[CANCELED] TESA's 2015 Halloween Challenge

[DarkRider]

★THE HUNT ★

"They knew evil of this nature could never be unleashed and so it was buried in the depths of Skyrim's darkest places."

To create the best overall scare experience in a spooky cavern as part of The Hunt, TESA's 2015 Halloween Challenge. You can do this using any means at your disposal so long as it is within the rules of the contest. Scripting is not required.

• Entries must be COMPLETE and submitted to DarkRider by 11:59 EST on October 29th, no later.
• If you want to participate you must sign up officially (See How to Enter Below)
• Your entry must contain a single exterior cell with a CAVE type entrance
• Your entry must include at least one finished interior cell, but no more than five.
• Only one entry per challenger and that challenger must be a solo author of that entry, no teams.
• The overall theme must be horror/supernatural genre.
• You may use modder resources and the official DLCs.
• You must repath and package any resources to the correct file path for the challenge. (See Additional Information Below)
• If you use modders resources, you must include a .txt file with your submission containing the credits for those resources.
• You cannot reveal any specifics about your entry to anyone, no screenshots, vids, or chat.
• Your cells or .esp cannot contain obvious clues to your identity; we don't want people voting for their friends.
• Your level cannot be SKSE dependent, or dependent on any other mod.
• Your entry must be complete and free of major defects (ie broken untested scripts, flashing seams, misaligned kits) unfinished or excessively buggy entries will be disqualified.

• Send a PM here on TESA or the Official Bethesda forums to DarkRider subject line "ENTER HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE" to join the challenger list.

• On October 31st, The Hunt will be released for download on TESA and the players will vote in the release threads for the haunted cavern that gives the best overall scare. Any voting ties will be broken by the Senior TESA Staff. Polls will be closed and the winner announced by November 8th.

• A Special Feature on our Media Outlets!
• A Unique Forum Medal!
• A Special Challenge Winner Sig Bar!
• Grand Prize TBA!

• Your .esp should be called TheHunt-YourLevelName.esp
• All cell names and IDs must begin with aaTESA
• You may use any interior kits or combination of but your entrance kits should be from the CAVE set
• Exteriors should use the CAVE exterior assets
• Every challenger will receive credit in the final readme.
• Each Challenger should include a .txt file containing any information about your entry I need to know, including CREDIT information for any resources used. Also, please include solutions to puzzles and a general how-to for your level.

• File path for meshes must be Meshes\TESA\Halloween05\(category)\(item name)
• File path for textures must be Textures\TESA\Halloween05\(category)\(item name)
• Custom Menu icons should be in Menus\Icons\TESA\Halloween05\(category)\(icon file)
• Custom Sound Objects should be added to Sound\fx\TheHunt\(category)\(sound file)
• Voice files should be in Sound\Voice\TheHunt.esp\(race)\(gender)\(voice file)

• COMING SOON

 

[DarkRider]

The Halloween Challenge is NOW OPEN enter today to start building the creepy cavern that will take you to victory!

[donnato]

I`m really hoping you get a lot of great entries. I miss playing through these challenges. Good luck to all entrants.

[IronBlockGames]

This makes me really wish the level design lessens were up. I want to give this a try but fear I'd only be able to do a winding cave. Lack the know how to add traps or puzzles or even enemies that don't just stand there like they lost a few too many brain cells ^^;

[TheBawb]

Certainly hope there's a lot of entries. I would have loved to do this myself, as it seems like a lot of fun. But unfortunately I promised a few folks I'd get my current project completed by the end of the year, and there's still plenty of work left for that.  Nevertheless, as Don said, best of luck to all the entrants.

[Vain]

This makes me really wish the level design lessens were up. I want to give this a try but fear I'd only be able to do a winding cave. Lack the know how to add traps or puzzles or even enemies that don't just stand there like they lost a few too many brain cells ^^;

Does it count as using a team if I just tell you how to put stuff in places?  Now I kinda wanna do some of the subjects for the level design lesson...

[Ashenfire]

What are the rules with immersion?

For instance, scary heavy metal music; characters still needing to be of skyrim only; lore friendly; etc.

Edited October 24, 2015 by Ashenfire

[Ashenfire]

@vain:  I would figure it would be okay if you believe you can instruct another how to do modding, as long as you don't share .esp files.  I would guess

that  the contest doesn't judge scripting.  No need to worry how many people it took to make the script.

[DarkRider]

There are no lore restrictions for entries, as each level is a pocket universe and can be anything as in previous challenges. Haven't ad any challengers rise so this one may not happen. Guess next year it'd be better to try in September and not during an upgrade

[Ashenfire]

I probably would  have signed up if it wasn't for stagnation.

I am rebuilding my 2 sites and still looking for ways to advance in modding.

Meshes are nowhere near my expertise.

I still have my main project from a year and a half ago, rebuilt 5 times from mistakes and runaway glitches.

[IronBlockGames]

Yeah I would have given it a shot but outside the stuff found in the basic lessens for modding I don't know squat. I could do a nice cave layout (think it's the only kit I really know how to work, plus it gives the most freedom) and clutter it up... but that be it. :/

[Ashenfire]

Maybe we can change that.

[DarkRider]

Doesn't look like the Halloween Challenge will fly this year, we only ended up with one challenger, not even enough to have a poll on. So sadly, this challenge is canceled. Props to badgremlin for entering, I hope you will release your entry!

[Tokeny]

Sounds like a lot of fun. I wish I had been around that year. Will there be any more challenges?