*** August 2009 Challenge Voting - Create a city map for Kaidan ***

[Gandwarf]

VOTE FOR 1 (ONE)

view the thumbnails: August 2009 Thumbnails

(the thumbnails page also shows maps that weren't finished - I haven't included those maps in the voting)

Summary of the rules for this month's challenge:

August '09 Sponsored Mapping Challenge - Create a City Map of Oten-jo, for Kaidan: a Japanese Ghost Story setting.

Sponsor: "Gamerprinter", Gamer Printshop & Dementia 5 Publishing House

Challenge: Create a City Map of approx. 3500 people, which is roughly 500 homes, 100 shops, 3 temples, 1 shrine park, 1 castle within city walls, wharfage on the west bank of a river.

You are free to choose your own style, use any software, even hand-drawn work.

References: 3 sets of images offer views found in feudal Japanese cities, please review all of them as each shows a different aspect of a city. Note the closeness of buildings and the narrow streets, alleys often have small gates limiting access.

http://www.gamer-printshop.com/kaida...-resource1.jpg
http://www.gamer-printshop.com/kaida...-resource2.jpg
http://www.gamer-printshop.com/kaida...-resource3.jpg

Tanaka's challenge (mentioned in the reference material):
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=5434

Although as the Nagasaki map shows Japanese systems use a grid format for street layout, but also castle towns are a bit maze like to prevent direct access to the castle from the city gate.

Good voting everyone and don't forget to rep the work you liked!

[ravells]

Ow ow ow! I'm going to have to sleep on this one...only one choice...arrrgh!

[Gamerprinter]

Well, since I am the sponsor of this challenge, I am abstaining from voting this month as that wouldn't be fair, but I did REP everyone except for CoyoteMax and Ascension, whom I recently REPped for other recent works - but I'll catch up to those two eventually.

Great entries from everyone, I am not envious of the voting, as this will be one of the toughest votes with so much good work this month.

Good luck!

GP

[Gandwarf]

The quality of the zeven entries is insane... it's so hard to pick one!
I almost wanted to include the entries of the people that dropped out, so we could make 2 choices...

[ravells]

I'm seriously thinking of wimping out, voting for nobody and repping everybody.

[ravells]

p.s. Gand did you update the thumbnailscraper?

[Gandwarf]

[edited out to hide my stupidity]

Also, I am not voting today. It's too hard.

[Gandwarf]

Ehhh... scrap that. Updating is just clicking a link. I did that just now. Latest WIP's should now be visible.

[ravells]

I've looked at them all again really carefully and I'm making a pure emotive decision. Coyotemax. I'm not even going into why...technically they were all superlatative but Coyote's in the end, got me in the gut.

Congratulations everybody on what I think is the hardest and most worked for challenge yet. I've repped everyone I could. Great challenge you lot and very well done everybody.

[Immolate]

I placed my vote for Ascension, although there were several worthy entries. Ascension is my mentor and his mastery of style and color in Photoshop is an inspiration. I learn things every time I look at one of his maps.

I dare say I have never seen a challenge here that had so many really good entries. I have rep'd everyone who finished simply because they flat out deserved it. Good job guys!