to be honest, i think that 'peer reviews' is a better idea than a contest - at this time.
why? :D glad you asked. ;)
aside from the amazing harri polsa, noone has uploaded a completed design. at this juncture, it seems in the community's best interest to encourage everyone to participate in creation of new designs. i think encouragement works best when there are not hard and fast rules, but guidelines that exist without penalty for breaking. along the same lines, i think it would be best to turn this into a design showcase, instead of a design competition. instead of there being a judge, everyone could join in on the criticism and praise of each design. i know that i would be willing to act as a discussion facilitator.
so, what do you think? [img]smile.gif[/img]
~=guidelines=~
-size of zipped design under 2mb
-if you think someone might be offended by any of the content, please put a warning at the beginning
-post a message here letting everybody know where the download will be available

[img]graemlins/1druid.gif[/img]

-manikus

A while back, while brousing sourceforge, I saw a request from Richard,asking for someone to make a small design showing a few events,and a quest. He wanted to add it to the DC files,so newcomers would have something as a guideline for DC.
If Richard still wants a design for DC,Maybe he can ask someone involved with the DC engine to do the actual judging.Then the winner might become the DC training Design. Then it would be a real contest,with an award to the winner..
Either way, I think your Idea is a good one,and I`m all for it. Anyone else agree?

[ 11-17-2002, 04:50 PM: Message edited by: GuBal ]

Sounds reasonable

This topic is soon deleted - Could someone put information to DC homepage about this contest so it would be availble to all?

the point has been raised over on the mailing list that we shouldn't release anything until the magic is working...any thoughts?
i'm going to keep working at it, as magic will probably be done before i'm ready to upload anything. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[img]graemlins/1druid.gif[/img]

-manikus