From: Jim Head <jh...@extro.ucc.su.oz.au>
Subject: Bungie Map Making Contest
Date: 1996/10/22
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Just need a few clarifications.

Firstly, what exactly are the prizes... boy would i get my creative cap
on if a PowerBase 240 was up for grabs.  (although it's probably more
like a copy of Bungie's next game or something :()

Secondly, It says one entry per person. - what if I make a map with a
group of people, can the group make multiple maps and just submit each
one in one of the mapmakers names?

Thridly, why the 1.5M limit? Rediculous! I don't want to have to send
them an unreturned ZIP disk with my map on it just because it is 3.5
megs.  I think maybe 8 megs would be a more acceptable limit.  It's not
like they are going to get 300 000 megs of maps over the next few
months.
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From: petr...@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: Bungie Map Making Contest
Date: 1996/10/23
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In article <326CAF7A.6...@extro.ucc.su.oz.au>,
Jim Head  <jh...@extro.ucc.su.oz.au> wrote:

>Thridly, why the 1.5M limit? Rediculous! ...

	That's so the effort is spent on mapmaking and not on Fancy 
Graphics. Actually, if one is creative, one can do a lot while keeping 
graphics small. Such graphics may look cartoonish, but if one does a good 
job, who cares?

	That's one thing I liked about Kirill Levchenko's map "The 
Garden". The chapter screens were cleverly done in a way that needs 
relatively few bits to represent (I know that Randall Shaw hated it, but...).
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From: jo...@bungie.com (Jonas Eneroth)
Subject: Re: Bungie Map Making Contest
Date: 1996/10/28
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In article <326CAF7A.6...@extro.ucc.su.oz.au>, jh...@extro.ucc.su.oz.au wrote:

> Just need a few clarifications.
> 
> Firstly, what exactly are the prizes... boy would i get my creative cap
> on if a PowerBase 240 was up for grabs.  (although it's probably more
> like a copy of Bungie's next game or something :()
> 
> Secondly, It says one entry per person. - what if I make a map with a
> group of people, can the group make multiple maps and just submit each
> one in one of the mapmakers names?

Yes.  But whoever submitted it will be the official winner - not the group.
 
> Thridly, why the 1.5M limit? Rediculous! I don't want to have to send
> them an unreturned ZIP disk with my map on it just because it is 3.5
> megs.  I think maybe 8 megs would be a more acceptable limit.  It's not
> like they are going to get 300 000 megs of maps over the next few
> months.
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The prize will be well worth it!

One entry per person - a single net map, single scenario (multiple game
maps, physics, text, terminals, screens, shapes patch etc...) or
derivative there off.

The 1.5mb limit is for e-mailed/ftp submissions.

The hard media limit is one disk - if you send a 1.44 floppy then that's
the limit.  If you send a zip disk, then that's the limit.  If you burn a
CD, then that's the limit.  If you send a Jaz disk - then that's the limit
too.  ;) 

And if a file is compacted then it HAS to be self extracting.


-The Judge

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