The new original idea thread.

We've all seen and played countless DotA ripoffs, modified/stolen versions of Wintermaul and the insane amount of Maze TDs circulating B.net. To combat this, I propose a thread, dedicated entireley to bringing ideas and mappers together... hence the Original Idea Thread!

If you have a really great idea for a map, but not enough mapping/modding background to pull it off, post it here so someone that can will make it into the map it was meant to be. There is virtually no way to regulate action in this forum so we must depend on an honor code:

• Give credit where credit is due.
• If possible, post when your are interested/working on an idea so that others would know and maybe team up or work on another great idea.
• Don't post lame ideas such as "DotA except use orc instead of Undead" and so on.
• Check to see if a similar idea has already been posted (at least for now while the forum is short).
• Don't critisize other's ideas, it might discourage other people from posting.

-piRo.piOn-

This is EXACTLY what I was talking about.
Come on people, bring down your ideas that are not going to leave your head here.

I'm not sure I'd call some of the DotA-style maps "ripoffs." Virtually every map creator drew a portion of his/her ideas from somewhere, probably going all the way back to WarChasers and its "choose a hero with the circle of power" thing. I believe Eul himself of DotA describes his map as "AOS style" in the map description area, so I don't believe Battle of the Order or whatever map is a ripoff of DotA any more than DotA is a ripoff of Age of Siege. (Or is it Aeon of Strife? I've heard it both ways.)

Maps that someone takes, adds a small tweak or two, and rereleases and takes full credit for may be a different story, but that's what happens with unprotected maps.

Just my two cents. :D

I would like to see a proper game of Risk made: turn based actions, dice, basically mirroring the gameplay of the boardgame. Though its a decent warcraft3 version. There are some things that bother me, some areas have difficult pathing, giving some areas superior defence, in the board game this is not the case.

Another map I would like to see is a well done bomberman map, I myself have made such a map, but the gameplay was pretty bad (basically like the starcraft version).

I think lots of the minigames are original in some way, even if it was done in another game, but is a first for warcraft 3, I think that should count as original. I agree though, too many ripoff games are circulating and if you are going to "ripoff" a game, atleast do something amazingly different in it, don't just change your warrior unit to do a little more damage because you think it's unbalanced. That's not your job.

how bout posting some maps? instead of ideas? how bout both? i have a map and an idea!

First the idea: some one should make a map that is like a Blood map from Age of Empires. i know that maybe one guy made one but it was pretty bad... ill post some details if any one wants to make one. it will be bretty easy exept for the balancing of the units.

I was gonna make that... but I didnt think it would be very popular. And I was making my second World of WarCraft map. My third World of WarCraft map will be semi original. How you might ask? You shall see. All you have to do is buy The Frozen Throne when it comes out and it will be the best and first World of WarCraft map for The Frozen Throne.

original ideas are many influemnses to make somthing new. not many original ideas are out there.

Yeah, well, boto has some of the EXACT spells as DoTA has (complete with description and icon and all, but wrong hero description, like tormented soul spell on another hero).

OK so I don't know if anybody has thought of this before but I am the first one to make it for sure...
I've made it in an hour or so, so don't complain about bugs or the terrain looking sh|ty. Right now I ain't got time to make anything bigger out of it.

So here you go:
MORTAR WARS!
Tell me if you like it.

[edit] OK right now it doesn't have any bugs so pleeze download. By the way it's something like that old game... what was it called... tank wars or sth like that.

i have an idea, hunters. one team is hunter, other are the hunted. the hunters run after the hunted liek sheep in sheep tag, but the hunted cannot buld. the objective of the hunted is to live for a set time, and the hunters must kill them. no saving, and the hunted wouldent be able to attack.

plz dont steal the idea =P help me improve it =P

And you call that original? Go hide.
It's not the least be original, it's all been done before, EF.

yes, but if you playeed Battle of the Order and that other map (WHAT IS THE NAME???) its the exact same thing, a square layed out with 3 paths 2 going around the square and one thru the middle, and towers. there is a diffrence between a ripoff and a ??? style map.


umm... LOTR influenced the people at blizzard to make War3??? ya the people of blizzard have been workin on War3 since not long after the release of Starcraft, which was the "sequel" to warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness (which was a "standalone expantion" of the original war2) and, yes the IS such a thing as warcraft2. and also LORD OF THE RINGS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WARCRAFT IT IS 2 COMPLETEY DIFFERENT THINGS!

also i might have been uncleare with my "original idea" category descriptions... your free to submit AoS style maps because AoS is basically it's own genre by now (unlike tds which is an annoyin repetition of the same map over and over). so id like to clear some things up:

original idea:
doesn't have to be a whole new style of maps but is relatively unique and brings alot of new ideas into it's genre.
not original:
based "off" a map but changing a few gamplay aspects of that map. (if you want to do this, e-mail the creators of the map i'm sure they'll bne more than hapopy to include your idea in thier map, provided it is a good idea).
original:
almost everything is new a few aspects are "improvements" from other maps but the core of the game is new.
not original:
modifying only one aspect of a map i.e. gameplay (balancing, spec attacks so on...), terrain, credits, etc. etc.

MODS! PLEASE READ!
on another note can we please have a mod periodicly go through this forum and delete off topic post such as this. I would like it that this thread would be for the sole purpose of collectiong ideas, developing those ideas and bringing those ideas to life. if you want to discuss something said here please start a new thread.

-piRo.piOn-

hmmm i have made some of this map.. but i'de never given it a chance.. so here... might u make it into a nice map =/

i never said that it was started right after war 2... and lotr acuall DOES have nothing to do with warcraft, if you talk with blizzard i'm sure thats what they will say as well. it is not a flame, and my information is right if you bother to read it... it would be a flame if i had ctrl+c, ctrl+ved the last scentence a million times. the thing about war 2 was a bit of a sarcastic response to "LOTR influenced the people at blizzard into making war3".

and again i make the responce that there is a difference between a ripoff and a map of the same genre. DotA is not a ripoff of AoS but is an AoS style map, BotO IS a ripoff of DotA, not a DotA style map.

and finally, can a mod please delete all these off topic replys like i asked above? this IS the "original idea thread"...