Team Dystopia and HL2Mapping.com have joined forces and launched the Official Dystopia Mapping Competition. The contest will kick off on Oct 1st and run for 3 months. To enter you need to send samples of your previous work to: contest@hl2mapping.com
There's prizes for 1st and 2nd, worth US$250 and US$50 respectively, along with a Dystopia t-shirt. The top placing levels will be released as an officially supported map pack.
Everyone who's interested in taking part should check out our very active Dystopia Mapping Forum where we're building up quite a friendly and helpful community of level creators. Team Dystopia members regularly check this forum and are only too happy to help people out with any issues they encounter.
ah, if you didn't have to show previous work i'd enter, this could have been my ispiration to be a HL2 mapper.
Why don't you just make a Dystopia map anyway, get halfway through, and send that as evidence of your previous work when you do enter :P
Because then when someone reads this thread and sees that he's entered, they'll go 'pssssh'
well, i'm sure their screening losers like me from submiting crap so their judges don't have to waste their time setting up a server that's running a crap map.
I really wish I had the time to enter :(
I wish I had time to learn how to map with the Source engine. I've always just worked with the Unreal engines.
I also wish I had the time to join their forums and make some suggestions, but I'm already doing that of and on with 3 other Mod communities and also another Mod team. + my own :/
When I play the demo I might be tempted, though.
Wow just askin for help all around get help from valve and moddb and just keep going now its maps.
nah, this is just a great idea to get the community involved in the mod, many professional companies have done similar things.
parchay
i'm gonna have to learn how to map for this puppy :D