Design-a-God Contest - Creativity Through Restriction

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The idea behind this contest is not like the others.

Typical design contests make you design whatever you want out of a broad category.

This contest is different: You design a MOBA kit out of a theme already given.

Why? Because it is an established psychological phenomenon that constraints can help with creativity - sort of like how a faucet's pressure increases if you restrict the water output.

Constraint: Flight. Design a character who can leave the ground and stay there.

This one is rather light on the restriction (ha), being only one sole rule: having flight. That said, I look forward to seeing what people can make of this, since the third dimension is pretty rare in MOBAs.

Rules:

1: Follow the rules of the constraint. Duh. If you're not sure if your idea fits, ask.

2: It doesn't have to be a "god," per-se; just a MOBA kit. It could be a OC or a character from wherever. Doesn't matter.

3: Put in a [CTR1] on any entries. Doesn't really matter if its a blog or thread.

Judgement: Three things you should have in mind are:

Creativity: Seriously, don't copy another kit, or "tweak" it a la HiRez. Riot taking Shallow Grave from Dota and turning it into an AoE ult that affects allies AND enemies is originality. HiRez copying Karthus' Requiem is not. Those who are not afraid to break the rules and the meta kits will be rewarded.

Balance: While becoming untargetable for ten seconds while up in the air raining down hellfire does get the point across quite well, it's not exactly balanced. You are designing a kit that players will meet as an ally and as an enemy, and it must feel fair and fun for both sides.

Theme: The kit must have a clear and defined role in the game. You can't have Mr. Generic McGenericsauce the Generic (*cough* Rat *cough*). The kit you are designing should exist to fulfill a role, not be only slightly different than what another god can do, like Serqet being Fenrir 2.0.

Have fun?

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My idea is the egyptian goddess Isis. She uses flight to flappy bird people with her wings. When she's mad she makes them explode.

K thanks bai

(In all seriousness though, I'll probs make one for this contest since I haven't been doing much on the site as of late)

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