.: Level Editors League :. —— Information and Updates

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Credit to Nyove for the trigger logo.

.: Level Editors League :.
Information and Updates
Last Updated: 1st of September 2020.

Current status:

Season 6 —— Theme period.
link: viewtopic.php?f=190&t=25168

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Table of contents

Concept and Organization
Entering the event
Event Phases
Rewards Sections
Submit your map
How to Vote your Favorite
FAQ Sections

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Concept and Organisation:

• Host: yi en
• Starting from season 6, level editor league is restricted to single player or multiplayer missions only.
• The event will begin every six months (due to match the holidays and for sake of time), which is on June and December
• Introducing the new format of the theme:
  
  • This is the new format of a sample table. You guys can training for it.
    
  • Starting from season 4, the new format will introduce RGB challenge system. Each submission maps must follow at least 1 red (game modes), 1 blue ( additional objects) and 1 green (game play) as minimum objective requirements.
  • Then you can take any number of extra challenges (subjective) which varies from 1~7 points (you can even play safe and take none).
  • For instance, I picked A3(red), C3(green) and C4(blue) to fulfil the minimum requirements, meanwhile I think my map also fulfills E2(orange) so I decided take that as extra challenge for points.

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Entering the event:

• This is the official level editors contest for plazma burst 2. A new thread will be made for each theme table.
• Starting from season 6, map developers can either submitting existing maps or start making their map based on the new updated format of themes from the 1st of the month and have approximately a whole month to submit the map.
• Only one submissions is allowed per person/team. If you give me more than 1 submission, I will just replace it before the deadline strikes the clock.
• Starting from season 4, you can build your maps with others! We are not limiting this contest to 1 creator only but in a maximum of 4 creator. If you're working with a team, we advise that you work out who is going to ultimately post the project into the contest before getting started. Gather your friends, build together!
• Starting from season 5, forum bbcode presentation is rocked on. Add lots of screenshots showing off your build, write something about your work, maybe write a description of your building process and in general to increase your chances of making it into the winner.
• Don't use anyone else's work. Enter only your own maps.
• Keep the submission thread clean - if you have a question, Contact me on Plazma League Server.
• Don't edit your map other than minor bug fixes once submission deadline is over.
• Starting from season 4, you had to submit the .pb2map format files to me, and I will help you upload it to another account which stores all corresponding season map contest submission for fair voting.
• By participating the event you are acknowledged that you are not allowed to publish the submission map on yourself until the event is over.
• When submitting your map, remember to follow the submissions template - this makes it much easier to determine if your map is suitable.

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Event Phases:
1st month: Announcing the Table, giving a month of time for developers to submit the map.
2nd month: every player will be deserved a vote to their loved maps.
3rd month: winners will be announced and receive rewards.

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Rewards Sections:
Awards will consist of custom rank and levels.

• 1st Place: "Diamond Map Developer for Achieving 1st place in Level Editors League Season X"
• 2nd Place: "Gold Map Developer for Achieving 2nd place in Level Editors League Season X"
• 3rd Place: "Silver Map Developer for Achieving 3rd place in Level Editors League Season X"
• 4th Place: "Bronze Map Developer for Achieving 4th place in Level Editors League Season X"
• Honorable Mention: Depends on how special/creative your map are, but sadly didn't get top 3.

It will become like this:

Runners up award may vary depending on how many people enter. For example, if there's <3 person then only 1st place will get it.

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How to submit your maps?

Please submit in this way, and private message me through discord and forum pm with the format below:

Code: Select all

Your PB2 username
Your Discord username with tags.
(optional) your thumbnail of your submissions
your map title
map description
submission requirement table code (such as A1,B3,C6)
.pb2map file (stop giving me xml file cuz xml can crash things away and away)


Update:
Starting from season 5, we offer each participants an additional space which they can use forum bbcode to decorate their submission advertisement, to enhance their map appearance and produced some magic which the official site map description can't provide of.

If you don't know what am I talking about, basically this but merging all the submission into a megapost, meanwhile 1 submission per thread, and what do you like to insert in that empty thread is your choice. (Or I make it for you)

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Voting Period

Everyone is eligible to vote their favorite maps. But how?

We will be using the plazma burst 2's map rating system, which you can vote the map in range of 1~5 stars in game mode (as I already disabled the comments of the map page.)

Then the equation of the voting sections will be detailed soon after the judging period is over. So everyone can vote at a range of 1~5 stars as you wish and it's totally anonymous so no worries. Meanwhile in poll section it is also anonymous so don't afraid to cast your vote to your favorite ones!

Updates: Removed the forum poll as the score was switched to thread designing scores.

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FAQ Sections:

Q: When will results be announced?
A: After 2 months. For example, May results will be announced on July along with the next theme.

Q: What makes my map suitable to be in submission?
A: The map must obey at least 1 red, 1 green and 1 blue (total 3) criteria. It must also be given a .pb2map files, non-offensive and cannot contain any major errors that make the map unplayable.

Q: Is there extra points if I can able to follow all 25 criteria?
A: No, except the orange boxes.

Q: Tell me more about the 5x5 table and the red, blue, green and orange criteria.
A: Every theme we would have 7 orange criteria and 6 red, green and blue criteria respectively.Red is story settings, Blue is additional building which is needed to add in your map, Green is game play restrictions and Orange is Bonus challenge. One map developer must accomplished 1 red, 1 green and 1 blue criteria in order to eligible to participate to the event. Most of the time red, green and blue are big directions (such as aliens, war, city etc) meanwhile the orange criteria are often hard and challenging (such as no slot N weapons, must beatable in what difficulty, map resize restrictions). But by doing and completed more orange criteria will grant you more points at bonus section.

Q: Can I find some people to have a collab to submit the level editors event?
A: You can participate the map event through solo or cooperate mode with no more than 4 people. (Honestly I am encouraging you guys do that, as a good map consist a lot of collaborations.) Thus, please get a leader and send me the submission and specify all your members, and your team name.

Q: How is the map being judged?
A: Starting Season 5, we have to make it in 4 categories:

i. Voting
ii. Forum Advertisement Design
ii. Specialist judgement
iii. Criteria

Voting is simple enough, all of the eligible submissions will appear there, anonymously and randomized. So it could be a good idea to show off your signature details in your submissions so people would try to guess who made this map. Besides, we offer the players to guess which submissions belongs to who. And we may reward the player based on how many correct assumptions have been made.

Specialist judgement is a discussion and more professional judging towards some judges I had invited, and every month we would specify who is going to be our judges during voting period.

Criteria is simple —— If you accomplished more orange criteria, more bonus points will be given.