Old-School Level Design Contest #4 - Results

*Teleports in through a time machine* Greetings Old-timers! I come bearing good tidings and judging results for a contest of old!

Thank you everyone who submitted for the contest! We had no disqualifications, but we did move entry #4 from the Kaizo category to Standard and renumbered it to #39 for scoring. Now with that out of the way, onto results!



For our Top 3 for the Standard Levels, we have:

In Third Place with a score of 86.67,

In Second Place with a score of 89.67,

And in First Place with a score of 91.67,


And then for our Top 3 results for the Kaizo Levels, we have:

In Third Place with a score of 98.00,

In Second Place with a score of 99.33,

And in First Place with a perfect score of 100,



Thanks again to everyone who submitted, as well as our wonderful judges BradBrains, B2De, Nitrogen, xoxoGossipGreg, Stucat, and HmWhyNot! Below are the full comments and scores for each level if you would like to see how each level did:


Standard Level Judging Scores and Comments

Kaizo Level Judging Scores and Comments


Thanks everyone again for a wonderful OLDC! Hope to catch y'all in the next one!

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GGs to everyone, you all were fantastic. Really got some good entries and I am honored to be able to be involved!

GG's to everyone! And congrats for thoses folks that got the Top 10th

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Wowsers, third place! And to think my level was a rush job that I hurried to put together within a week, because I waited until the music-guessing contest had ended before I started working on Caves of Dizziness!

Yes, the second half definitely could've used some polish, and maybe I could've implemented a better shortcut to the boss with the checkpoint 1-up if I had more time to think about how to do so.

As for the Parachuting Goomba generator at the end of the second cave, that was just a hasty addition meant to prevent an unwinnable situation, in case the player fireballed Lakitu (killing him permanently), and then launched the cloud out of bounds. And, ice blocks are finite. So, the unlimited Goombas provide an additional way to open the vine blocks below as an alternative means for reaching the exit. That said, perhaps a reset pipe/door there would've been a better idea.

Anyway, I'm glad the judges enjoyed my level as a whole, and congratulations to OEO6 and UTF!

My first hack ever so I wasn't expecting to place high on something like this. It was fun anyway and I learned some things from it.

I really liked the feedback! Thanks, judges.

Congrats to the winners.

I'm 16th with Green Jerry but that's also a good result

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Fun contest, very happy with 7th. Thanks judges and everyone involved with putting this together.

Really??? I'm the place standard level?? That's extremely unexpected!! I'm so glad the judges enjoyed what I made! Thanks so much for the positive scores! It feels like merely typing out thank-yous and compliments aren't enough. I've been pretty stressed out over things IRL the past few weeks, so that's what's been occupying my mind lately. Seeing these results is definitely a pleasant, unexpected surprise. I'd like to extend congratulations to the top standard level makers, and congratulations to the top OLDC Kaizo entrants as well. The idea of building a kaizo level under OLDC rules sounds nuts, but there were people brave enough to try.

I'm actually still in the middle of my own OLDC (standard) playthrough right now with the intent of publishing my own ranking, but my playthrough is slow due to issues IRL. I've played 22/38 levels so far, playing them in a randomly generated order. Some of my early favorites include:
• Robinson Annulation
• ANGUISH OF THE PAST
• sculptor's trap
• Why Weird Wasted (It's called YOSHI'S ISLAND 1 in-game)
• MIND PALACE 1

I'm pretty surprised to rank higher than those. Before my own personal ranking is finished, I want to give my kudos to those levels. I haven't played the levels that got 2nd and 3rd yet, and I hope my personal rankings from here on out aren't too colored by me briefly looking at the results lol.

To write a little bit about my level, I felt like I made a pretty okay level when I submitted it, but I ended up having to rush the level towards the end. I spent 4 days on the level, with 3 days on the first half, and the second half was put together in the last 5/6-ish hours on the final day of the submission period. I wasn't expecting to even get into the

I left a few of my level design ideas on the table. I wanted to have more than just one "reverse Banzai Bill ambush" setup, but it was hard to build setups that actually worked. Banzais were not programmed to appear in levels where you travel right-to-left. Riding a number platform was the most consistent way I found to get a "reverse" Banzai ambush if you count it as such, and that ended up being the only reverse Banzai setup in the level lol.

Some extra thanks:
lolyoshi's old video, VOMITSPIT made me think about the idea of a reverse number platform section.
Daizo Dee Von published a video of his OLDC entry early into the contest submission period. It's clearly marked as OLDC, so it shouldn't have spoiled any of the judges. When it popped up in my Youtube subscription box, that's actually what made me realize that another OLDC was being hosted. As an aside, I also like the quick breezy gameplay of Daizo's level.


Yours is the Why Weird Wasted level, right? I thought that was a really cool level, turning glitchy platform behavior into understandable gameplay gimmicks.

ggs

Me and the live event,nailed it.
OLDC is finally out.

I had a feeling that I would be in the top 10, but I didn't expect to be second. I had a lot of fun making my entry and I thank everyone very much
IF I HAVE TO CRITICIZE MY OWN ENTRY, I was also very uncomfortable with the time afterwards. I thought that the time should be reset when I entered the reset gates, but I thought that was forbidden (I guess it wasn't).
I really like doing aesthetics with the translucent level mode, but the purple color seemed a little bit noticeable.
I started to simplify the difficulty level a lot, but I think some places still required a lot of effort.

I wish everyone good luck for the next OLDC

Thanks!

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WORK IN PROGRESS
▬ good old days 4 [RELEASED!] [DOWNLOAD]
▬ good old days: recycle bin (COMPLETED. COMING SOON!)
▬ Super AllSprites.bin World (?/? level(s) completed)
▬ Forer - Barnum 2 (?/? level(s) completed)
▬ dumb 2 - strange levels in my notepad (22/62 level(s) completed)
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Not bad to get with a score of in my debut on a SMWC contest.
There has been a big gap in terms of score among the different judges but that was to be expected since it is a pretty hard and long level and not everyone likes to grind them.


Yeah, I wasn't completely satisfied with that either. The original idea was to add a sixth room (harder than the others) for the moon, but I gave up on that idea just because I feared to get DQ for having made a too long level, so I ended up with the idea of a twice-twice of the hub room, hoping that the player would have been scared to play all the rooms a second time just to find the rooms, only to then discover that the moon was hidden behind an invisible wall. It was very silly and, by looking a few gameplays online, nobody ever felt for it.

BTW: congrats to everybody for participating and mostly to the winner!

Kaizo entry, even though I got a low placement, I'm still happy I entered! As long as everyone had a good time, it is all that matters!

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