"Meet Your Maker" Update Thread.

[Absolute Dog]

 

The turn out by the forge community was a greatly appreciated by 343industries.org, THFE and our affiliates.

 

We received over 100 map submissions from all aspects of the forge community. The variety of innovative map designs, creative talent, aesthetic features, unique takes on slayer and the overall love of forge has shown through in this contest. Thank you to all forgers who took the time to submit maps, support your fellow forgers with testing and advice, and helped promote this contest throughout the community.

 

We have completed our initial review of all maps that have been submitted. All maps in the submission thread have been seen by the judging panel and a series of maps has been selected based on a number of qualifying points to be 'game play' tested as a further part of the judging process. This part of the process is slightly more time consuming per map for obvious reasons. The maps will be play tested by the judging panel, invited members from the community at large and potentially by random, yet knowledgeable, players we meet in match making to help ensure a fully rounded opinion of the maps.

 

We have agreed that there will be some additional 'maps of note' that will be singled out for various reasons. There will also be some limited critiques offered by the judging panel on a few select maps.

 

I would like the community to know how refreshing it has been to spend time with the judging panel who represent the various backgrounds and approaches to forging and hear their responses to the variety of maps, creative talents of the forgers and their insight into what maps a quality map. They have all freely offered their valuable time due to their respect and support for the forge community and community at large.

 

There will be more information and video content coming soon, so stay tuned to 343i.org, THFE, HaloCustoms, The Halo Council and Ducain23.

 

Again, we all thank you for the time and effort it takes to produce these maps.

 

[Absolute Dog]

Okay guys, we are at the end of judging. We have played a lot of games, peeked into every nook and cranny and I have no way to reflect on how many man hours have been spend ensuring we showcase the best of the maps submitted for the contest. There have been some quality debates and as we make the final judgement I personally am proud of the of the group of maps we have had to work with.

 

Here is a snippet of a few maps, could the winning map be in this clip? Not even we can say for sure at this particular moment.

 

[Absolute Dog]

Okay guys and girls, here is what you have been waiting for!

 

Winner of one of the Runner Up placements in the "Meet Your Maker" forge contest is  the map submitted by The Fated Fire called 'Blacksite'. His map proved to be a very solid forge offering that created great movement, provided quality sight lines and functioned incredibly well with the Infinity Slayer default settings we were judging by. His map was canvased on Erosion, which was the least used canvas, which provided the unique lighting characteristics given that forge environment. There will be an official winners thread created tomorrow morning, but I just wanted to release this as soon as it was available for promoting.

 

Here is a walk through and commentary by The Psycho Duck at THFE.

 

 

 

We will announce the other 'Runner Up' tomorrow morning and then the 'Overall', or 1st Place, winner on Sunday.

 

Due to the quality and number of the maps that made it into the final series of judging/play testing, we will be promoting a few additional 'Maps of Note' in the near future. There really were some hard decisions being made during the judging process and we want the forgers to know how good their maps were.

 

Thanks again for all of you submissions and support. We will be providing insight, critiques and advice to some of the forgers who really did so well, but may have need of some more input for various reasons.

[Absolute Dog]

Please select this LINK to see the results of the forge contest.