THE DOOR CHALLENGE: Rules and Discussion

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    It's that time again - time to discuss the rules for our next challenge! For this round, we'll be rocking generalvivi's "Door Challenge," in which you'll be provided this prefab in Source, UDK, and OBJ formats for the engine/editor of your choice:

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    Now, our rules:

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    This thread will be available for ongoing rules discussion and WIP screenshots as the challenge progresses. Good luck!

    Hahahahahahahahah Vivi, your puzzle made me laugh so much. Fuck knocking on the door, just throw a TIN CAN at her! That's so awesome man

    Glad to see the excitement! I don't know if I'll have time for this one, but it should be a fun one.

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    Hahahahahahahahah Vivi, your puzzle made me laugh so much. Fuck knocking on the door, just throw a TIN CAN at her! That's so awesome man

    Exactly the kind of creativity to put into this one I expect to see a few zany ones

    As an extra rule, how about using only the basic logical scripting entities, brushes & effects that are shared by Hammer, UnrealEd, Sandbox, Unity etc? Universal things like logic nodes, trigger brushes, simple effects & the like, while avoiding the very game-specific & heavily coded things like Portal's portals.

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    As an extra rule, how about using only the basic logical scripting entities, brushes & effects that are shared by Hammer, UnrealEd, Sandbox, Unity etc? Universal things like logic nodes, trigger brushes, simple effects & the like, while avoiding the very game-specific & heavily coded things like Portal's portals.

    I see the point because with something like portal it would be easy to built a complete level compared to HL2 or what ever. But I think people could do really creative things with the gravity gun, portals etc and it might be a shame to limit it in that way.

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    As an extra rule, how about using only the basic logical scripting entities, brushes & effects that are shared by Hammer, UnrealEd, Sandbox, Unity etc? Universal things like logic nodes, trigger brushes, simple effects & the like, while avoiding the very game-specific & heavily coded things like Portal's portals.

    I would say no, I don't think we should stifle creativity. I mean, chances are if you create a puzzle to open the door and it just uses the normal portal mechanics, your puzzle wont be "Awesome" enough to win, just my take on it.

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    WOOT! Let's Do it! I might have to enter this a second time!

    It should go without saying, your first entry will be considered ineligible

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    I would say no, I don't think we should stifle creativity. I mean, chances are if you create a puzzle to open the door and it just uses the normal portal mechanics, your puzzle wont be "Awesome" enough to win, just my take on it.

    Agreed; I think part of the fun of having multiple games represented is seeing the ways different games' mechanics might change the way one approaches the puzzle's design. I think it'd be a waste to make a Portal map where you didn't take full advantage of all the tools at your disposal - but like vivi said, just shooting a couple portals and walking through the door probably won't win you too many votes

    I have to ask, can we have a 'fail condition'. If the player doesn't do all the necessary steps before opening the door I'd like to have them restart instead of it just not working.

    Also, awesome challenge!

    Quote from e-freak

    custom content (animations, models etc)?

    Yes, custom content can be used. In my example I have custom Vo to get my point across.

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    I have to ask, can we have a 'fail condition'. If the player doesn't do all the necessary steps before opening the door I'd like to have them restart instead of it just not working.

    That's fine as long as you can open the door. Remember you will be graded on "Awesomeness" and "Uniqueness". So as long as you can meet those criteria, you should do fine .

    Tbh, it's not shown in my video but at one point I had it so if the player threw about 4 cans into the room, while the woman was still on the computer, she would notice all the cans and eventually walk over to the window to see you.

    - vivi

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    Change the surrounding geometry, prefab lighting, player start position, door type or visual appearance as you see fit

    seems to conflict with

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    Move the door or its surrounding geometry.

    Quote from Mr. Happy

    seems to conflict with

    I don't remember adding surrounding geo, perhaps thats a kfs mess up

    we should just change that to "door and supporting wall" or something

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