpoints
Second prize: 4 modpoints
Third prize: 2 modpoints

My personal favourite (this may be one of the winners) gets an extra 2 modpoints. If there's a tie, I'll figure something out to distribute prizes fairly.

Thankyou very much to everyone who entered, it's been great fun running this contest, and I'm going to run another once voting for this one has finished.

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calamarain
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File: LimitedSpaceIIentries.zip (26.1 KB)
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Here are the entries, zipped up for your convenience.

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Chaco
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I'm about to review my brief notes for each entry and vote, but I'd like to say that would everybody please stop holding architecture contests one right after another; I have one all set up and ready to go, complete with announcement, rules, and prize scale that I've been trying to start but haven't since so many other architecture contests have been going on at the same time

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calamarain
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Chaco wrote:
I'm about to review my brief notes for each entry and vote, but I'd like to say that would everybody please stop holding architecture contests one right after another; I have one all set up and ready to go, complete with announcement, rules, and prize scale that I've been trying to start but haven't since so many other architecture contests have been going on at the same time

OKie dokie, I've done mine. I'll step back and delay mine until after yours. Will that be acceptable?

Perhaps a suggestion? When the Director of Grand Constructions is appointed, he can have a rota? If you want to run a contest, submit it to him, and he'll put it in the queue and notify you when your slot is available. Would prevent more than one architectural contest running at once.

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Chaco
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Actually, that came off a little rude. Your idea is probably better than mine anyway.

I've voted now; and while my notes aren't really in any sort of shape to be posted to a public, I will say that I voted entries that just involved me running around killing a few monsters lower than entries that managed to create a puzzle with the limited space.

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calamarain
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Chaco wrote:
Actually, that came off a little rude. Your idea is probably better than mine anyway.

Who's to say? We've not seen your idea yet But having some kind of master rota would be a good idea, if you want to run an architectural contest, get in the queue. Having four running at once would mean that each would get about three entries, tops.

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techant
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Because I am so bad at solving some of these rather difficult holds, would you all be so kind as to post a victory demo so I can see what you intended. I am trying to not vote them down cuz they are to hard for me.

What's with the weird name for the zip file?

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File: Goblins Victory.demo (1020 bytes)
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techant wrote:
Because I am so bad at solving some of these rather difficult holds, would you all be so kind as to post a victory demo so I can see what you intended.

Sounds like a good idea. Here is the victory demo for mine.

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[Last edited by Dolan42 at 09-05-2007 05:27 AM : I decided to export with 3.0.2 instead of 3.1]

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File: Hot Potato Victory.demo (806 bytes)
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techant wrote:
Because I am so bad at solving some of these rather difficult holds, would you all be so kind as to post a victory demo so I can see what you intended.

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Chaco
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File: CFLSIE Room For Construction The Entrance Victory.demo (888 bytes)
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Here's the victory demo for my first entry.

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Chaco
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File: CSLSIE Room For Construction The Entrance Victory.demo (908 bytes)
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Here's the victory demo for my second entry.

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File: FC Fegundo Cube The Entrance Victory.demo (1017 bytes)
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Here's what playing through my entry should look like.

Note: Dolan42 told me earlier today that my entry is currently not 3.1 compatible because one of the early arrows blocks an explosion. This is an easy fix I'll make for possible compilations after the contest.

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File: JLSI Room For Construction The Entrance.demo (770 bytes)
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Here's mine.

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Ptanzoricis
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File: Tnfs2 The Need for Speed 2 The Entrance Victory.demo (925 bytes)
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Here's my victory demo for "The need for speed 2". It's prequel uses the same idea so I will not submit a demo for that. I thought that without the unintended solution that this would fair better in voting, though it is more difficult this way.

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Thanks so much for the demo's

I still could use victory demo's for :
bflatjeff - A Serpents Gaze
vittro's Limited Space II


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File: vLSI Room For Construction The Entrance Victory.demo (921 bytes)
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Here's vittros!

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techant
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I just voted thanks



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File: ASG Egads The Entrance Victory.demo (812 bytes)
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Here's the demo for my "A Serpent's Gaze".

BbJ

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calamarain
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I'm just glad so many people have taken an interest and voted

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calamarain
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And the contest is over, with a draw for second place. This means that there won't be a third prize winner - as there's already three winners

The winners are:

First place: Vittro - 7 mod points awarded.
Joint second place: Techant and Doom - 4 mod points each.

My personal favourite was goldenferrets - will get 2 mod points.

OK, I must apologise. I have completely messed up here. I didn't realise that it cost more than one modpoint to add more than +1 to a post. I modded up Doom and Vittro, since they were first in the list. What I didn't realise was that it cost n to add the nth modpoint to a post. Thus, drained all 20 of my modpoints that I saved up specifically for the contest!

I am so very sorry guys. Doom, you have your prize, Vittro you have 4 points worth of yours. techant and goldenferret - you will get yours the moment I have modpoints. I'm putting this in my profile so that I do not forget.

I am so very sorry

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Overall a successful contest. Ptanzoricis' entry was probably my favourite, despite not getting that many high votes from others. Perhaps by not hiding one vital puzzle part it would've scored a little higher, don't know... but a neat mix of lynchpins either way.

Oh, and I fixed the mods for you

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calamarain wrote:
What I didn't realise was that it cost n to add the nth modpoint to a post.

Well, actually the cost is 1+floor(abs(score/2))...

And I see someone already took care of the remaining points for you...

np: Steadycam - In The Moog For Love (Kompakt Total 8 (Disc 1))

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Jason
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Here is the full order:



If only there had been a 3rd place!

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calamarain
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Doom wrote:
Overall a successful contest. Ptanzoricis' entry was probably my favourite, despite not getting that many high votes from others. Perhaps by not hiding one vital puzzle part it would've scored a little higher, don't know... but a neat mix of lynchpins either way.

Oh, and I fixed the mods for you

Doom, you have my immense gratitude Next time, I will be wiser. I do have an idea for a prize for the next contest I'll run... which doesn't involve modpoints.

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Custom character graphics for holds? That would be a good prize.

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calamarain wrote:

Doom wrote:
Overall a successful contest. Ptanzoricis' entry was probably my favourite, despite not getting that many high votes from others. Perhaps by not hiding one vital puzzle part it would've scored a little higher, don't know... but a neat mix of lynchpins either way.

Oh, and I fixed the mods for you

Doom, you have my immense gratitude Next time, I will be wiser. I do have an idea for a prize for the next contest I'll run... which doesn't involve modpoints.

You don't necessarily need to have the modpoints in order to offer points for an unofficial contest. All you need to do is ask someone (preferably before you announce the contest) if they'll fund your contest for you. In the one small contest I ran, points were awarded by the mods.

Which shouldn't discourage other, cooler prizes being offered in any case.

Josh

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calamarain
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jbluestein wrote:
Which shouldn't discourage other, cooler prizes being offered in any case
Josh

Indeed. If people don't object to me running another contest... I have a cool idea for one, and a cool prize

(if someone has a better one they want to run first, I will of course step back and let them do so - I've had a turn, and will only go again if there's no-one with a cool contest waiting)

EDIT: Dammit, Ezlo guessed The prize for my next contest will be a custom character avatar, of the same style as my Slayer avatar and other one I posted. Done to your specifications.

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Ezlo
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Me Smart.

I think I remember Chaco saying something about wanting to do a contest soon. Can't remember where though.

Chaco
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This thread actually.

I'd like to retract that request for right now, though, since I'm already running an Architecture game.

Although I would like it if people participated in that

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vittro
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I can't believe it! I won


I will tell you a thing, believe me, it's true... I didn't voted me 10. Actually I didn't vote cause of my internet connection! And I still won! Thank you all, and, in my opinion, all your entries were good and intresting.

My entry is now gonna be a secret room in RTH.

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