Hello Fellow Foundry Authors new and old,

It's my pleasure to reveal the Competition Brief, the culmination of the past 6 weeks of teaching and learning.


Missions will be judged on a predetermined set of criteria based on techniques used, custom design content, quality of writing, enjoyability and non cryptic related bugs.

If there's an aspect that you don't think you'll be able to handle very well then just concentrate on what you are good at and you'll hopefully pick up enough marks to balance out the areas your not as comfortable with.



The following categories each have various prizes associated with them, including Zen Points, Costume Codes, Lockbox Ships and More.



One mission will be chosen to win each category.

The best overall mission will receive the honour of become an official Spotlight* mission

*must meet certain criteria



You have until 2pm PDT/10pm BST on Saturday the 20th of April to make your missions.

GOOD LUCK!

(If you have any questions, just post them in the thread below, tweet myself @cerberusfilms or drop in to the StarbaseUGC.com chatroom)

Umm....not sure if serious....
(With an OP date of April 19th...)

Yep, it's how it's always been billed as part of the Foundry Authors Academy event series.

It's possible to make a working, playable and enjoyable mission in an hour. It certainly focuses the mind
And it's worth it for the prize

Always billed?

First time I've heard about it. Maybe I haven't been on the forums enough and missed it.

But with an announcement like this (formated as above as if this is the first opportunity to make this), get ready for a lot of 'Admiral Bobo...err, Commander Heart...Goes to War' submissions.

But hey, if that's what the powers that be are looking to Spotlight (something slapped together in an hour), far be it for me to say anything.

Actually I believe the idea is that many of the long time authors will be available throughout the next day to assist in how to create a mission in a day, because it can be done, and the mission can be quite entertaining, and not a grindy type of thing.
To me the idea has always been that the Academy would teach the basics and many of the more easily used workarounds, and that the idea of the "contest" is to use those new skills to make a mission.

For my part, following this afternoon's work meeting I plan to be available in the STARBASEUGC.COM chat room to assist any new authors looking to work on a submission for this. I'll be willing to use Skype or Vent to help whomever needs it.

Personally, I love the way this has been set up, and I think that there are a lot of REALLY talented people in this community.


Peace
- John

Aye, now there's a far more reasonable approach to it.

I think a better title for this endevour (at least here on the STO forums) would have been "Create a mission in a Day - We can help!".

The original post above was sorely lacking this spirit - thanks Hippiejohn for the clarification and explaination.

Looking forward to chatting with you all tomorrow at the academy!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Mission Title : 'The Alhena Incident'
Faction : KDF
Mission Status : 90% Plotted, Sticking on the ending, looking forward to chatting with anyone who drops by the StarbaseUGC chat.
In Game research on "What does that map look like again?" started for recreating key assets.
First Major NPC created. At least one Ambassador Fe'reth is in the editor sphere.

Again looking forward to chatting with folk in the chat room about missions being created.
24 hours is a MAJOR challenge, but a very doable and fun one.


peace
- John

I for one will be available in the starbase ugc chatroom tomorrow as well as checking the forums to answer any questions anyone might have.

I've done a 24-hour build before (on my own, not part of a contest or anything) and I look forward to seeing what people come up with.

What, StarbaseUGC.com chatroom?

Oh the thing that I'm in right now.

The thing available through your local IRC client (irc.geekshed.net #starbaseugc) or http://starbaseugc.com/index.php/chat/

Yeah, that's where I am.