Idea for new weekly, fortnightly or whatever event
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:21 pm
I think it would be a good idea to have an event that showcases some of the more wacky mods made for Zandronum. There is a lot of stuff made that is not quite suitably competitive or too complex for events like FnF, and not suitable as standard survival for SNS. I'm talking about mods such as STFootball, Hangman, ZDoom Wars, Dodgeball, MoP, Collect the Coins, Boss Battles, Sector Craft, Cyberrunner/jumpmaze/rocketjump, wormsdoom, minigames and the hundreds of other wads that rarely get played due to the very popular mods like ZH/AOW/GvH getting all the players.
An event such as "Monday Mod Showcase" could fit the bill - the idea would be to seek out new or less played mods for the community to try (and to see how badly they break with lots of players ;)), furthermore an event like this might encourage those with modding talents to create new and interesting mods for it.
So what do you guys think? I'd volunteer to lead this initiative if other people are interested.
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An event such as "Monday Mod Showcase" could fit the bill - the idea would be to seek out new or less played mods for the community to try (and to see how badly they break with lots of players ;)), furthermore an event like this might encourage those with modding talents to create new and interesting mods for it.
So what do you guys think? I'd volunteer to lead this initiative if other people are interested.
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Hypnotoad wrote: So after discussing with some people it seems Sunday would be the best time, tux suggested 8.30pm UTC+1 (2.30pm for Americans), name will probably be Sunday Shenanigans.
Hypnotoad wrote: Alright guys so we have a channel now, #SundayShenanigans
Hypnotoad wrote: So this is a rough plan so far:
Idea is to make it fortnightly-ish, spend first week looking for and testing mods, then announce when the first week of the fortnight is up if something is found.
However, if nothing is found then we simply won't make an announcement for the event and will look again next week. This gives the event a fail safe in that it's not set in stone that it must occur every x days, so it's not a problem if we cannot find a suitable mod at the time.
Also, the event will probably not aim to be too long, unlike say FnF or SnS, due to some mods not being able to sustain gameplay for more than one or two hours.