Initial Geomorph Contest Winners!

Judging our first #GeomorphMapContest was hard! My thanks to Matt Jackson who I solicited for advice on the entries. We’ve got 5 runner-ups and 1 winner. First the runner-ups, in no particular order:

Glynn of www.monkeyblooddesign.co.uk sent this design. If you use it, give him credit. This design has excellent production values!

Peter Schweighofer of griffonpubstudio.com submits this design under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (attribution, non-commercial, share-alike) license. Peter’s design gives several story ideas: what are the little cell alcoves about? A nice use of a secret door. The dug out area leading from the south section to one of the cell alcoves, etc.

d47’s rotating throne room is available by a creative commons attribution license. We felt that it was important to show that even if a design isn’t digitally cleaned up, good ideas can do well in the contest. I love this rotating throne! The leader/king can meet with advisors in one room, then rotate to a mini-audience hall, then rotate and go back to his quarters.

Jim Magnusson allows this geomorph to be used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Like Dyson’s design, there are a lot of interesting/fun bits to this design. Of course, you’ve got to love the statue behind the throne. But we’ve also got a skeleton, discarded weapons, a secret room, and so on.

And our winner is:

Andrey Makarov's multicolor geomorph. It uses a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. — Andrey Makarov’s multicolor geomorph. It uses a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.

We almost didn’t include this in our top 5. Another of Andrey’s designs (the contest allowed up to 3 entries per person) with a classic blue style was in the top 5 at one point. At first it struck me as being a little too different… and I didn’t understand how you actually get into the throne room. But Matt mentioned it being interesting, then I figured out (I think) that the purple question mark-like symbol probably teleports. The different-ness has more than grown on me. So congratulations Andrey! We’ll be in touch to send you a set of our DungeonMorph Dice.

So that’s the first edition of the geomorph map contest. I hope it has been fun and no one feels slighted. Several other maps could have been in the top 5… in fact some other maps were top 5, but we re-hashed the list a few times and eventually had to finalize it. Having a winner and giving something away is nice, but the primary goal is to get people excited about making maps, seeing & experimenting with different styles, exchanging ideas, and giving everyone a little more exposure.

The time is late at the moment, so we’ll save the official rules & kick-off of the next contest for tomorrow… the rules will be largely the same except for a few things to streamline the process for us and make having a few judges part of the official process. But in case someone wants to get a jump on it, the ingredient this time will be Lava. Entries will be due late on Monday May 4th. Please don’t actually send entries to us until we get the revised rules posted.

Initial Geomorph Contest Winners!

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