Oops! Sorry guys, I completely forgot to talk about how judging should be done. To start out with, here are the temples that met the deadline:
greycat's TempleSimRobert2001's Templenomad_delta's TempleSanctume said this temple wasn't completely finished, but he posted it before the deadline, so here you go:
Sanctume's Templegchristopher, if you post an update within two days from now in a similar vein as those above, you can be scored too, but with a fairly heavily reduced score (I'm thinking a 20% decrease). Sanctume, if you want to post your finished temple too, you can be graded similarly. If not, we'll go with the one you already have posted.
Now, about the judging:
After the entries have been posted, each judge will look over them and rate the temples from 0-5 in the four categories:
1. Relation to deity
-How well does the temple relate to the deity it supposedly represents?
-For example, a temple for a water deity would score high if it was built in an ocean with waterfalls raining down from all sides, but poorly if it was built inside a volcano made entirely from metal.
2. Difficulty to build
-Pretty self-explanatory.
-In this case, a temple built in an ocean or in a volcano would both score pretty high.
3. Architecture
-Do you use only rectangular rooms for your temple, or is the overall shape and construction of the temple more creative?
- A water or volcano temple could score anything here, it just depends on the creativity of the design.
4. Aesthetics
-Basically everything that's not temple shape. Color, instrument placement, etc. all go here.
-This is basically the 'other' category. What's in your temple that's distinguishing?
After each judge looks over the temples, they send their scores to me. I will average the scores and post the results soon after.
For each of the four (maybe five) temples, rate them using the above categories with a score of 0-5, with a final score of 20 at the end. I said I would average them, but I think, since there are five judges, that it would be easier to simply add the score together to get a total final score out of 100.
Anyway, rate each of the four or five temples, then at the end describe why you gave the temple the score you did. Be as detailed and thorough as you feel you need to be. If you feel like you need to check the save and write a full paragraph explanation for each category in each temple, by all means go for it. If you think you can adequately judge the temple based on just the post, then write a few sentences to describe your overall decision, you can do that to.
Whatever you choose, try to complete your judging and post your decisions by next Sunday (although if it's taking too long we can extend it).
Overall, though, these temples were great guys! The amount of detail and effort put into these is amazing, especially with the two week time limit.