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Post by pyates on Jul 22, 2016 14:04:33 GMT -5
"Winter theme??? yep that would break the system." Kind of irritates me after I said I wouldn't enter because of the winter bug and told to go ahead and enter it that I get dinged for the winter theme. That's a bit of a low blow. I'm hoping it was meant in jest. If not then you're right... Yeah, I think the whole review was written for jokes with the actual critiques hiding away in there. The one that stands out for real that I completely missed is NO HOCKEY FIELD! WTF Irving?  It like Yeti's vegetable market all over again  |
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Post by Moe Slorkman on Jul 22, 2016 14:36:24 GMT -5
"Winter theme??? yep that would break the system." Kind of irritates me after I said I wouldn't enter because of the winter bug and told to go ahead and enter it that I get dinged for the winter theme. That's a bit of a low blow. All in fun Irving ! Well was ment to be but maybe misconstrued  . Sorry dude if I made your butt hurt you know I love you mang |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 14:45:46 GMT -5
"Winter theme??? yep that would break the system." Kind of irritates me after I said I wouldn't enter because of the winter bug and told to go ahead and enter it that I get dinged for the winter theme. That's a bit of a low blow. All in fun Irving ! Well was ment to be but maybe misconstrued . Sorry dude if I made your butt hurt you know I love you mang I thought most of it was in jest but I didn't realize the judges knew I was told go ahead with winter theme. |
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Post by Moe Slorkman on Jul 22, 2016 17:04:43 GMT -5
All in fun Irving ! Well was ment to be but maybe misconstrued . Sorry dude if I made your butt hurt you know I love you mang I thought most of it was in jest but I didn't realize the judges knew I was told go ahead with winter theme. No we were all aware of it  . |
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Post by ErixonStone on Jul 22, 2016 18:55:36 GMT -5
I don't think it was the Winter theme by itself that caused the problem with the Web event. Might have been the weather in R2 (snow) that caused it.
I've played other tournaments on Winter themed courses without any issue.
Once I get out of the designer for a bit, I plan on playing the contest courses - this one, the Olympics one, and the CC one - so that's 59 courses on my list.
I think the common theme for Irving courses is that I wish you spent more time on the visuals. I felt Mia Memorial played fairly well, but the base tropical theme is kinda ugly with its patchy, grayish natural terrain and limited array of trees. Felt the same way about Eli's Course, although I won't criticize that because there's way more to the story (and I think it's awesome).
You mentioned on this week's podcast that you're done with contests because they force a deadline on you. I would suggest that you take all the time you need and really work on adding that little bit extra to enhance the visuals on the course. You might surprise yourself.
You often say that so-and-so designer could fart and out comes a great course. That simply isn't true. The best designers build, scrap, and rebuild constantly, just like all great writers rewrite tons of material.
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Post by Moe Slorkman on Jul 23, 2016 1:46:23 GMT -5
I don't think it was the Winter theme by itself that caused the problem with the Web event. Might have been the weather in R2 (snow) that caused it. I've played other tournaments on Winter themed courses without any issue. Once I get out of the designer for a bit, I plan on playing the contest courses - this one, the Olympics one, and the CC one - so that's 59 courses on my list. I think the common theme for Irving courses is that I wish you spent more time on the visuals. I felt Mia Memorial played fairly well, but the base tropical theme is kinda ugly with its patchy, grayish natural terrain and limited array of trees. Felt the same way about Eli's Course, although I won't criticize that because there's way more to the story (and I think it's awesome). You mentioned on this week's podcast that you're done with contests because they force a deadline on you. I would suggest that you take all the time you need and really work on adding that little bit extra to enhance the visuals on the course. You might surprise yourself. You often say that so-and-so designer could fart and out comes a great course. That simply isn't true. The best designers build, scrap, and rebuild constantly, just like all great writers rewrite tons of material. It was the snow btw . Well after a lot of checking by the Rangers that what it came down to |
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Post by phoenixjay on Jul 23, 2016 7:21:50 GMT -5
I don't think it was the Winter theme by itself that caused the problem with the Web event. Might have been the weather in R2 (snow) that caused it. I've played other tournaments on Winter themed courses without any issue. Once I get out of the designer for a bit, I plan on playing the contest courses - this one, the Olympics one, and the CC one - so that's 59 courses on my list. I think the common theme for Irving courses is that I wish you spent more time on the visuals. I felt Mia Memorial played fairly well, but the base tropical theme is kinda ugly with its patchy, grayish natural terrain and limited array of trees. Felt the same way about Eli's Course, although I won't criticize that because there's way more to the story (and I think it's awesome). You mentioned on this week's podcast that you're done with contests because they force a deadline on you. I would suggest that you take all the time you need and really work on adding that little bit extra to enhance the visuals on the course. You might surprise yourself. You often say that so-and-so designer could fart and out comes a great course. That simply isn't true. The best designers build, scrap, and rebuild constantly, just like all great writers rewrite tons of material. It was the snow btw . Well after a lot of checking by the Rangers that what it came down to. I had been wondering about that about the winter theme, so it really does snow in it? if so then great, love it, had looked to see if there was a snow option like you can make it rain. |
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Post by mrooola on Jul 23, 2016 10:38:40 GMT -5
 Web.com Design Contest 14th Place Three Sisters Island GC by Graham Brown - Hootbleet Highest Individual Placing : 10th Pro:
There is good use of elevation and you can sense that a lot of thought has gone in to the course and the layout. The higher parts of the course created an excellent view. It was enjoyable as a whole. Sure it was a bit "Fantasy" & "Wacky" but there is nothing wrong with that. The course gave a reasonable challenge and kept you thinking from start to finish. Con:
There are some sculpting issues around the course and its surroundings and the general finish of the course does make it feel a bit unpolished. From a realism stand point, climbing gear and/or a chopper would be needed to get around the course and a safety helmet for all golfers is recommended. A couple of greens sloped front to back where you had a long Iron in with no landing area, so holding the green isn't always an option. Summary: Enjoyable course that shows some great imagination. All the negatives are very nit picky as will be the cases for all the courses such is the standard been set in this competition. EDIT: Moe will add this to OP (Please PM all complaints to Seth he might answer you )
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Post by scampi00 on Jul 23, 2016 12:11:57 GMT -5
Web.com Design Contest 14th Place Three Sisters Island GC by Graham Brown - Hootbleet Highest Individual Placing : 10th Pro:
There is good use of elevation and you can sense that a lot of thought has gone in to the course and the layout. The higher parts of the course created an excellent view. It was enjoyable as a whole. Sure it was a bit "Fantasy" & "Wacky" but there is nothing wrong with that. The course gave a reasonable challenge and kept you thinking from start to finish. Con:
There are some sculpting issues around the course and its surroundings and the general finish of the course does make it feel a bit unpolished. From a realism stand point, climbing gear and/or a chopper would be needed to get around the course and a safety helmet for all golfers is recommended. A couple of greens sloped front to back where you had a long Iron in with no landing area, so holding the green isn't always an option. Summary: Enjoyable course that shows some great imagination. All the negatives are very nit picky as will be the cases for all the courses such is the standard been set in this competition. EDIT: Moe will add this to OP (Please PM all complaints to Seth he might answer you ) I wanted to second this. Excellent imagination and creativity, the execution just wasn't sharp. I'd love to see more work going forward as the polish improves. |
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Post by Hootbleet on Jul 23, 2016 13:31:29 GMT -5
Web.com Design Contest 14th Place Three Sisters Island GC by Graham Brown - Hootbleet Highest Individual Placing : 10th Pro:
There is good use of elevation and you can sense that a lot of thought has gone in to the course and the layout. The higher parts of the course created an excellent view. It was enjoyable as a whole. Sure it was a bit "Fantasy" & "Wacky" but there is nothing wrong with that. The course gave a reasonable challenge and kept you thinking from start to finish. Con:
There are some sculpting issues around the course and its surroundings and the general finish of the course does make it feel a bit unpolished. From a realism stand point, climbing gear and/or a chopper would be needed to get around the course and a safety helmet for all golfers is recommended. A couple of greens sloped front to back where you had a long Iron in with no landing area, so holding the green isn't always an option. Summary: Enjoyable course that shows some great imagination. All the negatives are very nit picky as will be the cases for all the courses such is the standard been set in this competition. EDIT: Moe will add this to OP (Please PM all complaints to Seth he might answer you ) I wanted to second this. Excellent imagination and creativity, the execution just wasn't sharp. I'd love to see more work going forward as the polish improves. Cheers fellas, hopefully I can add that missing polish if I do any future designs. Thoroughly enjoyed being part of the contest. Good luck to everyone remaining |
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Post by SAM on Jul 23, 2016 19:38:13 GMT -5
Welcome to the 1% Hootbleet
& good luck >>>>>>>>>>>
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Post by welikeitroughnc on Jul 23, 2016 20:14:08 GMT -5
Yours was a personal favorite of mine hoot
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Post by mrooola on Jul 24, 2016 6:04:04 GMT -5
 Web.com Design Contest 13th Place
Nugget National Golf Club by - Boynsy
Highest Individual Placing : 9th
Pro:
Going for Links was a risk with highlands been available and his balls to do this has to be commend. The course as a hole with the lighting routing and clean views and planting made you forget this was an prehistoric theme. The course was a good challenge and played very well for the most part. The bunkers surrounded with the natural terrain was real sharp and the wooden wall effect using steps was a nice touch. Con:
When we played this course to do the judging we found 8 pins on yellow slopes and 1 on red. This made half the greens very unfair and killed much of the enjoyment of the round. The frustration with this is this course could have been destined for a spot a little further up the list. Now, for the record we all play on PS4. Or at least we used to. I just got my PC and decided to record a playthrough giving some feedback of the course this morning and I found just 4 pins that was near yellow and would not call them unfair. This course simply does not play the same on PC and PS4. I have no idea what affects this discrepancy, but sadly it did affect the judging of the course. The other issues was concistency of bunkers some mindor sculpting around the edges of some greens. Finally with the small greens in places multipinning could be tough (this was a observation but didn't affect the marking). Summary: This course with a few tweeks could surely get on tour if the reason for the PC, PS4 discrepancy when talking about the pins get sorted. Perhaps try and release a different version in a different theme or try and get HB to take a look at it. A job well done here overall and placing this in 13th once again shows just how superb all of the courses in this competition has been. (Please PM all complaints to Seth he might answer you) |
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Post by tastegw on Jul 24, 2016 6:22:26 GMT -5
interesting that ps4 and pc are not seeing the same grid lines.
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Post by mrooola on Jul 24, 2016 6:26:57 GMT -5
interesting that ps4 and pc are not seeing the same grid lines. It is. If you are willing and have time for it, perhaps you'd like help us to try and figure this out? You have the game on both pc and ps4 right? |
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It like Yeti's vegetable market all over again 
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