Rapid Age development competition

[Nynaveve]

Yes I have: Never trust a woman that talks in conundrums and puts her self up there with deities.

ROFL! I think the question is whether we've learned anything from Cyan. Now that is a true test of patience.

[Aloys]

Just to ease down the pain a bit after Dot's teasing: the meeting went well, all 6 judges were here, and the general consensus is that all 4 Ages submitted were great, and each for different reasons.. As for the full results that'll come tomorrow.
Another thing we can say right now is that everyone (among the judges at least) really enjoyed this and it would be cool to do that again at some point. I suggested that we might do an Ahra Pahts shells-only contest. But that's the subject for another thread..

[Zander]

I definitely think it should be a regular occurrence. I want there to be one to enter in ten years time when I've reached something approaching the standard of these entries. By which time, of course, Uru Live will be the world's most popular online universe, and Age Writing an Olympic event. Hey, I can dream.

[Grogyan]

Yeah I had thought about doing a theme, but really, not for the first competition where the exercise was to get as many people as possible involved, also I wanted it be run with a winner before MOUL shuts down.

I'll be starting a thread, maybe tonight or tomorrow, depends on how busy I am, to get general feedback on this contest.

The real reason why such a long gap between the contest finishing and the winner declared, was that I had allowed for 10 - 20 submissions in which case it could take all week to decide on a winner, again i'll put this into a feedback topic.

I also would like to see this become a regular event, but where the starting date would be announced at short notice, to give that real sense of "rapid development".

By late Sunday I reckon I would have recovered from the contest, working to all sorts of crazy hours to get it done/incomplete

[Grogyan]

I definitely think it should be a regular occurrence. I want there to be one to enter in ten years time when I've reached something approaching the standard of these entries. By which time, of course, Uru Live will be the world's most popular online universe, and Age Writing an Olympic event. Hey, I can dream.

You'd be surprised then to know it took me 6 months to get to that level, and even then I need a leg up on doing workarounds for Blender

Andy and myself by chance have already had experience in building worlds/levels, same editor UnrealEd different games, but designing a level in Unreal is completely different than to making a world for Uru in terms of geometry manipulation

[andylegate]

2 hours and 15 minutes after the Noon PST deadline and we're still waiting.......

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock......

[Dot]

We're waiting for Lontahv.

[andylegate]

Then he's late....he's the same time zone as me, and it's 5:22 pm here, 2:22 pm Pacific Time.

I figured it was all said and done by now, I was off making waterfalls in Camp Bravo, and then killing monsters in Oblivion....guess I'll go back to killing monsters. Hehe.

[Zander]

Writers...what can I say. The announcement will be made. Hopefully before too much longer...

[Dot]

OK. I'm taking an executive decision...

The results you've all been waiting (too long) for!

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Age name     Abysos   Shell 119   Shell 201   Zephyr Cove
Stability     4.5      4.2        4.8         4.8
Quality       3.3      2.8        3.8         3.4
Economy       4.5      4.0        4.8         3.0
Content       2.5      3.2        1.6         4.3
Creativity    3.1      4.2        2.9         4.3
Functionality 2.1      2.8        1.6         4.0
Aesthetics    2.8      3.0        3.7         3.6
Overall       3.4      3.1        3.1         4.0   

The judges met on GoMa chat yesterday evening (European time) and pooled the scores each had assigned to each age under each category. The mean score for each category was then calculated. In the 'Economy' category, just two judges were involved (it being a technical one), but for all the other categories all six judges were involved.

Congratulations to all who took part! All the judges commented on how much they enjoyed exploring the ages, and how each had different qualities that they appreciated. We are each preparing a more detailed report on our findings, and will be publishing this in the days to come.

Please accept my apologies for the delay in getting these results out to you. For next time, I suggest we send pms of the results to each competition participant as soon as we have worked them out.