Posts from Heroesportal: Mapmaking contest (Heroes IV);

Dear residents of the Lands, I am glad to welcome you and to inform you that today the map-making contest for the 4th version of Heroes begins. Before you start creating maps, please read the rules.

General provisions:

1. All registered residents of the portal can participate in the map-making contest.
2. The contest will last for 2 months, starting today.
3. Maps of all three official versions of Heroes of Might and Magic 4 (original, Armageddon's Blade, or The Shadow of Death) are accepted. Maps for the "Equilibris" add-on will not be included in the contest.
4. The size of the contest maps is not limited.
5. Prizes for the winners of the contest will be provided from the organizer's fund.
6. All contest maps should be sent by participants to poisonavi@mail.ru with the note "map-making contest" and with an indication of which category they want the map to participate in (for example, "Most beautiful map"). You cannot choose more than one category.
7. Important amendment - only maps created (or not previously known to the public) AFTER January 21, 2012, will be accepted for the contest.

List of contest categories:

- Most beautiful map (best artwork);
- Best RPG map (quests, storyline, scripts, etc.);
- Best map about the Lands of Heroes and their inhabitants;
- Best and most interesting map (in general, all parameters are taken into account);

Rules:

1. Partial landscape generation is allowed, but "pure" generated maps will be disqualified from the contest.
2. Only one map per participant can be submitted to the contest.

I wish the participants inspiration. :)

Partial landscape generation is allowed, but "purely" generated maps will be disqualified from the contest.

It's not a problem to register there, is it?

It seems a bit strange. Why manually insert each tree when you can customize a brush? What's so difficult about that...
Besides, there aren't many good standard brushes, only about 5-6 out of the whole list, so it's better to create your own brushes.
Just a humble comment.

... Greetings to all!
Today is April 1st. This is not only a day for jokes, but also the day we conclude the Heroes IV map-making contest. Unfortunately, we received few submissions. Below is a list of participants and the category in which their map will be presented. Soon, all the works will be available for download from the portal's map repository.

Sir Sculptor (Suppression of the Rebellion) - Most beautiful map;
Lady Midnight (Curse of the Red Hill) - Best RPG map;
Lady Saint Ishtar (Honor of not chess queen) - Best map about the Lands of Heroes and their inhabitants;
Sir SuperStar (Not for the sake of greed) - Best and most interesting map;
+ a work from an unknown author (Black_Wall) - Best and most interesting map;

The works of Sir Arthur the seeker (The Frost Valley) and Sir Knight Angel order (Hard Labor) have been withdrawn from the contest.


Another work by Sir SuperStar (Little green men) is being considered outside of the contest.

This is the current state of the contest.

Oh, I am so sorry; I posted in the wrong thread :o Moderators, please move it to: /topic/8804/
And yes, you can now Download the maps from the Portal.

I haven't played Heroes 4 in a long time (because there weren't any maps).

You can find a ton of interesting maps here :)

Believe me, in 2-3 years, I've already replayed everything I could.