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VGMaps.com's 20th Anniversary - PROMO VIDEO CHALLENGE!
JonLeung:
CONGRATS TO NESATLAS/ATLAS VIDEOS FOR WINNING THE PROMO VIDEO CHALLENGE!
And thanks to the two other participants as well; here are their awesome videos:
Verneri Kontto / Raccoon Sam
VGCartography
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ORIGINAL POST:
It's 2022! This May marks the 20th anniversary of VGMaps.com!
I have a couple of things in mind to celebrate the past couple decades - one of which is a VGMaps.com PROMO VIDEO CHALLENGE!
VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas has over 37,000 maps for over 50 video game platforms, including consoles, handhelds, computers, and the arcade! Mostly retro, but we do have maps of more recent games too. Mostly stitched-together screenshot maps, but also have some reconstructions of polygonal games, and other visual guides. And yet, I feel there is probably a way to present what my site is about to others, in the form of a video.
So, take note, people who are skilled in video editing. What I am looking for is a video about VGMaps.com. Any kind of promotional video, to showcase what VGMaps is all about.
The one who provides the best video (as determined by me) will win $2000 (USD)!
Rules/Guidelines:
- The point of the video is to promote VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas, so it has to be mentioned or shown in some way (obviously). You can and should use the logo; you can even animate or remake the logo, as long as it is recognizeable as the VGMaps.com compass. You can download them here: https://www.vgmaps.com/temp/VGMapsLogos.zip
- It has to be uploaded to YouTube so you can share the link with me via email or direct message. It can be published as "unlisted" (so no one can see it except for those you share the link with) or "public" (if you don't mind anybody searching for it and viewing it) - as long as I can see it - whether or not it is visible to others before the contest is over won't affect how I judge the video.
- It has to be appropriate for all ages.
- Do not use copyrighted music that YouTube would have issues with.
- If using screenshot maps in the video (which you likely will), acknowledge the mapper(s) and the original game developer in the description of the video.
- The deadline for submission is before midnight (Mountain Standard Time) at the end of May 1, 2022.
- The winning entry will be announced - and the prize awarded - on May 6, 2022.
- You have to have a PayPal account to accept the $2000 (USD) winnings, if you do win.
- After the conclusion of the contest, you have to be okay with me using your video, either reuploaded wholly or in part, on my "JonLeung1" YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/c/JonLeung1 ). Credit to you will always be given if I use any portion of your video.
Feel free to do whatever you want, creatively! It can be any length, within reason, of course - I expect these to be short, but longer content is fine if it remains entertaining throughout.
It can be a short trailer, rapidly showing off some of the most impressive maps.
Or it could be a skit about using VGMaps.com to conquer some part in a game.
Or it could be a time-lapse or tutorial video about how to make a map, or how to navigate the site.
Those are just some suggestions, though there really is no limit creatively, as long as it's a fun and entertaining video that clearly promotes VGMaps.com.
Good luck! Remember - the deadline is May 1.
VGCartography:
Can you share with us a couple statistics that would be fun to feature if possible?
- number of maps
- number of contributors
- first map(s) you hosted (which one and when?)
Thanks!
JonLeung:
Good questions! I'll answer what I can.
I did a map count, and as of today, the number I got is 37,265 maps.
That includes the three .PDF files - the text-only Q&A for Earthworm Jim 2 (Genesis), and the V-Note's Chronicle Guides for Blaster Master (NES) and Ys: Book I & II (TG16). It also includes the .SWF file for the interactive map for The Legend Of Zelda (NES), but should I keep that up since Flash is dead? Speaking of interactive/dynamic maps, that doesn't include the 66 dynamic maps for Blake Stone: Aliens Of Gold that we got just a few days ago, since those are linked off-site, on DarkWolf's page. (I don't know why I have a link for off-site maps for Boulder Dash (NES)... hmmm.)
Anyway, you can get a breakdown by platform here:
https://vgmaps.com/Atlas/MapCount.xls
The top ten are:
6825 - Super NES
6456 - PC
5683 - NES
3303 - GB-GBC
2821 - Genesis
2665 - GBA
2160 - Arcade
1150 - Master System
942 - DS
753 - PlayStation
These popular platforms make up 87.9% of the total number of maps hosted on VGMaps.com.
There are 52 platforms, but that is counting Game Boy and Game Boy Color together (which I was thinking about separating, maybe?), as well as Neo-Geo Pocket and Neo-Geo Pocket Color together. So you could say 54, but I think "50+" is sufficient.
I don't have a count of the number of contributors. Someone once used something to scrape info off the site and got an exact count, but I don't recall who that is and I'm sure it's been long since it's been updated...
There are 2478 games featured here. At this time, I do not have a breakdown of them by platform.
The very first map was my map of The Lost Woods in the Light World side of Hyrule in The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past (Super NES). I don't remember exactly how many maps I had at the start (if I find that I mentioned it somewhere, I'll come back here) but it wasn't very many, and I had to ask around for maps a lot in that first year. It took a little while for it to pick up steam, so thankfully I didn't give up after the first year (which I thought was a possibility if it wasn't popular). Hard to believe that was twenty years ago. The site was supposed to launch at the end of April or the start of May 2002, but due to a technical issue (I think it was something stupid like "index.htm" having a capital letter) the site actually launched on the evening of May 6, 2002.
Hope that helps! Anything else you want to ask, I'll do what I can to answer them if you think it would help with a video submission.
G.E.R.:
--- Quote from: JonLeung on January 15, 2022, 06:09:51 pm ---I don't have a count of the number of contributors. Someone once used something to scrape info...
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It can be counted by using two scripts in Excel, can you show a list of all pages from the atlas?
308 contributors (preliminary data)
JonLeung:
In the spreadsheet in my earlier post, column B lists all the folders in the Atlas folder (well, without the spaces).
Out of curiosity, who are the top ten mappers?
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