Potential Contest Themes

[karamazovapy]

I wanted to open up discussion and give people a chance to suggest themes for the coming year of level design contests!

Are there past themes you've really enjoyed and would like to see come back? Is there a theme you've had in mind but haven't seen yet? Looking back, what themes do you think have produced the best entries?

Dungeon maps round 2! It's about time we had some new dungeon maps created specifically for Bitfighter.

[ZoombeR]

oh i second skylark's post and give him a +1

Are you guys trying to irk _k?

Another visual design might be nice. I liked the symmetry based ones, but after odd numbered and asymmetry, I'm not sure what else. Asymmetry round 2? Asymmetrical Aesthetics?

[ZoombeR]

radial symmetry!

[karamazovapy]

Is Dull Dungeons the best we can do? Ideas, people, ideas!

[watusimoto]

1v1 maps
3 team maps
asymmetrical maps
fractal maps
maps for robots

[ZoombeR]

dun dun dunnngeons..

[bobdaduck]

soccer.

Multiple floors via teleporters
Minimal symmetry
From another game
Default-looking
Maximum size of 4 screen sizes (8 by 6 squares at grid=255)
Maximum of 4096 bytes levelgen, level itself only 512 bytes
Multiple paths to the goal
Multiple objectives

Multiple floors via teleporters
Minimal symmetry
From another game
Default-looking
Maximum size of 4 screen sizes (8 by 6 squares at grid=255)
Maximum of 4096 bytes levelgen, level itself only 512 bytes
Multiple paths to the goal
Multiple objectives

Some of these have been done before, but could bear repeating (from another game (I think has been done?), default-looking, maximum file size (was it one of _k's contests though?)). I'm very intrigued by "multiple objectives," but not exactly sure what that would entail. Explain a bit more?

Wasn't there a Zap! zelda map that utilized the "multiple floors via teleport" idea? It'd be a good example if we end up doing that in a contest.

I'm not exactly sure what that would entail - just random ideas. Maybe multiple flags in capture the flag.

[ZoombeR]

From another game
Multiple objectives

Lol, I still remember my Ratchet and Clank uya rant, the map was about a megabyte, and there were way too many teleports to run any smooth game, even if you were the only player.

I have cleaned it up though, and am trying to use the game to inspire a new game-type made within the editor without mod-ing source code.