Contest Submissions End, Judging Begins. Sven Co-op at Comiket 76!

[Sven Viking]

Just to let everyone know that the Sven Co-op Mapping Contest ended recently, and we're currently preparing to begin the judging process. Looks like we have some pretty impressive entries -- judging may be tough!

Once the winners have been selected, all entries will be collected into a map pack and released here on SvenCoop.com.

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In unrelated news: A couple of months ago, someone named Takeaki requested permission for his literary club to publish a Sven Co-op beginner's guide in Japanese. The guide was distributed at Comic Market 76 (or Comiket) -- the world's largest handmade comic book fair, held twice a year in Tokyo. It also hosts a large number of user-created PC games, etc. Comiket 76 attracted an estimated 560,000 (predominantly female) attendees over three days.

I recently received a copy of the magazine itself, and have taken some pictures for anyone interested. Though I can't understand the text, it looks really useful -- including information on how to install and configure Sven Co-op without English knowledge, various tips and tricks, etc.

    More images: Index, Page 9, Page 16, Page 24, Links.

Takeaki also included a sort of catalogue, and the latest episode of Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Warning: Spoilers in Wikipedia's Plot/Story sections), which was pretty nice of him! Now to wait for the patch.

[Silencer]

Finally a news post for officially ending the contest! \o/

The guide looks... well, I cannot read any of it, except that it says HLSS somewhere, so expect people with high pings mic-spamming J-Pop in the future. xD

About Umineko: Yeah that's nice. Maybe I should consider playing the games of the Animes I watch? Although these click-through-games aren't so appealing to me...

[cscarlet]

I can see WASD :O

[Sven Viking]

Originally Posted by Silencer

About Umineko: Yeah that's nice. Maybe I should consider playing the games of the Animes I watch? Although these click-through-games aren't so appealing to me...

No user choices in Umineko, so you have to think of it more as a novel than a game, but the story's a lot better imho. They skip over a lot of stuff in the anime, which removes a lot of the brain-straining mystery details (to be honest, I've only played up to the second part so far, though. Hard to find the time :/ ). The first part is available as a free demo, by the way.

[Devile]

Oh nice, can't wait for that map pack.