Epic Games & Mapcore's Unreal Tournament Level Design Contest

Oh shizzle, too many contests!

Mapping Contest by Epic Games and Mapcore - Yay!

It's for Showdown - Oh no

Anyway it may be a good motivation for me to work on my DM map.

ive used only hammer till now and im interested in newer tools like ue4, but i think 4 weeks are not enough for a good map concept.

id need atleast 2 weeks to play the game and get a feeling for it, plus 2 weeks learning the ue4 editor, before i could start.
im not sure if 2 weeks of playing could be enough, i dont think anybody who played cs for 60 hours can do a really good cs map.
 

6 hours ago, baem123 said:

ive used only hammer till now and im interested in newer tools like ue4, but i think 4 weeks are not enough for a good map concept.

If you wanted to learn UE4 anyway, what better time to start than now?

7 hours ago, baem123 said:

ive used only hammer till now and im interested in newer tools like ue4, but i think 4 weeks are not enough for a good map concept.

id need atleast 2 weeks to play the game and get a feeling for it, plus 2 weeks learning the ue4 editor, before i could start.
im not sure if 2 weeks of playing could be enough, i dont think anybody who played cs for 60 hours can do a really good cs map.
 

Many designers don't actually play the game as much as you'd think, it's about the ability to look at what works and figure out why, I could play CS:GO for 60 hours and make a good level, you just look at examples and figure it out, A part of what makes showdown interesting, is you will be discovering what makes the mode great, developing games is hard, it's even harder when they are not complete yet. This is very similar to working in a development team, not on games that have been proven long ago.

The point of any contest really is to better yourself, we will always be considering good levels for the market place and the game, even after the contest has finished.  

Designing maps for a new game mode is a great challenge, that's how you can improve as a designer

EDIT: Meh, I was ranting a bit about the prizes being quite low compared to the potential amount of work involved but that's not really constructive.

It's a good excuse to try out Unreal at least, and as Chris and FMPONE mentioned, it's a great experience to work on a mode not fully fleshed out 

Tut tut clem, ain't about the money maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

it's about the babes 

I'm think I'm gonna give this a go  Good luck everyone!

Glad I waited until now to make an Unreal Tournament level. I've Experimented here and there, though. If one can succeed here, than they're one step closer to doing it for a living.... 

Discovered this community thanks to this and I'm going to give it a try. Good luck!

Uhmm... so.... Hello!

On 4/10/2016 at 0:43 PM, insomnaut said:

Uhmm... so.... Hello!

Welcome! Grab a chair and design away

I don't know about you guys, but to block out my map I find that utilizing some basic models I've created from BLENDER allows for more concise shapes than relying on BSP alone. While a good layout is paramount for a contest entry, I find that even blocked out maps that are decent to look at get played more, plain and simple. A more final version of the map can of course further divide this Basilica up to be more modular, of course....

Even THIS started life as blocked-out BSP in Unreal Tournament (of course I had started with a boxy, bare-bones BSP layout), but the 2nd level 'roof' was just a simple rectangular walkway that was plain FUGLY instead of the roof being part of the walkable area... as it stands, the front of the Basilica will be a ramped' entry while the rear leads to an elevator shaft (jump trick, people)... so there are actually 3 floors to this thing....