Stefan
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 2119
Registered: 05-25-2004
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Contest: Golbeno's Security System (+5)
Golbeno, the mayor of Aurifex, has a problem. His stash of greckles has increased to such an extent that his current security system - a lazy guard falling asleep on duty - is far from being sufficient. At first he thought about simply replacing the guard, but that proved to be difficult, since there just weren't any reliable guards in need of a job at the moment. After that he thought about asking the scientists in Mellenfral for help, but decided not to, because if they weren't even able to protect their own city, then how are they supposed to be able to provide protection for his greckles?
Golbeno now turns to the Dungeon Architechts' Association for a solution. If he can find an architect that has the ability and skill to construct a dungeon that even the most talented smitemaster won't be able to complete, then this will surely be a sufficient security system for his dear greckles. Of course, the architect himself would have to be able to know the secret of the hold - otherwise Golbeno won't be able to access his riches ever again.
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This contest is divided into two parts: Creating the holds, and playing them. First, I will describe the rules for building the holds:
1. The hold may only contain one room. (This is going to be an expensive job and Golbeno is very greedy.)
2. The room may not be taken from a hold, it has to be new.
3. You have to be able to solve the room yourself, and your victory demo must be submitted at the same time as your entry. Continue reading for more details on this.
4. The room must be solvable in under 3000 moves.
5. No orb puzzles including more than five orbs are allowed.
6. Rule removed because it was too confusing. Read posts below for more information.
7. You are allowed to make fixes and changes to your hold until the submission deadline ends, but please try to keep the number of updates down to a reasonable level. Submitting a hold that is impossible to complete shouldn't be possible because of rule #3.
8. For now, only one entry per contestant is allowed, but if the participation seems to be very low, I may skip this rule.
9. I will accept submissions until Local Time:02-27-2005 at 01:00 PM. Send your hold to sm84 (ät) mbnet.fi. You should also attach a passworded zipfile containing the victory demo of the hold. When the second part of the contest is over, you should send the password to me, preferably via PM. I will PM you to confirm that I've received your entry.
When the deadline for hold submissions is over, the second part of the contest will begin. I will post all entries on the forum (I may give them anonymous authors, but I haven't decided on that yet) and anyone may start playing the holds to try to solve them. You may use any means necessary to solve the holds. When you manage to complete a hold, export your victory demo and post it on the forum. The deadline for trying to solve the holds is Local Time:03-09-2005 at 01:00 PM.
Rank points will be given after the end of the second part of the contest:
+2 rank points to anyone who submits a valid entry to this contest.
+5 rank points for solving a hold (only the first person who solves it gets the points).
+10 rank points for creating a hold that no-one manages to solve.
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I will try to participate in both parts of the contest, or if I'm short of time, only the second part.
As this is my first attempt at running a contest, there's bound to be some problems. I just hope that they aren't that many. Any questions and/or suggestions should be posted in this thread.
[Edited by Stefan at Local Time:02-19-2005 at 11:39 PM: changed rule #7 and the post description to be more descriptive]
[Edited by Stefan at Local Time:02-20-2005 at 01:28 AM: removed rule #6, but please, be reasonable with the checkpoints]
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