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Vanilla Level Design Contest #14 - Results

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Happy almost-C3 everyone! Before we all dive in to the fun to come, though, we have some official business to address. Namely, the results of Vanilla Level Design Contest 14!

Before we get in,  TheJavabrew and I want to give a huge shoutout to our amazing judges:  JupiHornet,  Alex, cardboardcell,  FPzero, and snoruntpyro for the Standard levels, and  LouisDoucet, katun24, Stucat, and schema_tuna for the Kaizo levels. Special thanks to JupiHornet for helping with score tabulation and building the final results.

And now, your results:

Standard
Presenting your Top 10 Standard Entries:



In Third Place, with a score of 87.40:
“UNDERUSED WAREHOUSE” by  Lazy and Squirrelyman157


In Second Place, with a score of 88.60:
“SIDELINE SPITTERS” by ft029!


In First Place, with a score of 89.60:
“10000 angels sing our songs![...]” by  idol and  AmperSam!


Here are the full results, along with judge notes for all entries:
VLDC 14 Standard Results and Notes

Four entries were disqualified; the reasons for their disqualification are provided in the spreadsheet.

Kaizo
Presenting your Top 10 Kaizo Entries:



In Third Place, with a score of 88.0:
”follets” by mason


In Second Place, with a score of 89.5:
”Challengers” by Abdu and  Blaagon


In First Place, with a mint score of 93.00:
”Pocket Change” by deported


Here are the full results, along with judge notes for all entries:
VLDC 14 Kaizo Results and Notes

One entry was disqualified, and one entry received a 10-point penalty. The reason for each is provided in the spreadsheet.



Thank you all for an amazing VLDC!
I'm not a doctor.

An interesting coincidence... I was 17th in VLDC12 and I am 17th here too. I guess the number 17 will be an permanent logo of my VLDC destiny :)

Congrats to everyone. There were amazing levels and super creativity. I was not surprised at all by Idol and Ampersam. I always felt that they would be first.

I am really looking forward to VLDC15! By the way, you can make me 17th in VLDC15 as well. No need to judge!
Now that I've started working, I won't be able to be as active as before. This is really very sad and depressing for me.

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Oof, 50th... Before I even look at the judges' comments, lemme guess... It was the DANMAKU room that I knew I made too hard, and didn't nerf enough before the deadline, right?

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Oh, right. The sound effects too. And, there's another major issue that can compromise the whole gimmick of requiring Yoshi to enter the pipes, which I didn't notice until about two weeks after the deadline.

Originally posted by FPzero
The only one I really questioned was the "danmaku" room, because that just seemed like enemy projectile spam, and I think it broke for me in the end because I entered the final pipe without Yoshi only to end up in the Goal room.

Originally posted by cardboardcell
I did find that sometimes I went through pipes without the yoshi and just moved on – so this level could be slightly broken or quite janky. I would like to see this ironed out and polished up – some rehashed obstacles, etc.

Yeah, I mistakenly put all of the vertical pipe exits 1 tile too high, so entering the pipe while small without Yoshi erroneously allows the player to advance to the next area. It only properly resets the room if you enter a pipe as big Mario without Yoshi. Man, I wish I could go back in time and fix all of those and nerf the DANMAKU room further to be much more reasonable before the deadline.

I did make an "unofficial" V1.3 of my level afterwards (V1.2 is what was judged) that fixes the vertical pipe exits. Perhaps in the future, I'll make a V1.4 that polishes this level up even more.

Link to V1.3:
Green Donkey Escort V1.3.bps

(BTW, if a compilation hack of the VLDC14 entries is made in the future, I would like to request that V1.3 of my level be used, which fixes the vertical pipe exits to work as intended, but doesn't change anything else about the level design, aside from accidentally altering the Parakoopa bounce heights in the KOOPARADE room, but that's a very minor issue.)

Originally posted by snoruntpyro
Additionally, I found an obvious break in the room with the eater block - the blue shell is entirely unneccesary as you can simply reuse the springboard by swallowing it through the wall. This seems like a very odd oversight to me since swallowing an item through a wall is exactly how you solve the *first* room in the level, so... I don't really know what happened here?

Nope, not an oversight. I intentionally allowed that to be an alternate option for clearing the room. In fact, it's possible to bounce off of the leaping Chuck (or maybe the Pokey) to reach the pipe too. The blue shell is simply meant to be the most obvious method of clearing the room.

Super Mario Bros. 2 has nice style.
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smh my head at the staff refusing to put the full name of idol and I's entry in all the results materials |-O

I kid, congrats everyone on the results and thanks to the judges! Good showing as always. #smrpg{cool}
I was in Number 62, but at least I tried my best,
Thank you Cardboardcell!
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I have 27th place with N450, that's much better and I will ask for VLDC to be held next year, I like it very much! Those who won, congratulations #smrpg{<3}



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This time, I'm low on points, but I'm 46th, so it's okay.
Congratulations to all participants.
I am yoshi9429 enjoying Lunar Magic and Touhou Danmakufu ph3 and RPG Maker MV.
49th!!! Better than I thought I was gonna do considering it was my first entry. THANKS VLDC14 JUDGES!! Probably going to stay away from gross themes but I had fun creating and being apart of this awesome community. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!!!!!
Whoa, 53rd out of 71 submissions! What a great time to be alive.

Anyway, thank you, judges! AND CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS!!!
Currently working on a new website. Don't expect any hopes soon. 『いけいけ団長、頑張れ頑張れ団長！』
Help us raise funds for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. #ДопомагаємоРазом / #HelpTogether
“Even if you personally are so dissatisfied with life that you want the world to end, surely the cruel reality is that it will continue on, unchanging. All the better for someone perfectly content, like me.”
– Aya Shameimaru, Touhou Suzunaan ~ Forbidden Scrollery
I'm so happy to be in the top 10!
As always, congratulations to the winners and thanks to all the participants and judges!
My personal picks were SIDELINE SPITTERS, The Legend of Mario, HIGH AS SHIT, outside are rocks, and CHUCK BLOCK ROCK, but there were a lot of really great levels that I didn't mention, and most of the levels in the entire entry were really interesting and a lot of fun to play.
I'm really looking forward to next year's VLDC15!
Wow, 13th place! That's exactly half of my ranking from last VLDC. I'll try my hardest to make it into the top 10 next time!
This was really fun. It's been a bit since I've made a level, especially one as evil as this one, so I'm glad many folks enjoyed it as much as I did making it lol

Cheers to the winners, and see you next contest 👋
I'm really happy that I am out of the bottom 10 which is amazing.
All 5 judges put some hate on the mid-section of my level, but only one is really dishonest when it comes to gameplay.
I'm hoping someone will do a compilation hack of the VLDC14 entries which is the reason why I joined in.
Hopefully I'll participate another one in the next VLDC or CLDC.
Words can't fully describe how much of an honor it is to have gotten 14th place. Thanks to the judges for their hard work, and congrats to the winners!
Also, Underused Warehouse is the best level I have ever played.
Looking at the Standard Results (and including the Disqualified Entries), I got 63rd Place out of 70 Entries. Oh Dear. It seems I have to think long and Hard about What I am doing Wrong & come up with a new Strategy for whenever VLDC15 happens. Trying to remain Optimistic, Including the Kaizo Entries (Disqualified Entries Included), I got 63rd out of 89 Entries, so I guess that's not so bad. Still, I can do better. I can't be that terrible at Level Design. As stated, in Preparation for VLDC15, this is going to Require a Lot of Thought. #tb{:(}

Regardless, Congratulations to the Winners!!!
I'm very happy about my placement! Congrats idol and AmperSam with an excellent level, and also shoutouts to Underused Warehouse,
Nitrogen's note block level, and of course, LONG CAVE for pushing the limits (of contest entries and also sublevels). I also appreciate the judges' comments; they were thorough and analyzed the levels very well.
Why does the first place level always have a long ass hell name?
Originally posted by BlueSheep123
Why does the first place level always have a long ass hell name?


For what I know, idol always uses long names in contest entries. Her SMB3 contest entry name is long and wild although SMB3 (except e-reader SMA4 levels) doesn't have level names.

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