Pimp My UI - UI Competition

Xenoronin · 03-31-10, 05:34 PM

Xenoronin, Ex-MVP of the Interface Customization Forums EU here.
Reposting this from the official forums.
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread....47129544&sid=1
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Hey everyone, just letting you all know that I am running a competition from the 5th to the 30th of April 2010. The competition will be to create a new UI (not to submit an existing one) and enter it into the competition on my webpage.
The catagories are
* Best Overall UI
* Best Minimalistic UI
* Best Artistic UI
* Best Generic UI
* Most Original UI
* Honorable Mention – Strangest/Most unusual UI.

Some of you may remember me trying to set up something like this last year and failing but this one will go ahead, hell or high water.

The rules and how to enter are all up on the website here.
http://www.pimpmyui.net

Yes you can start creating your new UI now. If you are in the middle making a UI... I could be mean and make you scrap it and start over... yeah I'll be mean. Level playing field is better for all.

The prizes will be WoW TCG - Loot Cards. Not super rare ones but some cool ones none the less!

Good luck and hope ye come up with some good ideas!

If you have any queries, don't hesitate to ask me here or at
[email protected]

Ferous · 04-01-10, 12:46 AM

Definitely working on a UI right now

Will be trying to work on something fresh though I think I have all my idea's out there already lol. We'll see :P

-Ferous

edit - I had a couple questions:

1. Will you be the only person who will be judging the UIs?
2. Regardless of the answer above, how will you be judging UIs? Based on what you think looks cool or what you believe is the in-thing?

Was just curious about those :P

Xenoronin · 04-01-10, 06:51 AM

UI's will be judged by myself and two of my friends. One is a complete UI noob so I want his prospective from that angle. The other is an ex-hardcore raider (mostly TBC since he was one of the first EU Shaman to duel wield Syphon of the Natrezim http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32262) who has nearly all the classes at 80 at this point.

Me? I have been working on UI's (none released to the public since I was lazy) for years now, ever since I started WoW. I have been out of the UI game for a few months though so I only have had a few fleeting glances at the latest types of UI.

We will be judging on, with example critique:
Aesthetics - "OHHHHH that is eye bleedingly pretty"
Role - DPS, Healer, Tank "I know he is a healer but you can't see his character behind grid"
Class - "Oh come on, he is a hunter without a pet unitframe or bar"
Layout - "Why his actionbuttons in the middle of the screen?"
Use of addons - "Nifty Idea using "x" addon in "z" way."

That actually makes me realise that I will need a screenshot of people's addon folder.
Also that we will need at least 3 screenshots showing at least Solo and Raid play.
C-C-C-C-CHANGES a-coming to the rules!

zork · 04-01-10, 07:04 AM

Hey...finally.

To bad I cannot show all aspects of Roth UI in one screen and I'm not allowed to post my other UI.

Xenoronin · 04-01-10, 08:35 AM

hmm... that and it is already an established UI... and probably would win outright in every respect.
Someday in the future, I may have a competition where established UI's can compete and the public votes for their favourite! I hate public voting personally but that is the only way I can really see it working.

haylie · 04-01-10, 11:39 AM

Do we have to submit our UI in a certain category or will you choose for us?

Ferous · 04-30-10, 09:59 PM

And I look foward to who wins! I really really really really wants some TCG lootz :P

Wimpface · 05-17-10, 08:23 PM

Glad you got this off Xenoronin. I remember when we spoke about it about a year ago and was all hyped but it never happened. We had all us judges ready and stuff.

I've sadly left WoW and the community as a whole, but I came on some random day and saw this. Just dropped off to say congratulations to all the winners!

Might aswell say bye to the community I spent so much time in. Also, thanks to the moderators and the staff behind WoWInterface that make this such a great place.

Keep it up!
- Wimpface.

voodoodad · 05-17-10, 08:29 PM

WIMPFAAAAACE! Hey, just cuz you left WoW does not mean you have to leave the community! Sit a spell, derail a thread or twenty. Relax!

Wimpface · 05-17-10, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by voodoodad

WIMPFAAAAACE! Hey, just cuz you left WoW does not mean you have to leave the community! Sit a spell, derail a thread or twenty. Relax!

Not much fun coming to a WoW community when you don't play WoW. At all, hell, I don't have a single little thread leading back to WoW anymore.