Level Contest

[ctdabomb]

Hello all, every month or so we will have a level contest each time with a specific theme.

The first contest:
Rules and all that stuff:

• A snow tileset theme
  
• Submit your levels here until the 27th of January, when voting will start
  
• Voting on levels will end on the January 30st
  
• Winners will be announced January 31st
  
• Have fun
  
• One level per person
  
• Top few levels will/can be made into an add-on or
  
• If admins are okay with it top levels will get added to incubator island(if winners are okay with it)
  
• One entry per person
  
• Please make a new level. (not from and existing worldmap/levelset)
  
• Don't vote for your self.
  
• Feel free to comment on peoples levels, most people would like to hear what was wrong or good with their level.

To download the editor: https://supertux.lethargik.org/wiki/Download/Unstable
A basic unfinshied guide to using the editor(playing around on it is the best way to learn): http://supertux.lethargik.org/wiki/Editor_Guide
Guidlines for making levels: https://supertux.lethargik.org/wiki/Mil ... Styleguide

Thanks, and have fun!
CT. da'Bomb
(In case we have more than 20 levels I will choose top 20 we will vote on(forum polls cant have more than 20 options))

[qubodup]

In a contest or 'call to contributions' you should assume that this is the first time the reader finds out about the game.

Best to include links to the game page and instructions on how to use editor. Guidelines would help as well (level length?)

IMHO self-voting should be prohibited, even if you think yours is best.

Lists should be formatted as lists.
(fyi: you can edit your post)

PS: this might be irrelevant if this is not the main announcement and there is a blog post with the stuff I mentioned that can be used to spread the word.

[ctdabomb]

thanks for the suggestions.

[amuzen]

It only violates about half of the guidelines so it's at least marginally compliant. It only takes 4 lives to clear it after a lot of practice so it's not impossible. If your kids enjoy a good spanking, they'll also enjoy this!

[ctdabomb]

Go amuzen! the first level!
it is a hard level you are right, but fun. I personally couldn't beat it probably because of differences from 3.3 and svn in the hidden block physics. overall though, it was a fun level(i love a good challenge) but you might want to change it to be a bit more snowy since that is the theme.

[ctdabomb]

here is a level by Hume that he wanted to get submitted to the contest

[ctdabomb]

here is a FAQ for the editor
https://supertux.lethargik.org/wiki/Editor_FAQ

[LMH]

Speaking of the difference between 0.3.3 and SVN, is there any sort of requirement for the contest? Unfortunately the two have significantly different performance which could result in some heavy confusion. I would imagine that the level would need to play well in SVN in order to be considered for Incubator Island, but 0.3.3 is more readily available and would result in more participation. Voting could be complicated as well since levels could utterly fail in one version and be exceptional in the other.

After the contest is done, I'll go ahead and package the submissions as an add-on so that people can enjoy participants hard work.

[ctdabomb]

here is my level called After the Glaciers. hope you like it.

[LMH]

Here is my submission called "Primed for Action". It works fine in 0.3.3 but badguy interaction is cleaner in 0.3.3-SVN. It's a little longer than I originally wanted and also suffers from multiple layers of nerd which I apologize for. I'd say the level difficulty is moderate to mildly difficult depending on if you figure out the primary trick, but as the author my assessment of difficulty doesn't mean beans. Enjoy.

[SuperMat]

Hi everybody,

attached is my new SuperTux level called
"I lost things".

Have a lot of fun with it!

Best regards

SuperMat

[ctdabomb]

Nice level SuperMat. It's a bit short, but fun.

[ctdabomb]

Any more levels? you still have 6 days left!

[ctdabomb]

Voting is now open!

[LMH]

Isn't there 5 entries- what about "I lost things"?

[ctdabomb]

WHOOPS! i forgot that one, sorry,

[LMH]

Alright, here are all the entries of the contest on one worldmap. I designed the map to be expandable for future contests and used some elements that might make it more interesting. It's a standard add-on package, so just drop the zip file in the "supertux2" or "data" directory and access through the "Contrib Levels" menu. Hopefully we'll get more participants for the next one.

[GiBy]

I've got ideas of levels.... but level editor doesn't work on osx .... since mono has been upgrade to work with quartz, and STE hasn't

[ctdabomb]

feel free to share your level ideas.
also, maybe try wine http://www.winehq.org/ to run Supertux?

[Knitter]

also, maybe try wine http://www.winehq.org/ to run Supertux?

Wine is not really an option in OS X, it doesn't work well enough without much effort, and the problem here is that the editor has a dependency that makes no sense in the current version of Mono.

Still, one could try to add the gtk dependency using macports but I haven't tried it yet, it was on my "Next thing to test out" list