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RedDynasty wrote:A question, for someone to a be a judge they must have allready made maps right?
Marder wrote:It will lead to an imbalance in what is considered playable. Are we mapping for clan war or public?
Tantalus wrote:Sorry Marder, but mapmaking is not a piece of expressionist art lol.
James wrote:But it is definitely backseat to the balance for a multi-player map, so yeah, sorry ShadowRunner.
The way one balances the map can be considered as art. I've seen some clever, and interesting ways of making a map equally fair for all players.
James wrote:The way one balances the map can be considered as art. I've seen some clever, and interesting ways of making a map equally fair for all players.
Is the game chess by in its form of its rules, physical presence and mechanics, "art"?
Aidan wrote:Anything one can 'create', can be considered as art.
Tantalus wrote:Aidan wrote:Anything one can 'create', can be considered as art.
Well, no because art has no other purpose other than itself. A car cannot be a piece of art, and never will be a piece of art but it contains artistic merits in it; absolutely.
This is the defining line here, mapmaking can have an art-making thought process behind it, but it's not judged, appreciated and based solely on those merits.
A lot of influences can create an unconscious process like there is with making art, but you always have the dominating and conscious criteria of what makes the map a well-designed map; thus serving its purpose.
Goddamn, art discussion everywhere in this forum today!
Well, no because art has no other purpose other than itself.
A car cannot be a piece of art, and never will be a piece of art but it contains artistic merits in it; absolutely.
This is the defining line here, mapmaking can have an art-making thought process behind it, but it's not judged, appreciated and based solely on those merits.
Tantalus wrote:Aidan wrote:Abridged argument.
Let's continue this in private chat.
Aidan wrote:Tantalus wrote:Aidan wrote:Abridged argument.
Let's continue this in private chat.
What is there to argue?
Tantalus wrote:Aidan wrote:Tantalus wrote:Aidan wrote:Abridged argument.
Let's continue this in private chat.
What is there to argue?
Go and have a look.
We need to stop derailing threads.
James wrote:But it is definitely backseat to the balance for a multi-player map, so yeah, sorry ShadowRunner.