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Posted 15 February 2004 - 01:03 PM
I guess you're ready to see why this thread it titled "SeeD Designers." For this event SeeDs we will be traveling around Runescape and choosing houses to accessorize and improve. These final houses will be displayed in screenshots posted in the Creativity Forum. Following this will be a nice little drop party for some more fun.
Lets get into the details now and see how this will be done.We will be traveling to several towns, so we will meet in the Lumbridge guardhouse upstairs. If you don't know where that is, it is up the ladder in the small room on the side of the arch leading to Lumbridge Castle (one room on each side with a hallway upstairs). Once everyone gets there (that I know is online and is coming) we'll divide into groups. Yes, you will be able split into groups yourselves (I'll join one myself) and I'll take care of any extras or move people around if the groups are even.
Now don't think that grouping everyone means that this will be a competition. This event is for fun, a break from competing against others in an event for a prize. The reason people will be in groups is so that they can work as a team to design their house. Another reason for this is so we have many more altered Runescape houses to present in the Creativity Forum. So each group will have its own house to improve and alter.
How your group will design your chosen house is up to you (yes, you get to choose your house yourself). You can assign each member of your group to design a section of your house, or you can all work on the whole house together. If group members work on sections of your house individually, it may be completed more quickly than the other way. Everyone will also have put in equal contribution into your project, so you can all say "I helped design that one!" Yet with this way, you won't really be working together on it. Technically you are, but you're all working on parts individually. It's still a good way though. And if you choose to work on the whole house together, you will all be working as a team on each section of the house. This could make your designing more efficient since you will be correcting others or improving other ideas. What's bad about this way is it may take longer than the second way. Also, everyone might not put in the same contribution. It's still equally good as the other way. Just in case you're a little confused, here it is nice, organized, and simple.
"Together Way"- The whole group works on each parts of the house together.
Pros: Everyone works as a team. Designing will be more efficient because group members can correct others' ideas and improve them.
Cons: May take longer than other way because you designing together on each section at a time instead of separately. Also, everyone may not put in equal contribution to the project.
"Individual Way"- Everyone works individually, one person per section of the house (size of each section depends on the amount of members in your group).
Pros: May run more quickly than others ways because everyone is working on all of the sections of the house at the same time (individually of course). Each group member puts in equal contribution.
Cons: The designing by not be as efficient as completing it together since there's no one to help you, improve your ideas, etc. Also, you won't really be working as a team since you will be working on a section of the house by yourself.
You can make any system of designing your house you want, those were just some examples. Change around those systems to your liking if you want. You don't even need a system; you can just do it randomly.
(Randomly will probably be used most I'm guessing. This is just for fun anyways, so randomly works great.) I suggest a way that involves teamwork though (sort of what I'm aiming for during this event along with other things). How to actually design your house? Well, you're actually going to be editting screenshots of your house. During your events, your designing will be deciding what should be made, where it should go, what should be removed, what should be improved, etc. Then a vollunteer of the group edits screenshots of the house designing it the way the group planned out. Here's how it'll work in simple steps starting when you've found yourself a house.
Step 1
Your group needs to decide who will be editting the screenshots. This will be a vollunteer from the group. The person should have some experience editting screenshots so that they can actually do it. If more than one person vollunteers, they can take turns (since you'll be designing more than one house). This person will need to know all plans (more explained in later steps).
Step 2
Now your group needs to decide what parts of the house they'll be designing. You can design the outside, inside, or upstairs/downstairs (if it has one). You can do two or three if you want. Once you've decided, you need to take a well angled and clear screenshot of the area(s) you've chosen.
Step 3
Whoever took the screenshot(s) needs to send it/them to the vollunteer in the group for editting it/them. If you don't have an image uploader, feel free to use this one. Just send it/them to them in a pm in the forums. This way they've got the screenshot all nice and ready.
Step 4
Now to design! Everyone will now take a look at what they're designing and change it around to give a snazzy new look (or an old cruddy look if you prefer, whatever you want
). You can try giving your house a theme to make it easier design. An example is a future look. You can give the house a chrome look with futuristic furniture and objects in the house. You can improve things already in/on the house, add things, remove things, etc. Whatever changes you make you need to record on a piece of paper, wordpad, notepad, etc. All the changes that are made need to be recorded so that when you're finished you can send all the plans to the person in your group editting the screenshots. Just send it to them in a pm when your group has finished desiging your house. You can try it the difficult way though by editting the screenshot along the way. The problem with this is you need to do it quickly and it's difficult to go back if you changed your mind about something.If you're not sure about adding things, here’s an example. The theme for your house is a modern look, so you get an image of a sofa and stick it into the screenshot. You see what I mean? If you come up with idea, you should try finding the image yourself (if it involves adding in an image). It's sort of rude if you say "Put a huge T.V. taking up that wall" without giving them an image.
You need to have at least one of your houses with the theme of CurvedSpace or SeeD. These could be added to the Screenshots section of the site which currently has only three screenshots. If you're unsure what to put in there, you can try logos plastered on the wall, pictures from Final Fantasy (try the Final Fantasy avatars or just looking them up on Google).
Important Note: Make sure everything in the final screenshot is appropriate. You guys know what is and what isn't. Please just keep it clean and have fun.
Step 5
Once you've finished designing your house and recorded all your changes, send it all to the one in your group editing your screenshot(s) in a pm in the forums. Then you need to send me a pm in Runescape telling me that you're done.
Step 6
Chill until everyone else finishes.
Just make sure you stay in the town we're in and don't bother the other groups who are still designing. And be ready to leave at any moment. I'll send a pm to everyone in your group in Runescape when the other groups have finished.Job of the Screenshot Editor
Don't worry about getting the screenshot in quick. You can turn it in at any time (not months later, but you know what I mean). To edit your screenshot(s) you can use Paint, Photoshop, whatever you want. Don't worry about making it perfect either. It's just for fun so just do your best and see what comes out. If you need help finding images ask the one who planned it out to help you out or other group members.
When you have completed editing the screenshots(s), please post them in the thread I will create after the event which will be titled "SeeD Designers Display." Just reply with the screenshot(s) your group designed (mention your group's members' names).
Now let's go all the way back to where we met in Lumbridge and split into groups. I'll now give you our route. First, we'll head outside and find our first houses to design in Lumbridge. When everyone has finished designing their first houses, we'll move to Varrock where the groups will choose their second houses to design. Finally, we'll move to Falador. It depends on how much time it has taken to complete designing the first two houses if we should design a third house (more like if I have the time since I'll have a nice little thing to end the event). Moving on to the last part of this event. . .
After everyone has finished designing their third houses (if we do), we'll move to the Falador Mansion where I'll hold a drop party!
I'll have some decent items for this drop, including one rune item. This drop party is for some more fun and so that you get a little something for coming.Now that I've explained everything (hopefully
), I'll give you the main information:Date: Saturday, February 21
Time: 2:00 pm eastern time
World: 9
Meeting Place: Upstairs guardhouse in Lumbridge
First Town: Lumbridge
Second Town: Varrock
Third Town: Falador
Drop Party Meeting Place: Upstairs Falador Mansion
That's about it. The point of this event is to work together, have a break from competitions, get some more screenshots for the site (
), and to simply have a bunch of fun. I hope this works out well.
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