Chocolate Level Design Contest 2023 - Results

Surprised? Well you shouldn't be, where a contest happens results are sure to follow. Let's take a look at the top 10, shall we?



And now, for our top 3:

Third Place goes to:


Second Place goes to:


And First Place goes to:


As per the norm, all participants will get a trophy marking their participation in this contest. The top 3 will get special trophies for their placement, and the judges will get a special trophy of their own. Only one DQ this time, and it was as a result of the patch not working correctly. Always be sure to test your patches!

Full results here.

The individual judge scores and comments are included in separate tabs in this document, making it your one-stop shop for results this time around. I'd like to thank them all for their efforts and quickness in getting their scores out.

Thank you everybody, hope you had a great time participating and hope to see you soon!

7/22 EDIT: If you are looking for the contest entries they're in this thread.

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12th place is a strong move forward I was close to the top 10 but also good! Congratulations to those who won

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List Soundtrack - List Hacks

Mega Man X3 OSTs

Good contest. Congratulations to the winners. Gbreeze is becoming too powerful

Also shoutout to Praseodymium, they had my favorite level in WLDC and my second favorite here. That guy knows how to make levels.

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Check out my WIP romhack!

!!! Just over halfway with a positive average??? AWESOME!!!!!

One thing I had to learn the hard way was that capes can toggle turn blocks, since I only figured that out after the deadline. But at least I know now to consider when to give away cape, hence why I added blocks to jump over on the disco shell part (you could just run then fly up to the 4th dragon coin). I've also figured I should reset time when you enter a reset door, as I didn't realise that puzzles make first time players take more time (I was following the 100 seconds remaining tip unaware of that).
I definitely make some really good stuff, it's just I'm still figuring out new essential methods of testing my own level. Another one of my weaknesses is making sure everything meshes together. Considering that I am a bit of a creativity type of level designer (while making sure it's still fun to play as best as I can), some of my ideas and setups tend to be unorthodox for what I'm trying to go for.
These level design contests really help elevate my design skills, and everyone elses too. And mainly being my primary SMWC interest (I'll make my first hack before KLDC, don't worry).

GG to all the winners, and GG to GbreezeSunset for placing first!

"Nope, not in the top 10. One day I will make in. *I check the full results and see I got 11th*. Wow that was sooooo close!!!"

Yeah, I was running out of non-bad ideas for my level, that's why it's short. I'm sure there's more crazy fun things to do with my rexes if done right...

For the random gfx power-up blocks, well I was inspired by fake turn blocks...
Also how do you teleport into the switch green blocks and die?

Fun fact: There's a little extra of code for my custom rexes since without it, a fully squished bi-colored rex will shown 2 colors instead of one.
Pun fact: Yes the idea comes from a pun! Just a repeat from my submission reply

Thanks for the contest!
Also GG to GbreezeSunset for winning the contest!

Doing well in both qldc2023 and cldc2023? Hooray!

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My 1st romhack in progress (testing avaiable)...
(beta)

wow I did not think my level was good enough for third place


thanks!

congratulations magi

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Daizoken Dee'Von gets shafted out of another top winning entry.

Big GGs to everyone who participated in the contest! Even though there was a lower amount of entries, I think we had a quality-over-quantity situation. So, good job!

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21th place eh? I guess it's aright score, I should probably do a lot more testing and polishing my level next time. But, at least I score decently alright! Like I said before, I should do some more testing and polishing a lot more carefully next time! Oh and congrats to the winners! And GbreezeSunset espeically! Seriously, amazing level that GbreezeSunset did!

Armed and Aquatic deserved better than 22nd

(And definitely shouldn't have placed under KaleidoSlope)

Gbreeze definitely deserved that win though. I was hoping for it

3rd time getting 5th place in a level design contest
I'd like to thank bebn, aeon, fernap, burning loaf and blm for their help and support . Without them I would have died.

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Thank you so much judges and congratulations everyone, pretty cool levels.
I didn't expect a 4th place, especially for a very last minute level. It was a pleasure to work with  AmperSam.

Congratulations everyone! As always in CLDC there was a lot of cool levels from folks showing off a bunch of neat ideas. Also, thanks to  Alex for asking to collab as I had no plans to participate until he had.

I haven't play any of the CLDC 2023 levels but I have been reading the judges comments on my own level.
The spoiler will be written for those that want to play my level blind. Otherwise click if you had played already.
Now that the results are here, I'll react to those levels (and my own to commentate)
to see how good you design it and the difficulty strength.

Oh, I got 15th place.

That not too bad.

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9th place is pretty good. I think I spent the most effort on this contest's entry than any other from before. I even scrapped the level once and went with a different concept, which resulted in the final entry. Though I admit that I got a bit lazy towards the end and could've spent a bit of extra time for polish. Still, I am satisfyed with the end result.

Also, the screen scroll parts aren't for making sure things spawn, they're simply to show what's ahead to the player, before they jump in, though I guess I placed the very first screen transition poorly.

eh, that's what i expected from patching the "wrong" rom file.

wanted to fix that problem on the last days and replace the level on the Super Mario World(USA) rom, but the programs just like broken with that, so...

I guess i will learn from that mistake, anyways, thanks for everything and i hope ya have a good day

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I guess before this thread inevitably closes, thought it'd be fun to share a little 'side by side' with the boss of my entry.

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Left side is the original sprite from Super Robot Wars W (Daitetsujin). The right is my goofy little edit (King Richartsujin).

There's also frames in the credits that were not used during the boss fight, and that was because the 'final' hit was supposed to work slightly differently. But by the time I coded up to that point, it felt like it'd be a bit much to add a brand new thing to worry about at the end of the fight. He was originally supposed to "throw" the shell at you, forcing you to jump and bounce on it.

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