D'jinni Adventure Editor Contest!

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D'jinni Adventure Editor Contest!

Today, we begin the first stage of The Witcher Adventure Editor contest for everyone interested in making new adventures for The Witcher game. The contest will have 5 separate stages (each stage will last 2 weeks) which will form the integral whole. The aim of the contest will be to solve 5 tasks which will be released for you in stages every 2 weeks. You will be obligated to obey basic rules and guidelines. In stage one we will focus on creating the main plot. The best project chosen in every stage of the contest will be rewarded. At the end (after stage 5) we will also reward the best 3 overall projects (some super unique stuff is waiting!!! – further details soon).After 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th stage we will publish official solution templates made by designer from CD Projekt RED. [size=12pt]We wait for your ideas at adventures@thewitcher.com[/size]FIRST TASK BRIEF DESCRIPTION - - write down your ideas for adventure plot, read the description doucment- send it to us - adventures@thewitcher.com- accepted documents - txt, rtf, pdf, doc, docx Here you have some useful links:Document describing the contestDocument describing first stage taskD'jinni WikiD'jinni ForumDownload D'jinniContest Rules [size=14pt]VIEW STAGE 2[/size]

 

[Sandis.23]

Look intresting, bt i'm better staying in original story ...

 

[paulv]

This contest is an excellent idea! I can't wait to see what people come up with.

 

[petra_silie]

wot... a challenge... great idea

 

[username_17]

Ahem, please forgive a newbie a stupid question (I'm really making a fool out of me now) :wall:As far as I understand the document for the first plot, you will need the story in written text, send to the link above, is this right? (please don't shoot me for this)And can there be one more NPC or is this limited to the two proclaimed in the "first stage document"?

 

[paulv]

Ahem, please forgive a newbie a stupid question (I'm really making a fool out of me now) :wall:As far as I understand the document for the first plot, you will need the story in written text, send to the link above, is this right? (please don't shoot me for this)And can there be one more NPC or is this limited to the two proclaimed in the "first stage document"?

As far as I know, this contest is to make adventures using the Djinni Toolset for each phase... writing the plot into quest phases is part 4 of the first challenge

 

[username_2078633]

I better get crackin

 

[username_17]

As far as I know, this contest is to make adventures using the Djinni Toolset for each phase... writing the plot into quest phases is part 4 of the first challenge

Yes, thats right, but I have no idea at this time how to make an introduction (maybe a cutscene) without making the templates first, but templates are at stage 3. ???Same with the inhabitants, how can it be done to invent their lifes without making templates and spawnsets first.From contest document:

... what is the life of the villagers like, what do they do at particular times of the day...

I can't realize at this time how to implement them without having spawnsets, but spawnsets are on 3rd stage. ??? ???I'm too proud to give it up before I began that thing and there are two weeks left to make it , so maybe Eriash or someone from CDPR can tell me what exactly is needed for first stage (written story, cutscene or what else), ...glp...maybe in german ??? ???AND: if I someday understand this, can there be one other NPC or is it limited to that two proclaimed in the documents?

 

[Arkray_gog]

I neither get it.... It seems to be asking for the full adventure... in stage one.... the only way to create the plot in the eidtor is actually making the whole adventure.. and that should have to be done in only 2 weeks? sounds impossible to me... but a written text file cold be made.... Basically I am confused... ??? ??? ??? ???

 

[Eriash]

According to the first task description document you need to invent a plot for the adventure, write it down and send to us.

 

[Arkray_gog]

According to the first task description document you need to invent a plot for the adventure, write it down and send to us.

Ok, it has more sense now, two weeks to invent an story, and no programming anything...... The text has to have any format? Thanks!EDIT: And where has it to be sent ? email? url?

 

[username_17]

According to the first task description document you need to invent a plot for the adventure, write it down and send to us.

So, my first thought was the right one, thanks for getting this clear.@arkray: There's the email-adress in the first post on this side. I think everybody can open a MS Word document, I began my story in this format yesterday.

 

[zool_smok]

According to the first task description document you need to invent a plot for the adventure, write it down and send to us.

Only in english??

 

[Eriash]

According to the first task description document you need to invent a plot for the adventure, write it down and send to us.

Only in english??

yes, english please.and the format can be rtf txt doc docx or pdf

 

[zool_smok]

Not all know english very well.

 

[firehawk]

Don't wanna complain or anything, but maybe you should release a slightly more stable djinni client before starting an editor contest. Or at least before stage 2 begins

 

[Arkray_gog]

AH! Sorry, I'm too dumb sometimes, I didn't see the email address :wall:But I have another VERY important question... I finally had an idea yesterday (being feverish because of a cold can be useful sometimes) but I need to know if MORE monsters/NPCs can be used, or ONLY the ones you told... you know, I like to give dialogs to monsters ;D and what level is the adventure intended? echinops and wraiths are a bit too different leveled, besides from my experience I can tell you can't change the level of the template, the monster keeps the level the template had when it was cretated, so it would be good to know in advance to avoid making new templates Thanks!

 

[username_2059764]

AH! Sorry, I'm too dumb sometimes, I didn't see the email address :wall:But I have another VERY important question... I finally had an idea yesterday (being feverish because of a cold can be useful sometimes) but I need to know if MORE monsters/NPCs can be used, or ONLY the ones you told... you know, I like to give dialogs to monsters ;D and what level is the adventure intended? echinops and wraiths are a bit too different leveled, besides from my experience I can tell you can't change the level of the template, the monster keeps the level the template had when it was cretated, so it would be good to know in advance to avoid making new templates Thanks!

Actually I think, you can create new templates using same models/appearances. It was our main idea, that you have to use existing assets.Michał

 

[Arkray_gog]

AH! Sorry, I'm too dumb sometimes, I didn't see the email address :wall:But I have another VERY important question... I finally had an idea yesterday (being feverish because of a cold can be useful sometimes) but I need to know if MORE monsters/NPCs can be used, or ONLY the ones you told... you know, I like to give dialogs to monsters ;D and what level is the adventure intended? echinops and wraiths are a bit too different leveled, besides from my experience I can tell you can't change the level of the template, the monster keeps the level the template had when it was cretated, so it would be good to know in advance to avoid making new templates Thanks!

Actually I think, you can create new templates using same models/appearances. It was our main idea, that you have to use existing assets.Michał

I think I didn't explain myself well, you create a monster template and give it a level 20 and SAVE. If later you change your mind and decide it has to be level 10 it does not work, or I didn't get it to work, even creating a new spawn point the monster always is a level 20, you can check in my adventure, according to the data my archeospores are level 31, but you can beat them very easily because they ARE level 19.... that was never changed...The main point:So I can use more assets than the ones mentioned in the .pdf file?

 

[Eriash]

I just want to remind everyone that we have a special subforum for D'jinni here - http://www.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?board=87.0and a special Wiki with all necessary documentation here - http://djinni.wikia.com