Epic Contest: Drowned Shore Foundry Style

strumslinger

How does a Priestess of Sune for the top three sound? I can think of something else also.

waryur

That sounds great! Thank you! ... just a thought of another possible award to consider, an appearance change token that takes after a unique feature of an Elemental Evil boss, like Gar Shatterkeel's claw hand or Marlos' medusa hair?

reiwulf

any prize would be amazing, thanks for adding to it Strumslinger.

torontodave

@waryur - I really want those assets in the foundry. I'd love to have an Olhydra NPC to work with

torontodave

valcontar73 wrote: »

Well if any of you play mine (I don't care) I still have a lot of issues with the water map and patrols, and there are a lot of "bla bla bla" dialogs XD, so well... don't be scared, the final result will be a bit (only a bit) better

INCREDIBLE

I N C R E D I B L E !

Loved it. ;D I really did. I had a lot of fun. Finale was A+ ;D Can't wait to play the finished version. =D

valcontar73

Thank you Torontodave!

Now, I only need to finish the dialogs. All mechanics and objectives are done.

But if mine is A+ I'm really scared of what other authors will do, including yours of course So many talented authors in this competition, I'll be happy if I end between the 10 first.

valcontar73

About the "Easter Egg Players Contest", I have some questions:

When they must be available? Before or after the deadline submission?

They must be in a single map, or all over the other maps?

I probably will end the foundry in a couple of hours / days, and I wanna be sure to do the right thing.

In the other hand, I probably add some details/"change awkward dialogs" until deadline.

eldarth

valcontar73 wrote: »

About the "Easter Egg Players Contest", I have some questions:

When they must be available? Before or after the deadline submission?

They must be in a single map, or all over the other maps?

I probably will end the foundry in a couple of hours / days, and I wanna be sure to do the right thing.

In the other hand, I probably add some details/"change awkward dialogs" until deadline.

Easter Eggs must be part of the foundry quest submitted by the deadline.
They can be ANYWHERE in the quest on any map.
You want to encourage "exploration" but don't want them so hidden no one will ever find them.

Making changes/updates is absolutely okay until the deadline -- you don't want to publish any changes between deadline and contest judging completed.
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zachariah92

Mine is published:

Drowned Shore Disembark

Have fun!

torontodave

*scrambles to get it finished*

torontodave

If I haven't already, I nominate @Strumslinger and @iandarksword as judges =D

valcontar73

Torontodave don't forget to ask Locksheon to twitch it!!

torontodave

If Locksheon isn't entering, he should be a judge too!

eldarth

[UPDATED]

Submission Publishing Deadline: TBD (Will be at least a full week after Foundry is back up)​​

valcontar73

Foundry is back, but with the sound bug that crashes the editor it will be nearly impossible to finish for some authors. So I'm guessing that the Publishing Deadline must be postponed, again.

torontodave

im gonna try n grapple with finishing mine today. ill let you know if i run into any probs. =D

reiwulf

not gonna even bother if I can't even put sounds or music. Ambience and mood is very very important to me.

eldarth

valcontar73 wrote: »

Foundry is back, but with the sound bug that crashes the editor it will be nearly impossible to finish for some authors. So I'm guessing that the Publishing Deadline must be postponed, again.

Yeah, we'll wait a bit to see if there is some kind of workaround or a fix (ha! could be never).
So, if no fix or workaround happens by maybe Oct 31st, we'll just have to live with it.​​

graydoom

agree, foundry comes back with some bugs and the deadline became to close...

torontodave

updated to v0.98 today.

hosted a playthrough that was both a setback, and inspiring.

a setback cause some medium sized changes must be made, and inspiring cause the player had a lot of fun. =D

graydoom

Sound still bugged

graydoom

Any news about updates today?

iandarksword

Nope. Not one peep.

torontodave

eldarth said:

Yeah, we'll wait a bit to see if there is some kind of workaround or a fix (ha! could be never).

So, if no fix or workaround happens by maybe Oct 31st, we'll just have to live with it.​​

So should I be aiming to have a finished playable copy up by Oct 31st?

Any news on the SoundPreview CrashToDesktop @panderus @badbotlimit? Is it getting looked at in the same build as Underdark?

izatar

Hmm. Any good news?

eldarth

torontodave wrote: »

So should I be aiming to have a finished playable copy up by Oct 31st?

"Supposedly" they told customer support they fixed it, but it doesn't appear to be fixed last I heard.

I guess maybe we'll have to take a poll Nov 1st and see if entrants would like to wait, or just go for it as is.
Sound effects/ambiance does bring a lot to the party, might be kind of unfair if some have music and some don't.​​

guitarzan698

Could we send a question up the chain to the developers? Just ask them "what is the problem?" It's obviously still broken... for them to say "we fixed it" is just stupid. So I repeat... ask them "what is the problem?"

eldarth

guitarzan698 wrote: »

Could we send a question up the chain to the developers? Just ask them "what is the problem?" It's obviously still broken... for them to say "we fixed it" is just stupid. So I repeat... ask them "what is the problem?"

Sure, go out into the street. Find a wall. Face it squarely, and say "What is the problem?"
It should respond as soon as the developers respond.​​

valcontar73

It's fine to wait for me, but honestly, I would cancel the contest, there is no point to try to do a contest with a broken and totally useless tool.

valcontar73

Instead, I would do a "The 100+ Bugs Foundry" contest:

Do a foundry with the 100 + bugs that have been reported and ignored since beta!

Contest winner will be those who get more 1 star rating!!!

The use of "Large Snowy Mountain Detail Map" is a must.