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

[Jykke]

There were very good maps posted on the challenge this month. GamePrinter must be very satisfied with the overall quality.

On my part, the voting was somewhat a duel between armoredgear7 and MysticMagellan. Both have very good looking maps, with different kind of strong & weak points (well, I shoudn't call them weak points, but you get the picture..).

armoredgear7's map:
+Layout of the city
+base ground texture
+natural shapes
+heightfield
-use of space (forest on the left) and cropping of the area
-washed out color palette (especially the buildings look too pale to my taste, ground could have used darker tones)
-scaling of the roof models, scaling of textures

MysticMagellan's map:
+Layout of the city
+Vivid color palette
+Use of space and perfect cropping of the map
+Small details
+/-textures (there were very good textures on this map (damn, I just loved those roof textures), but also some that fell in the "needs some work" -category)
-Unnatural shapes (the fields for example)
-scaling of the roof models, scaling of textures

So as you might have noticed, most of the strong points I listed here were actually the weak points of the other map and vice versa. However, there were also some shared excellence as well as shared issues. But in the end, it a good example how two participants could learn from eachothers maps.

I would have liked to vote for both, but as that is not possible, my vote goes for MysticMagellan with a very very VERY small margin.
(note: MysticMagellan, I coudn't give rep as I have to spread it around first.. but I'll try to remember give some later on for this map)