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N A N T H E D A R K' S

Where Level Designers take on each other to see who's the best.

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You want to show someone you are better than him? You want to design a level, but only the thrill of competitions motivate you enough to work, and you don't want to wait for the next LDC? Are you looking for a way to win notoriety on the site? Do you want to make a level and have it judged? Fear not, my friends. The Dueling Arena, formerly created by NanTheDark and under the control of BrawlerEX (and Star king?), will help you with all that. The Dueling Arena is a place where Level Designers take on each other to see who's best. How do we do this?

TABLE OF CONTENT
DESCRIPTION
JUDGING
WALL OF FAME
CURRENT DUELS
PAST DUELS

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As mentioned above, the Dueling Arena is a place where Level Designers can battle each other in a merciless Level Designing battle. You just have to find someone to duel (check the topic regularly for that). Once you are both ready for the duel, one duel type must be chosen. Here, we have two:

• Classic Dueling: You choose a theme and a deadline (preferably from 1 week to 1 month), and you must make a level that fits the agreed theme before the deadline. Pretty classic. It will then be judged.
• Random Dueling: Here, the theme is basically freestyle. But your level must fit certain specialties that are fixed beforehand by the designers: they can affect gameplay, the deadline or the type of level. This makes the duel quite original and fun to judge (see spoilers below for a complete list of Random duel themes). It is to be noted that more than specialty can be chosen by the designers (for example 1-hour-25quared level)

Here is a list of theme ideas, that have been proposed or used before. You can also choose a theme that is not on the list, of course. This is only for ideas.



Once your levels are done, make sure to post them IN THE VAULT, or IN THE DUEL'S TOPIC admitting you have one (since it has become quite a popular way to duel by now). You can bring your own judges that you recommend to judge your duels once it is over. The minimum number of judges needed is three but more are allowed. If you can't find any judges then just post in the topic and people will (most likely) volunteer to judge. The judging system is same as always...

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First we make sure your level fits the RULES (they may be affected by the theme and/or any random dueling theme):

1. Your level MUST be made for the duel, from scratch. No level started before the duel will be allowed.
2. Your level must fit the theme. If it doesn't, you might get disqualified.
3. Level series are allowed, but have a maximum of 5 actual levels. The levels must all be related.
4. Please avoid or limit any profanity or anything that may shock younger players.

The levels will then be judged and given a note out of 20, following this rating system:

10 points - Fun
Is it an awesome level one can have a really good time playing it? Or does it have boring, or overly frustrating parts?

5 points - Graphics
How does the level look? Are there cut-off tiles? Is there something that looks amazing?

5 points - Other
Start with 3 points, and the judges add or take off points based on specific things you loved/hated about the level that aren't covered by the other two.

The designer who made the level with the highest average score from the judges wins.

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This victory allows the winner to brag about how he beat to the ground the other duelist. He also gets his name added to the Wall of Fame, among all the other winners. And most importantly, the new medal system allowed the introduction of a Duelist medal, to be added by Suyo, and designed by me (Star king). With this, show the world your epic win! (Past winners will also get it). His design is still kept secret though.


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LIST OF DUEL WINNERS (CLASSIC DUELING)
Duel #1 - MessengerOfDreams, Lord of Space (against Venexis)
Duel #2 - GMDragon11, Forest Ranger (against DarkBlaze)
Duel #4 - MegaR, Freestyle Pro (against NanTheDark)
Duel #5 - BrawlerEX, Cave Master (against Karyete)
Duel #7 - BrawlerEX, Guardian of the Elements (against Nwolf)
Duel #8 - Harmless, Pipe Ruler (agaist dellfarm2000)
Duel #11 - Karyete, Fortress King (against WindMasterArceus)
Duel #12 - GMDragon11, Pure Platformer Pro (against Harmless)
Duel #13 - -KT, King of the Castle (against Lrmaster132)
Duel #14 - lordpat, Snow Knight (against Harmless)

LIST OF DUEL WINNERS (RANDOM DUELING)
Random Duel #1 - lordpat, One-Hour Lord (against Star king)
Random Duel #2 - Star king, One-Hour King (against Master1.0)
Random Duel #3 - NanTheDark, One-Hour Pro (against lordpat)

LIST OF DUEL WINNERS (IN DUELS UNORGANIZED BY THE ARENA)
Volkove, Complete Winner (against MessengerOfDreams)
~MP3 Amplifier~, Designing Legend (against Volkove)
Volkove, Tier Topper (against -KT)
-KT, Underground Ruler (against Star king)
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If you are wondering what happened to the missing duels or for a complete list of the Duels, please visit the PAST DUELS section for more info.

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There are no duels currently taking place...

NanTheDark VS yurimaster09
Deadline: Oct. 20th, 2013
Theme: Water

Harmless VS MessengerOfDreams
Deadline: Dec. 31st, 2013
Theme: Graphical Masterpiece

We need banners pwease =(

CHALLENGERS:

No member is looking for a duel right now.

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To be completed.

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Employee Needed!
The Dueling Arena needs an official banner maker to create banners for every individual duel hosted on the topic. Please PM BrawlerEX if you want to take the job.

Er... is having three STICKIES necessary...?

I'm just curious. Why did you recreate the LDD into the DA?

I unstickied the other topic, because if it's gonna be made into something else, it's not really needed very much anymore. O_o

Nan, I challenge you to a freestyle duel. Start Date 20th, Deadline 27th. One week, one level. Not hard, no?
EDIT: Canz I be judge?

DarkBlaze wrote:I'm just curious. Why did you recreate the LDD into the DA?

Well, two reasons:

1) I pretty much wanted to give a new image to this thing. I'm gonna make this look real nice soon enough.

2) To attract more attention to Dueling. Hopefully this will be more successful than the other Topic (thanks to MP3 for unsticking it).

MegaRainboom wrote:Nan, I challenge you to a freestyle duel. Start Date 20th, Deadline 27th. One week, one level. Not hard, no?
EDIT: Canz I be judge?

1) I don't have too much time in my hands right now, but I'll let you know.
And you'll be added to the Volunteer Judge list... now.

Uhh...I have a few questions about this...

1) First, I want to confirm my thoughts on this. You post on here if you want to duel someone. You then select a day to start the level, a deadline for it, and a level theme, right?
2) Now for real questions. Is this meant for REALLY (I mean it) good Level Designers ONLY? If not, could I try? ( Not that I would expect good scores)
3) What kind of themes are there?
4) Do levels have to be a certain length of stuff like that?

I'm sorry if I'm wasting anyone's time.

READY TO SERVE, SIR! (aka, can I be a judge too?)

Also, do we have to judge GM's level? Does his duel still count?

Hey, my level got edited 2 days before the deadline. Nan must of sent it to you at the deadline.

dellfarm2000 wrote:Uhh...I have a few questions about this...

1) First, I want to confirm my thoughts on this. You post on here if you want to duel someone. You then select a day to start the level, a deadline for it, and a level theme, right?
2) Now for real questions. Is this meant for REALLY (I mean it) good Level Designers ONLY? If not, could I try? (Not that I would expect good scores)
3) What kind of themes are there?
4) Do levels have to be a certain length of stuff like that?

I'm sorry if I'm wasting anyone's time.

1) Yup. If you and someone else wanna duel, one of you either posts here or sends me a PM with the stuff you said. And if you want, you can bring your own judges (we have judges of our own, but just so you know )

2) This is for any LDer who wants to face off against someone else. And you could try! Just look for someone who might be interested in dueling you. If you can't find anyone, we'll put you in the Challengers section.

3) Whatever you can think of (or if you can't think of it, whatever we can think of )

4) Nope. All that limits you is the theme (and soon to be implemented, additional rules, like No Glitches, No Tiles, and any others I might think of).

And you're not wasting anyone's time.

Star king wrote:READY TO SERVE, SIR! (aka, can I be a judge too?)

Also, do we have to judge GM's level? Does his duel still count?

Yep, you'll be a judge, and yes, you have to judge GM's level. Also, I'm planning to have this thing really kick off once we're done with his duel (hopefully soon)

Anyways, later I'll try to handle some of this stuff. Anyone who told me they wanted to duel please post here so I remember xD and I'm hoping to be able to start this thing asap.

Edit: Speaking of which, who is judging GM and Blaze's duel? I need to know so we can have extra judges or something...

Edit2: The prototype banner, representing MoD and Ven's duel: