UPDATED! Combeau's Adventure Contest

[PlayfulDavid]

UPDATE: After much deliberation and hoof-stamping, Combeau has declared the winners! http://steamcommunity.com/app/280790/discussions/0/1318836262656367314/


Now that Published Adventures are live in Creativerse, we can't wait to see what you all come up with. And we're willing to sweeten the pot with a totally insane, off the ladder-coaster contest!

This is no ordinary contest. This is...

Combeau's Super Adventure Contest!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=883701041
Combeau has decreed the theme for this contest is “I wanna play that again”. We couldn’t get him to be more specific, so we’re rolling with it. If your adventure is good enough to play twice*, it’s a contender for the win. Speaking of which...

TEN winners will receive a $25 Steam gift card and have their adventure featured on our main menu! They’ll also get a Creativerse Pro key and 2000 coins.

All the particulars are below. Frankly, the stakes have never been higher. If you call yourself a Creatifriend you owe it to yourself to consider entering.

--The Playful Team

All The Particulars

Rules & Guidelines

• Publish an adventure and reply to this post with your adventure’s share link (click the 'share' icon on your adventure's main menu panel to grab that URL).
  
• You can also tweet your adventure’s share link with the hashtag #creativersecontest (make sure you’re following us so we can DM the winner’s deets).
  
• Deadline for entries is Monday, April 10 at noon CBST (Combeau Standard Time...sorry, he insisted; that converts to roughly 1:37pm Central US time).
  
• All aspects of the adventure will be judged, including title, screenshots and description in addition to gameplay. Follow these suggestions for a competitive edge…
  
  • Avoid excessively lengthy adventures. If it takes more than 15-25 minutes to complete, it’s too long.
    
  • Playtest your adventure before submitting it. Even better: have other people playtest it. Figure out where they get stuck or frustrated and refine those sections.
    
  • Mazes are fine, but consider using a variety of blocks and/or decor so each hallway doesn’t look the same. Also, avoid having large portions of your adventure be so dark you can’t even...
    
  • Submitting an adventure we've already featured on the main menu is fine, but you may want to consider updating it somewhat to keep it fresh and competitive.
• Limit one entry per person.
  
• Combeau will allow you to work together with others, but the prize will go to the person who submitted the winning entry. It's up to the winner to share their prize.
  
• Make sure you’ve registered your e-mail in Creativerse so we can contact the winner about that sweet sweet loot.
  
• Employees and family of employees of Playful may not participate (mea culpa, Domthro[sharing.creativersegame.com]).

Prizes
At an undisclosed time after the April 10 deadline, and under the direction of Combeau the Contest Master**, we will announce our TEN favorite entries. We will then contact the creators to arrange for delivery of the following…

• One $25 Steam gift card
  
• One Creativerse Pro DLC key
  
• 2000 game coins
  
• Featured adventure placement on the main menu

*Replayability doesn’t necessarily mean it needs to include alternate routes/experiences to be deemed worth playing again. It could also simply be an awesome singular experience.
**Who may or may not be a figment of our producer’s imagination...

[alyss]

Ahhh! I can't wait! I love me a ride on a rollercoaster!

If anyone needs a tester, let me know ;)

[deadw0od]

nice contest. too bad my rollercoaster is like over 34 min loong

[Tsax]

That sounds very exciting! Can't wait to see what people (possibly myself included) will come up with.

[Efemer]

Bad idea with adventure. Instead of developing the game, adding Railways, adjust gamma settings (if the rear of the monitor, the sun is shining, it is not possible to play at night). The developers say: "the players entertain themselves, make your own adventure..."

[PlayfulDavid]

I can see how you'd get that impression, dogusel, but that's not what we're doing here. The ideal we've always strived for with Creativerse as a sandbox game is to give players as many tools as possible to shape their world and experience. This is just another extension of that. It doesn't mean we're going to stop developing the game ourselves, or only develop features related to adventures.

But one thing is true: we are really excited about this feature and the possibilities it opens up for the game. Which is why we could no longer contain Combeau's enthusiasm for outrageous adventure contest shenanigans.

[MasoCheese]

yey

[Ragamyle]

Nice contest.

[infinitetech]

hmm...is that time limit a hard capped thing? im just thinking that if i designed parts of a continuing story well enough that each sub adventure was about that length (and you could have short cut codes to your "save point") then a longer, better developed map might well be a decent thing... after all, 25 minutes to tell a good story is almost nothing :-? also, on the post about the blocks, am i sensing that we will be adding in crusades and industrial styles? i hope so, i would love to eventually see sets of every major time frame and culture represented as options for players to choose from in order to tell their stories and build their dreams, from the flying steampunk toad, to the tree-scales of judgment to the house from courage the cowardly dog, i have hopes that everything will one day have it's own place amongst us Creativersers.

[Captain_Bunneee]

Wow! Another contest! :) Nice!

[PlayfulDavid]

It's not a hard capped limit, but it'll probably diminish your chances of having the entire thing reviewed unless it's truly compelling. If we get as many entries for this contest as we did the last one, longer adventures are going to strain our small community team's capacity to review them all.

[harl windwolf]

As a long-time player of RPGs & Minecraft (& other sandbox games), I love this concept.

[J's]

Your on! Stay tuned for J's Puzzle Box Adventure :)

[J's]

Originally posted by auntielynds:

Ahhh! I can't wait! I love me a ride on a rollercoaster!

If anyone needs a tester, let me know ;)

I'll probably need one :)

[deadw0od]

seems none one participates yet. so I gonna be a first then
since I am a huge fan of rollercoaster stuff.

http://sharing.creativersegame.com/w?k=b8d0c7d609a411e7bb007e3fc7b807ec

[alyss]

Great coaster Deadwood...I went on it twice!