Finish the Zone Contest





I thought about trying this again at some point after the last one did not


see much in the way of participation. About two years ago I held a contest


for budding zone writers that were either clueless as to what kind of zone


to create or wanting to write a zone but could not put their ideas to paper.


I had a pair of zones, Batcave and Brookmere that were distributed about


with the C-Dirt codebase that were incomplete with no known authors. So,


in a bid to get some good public domain zones out there for incorporation


on various muds, I set up this finish the zone contest. It ended up being


that Sanyth took the prize by default for his very decent version of the


Batcave zone. So, lets try this contest again now that a couple years have


passed. For download at this link is a copy of the Brookmere zone in an


unfinished state, at--





http://members.xoom.com/smlucas/brookmer.txt





what one has to do to enter is indeed download and finish the zone. Be


creative; add to it whatever rooms, mobiles, or objects you need to make


it something an adventurer would want to visit every so often. You can


also put in those interactive specials if you wish in either C or


whichever system your mud uses for it. If not, you should at least


describe any events that are supposed to occur in the zone I will code


them for you. When finished, mail in your entries here where a selected


panel will judge them, and the best ones will be selected. It could be


only one person's entry is picked for everything, or several people will


be picked for different parts of an entry. Everyone from newbies to mud


owners are welcome to enter. The winner or winners will be credited for


having co-authored the zone (the original author are unknown) and will


be bestowed all of the perks and privileges a zone author would get for


contributing a zone to any particular mud. The rewards for contributing a


zone vary greatly from mud to mud. One mud may hire you as an archwizard,


another may just give you an emeriti, another a wad of points, and some


other one may just give you a big pat on the back. Large, popular muds


with a high volume of zone submissions may be less likely to give


rewards, muds that are relatively "young" may be more likely to give


rewards due to a low volume of submissions.


You are however guaranteed to be rewarded greatly SOMEWHERE.





The deadline to enter will be set at >>>July 31, 2000<<<. The deadline


could be extended if too few entries are received, or no winner is picked


from the received entries (that shouldn't happen, unless the writers all


make horrible descriptions with numerous grammar and spelling errors.)


Good luck.





DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR A SPECIFIC MUD--this is not


to be constrewed as an invitation to leave this mud for another one.





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