Insurgency Mapping Contest

Exciting stuff!

Who will rise to the occasion????!

Awesome!!

I would love to make a map, but don't think I have the time tbh. These competitions always come at the least opportune times.

8 weeks is a bit slim in my opinion to make a really good map for a game such as Ins.

I haven't a clue how the game even plays. Are close quarter maps a thing? I don't see how anyone could produce proper value in that timespan if we're concerning mapsized similar to csgo

Keep in mind that this is an opportunity to get your work published in a proper title. If you don't have much or any industry experience, you know how critical that first game is in terms of job requirements etc.

Yes the timespan is short. So go for it, there might not be as much competition.

what incentive would you have to finish the map after you've won then?

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Or who knows maybe someone will even land a proper job.

I cannot stress this enough. There are plenty of talented folks sort of inside/outside the industry posting on these forums. You may be waiting for an opportunity, you may have assumed it won't happen. I know a few of you I have in mind as I say this, who are perfectly capable mappers. If you know the Source engine, you must see this as an opportunity worth seizing.

and I'm talking about beyond $1,000 and all of the additional prizes. I'm talking about a gig, a resume piece, the knowledge that you won a contest. Many of you should start work right away. *uncle sam pointing at you*

Insurgency is a great team. Kikette and the rest of the team created some EXCELLENT assets, and maps to learn from. Carpe Diem.

So Shawn, are you entering ?

I would love to and I miss the time I was working with you guys But 8 weeks is just a big NO

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I cannot stress this enough. There are plenty of talented folks sort of inside/outside the industry posting on these forums. You may be waiting for an opportunity, you may have assumed it won't happen. I know a few of you I have in mind as I say this, who are perfectly capable mappers. If you know the Source engine, you must see this as an opportunity worth seizing.

and I'm talking about beyond $1,000 and all of the additional prizes. I'm talking about a gig, a resume piece, the knowledge that you won a contest. Many of you should start work right away. *uncle sam pointing at you*

Insurgency is a great team. Kikette and the rest of the team created some EXCELLENT assets, and maps to learn from. Carpe Diem.

Heroic words. I expect to see this on a motivational poster in cs_office.

I actually had a few minutes to spare and drew up a pretty scalable layout that probably supports most of their gamemodes in a single map.. I doubt i'll have the time for this since so many stuff is on hold, but I purchased the game to take a look. Who knows.

Hi All,

As Shawn correctly says this could be a fantastic opportunity for a freelance artist to get their content in a published title, or additional resume content for an existing industry employee. It really is an awesome opportunity to have your content looked at in detail by a developer.

We realize 8 weeks is quite short (and I will talk to NWI about potentially extending it), however the winning submissions will have plenty of time after the deadline to work with the games developers to perfect their map and really bring it up to game-ready level.

What we are really looking for is the creative vision, to bring something new to insurgency, so even if you just get an alpha or beta version out, all the minor gameplay tweaks and optimisation can be done later on.

Any other questions feel free to ask

Damn it the chivalry contest is ending and this sounds awesome. I just wanted a couple days of not working in an editor D:

If you want new stuff; are new game-modes actually something you want people to look into, or just new themes/maps? If gameplay is a yes: is Vscript or LUA etc. supported?

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I cannot stress this enough. There are plenty of talented folks sort of inside/outside the industry posting on these forums. You may be waiting for an opportunity, you may have assumed it won't happen. I know a few of you I have in mind as I say this, who are perfectly capable mappers. If you know the Source engine, you must see this as an opportunity worth seizing.

and I'm talking about beyond $1,000 and all of the additional prizes. I'm talking about a gig, a resume piece, the knowledge that you won a contest. Many of you should start work right away. *uncle sam pointing at you*

Insurgency is a great team. Kikette and the rest of the team created some EXCELLENT assets, and maps to learn from. Carpe Diem.

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Those are some really nice prizes for the winner!

As someone who worked on this project as a designer through the early stages, I have one piece of advice to anyone entering: go wild with the theme of your entry!

As a small team we were relatively limited in the range of environments that could be created, but as a lone designer (or a small team focusing on one map), you have no such restrictions aside from the time limit!