Campaign Creations

TheProgramer wrote: Yeah so I have a stupid question that I hope isnt going to kill me.  I have been working on my Campaign for a couple years and I have been using pre-made maps that came with StarCraft and BroodWar.  I change pretty much everything but the terrain (perhaps make a few small changes).  I was wondering if this disqualifies me, gives me a 0 on the scorecard for Mapping, or if it is to my credit for using old maps in new creative ways?  I didn't see anything in the rules that would have this disqualify me but I figure, better safe than sorry.  I so hope I am not disqualified, because changing the terrain completely would suck sicne i have integrated all my tiggers and everything already.  But what will come will come.

tipereth wrote: Can we get a standard stardate or something for the end of brood war? That would make it alot easier to express what time it is if you dont plan on going in chronological order.

poiuy_qwert wrote: So making a mod and the aspects of the mod don't effect your score?

poiuy_qwert wrote: I think you missed my question:

poiuy_qwert wrote: So making a mod and the aspects of the mod don't effect your score?

Lavarinth wrote:

poiuy_qwert wrote: So making a mod and the aspects of the mod don't effect your score?

Not officially, but they can help with the professionalism category and also increase your chances of breaking the tie in your favor if a tie were to occur. You know me, I encourage it, and I am a judge for the projects.

Campaign Creations wrote: It may be portrayed through one, two, or all three of the races, and must result in a period of four years. (You may use time lapse such as "one year later" in your story such to pace through the timeline faster.)

Desler wrote:

Campaign Creations wrote: It may be portrayed through one, two, or all three of the races, and must result in a period of four years. (You may use time lapse such as "one year later" in your story such to pace through the timeline faster.)

I'm curious as to why Campaign Creations has this specific requirement in this contest - why the campaigns have to result in a period of four full years?  I understand that is the length of time between Brood War and StarCraft 2, and it is in fact interesting to speculate what might of happened between those years.  But making the creator having to cover the full four years, even if summarized at parts, seems like an unusual choice, and almost seems like a creative restriction of sorts.  Restricting the time period between those years is a good idea, but making it to where each story has to have some relevance for four full years isn't.  I'm sure many people would like to pick one point in time and just work at that, within the four years.  I think it opens up the creative possibilities a bit more, and people would still have the option to make it span four full years if they wished.

Laconius wrote: I couldn't have said this more clearly.  I can understand that Lav might want to please Blizzard, but that's equivalent to singing a lullaby to an aborted child.  Imo, Blizzard's standards suck SO bad.  Their story might be somewhat decent, but the way they portray it map-wise is hair-pullingly depressing.  Take a look at their original campaigns for Christ's sake; 90% build and destroy OVER AND OVER again.  Forgive me if I am mistaken... but you wish to please the idiots who drafted this mess?

Laconius wrote:

Desler wrote:

Laconius wrote: I couldn't have said this more clearly.  I can understand that Lav might want to please Blizzard, but that's equivalent to singing a lullaby to an aborted child.  Imo, Blizzard's standards suck SO bad.  Their story might be somewhat decent, but the way they portray it map-wise is hair-pullingly depressing.  Take a look at their original campaigns for Christ's sake; 90% build and destroy OVER AND OVER again.  Forgive me if I am mistaken... but you wish to please the idiots who drafted this mess?

Easy there.  Even they themselves have said that StarCraft 2 will have many more varied mission types beyond the standard build and destroy.  They didn't want the player getting bored and feel like they were doing the same task over and over again.  I doubt Blizzard put forth any requirements when they donated the key, especially some weird 'having to use all 4 years' rule.  Sounds more like an unusual decision by Lavarinth himself.

Well, my statement there was more or less meant to emphasize Blizzard's effect on SC/BW's custom campaign makers.  A good pocket of potential mappers feel the need to make their maps "Blizzard-esque" with a similar format to the original campaigns.  The outcome?
A myriad of B&D missions with no end in sight.  So despite the new standards of SC2, the fact remains that they've provided a terrible example to members of the campaigning community.