The cerv.id Classic
A month-long map jam for mappers of all skill levels!

This Month's Theme: all-in-one

What is This?

The cerv.id Classic is a map jam for Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers, a technical kart-racer based on SRB2

Inspired by Simpleflips' Romhacking Competitions, participants have 1 month (Jan 1 — Jan 31) to create a map using High Voltage Ring based on the given theme.

Once the jam is over, your submissions will be broadcasted live on YouTube in a wrap-up event where judges will give constructive feedback and submissions will be subjected to some friendly competition.

Rules

Your submission must be both a functional Race and Battle map!

Your submission must be a single map started after the competition begins and be an original work

Your submission must follow the Submission Guidelines

16 Player Starts (for Race), 16 Match Starts (for Battle)
Must include a minimap and thumbnail
Bots should be able to complete your map in Race
Must include an Overtime Kiosk, at least 1 Prison Egg, and at least 1 Combat UFO for Battle

While not a hard rule, it can be fun to keep your submission secret until the stream! To up the hype and wow the judges...!

Example-Map.wad

An example map has been included to provide some insight on how to mesh Race and Battle elements together.
Use it as a starting point, inspiration, or ignore it!

Tips and Tricks

First-time mapper? You may want to consult the "Your First Map" guide to get your bearings!

#course-help in the Kart Krew Discord is a great place to ask for help if you're stuck!

It may be helpful to create some Thing Filters to remove unecessary clutter from your map! In the example map, all Things removed during race are tagged with tag 100.

You'll need to set up some configurations to actually test different gamemodes! You can create them under Tools > Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers > Testing.

You can find a full list of configurations below.

ACS can be daunting, but the wiki is a great resource to learn about it! You can also view the example map's source code by pressing F10 in HVR.

Tags can have arbitrary labels! This can make it easy to remember which tag does what in reference to ACS or other special cases.

You can edit tag labels and view statistics under Edit > View Used Tags.

Testing configurations:

Grand Prix: -file "%AP" "%F" -skill %S -warp %L +cheats 1 +devmode 1
Race: -server -file "%AP" "%F" -skill %S -warp %L +cheats 1 +devmode 1
Prisons: -file "%AP" "%F" -skill %S -warp %L -gametype battle +cheats 1 +devmode 1
Battle: -server -file "%AP" "%F" -skill %S -warp %L -gametype battle +cheats 1 +devmode 1 +battletest 1

Submit Your Map

IMPORTANT NOTE: Submissions to the cerv.id Classic will eventually be compiled into a map pack to be released on the SRB2 MB. However, your submission is yours to do with as you please. When submitting, you may exclude your map from the map pack or release it both in the pack and separately. All submissions will be included in the wrap-up stream.

Submit your map here!