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orbvius
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posted February 24, 2006 09:50 AM |
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101 ICTC Improvement Tips Thread
Just to start and keep the ball rolling on how you may want to improve your entries.
Hopefully by refering to this thread you get useful insight on how to improve your threads.
Good luck for the winners on improving their entries.
Add on to the list with the next number and bold that point; following with description (may not be necessary). So the next number will start at 8 onwards since I stopped at 7.
eg. 123. How to strip a vampire.
1. Finding suitable names for your creatures and town/faction.
I think that having a one word name for your town is very ideal as it is easier to remember for gamers instead of having a long name.
Look at the towns or faction names in the older homm series (castle, inferno, dungeon, rampart, towner, fortress, stronghold, conflux, academy, haven, sylvan etc).
2. Simple and meaningful logo
Yes. Avoid fancy ones and make a simple one.
Logo must be of a certain significance for the town or faction.
Eg. Tree signifies the Yggdrasil for the elves, which is the world tree and possibly life.
3. Keeping your entries short and easy to read with appropriate points
Simplify your entry and make it easy to read and understand at the same time is not an easy task.
This makes life easier for the game company if what they intended is to translate your entry into a town idea. Do remember that words BORE people.
4. Pictures and acknowlegements
This is a policy of ethics and not infringing the copyright policy.
If you borrow a book from a library, remember to return the book. If you take a picture from any website, remember to cite the source.
I know that Leonardo Da Vinci may be your friend but still, acknowledge your friends effort as well.
5. Rating policies, opinion and comments of other forum reviewers
Just work out from their policy or their opinion and comments. These people do not come up with such rating because they are too bored with life.
If they did not rate for you then just rate your own thread with their rating and try to understand why they have such a rating system instead of using the standard ones.
If they rated your entries and hurt you, just get over with it. Most people who rate are doing it out of goodwill. Although criticism hurts, but they improves your entry and also makes you a person more tolerant to criticism.
A few notable ones include:
Mine
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Idea (20 marks)
Overall portrayal of the idea of this race. This includes how strong the concepts are and the coordination of race, history and creature on how well they fit together.
Race (15 marks)
How well the race is distinguished from other races, how much is told about this race. Also take into consideration the logo, description of homeland, the details etc.
History (15 marks)
ONLY description of this race histories and origins.
Creatures (20 marks)
ONLY description of creatures lineup, origins and abilities of these creatures.
Balance (10 marks)
How balance are the creature units and/or race abilities. This includes whether this race and/or creatures are either 1) overpowered in the game or 2) too weak if par against existing races according to the descriptions and/or stats and relevant mechanism stated.
Appeal (10 marks)
How much this idea and race attracts other people. Inclusive of reviewer’s favourism/bias factor for this idea.
Originality (10 marks)
How original the idea is and how much it stands out among other entries. This is affected by plagiarism.
Total: 100 marks
neko's
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Stuff to do with gaming: 35 points total
-Creature lineup 10 points
-Mechanics 25 points
Stuff to do with history/story etc: 25 points total
-History 10 points
-How your creatures are being gathered into the town 10 points
-other additional stuff 5 points
Appeal: 15 points total
-Appeal to female players 5 points
-General appeal 5 points
-Personal bias 5 points
Originality: 20 points total
-Based on how much cliche there is in storyline, how well your idea is portrayed, creature is new, abilities are new and basically about new stuff.
Others: 5 points total
-This includes other stuff i want to say 5
Total: 100 points
FriendOfGunnar's
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How I graded these:
Race (Originality [5]+Compatibility with HOMM5 universe[5])
History (How interesting is it to me [5] +Compatibility with HOMM5 universe [5])
Creatures (Originality [5] +Internal Consistency [5])
Balance (are the special skills inventive [5] + Does it have a variety of flyers, shooters, walkers, spell-casters [5]
Originality (all the originality scores added up and divided by two. This means that creativity counts twice. [10])
Total: 50 points
6. Do your own research
You want to fit your entry into the homm V universe or improve it further? Take the initaive and do your own research.
- Play the open beta.
- Check the official website on information regarding homm V
7. Balancing your entry
Too much information? Too little information?
You will need to find the right balance.
Try reading all the ICTC threads and reflect on their pros and cons and avoid the possible pitfalls you forsee.
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neko
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posted February 24, 2006 10:59 AM |
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Edited by neko on 24 Feb 2006
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Finally back online.
I wanna apologize for not being able to rate all entries, was not able to get online.
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3. Keeping your entries short and easy to read with appropriate points
Simplify your entry and make it easy to read and understand at the same time is not an easy task.
This makes life easier for the game company if what they intended is to translate your entry into a town idea. Do remember that words BORE people.
well i think that even if u shorten ur points, entries may not be neccessary short, i would think that "PACKING" ur entries would be a better word
as an amateur artist, i have been rather dismayed by the contestants ripping art off the internet and posting it under their idea, altho it only shows, but it is against copyright rules.. it would be better should u get permission from the artists themselves or permission to use their artworks
just my 2cents.
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