Opf user mission creating competition...

[Placebo]

Ok well as everyone knows their are squillions of fantastic add-ons for us to play with, but very few missions getting released these days to use them in, so we need to do something to get the activity levels back up in terms of missions being made and released, to that end I thought a mission creation competition could be a way forward.

So that's what we'll do in a few weeks, in the meantime I'd like people to suggest ideas for how it could be implemented, any guidelines we should perhaps consider? Anything you can come up with really, it's your game, your missions to create, your missions to play, so if you were the one to create a mission creating competition how would it be?

Update: 19/05/2004.

Anyone interested in being a judge for the competition please PM me (please note judges cannot submit entries to the competition).

Anyone who is able to offer hosting for the competition please PM me.


Submissions of banners will end at 9am CET Friday 11th June, I will then run a poll to choose the best one which will close 9am CET Monday 14th June at which point the competition proper will start.

[Winters]

I think we should give awards for the following

Single Player
Campaign
Co-Op
CTI
Deathmatch
CTF

And we can also have one category "Best Overall Mission" this way all types could be submitted and given proper respect. We can also have an "All-Time Best" award for missions that have been out a while now, this would make a means for people to nominate missions for awards and not just limit it to brand new mission entries.

[MrZig]

Howbout RTS by KaRRiLLioN?

[Sanctuary]

Good idea.

Maybe a sort of competition based on imposed themes could be better for a change instead of making a V.I.P. awards-bis, as there are people more specialized in a genre than in another.

Then with this as a guide , every "competitor" should try to create the best mission he can, to suit the general theme

An example of possible themes:

The mission general subject is :
"Army A must take Town defended by Army B"
The map maker is allowed to create every side-story/event that he will judge interesting/necessary to include in the situation of the mission.

The mission general subject is :
"Sabotage/Infiltration"
The map maker is allowed to create every side-story/event that he will judge interesting/necessary to include in the situation of the mission.

etc...etc...

[Albert Schweitzer]

MrZig your signature picture is the best I have seen here for 2 years. You rock!

I propose only one category. And the winner earns a VIP status for 2003. But only new missions can participate. Who cares whether it is single player or multiplayer, coop of capture the flag. It must be good. And the intro shouldnt and other cutscenes shouldnt be taken into consideration. Be assured that the number of contributions will be relaitvely low. The lower the better cause it ensure that many will try them and be able to give full-scale judgement. Maybe we can even put the multiplayer mission into our "forum night" idea. one night on the CIA server we play through all missions and give feedback.

[MrZig]

I nominate my RTS3Way 0.5b! Bwahahaha.. Oh what's that? I can't nominate my own mission? Damn!

[Asmodeus]

I've seen ideas before for getting more quality missions made for OFP. I've thought of a way of helping mission makers get more beta testers and help.

So, my idea is for a system to promote mission making/beta testing by:

Getting a large group of addon makers to agree to let certain people that qualify and agree to a privacy agreement can get exclusive behind the scenes looks at new addons and missions being made by the mods. They can give feedback and directly effect the way that the addons they love are created by giving much needed "general person" point of view feedback!

The way people would qualify could be done a few ways.

People that beta test missions. ***For each post of feedback they can give, the mission maker can give them a point if they think it is earned. (a spam post, for example, wouldn't get a point because it didn't help, same goes for "This mission sucked." and unhelpful things like that)

People that make quality missions can earn points (more than beta testers slightly) by vote of representatives from the mods, or by vote of beta testers or by vote of all the mission makers.

I personally think this could help! Sometimes people need initiative to seriously help others and let me tell you that beta testing and/or making a mission from the start to the end is a serious deal, time consuming and most of the time boring.

This is why there are so few finished missions out there, and why mission makers don't get the beta testing they need sometimes to make their missions good and finish it.

There would probably have to be some sort of "board" or whatever that keeps things running smoothly and settles any debates over points given and not given, etc.

If anyone needs clarification on these ideas, let me know and I'll try to elaborate.

Asmo

[Leone]

I think we should give awards for the following

Single Player
Campaign
Co-Op
CTI
Deathmatch
CTF

And we can also have one category "Best Overall Mission" this way all types could be submitted and given proper respect. We can also have an "All-Time Best" award for missions that have been out a while now, this would make a means for people to nominate missions for awards and not just limit it to brand new mission entries.

I would agree with these categories, but have Non-Addon/Addon versions in each. Perhaps something can be teed up with OFPEC to cooperate on this vis a vis mission packs to download??

[m21man]

Edit - Man, it feels weird to be typing such a long post.

If it's a competition, then there must be a prize. What is it?

Quote[/b] ]but have Non-Addon/Addon versions in each.

That may be completely impossible in a lot of cases. Default OFP doesn't have enough stuff to have equivalent units for every addon. What would the equivalent be for Suchey's Javelin? BAS's Tonal Isle, AH-60L, MH-6, and KLR-250? I think that people are going to have to have a lot of new addons so that mission makers can use the best addons in their missions. If people are really interested in making non-addon missions, then we could have a "Classic OFP" category where missions could only be made with standard BI addons. This would be a good way to see who is best at using more limited resources to make great missions.

Quote[/b] ]Single Player

How would you judge which SP mission was best? Maybe a category system, where you give points for different aspects of the mission's design?

Quote[/b] ]Atmosphere (1 - 10)
Cutscenes (1 - 10)
Miscellaneous (1 - 10)
Scripting (1 - 10)
Sounds (1 - 10)

Atmosphere would be judged on how the weather fit the mission, if the briefing was good and built up tension, if there were good ambient sound effects, etc. Miscellaneous would be for little details like a good overview picture, an included readme, and efficient usage of addons. The other categories are pretty self-explanatory.

Anyway, I'll definitely submit at least one SP mission.

[Cozza]

@Placebo- Been reading Avon sig have ya.

Anyway. I'll enter with a signle play mission.