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Hello everyone; I just had this crazy idea:


I am hosting a contest where the goal is to host your own contest! I'm not that great with writing introductions, so I'll get to the point:

Participants will need to host his/her own unofficial SMBX contest, preferably by creating a topic in the "General" section of this forum, with some sort of specialized rule or unique concept that participants of that contest need to follow. Once the topic has been created, send me the link via Private Message to enter your contest into my contest. Each contest must only accept stand-alone levels. Each contest must also have a due date; it can be any day as long as people have enough time to participate, and it must be well before the due date for my contest because of reasons I'm about to state. Once the due date for the participant's contest has come, whenever that may be, said participant must compile all of their entries into a hub world, with levels ordered from the lowest scoring to the highest scoring, along with an NPC beside each level that states why the respective level placed where it did. Once the contest's episode is finished, create a topic for it in the "Episodes" section of this forum, then send it to me via Private Message, and I will download and play-test the episode.

Contests will be judged not by the quality of the levels entered into their contests (because that can't be helped), but, rather, they will be judged by the uniqueness of the contest's rules and the design of the compilation episode. Once the due date for my contest has arrived, I will edit my judgement of the contests into this post, as well as link to the contests' episodes. The winner of my contest will get a permanent link to his/her contest's episode in my signature, and I will send a Private Message to the administrators asking them to feature said episode for the following 2-3 months.

Rules:
-The contest must require some sort of unique spin on making SMBX levels; it can't just be "Make a Fun Level."
-The contest should be unofficial; no Tower of Biased, etc.
-The contest must have been started after mine. Sorry, Kep.
-Each contest must be kid-friendly (no swearing, gore, nudity, etc.)
-The contests must only accept stand-alone SMBX levels; you can't have a contest that asks people to create an SMBX episode.
-Each level must be clearly and properly labeled, and the placement of the levels must be clearly and thoroughly explained within the episode on a level-by-level basis.
-The compilation episode must be sent to me before the due date for my contest, so make sure the due date for your contest gives you enough time to rate the levels and create a hub.
-Please refrain from making posts along the lines of "Count me in!" without actually having done something toward making your contest. It's not against the rules, but I will look at your profile picture angrily.

The due date for my contest is October 1st. That might seem like a long time from now, but remember that your contest must be finished before then, so start thinking!

~Imaynotbehere4long

--EDIT--
And the winner is...nobody! Because nobody entered! Yeah, I'm not surprised either. This can be locked now.

Why are YOU telling us how to make our episode, then saying it will be judged on how unique it is?

I guess making a contest about already existing levels is allowed, according to your post.

FanofSMBX wrote:Why are YOU telling us how to make our episode, then saying it will be judged on how unique it is?

The uniqueness is about the rules of your contest, not the hub. In other words, it's something that your contest's entries will be based on. The rules for your contest should be built to force contestants to design relatively unique SMBX levels, but the rules can't simply be anything like "make a unique level." It needs to clearly have some sort of unique spin.

The hub episode will be judged based on how it's designed: is it easy to navigate? Is it clear why certain levels placed where they did? Is each level labeled correctly? Is there a bonus for beating every entry? What is the bonus? etc.

Emral wrote:I guess making a contest about already existing levels is allowed, according to your post.

Yes, but remember that you have to put some sort of unique spin on it, such as "players must prove that the level has been previously released," "The level must not be too similar to the original, but must also be easily recognizable as a remake by people who have played the original," etc. Those are just examples, though.

Imaynotbehere4long wrote:

FanofSMBX wrote:I guess making a contest about already existing levels is allowed, according to your post.

Yes, but remember that you have to put some sort of unique spin on it, such as "players must prove that the level has been previously released," "The level must not be too similar to the original, but must also be easily recognizable as a remake by people who have played the original," etc. Those are just examples, though.

I understand. I'm not FanofSMBX though.
I might come up with something for this, but chances are I won't since I have high standards for myself and really wanna break the border.

FanofSMBX wrote:I'm not FanofSMBX though.

Whoops. I'll fix that.

Emral wrote:I'm not FanofSMBX though.

There we go!

Emral wrote:I might come up with something for this, but chances are I won't since I have high standards for myself and really wanna break the border.

What do you mean? You can submit a contest that has border-breaking standards, as long as it meets the requirements of forcing contestants to create something unique using SMBX.

A reminder to anyone who considered entering this contest: there are just under 3 months until the deadline. Remember, you need to start and finish your own contest before then, as well as design and release a hub for the entries, so start thinking!

Only two months remain before the contest is over! I would at least like one entry before then.

Only one month remains before my contest is over! If you had plans on entering, then hurry!

--EDIT--
And the winner is...nobody! Because nobody entered! Yeah, I'm not surprised either. This can be locked now.