Celebrating the festive season I figured I'll hold this lil tileset competition. This has been discussed in #jcstalk just before I posted it hereAnyways, theres lots to it and unlike other competitions this one has a huge set of rules and restrictions to it, lemme start to explain.

The tileset you will make will have various restrictions, BUT you have the option of choosing between one of two restrictions:

OPTION 1:
You can have any amount of colours and can do whatever they want to the Jazz palette, but can only use 40 tiles.
Empty tiles are counted aswell, if JCS says its 40 tiles even if only 30 were used then it's a 40 tile tileset. This does mean that effectively you only get 39 tiles to use.
People who use less won't get bonus points, use as many tiles as you can!

OPTION 2:
You're can ONLY use 16 colours. However, the Jazz palette will still be included in your tileset, but you're not allowed to use them or change other colours to fit their entries. The 16 colours you want to use should be placed in another location in the palette. If for any reason you do want to use some of the colours in the Jazz 2 palette, add them at the location of your 16 colours. The transparent colours in JJ2 (pure black and the blue) do NOT count as one of your 16 colours.
Why am I doing this? Simple, JJ2 NEEDS those colours to work correctly, cant go any other way.
If you are struggling with the palette work for this then I will do that and make it JJ2 compatible myself (with no penalty for the person that does it). Just send me the tileset using 16 colours. This will give people who are forced to use MSPaint a chance in the competition.
Tip: Dont use a single colour gradient (like all shades of blue for example, as in my blue world tileset) because I will not like you for it. You've been warned.
Because of the colour limitation the amoutn of tiles you are allowed to use has been doubled! You can use 80 tiles. Empty tiles are counted aswell, if JCS says its 80 tiles even if only 70 were used then it's a 80 tile tileset. This does mean that effectively you only get 79 tiles to use.
People who use less won't get bonus points, use as many tiles as you can!

OPTION 3:
Same restrictions as Option 2 (16 colours and 80 tiles) but with the following change:
The Jazz palette must be edited to only use 16 colours (excluding the transparent colours) and NO OTHER palette outside of the edited Jazz palette entries may be used. Added this option because some poeple just love custom sprite colours
Option 2 and 3 will be regarded as one option when it comes to prizes because there is almost no difference between the two.

Rules for all Options:
1. Your tileset must include the following tiles:
-Vine
-Hook
-Poles
-Sucker Tubes
-Destruct Block/s
-Arrows
-Text sign
-Exit sign
-Background Layer eye candy
The background layer eye candy can be anything. As long as the tileset isn't layer 4 only.
2. You can't save space by making one side of tiles and flip them in JCS.
3. You can't have multiple entries. You must choose between option 1 and 2, can't choose both.
4. FINAL Deadline is 24th December 2002, Winner will be announced on Christmas day (the day after deadline).
5. You're welcome to include an example level or music or anything else, but these wont be rated.
6. If you send your entry before the deadline and want to change something, you are welcome to resend the tileset.
7. Don't ask me to comment on a tileset before the deadline, because I won't, guaranteed.
8. If for any reason you do not meet the restrictions (say for example you accidently used 17 colours instead of 16) for one of the options then I will notify you and give you a chance to resend a version that does meet the restrictions. This does not apply if the tileset was sent on the final deadline, It wont give me time to send it back.

PRIZES:
This is what you've been waiting for
Best tileset of Option 1: £10
Best tileset of Option 2 and 3: £10
Overall Winner: £20 (excluding the cash from the option you won).

This means that the winner will have £30 and the person who won the other option will win £10. Say for example there are 5 tilesets in option1 that are better than the best tileset in Option 2 (and 3 after changes) then Option 2 will STILL win the £10 instead of the other people. Note that this is just an example and I'm not saying option 1 makes better tilesets. Both options have been explained to various tileset makers and the choice between the two are pretty even.

I know that not all of you are from the UK, so I'll give estimates on what its worth in other popular currencies.

£30 = $45 = €45 (euro)
£20 = $30 = €30 (euro)
£10 = $15 = €15 (euro)

That should be all you need to know, if there are any questions ASK ME!
ICQ = 18989030
MSN/Email = disguise@surfanytime.co.uk
AIM = DisguiseDA
IRC = #jj2 or #jcstalk (preferred for JCS related stuff) on Quakenet

Out of those you stand a pretty good chance of finding me on AIM and IRC, I check my email every now and then but I barely use ICQ and MSN.