Sporelympic Games 2012

On 27 July 2012 the Sporelympic flame was ignited, marking the start of the second Sporelympic games. A link to the opening ceremony can be found here:http://eu.spore.com/sporepedia/viewadventure.cfm?id=500861050700&back=ms" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> http://eu.spore.com/sporepedia/viewadventure.cfm?id=500861050700&back=ms
(Sorry for the double link. I don't know why that happens)

Spore is known to be almost entirely about creating, but these challenges are about how well you play the game. These are the second Sporelympics. The first were organised by Parkaboy.
During the course of the real games in London, five Galactic Adventures will be released, each featuring a Sporelympic sport that will vary entirely from anything seen in the games on earth.


Prizes
You can earn a gold, silver, or bronze medal on any adventure by holding the first, second, or third place on the leader board of that adventure until 10-08-2012. First, second, and third places will, beside the honour of winning a game, receive comments and ratings from yours truly. If you are a gold medalist, you can have one of your creations remade by me if you want.

The sports
The five Olympic rings represent the five continents of earth in real life, but since the Sporelympics take place in a science-fiction setting, the rings represent five planets that will act as a host for the games. These planets and the sports taking place on them are listed below in order of sheluded release and difficulty.


Castle Defense
Location: Luci
http://eu.spore.com/sporepedia/viewadventure.cfm?id=500861793013&back=sc

This quite easy sport was invented by Parkaboy. All credit for the rules and game mechanics goes to him. In this category, the athlete must defend his or her castle from enemy knights carrying timed bombs. At least one long range warrior part is recommended. Splash damage may be useful.


Drowngold
Location: Cala
http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=usr-jgrote%7C500743497914%3Asast-500861744990

In Drowngold, you have to navigate through a flooded course to collect golden tokens while avoiding obstacles.

Jetpack Glide
Location: Dezzior
http://eu.spore.com/sporepedia/viewadventure.cfm?id=500862626708&back=sc

The fiery world of Dezzior sets the stage of the Jetpack Glide challenge. To win, the athlete must get as far as possible. How far the athlete has got on the course will be measured in the amount of checkpoint rings that he or she has passed through. The course is dotted with objects like mines, powerups and jump pads to help or obstruct the player. Energy gliders are required!


Bounceball
Location: Naga Umbri
Has yet to be released.

Bounceball is possibly the most difficult of all Sporelympic sports. To win, the athlete has to bring a ball to a holographic platform while bouncing through a large arena. This category requires speed and exelent control of the captain.


Creators' contest
If creating is your thing, this is something for you. Use any editor save for the creature editors to craft a gold, silver, or bronze medal for any of the five categories. Tag your creations 'jgsmedalcontest' to enter. The name of your creation must be: [Name of planet hosting your category] [colour] medal'. For instance: 'Luci gold medal'. All entries must be uploaded before 10-08-2012.
When the deadline has passed, I will pick one medal for each colour in each category. The medal will be re-uploaded with the name of the winner of that category (the athlete, not the creator) in its description. The winning creator will get to choose one creation that he/ she wants me to remake, and receive some comments and ratings.

Besides making medals, you are always free to make Sporelympic-themed creations to advertise for the games, but there will be no prizes to win here.


Passing the Sporelympic emblem
Did you enjoy these and the previous games and do you want to try your hand at this too? Here's your chance. Make an adventure of your own featuring a sport you thought of, and tag it 'jgsemblemcontest' to enter it. All entries must be uploaded before 10-08-2012. The creator with the game that was the most fun will get the Sporelympic emblem, the Spore equivalent of the Olympic flag, and with it the right to organise the next official Sporelympic games. Those games should start at the same time as the next Olympics on earth, so the winner will have plenty of time for the organisat

The deadline for the games has passed, and there are still two sports that have not been completed for 100% The deadline will therefore be extended to a yet undifined date. I have decided to leave it to the three categories that are already released right now. There will be no new categories released.

Have fun!

didn't Parkaboy already do this?

MaxxToron wrote:didn't Parkaboy already do this?

If you read the OP, credit was given to Parkaboy for hosting the first iteration of this event.

Oh shoot you're right! My bad jgrote! Btw, if you're borrowing from Parkaboy's events, you have to do Bomb stroke. it is so much fun!.

@maxxtoron, I'm planning to make some changes in what sports will appear in the games due to Cometride now working as planned, so you never know! Since I already borrowed Castle Defense from Parkaboy, I don't plan to borrow bombstroke as well, but I may do something similar.

This is a nice idea. If you want any creatures just ask. I'll fully support this.

Same here.

Thanks guys! If you want to make any ceations for this project, I'd like you to participate in the creators' contest which you can read about in the op.

PS: I expect to upload the first sport tomorrow.

IMPORTANT: I have updated the OP with some major changes to the categories that the games consist of.

I have also uploaded the first category, Castle defense. Link can be found in the OP.

Uploaded the second category: Drowngold. I hope this thread-owning won't go on for much longer. The whole games have had 0 plays up to now. Therefore I call upon all sporien to play the games and ADVERTISE. Tell your buddies!

This looks good - I really enjoyed Parkaboy's Sporelympic Games. I will participate in yours... Thanks for the invite.

Thanks for the invite as well, I look forward to seeing how this plays out. About what you told me for the creating contest, I haven't done much for a few months and feel a bit rusty but making medals sounds simply enough to get me back into it again.

Allow me to ask do you want medals specifically or would trophies work as well?

@Cbfstudios, you're welcome. I'd prefer medals since that's what is awarded during the real games. You could do trophies if you really prefer that, though.

Also sorry for my absence lately. My computer isn't working as it should, so I won't be as fast to upload the next categories as I was before.

EDIT: Uploaded the next category; Jetpack Glide. Have fun!

So far, we've had 17 plays and 0 of those have reached the 100% completion mark. You really need to do better than that. I'm not going to award the medal to someone who has not even completed the adventure. If I get no completed adventures, the deadline will be extended.