ZombieMod: Source Mapping Contest! news - Situation Outbreak mod for Half-Life 2

Are you a mapper familar with Valve Hammer Editor and Source SDK? Do you like contests?...Or can you at least tolerate them? Most importantly, do you like free Steam games and tons of publicity?

Well say no more, because the ZombieMod: Source mapping contest is here!

Places & Prizes:

1. First Place Winner:
   * One mystery prize! Ooooooohhh...that's right, be afraid.
   * One Steam game or package of your choice that is under $30 on Steam.
   * Pending your approval, the including of your map in the next version of ZM:S.
2. Second Place Runner-up:
   * One Steam game or package of your choice that is under $20 on Steam.
   * Pending your approval, the including of your map in the next version of ZM:S.
3. Third Place Runner-up:
   * One Steam game or package of your choice that is under $10 on Steam.
   * Pending your approval, the including of your map in the next version of ZM:S.

Deadline: May be moved later at anytime as soon as a week before the date below, so check back often!

Submission Email: This is the email you will send your map submissions to when you are done with them.

Please do not send anything to this email address other than 100% complete map submissions. Any questions should be asked here, on our mod page, or on our official website and forums. Failure to follow this very simple rule may result in the nullification of any past, present, or future map submissions from your email and/or IP address.

After submitting your map, do not expect a personal response until after the contest is over and the winner and runner-ups has been selected and announced. You will only receive a reply to your email if your map does not follow any one of the rules and regulations listed below or if you are a winner. For more information regarding things like this, please see the final notes towards the bottom of this page.

Rules & Regulations:

• Everyone and anyone can enter at anytime, except after the deadline - obviously.
• Any previously released map submissions for other mods or games will not be considered. Maps that you have been working on but have not yet released (WIPs), however, are allowed.
• No maps may be submitted before June 1, 2009. Any maps received before this time will be considered spam, regardless if they are or not.
• You may submit as many maps as you wish, but please note that spamming us with maps will not help you, and may in fact ruin your chances of winning.
• You must not release your maps anywhere or to anyone else at anytime until the contest is over and the winner is chosen, especially if you submit multiple maps.
• By submitting a map, you agree that if your submission is chosen as the winning map or as one of the two runner-ups, Agent Red Productions and the rest of the ZombieMod: Source development team have the right to use, edit, and distribute it as they wish, following your approval.
• You cannot win twice; each winning map - first place and the two runner-ups - must have been created by a different individual for them to be considered valid. That being said, if one of your maps is found to be better than another, the one that is better will be the one that is considered first.
• This contest uses rolling submission; we do not wait until all of the submissions are in before we make a decision. Instead, we choose a winning map when we feel we've found one. However, winning maps will not be announced until after the deadline. This isn't to rush you, but encourage healthy competition and to keep mappers working hard on their submissions.
• Maps can be for any gamemode, but name must begin with the appropriate prefixes (i.e. Infection = zms_inf, Escape = zms_esc, etc).
• Maps created by members of Agent Red Productions or by the rest of the ZombieMod: Source development team will not be considered, even if submitted.
• It goes without saying - but we'll say it anyway - that you may only submit maps created by you and only you. Using other people's work is strictly prohibited, even if you have their permission to do so. This includes things like prefabs and WIPs.
• Any custom content included in your map must either be packed into the map itself or be given to Agent Red Productions and the rest of the ZombieMod: Source development team in the form of a compressed .zip or .rar file, ready for extraction. Remember, this custom content must have been created by you and only you. Simply having permission to use something in your maps will not do, and your maps will be promptly invalidated upon submission.

FINAL NOTES:If just one map does not meet the above guidelines, we will email you. If you choose to ignore our email or not fix your map before the deadline, all your maps will be automatically invalidated and you will have no chance of winning. Therefore, it is very important that you read all of the rules and regulations above and check your email frequently after submitting a map, especially if you do so very close to the deadline.

We have plenty of mapping tutorials on our ModDB mod page and website to help you out, so use them! We also have forums on our website, so I'd use them as well. Also, you may consult other users and ZM:S developers at anytime as you please if you require assistance, but any and all developers reserve the right to deny you help you are spamming them or becoming a nuisance. Don't let it get to that point, though, especially over something as silly and fun as this! Remember, it's only a game...well, mod.