Custom Scenarios Design competition with Prizes (Summer 2009)
Scenario designers are invited to participate in the contest and submit one to three of their original custom scenarios.
Forumers are invited to play and review any of these scenarios.
Several game prizes will be given away by MosheLevi to forumers who review one or more of these scenarios
The top three scenarios designers will also win game prizes of their choice from the list of prizes.
The HG community is invited to review the scenarios that have been submitted for this contest in the Download section and then place a link to their review in this official contest thread.
Doing so will entitle you to be in the drawing to win one of the several game prizes that are being given away.
You can review any of these scenarios between July 1st 2009 and August 31st 2009.
At the end of the contest there will be a drawing among forumers who reviewed scenarios that were submitted for this contest.
Reviews have to follow the scenario review guidelines.
Scenario reviews that do not follow the guidelines may be removed by the moderators.
The scenario designer who wins first place wins two game prizes of his choice (from the list of prizes for this contest).
Seconds and third best scenarios will win their owner one game prize of their choice (from the list of remaining prizes).
The following is the list of the game prizes that are being given away for this contest (to designers and reviewers).
This list of game prizes is subject to change (for better prizes).
2 Company of Heroes Gold Edition
3 Command and Conquer 3: Kane Edition
2 Universe at War
1 Medieval 2: Total War
3 Rush for Berlin
2 Joint Task Force
1 Lord of the Rings: The Middle Earth II
1 Act of War: Direct Action
1 Rise & Fall: Civilizations At War
In addition to the prizes 6 custom titles will be given in this contest:
3 titles will be given to scenario designers, as follows:
First place -
Second and third places –
The 3 Scenario reviewers who won via drawing will get the title:
Scenario designers,
Please state if you are planning to participate in this contest and which scenarios you plan to submit (please keep us updated).
Reviewers,
Please state if you are planning to participate as a reviewer.
Prizes for recruiting reviewers,
Reviewers/designers (that are participating in this contest) are being asked to recruit reviewers for this contest.
The two people who recruited the most reviewers (with qualifying reviews) will win one game prize each.
Rules for Scenario Designers
- Scenario designers can submit up to 3 of their originals scenarios.
- Scenario designers have until July 31st to submit all their scenarios for this contest.
- Scenarios designers should NOT release their scenarios before July 1st (so it doesn’t get reviewed before the contest start).
- Scenario designers can submit scenarios to any AoE3 version (Vanilla, TWC, or TAD).
- Scenario designers are allowed to submit either single player scenarios or multiplayer scenarios or both.
- Scenario designers can submit scenarios with a mod as long as they clearly state which files were modded and how to uninstall the mod.
- Scenario designers can only submit their own original scenarios or any of their existing scenarios as long as it has been enhanced substantially (newer version with new features).
- Scenario designers CANNOT submit newer version for a scenario that already participated in a previous AOE3 scenario contest.
- Scenario designers are not allowed to solicit for favorable reviews.
Reviews that appear to be unreasonably favorable may be removed.
- In order for a scenario to participate in this contest, the scenario designer need to state that it is out in this thread with the link to where the scenario is.
Rules for Reviewers
- Reviewers can review scenarios from July 1st 2009 to August 31st 2009.
- Reviewers can review as many scenarios as they want.
- Reviewers must be objective and follow the review guidelines.
- Reviewers must join Heaven Games forums no later than July 1st 2009.
- Reviewers can review with only one account (no spamming allowed) and the same account.
- Reviewers cannot review their own scenarios.
- Designers who compete in the contest may review other competing scenarios.
However, designer who had his scenario reviewed by another participating designer have the right to request that such review be removed.
- Reviewers should include a link to their review with the name of the scenario they reviewed.
-Reviewers should specify if they were recruited by someone.
- Reviewers cannot claim to be recruited by someone else if they participated in the previous contest.
- Reviews that don’t follow the guidelines or rules will be deleted and will not qualify for the drawing.
The following is the list of the designers and the scenario they are submitting for the contest:
- murdilator -
The Wilderness Road (Multiplayer) - Skyrate -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord (Single Player)
................. -Sieging the Fort (Single Player)
................. -The Battle of Bunker Hill (Single Player) - Sir_Hans -
SH Run Kitty Run (Multiplayer) - Yuttho
The Great War Campaign: The Battle of the Somme (Single Player) - Damari -
Cudgel of Sacrifice (Single Player RPG) - KevTheGreat -
Survival (Multiplayer) - gunner1 -
Wagon Wars (Multiplayer)
................. -QUBE (Multiplayer) - AdamKinnell –
The Ottoman's Surprise (Single Player)
................. -Returning Home (Single Player) - As_Saffah -
Monster Truck Rally (Multiplayer) - Darthcast -
El Cid, King of Valencia (Single Player) - Skyrate -
…………………..
The following is the list of the reviewers that are participating in this contest:
- KevTheGreat
- BurningSushi460
- Shireling
- Skyrate
- Teutonic Twit
- A_US_James246
- As_Saffah
- iTech64
- dOPplesaurus
- gunner1
- Mister SCP
- BurningSushi460
…………………………..
Thank you,
Your host and Co-Host
-MrMario
-MosheLevi
Funny Lethe moments:
Wwe have flushed out the intertubes and the servers are back up and running.
I spilled some beer on the server, had to wait for it to try out, but it's working now.
Re: {E_ABORT}
That's a pretty weird error, I have never seen that one. Try reinstalling the game and DirectX
[This message has been edited by MosheLevi (edited 09-02-2009 @ 10:03 PM).]