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Wed - May 07, 2008

Contest Voting Phase

posted: 07:00 am by: Laurie

The deadline for submitting your contest submissions has past, and we are now moving into the voting phase.

Although the contest moderators and Human Head Studios will be reviewing and voting on submissions, we felt that it was very important to involve the community in the process! Thus voting will be opened up to All Rune Community members who wish to participate.

You will have the opportunity to rate each submissions from one to five stars. The winners (in each category) will be those with the Highest Average Rating. You will be limited to one vote per entry.

Any suspicious voting patterns may result in Disqualification of one or more entries....So Please do not try to cheat!

Voting will begin on May 16th and end on May 31st.

Thank you to everyone who has participated in the contest!

Human Head Studios judges will make the final decision and decide all tie breakers

Winners will be announced June 2nd

Sun - May 04, 2008

Contest Map Servers!!

posted: 04:01 am by: Laurie

Dirty~Bob and ~Crew have graciously offered to host Rune 7th Anniversary Maps in their rotations. Dirty~Bob will be offering maps in both of his Rune 1.00 and 1.08 (HOV) servers with some regular ones to encourage players to stay and check out. ~Crew will host maps in their 1.08 (HOV) server

So be sure to look for these Contest Maps servers whether you play Rune 1.00 and/or HOV!

It would be appreciated if other server hosts would come forward to do this also. This to cover times when Dirty~Bob's and ~Crew's may not be up to be seen.

This way ALL players can play and check these out to review for the upcoming judging.

Check out the Contest Map Servers subject thread below for additional information.
· Contest Map Servers UP!

Sat - Apr 26, 2008

Dirty~ Bob's Version 2 Map Pack

posted: 02:02 am by: Laurie

Dirt~Bob has released a Version 2 Map Pack for your enjoyment.

In his words:

The maps in this pack are the current editions running on the dirty~Servers and hosted on our website. The fixes were made for various reasons including player flow, exploits, etc. If you are hosting any of the older versions on your server or for download on your site, please consider changing to these updated versions. I think you'll find they're at least a little better in some cases, and much better in most.

The maps:

DM-Hildirty ][
DM-The Vale of Arryn ][
DM-Venetian ][
DM-Zahrgore's Revenge ][
DM-dirty~Ruins ][

"Why bother with a Version 2?" some have asked. Well, Dirty~Bob explains it this way:

I realize that some mappers might think, "why bother?" but I'm a little different from the majority of Rune mappers, in that I not only love to map, but i also love to battle. I play the game of Rune more than I ever map. A ton more... probably the reason I've whined so much about playability on these forums over the years. As I play maps, I notice a lot of things that could be improved for playability's sake. Especially in my own maps. These changes are a result of those mental notes after years of playing most of those maps (Hildirty only for a month, but we quickly realized the weapon placement resulted in an imbalance of play throughout the map. I strive to force people to use the whole map).

The changes made in these new versions are:

Hildirty ][: better weapon placement and no more trigger trap on bottom.
Zahrgore's Revenge ][: spawns, and dark shields by small weaps
Venetian ][: Lighting, less decor, raft by b.a. with food, climbs and hops to walls and roofs by b.a. and w.s., blocked dodge exploit out to perimeter wall, flower boxes on all windows to allow window to window transfers on outside of bldgs
dirty~Ruins ][: spawns
The Vale of Arryn ][: blocked the dodge exploit out the the perimeter wall/volcano lip

The link to get this can be found below. Any comments can be posted through Dirty~Bob's "Editing and User Creations" subject thread Here
· Dirty~Bob's Version 2 Map Pack

Tue - Apr 22, 2008

Rune-Resource.de is UP!!!!

posted: 10:02 pm by: Laurie

DAD.tika has announced Rune-Resource.de is back up and running!

He especially wanted to thank Glatzerl and Inferno as well as give "Kudos" for their good work to make this happen. The community joins him in doing this too

DAD.tika has been busy filling the different Download sections with new and old files. As he says: I'll try to put up about 1000 more maps soon!

So sail over and check out the site!