One Page Dungeon Contest 2011

[kensanata]

Remember last year?

[highlight]One Page Dungeon Contest 2011[/highlight]!

Dates: Submission deadline is April 1, 0:00 GMT. Based on last year's experience, judges will have one month to read all the submissions and another two weeks to discuss the result. Winners will be announced May 16, 0:00 GMT.

Judges: I'm still looking judges! Interested? Let me know → kensanata@gmail.com!

Prizes & Sponsors: Do you have prizes to donate? Let me know → kensanata@gmail.com!

Submissions: Here's how to submit your entry.

• Participants create a One Page Dungeon.
• Submitting a dungeon to the contest releases it under the Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license with credit to the contest participant.
• The submission must have a name, an author, a map, a key, a link to the license (Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0) and no game stats.
• A link to your blog, wandering monsters, random events, adventure background or introduction, and descriptions of tricks or traps are all optional.
• One entry per participant. Participants may revise/replace their entries up until the end of contest, with the last revision counting as their official entry.
• Submission must be mailed in PDF, Open Office, or Microsoft Word format to Alex Schröder → kensanata@gmail.com.
• If you have a blog article talking about your submission, I'd love to link to it from the One Page Dungeon Contest page.

Process: Here's how we'll determine the winners.

• Every judge nominates their favorite entries and proposes a category for each.
• We try to make sure that every judge has at least three of their nominations in the final list. The idea is to not only reflect popular opinion but to also capture some of the more eclectic entries out there. We'll make sure that every judge is well represented with three entries each.
• Based on the categories proposed in the first step, we try to assign a category to each entry on the list.
• The result is our release candidate 1. Judges gets to check whether their favorites are still on the list.
• We fix omissions and rename categories until we're happy. This is our release candidate 2.
• We revise everything until we're happy. We have our list of winners!
• If we have prizes (we currently don't) each judge gets to nominate their favorite entry for a prize.
• We publish our list of winners!
• Harald puts together a PDF of all the entries and a PDF of all the winners. We'll make these PDFs available for download at no cost.

 

[howandwhy99]

Ooohh so tempting.
That last link is the one to the contest site as far as I can tell. You may want to highlight it.

 

[kensanata]

Thanks, I added a highlighted copy to the top.

 

[SoulsFury]

I'm in for sure.

 

[SoulsFury]

Is this still happening? Doesn't seem to be getting much interest.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm interested (albeit battling a head cold) but I have to confess that the highly polished presentations of the dungeons is a little intimidating to me. My goal would be to just draw something on a sheet of graph paper, ink it once it's perfect and then scan it in -- totally old-school, rather than amateur Dungeon Magazine write-ups, as it were.

If I feel better in a timely fashion, I'll likely still do one, assuming I can settle on a theme. (I've got two or three rattling around in my head right now.)

 

[kensanata]

Well, we already have 12 submissions last year I remember getting about half the submissions in the last few days. Thus, I'm now worried, yet.

Spread the word!

 

[kensanata]

Two more weeks to go!

A map, an intrigue, monsters, treasure, enemies, allies – what does an adventure for your game night require? Whatever it is, if you wrote it up, you should send it in! The due date for the One Page Dungeon Contest 2011 is the first second of April 1, 2011, UTC. If you live in the United States, that means you may have to send in your entry many hours before the last day of March ends. What better way to make sure you don't miss the deadline than sending your entry as soon as possible? Don't worry, you can send in revisions up to the very end.

Submission must be mailed in PDF, Open Office, or Microsoft Word format to Alex Schröder → kensanata@gmail.com.

Check out the sweet loot awaiting the winners of this year's contest in the sponsor section of the One Page Dungeon Contest 2011 page.

Best of luck!

 

[SoulsFury]

Prizes are looking good. I will be submitting one next week.

 

[jmucchiello]

I was looking at some of last year's submissions and was thinking you should put a lower limit on text coverage and font size. Say no more than 30% of the page can be text and any font used cannot be smaller than 8 point. But that might just be my bias.