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24hr Halloween Level Design Contest (RESULTS!)

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Welp, I first off like to apologize for the delay. Despite a few uncontrollable set backs, the Results are now ready. You job was to make a create an underwater haunted theme, and despite the amount of whining and complaining the took place from a few select users #smw{>_>}, there was a great turnout and a lot of good entries. So let's get to it.


The scores have been added together and a bonus point was award to the top 3 entries from each judge.

The Top 3 entries and Winners for the 9th 24 Hour Level Design contest go to....

Dr.Tapeworm, Team K3&6 and Lazy!


Congratulations to you guys! You did and excellent job. Please click the link below to see the spreadsheet of all the scores. Individual judge comments are also posted below.

Full Results

Judge Lightvayne
Judge Mirann
Judge Sinc-X

Prizes:
I realized I should have posted the prize list sooner for everyone to see what they are getting into, that was a bit of over site on my part, and I do apologize. Each of the winners with be able to choose 1 downloadable game from the list below, PM me when when you have made your decision and I will give you the codes.

3DS
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Mighty Switch Force!


WiiU
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BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
The Fall
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
OlliOlli
Sportsball
Stealth Inc. 2
SteamWorld Dig


Steam
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Braid
Dustforce DX
Dungeon Defenders (includes all DLC and soundtrack)
World Of Goo
Darksiders
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. 2
F.E.A.R. 3
LIMBO
Resident Evil Revelations 2 - Episode 1



Dr. T and Lazy, you guys may choose first (first come, first serve between you two) since you both tied with the highest score. K3 and SixCorby, you may choose next (also first come, first serve).


Congrats again to the winners and Special thanks to andy_k_250 and TheMonkeyBob for the prizes this time around.
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whoa didn't expect to place that high to be honest
>11 points

jesus hitler allah satan *insert whatever deity you praise* how
not bad considering a random and pressured work

Congrats everyone though!
Good job everyone and hopefully you got what you wanted!! #smw{:TUP:}
Also thanks to the judges! I always like seeing the comments.
I'm first in all the score entries and didn't need to look for my name, so I won as far I'm concerned. Nice job judges!
I place a little higher than I expected, that's cool. Congrats to winners.
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Well, I didn't intend for my level to try to win the contest, I just hope you atleast got a good laugh out of it; if that's the case, then mission accomplished.

But I have to say that I enjoy the create a level based off an original SMW level 24 hour contests.
For the next time though, a radically different challenge would be fun. But this challenge is one that I definitely wouldn't mind returning.
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My dream has came true #tb{XD}
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Not bad for one of my first levels in a while I guess!
Congrats to the winners!
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Originally posted by Sinc-X
unfortunately the fact that Mario was in this new world really detracted from the gameplay since it is so distracting, and really ruins the experience

Yeah, I kinda feel you. But it was also the only 'scary' song that isn't exactly overused aside from most songs that are hosted.

Originally posted by Sinc-X
Also obligatory jumpscares.

Well, my entry was one of those entries that actually tried to be scary. After all, it was Halloween.

If you're wondering why the music fades at the end, it's because of a sprite that was supposed to fade the music, but unfortunately it didn't exactly go as I thought. Anyway, I enjoyed the contest, despite that my entry (mostly) had negative reactions but in the end I knew my entry really wasn't good, though.

Overall congratulations guys. :^)
@Mindevous I was really routing for you to get first place and I agree, your entry was the scariest and my heart was beating throughout the entire level (which is a good thing).

Then again I'm not really surprised because I don't think that aesthetics are a major factor in the judging.

From personal experience, my 7th VLDC Entry, which I thought I did very well on, but I scored in the worst ranked levels. #tb{¬_¬}

I stopped focusing too much on aesthetics and focused more on sprite placement which is why I guess I got a decent score for once.

But, I hope you really do good on the Automatic Level Design Contest (if you plan on participating and good luck Mindevous! :D
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Originally posted by chineesmw
@Mindevous I was really routing for you to get first place and I agree, your entry was the scariest and my heart was beating throughout the entire level (which is a good thing).

Thanks! Your words really mean a lot to me, because people really didn't like my entry. #ab{:(}

Originally posted by chineesmw
But, I hope you really do good on the Automatic Level Design Contest (if you plan on participating and good luck Mindevous! :D

Thanks again! I surely will enter, so keep an eye when I post there!;)
I don't mean to be rude, but this seems to be a scam or something b/c why do I always think I'm going to do well, and then I get last place or like second to last place? I stayed up really late and worked really hard on this.

What am I doing wrong? Is it just the level I chose? It seems like no one else used this level.

Also, [quote="Lightvayne"
Lespna1 (Poor) - Kinda lost at what you were going with here. A good portion of the level wasn't even water related....



As a note to the rest of you, as I said in the description, the entire level doesn't have to be underwater, you can have some dry platforming areas here and there, you just need a decent portion of the level to have water/swimming involved.

It was supposed to kind of be like in SMB3 except w/a SMW2 theme where if you take the wrong door, you have to go through the water part, but we were not allowed to edit layer 1 so it was really obvious where the exits were. Like I mentioned before, the water made my level kind of impossible, but I tested it many times, and I could not figure out why the P-switch would not appear unless you went back. I think I had a ghost there and a sideways thwomp on the top part above the one next to the door, and I had to move the P-switch and delete the sideways Thwomp.
Also, this contest seemed really restrictive, and then they say I just added the water to make it a water level. That's a scam. They didn't even say anything like I changed the header to make it darker. Also, if you go through the door below the block w/the beanstalk, it leads to that one room w/the rising water and the bouncing spike balls, and did the judges play the boss level?.
I wanted to insert Actraiser music to try to make it sound really scary, but everytime I tried to insert the music, I got an error like,"Your ROM is corrupted. Would you like to continue Y/N?" So I just left that music for the boss the same and made it so you had to hit him five times.

Well, I wasn't expecting to win, but I thought I would do better.
I'm pretty happy with 14 points. Especially considering that I kinda rushed it. But I'm glad you enjoyed it anyway.

Thanks for hosting the contest and congrats to the winners!
oh wow I did not think I'd place this high so happy did not see this coming I am absolutely flattered etc.

No seriously, I did a lot better than I expected. Neat!
also help me which game should I choose
Uuuggghhhh

Oh, and for the judges confused about my absence of a Halloween theme - that's part of what got messed up. I initially had a semi-creepy palette in there #ab{>_>}

Oh well, life goes on. There's always next time #ab{;)}

Originally posted by Lazy

also help me which game should I choose

Hrm... I know World of Goo is an extremely awesome game, but other than that I'm not really familiar with the others, though I'm personally slightly interested in Mighty Switch Force, and it's been on my "games I need to play" list for a bit now, heh.
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Yay! I'm not in the bottom 3!!!!!!

Welp, as for this, I'm actually surprised since I never got this high score #tb{:p}
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