(RESULTS) 5th Annual SMWCentral Level Design Competition - Old Contests & Events

I want my level to be LP'd. I'm pretty sure you might fell frustration in a certain section, so, your choice.

Originally posted by Spy

man, kevkot, chill out, everyone makes bad levels sometimes, there's no need to hide that from the world, and especially if you learned a thing or two about level design.

Gah...guess you are right, Spy. Bad things are made to learn from them.
Thank you for exhilerating me, Spy.

21st! Not half bad considering the amount of people who participated, and the fact I super rushed my entry, haha.

Just had a look through the judging files. I like the honest feedback. I see the main criticism of my entry is the lack of execution and difficulty, especially with the chainsaws. I made it as an early world difficulty level so I couldn't add many fancy jumps, considering the nature of the level, but it isn't really an excuse for the lack of creativity in gameplay, which I'll definitely try to further improve when I'm making a full hack or something. Oh, and the reason most of the chainsaws are open ended is because they are there to cut the wood and give a reason for the falling platforms. They are there more as aesthetics and as a warning. I never really thought about using them gameplay wise which is really silly by my end!

Grats to the winners.

Also also, I'll be let's playing the entire contest in case anybody is interested in how a random dude plays their entry blind. I'll begin in a couple days because I'm about to finish the main let's play I'm doing.

i play videogames

...well, that certainly turned out better than I had expected. 0_0 Good thing I decided to actually enter the contest.

Also those detailed comments are more than worth the wait for the results.

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Third place, awesome! I am so happy about this.

YES, COME HERE, MY BEAUTIFUL TROPHY :D

I also really like the humor MrDeePay used in his comments about my level. That was awesome. :><:

~~(About the Steam prize, I don't use Steam at all, so that can be given to someone else.)~~ E: Actually, hold up on that, because I'm looking through Steam right now, and I might actually be interested in something. Maybe.

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I'm probably retired tbh

Originally posted by Raocow

I'm not going to do a 'full thing' but probably like... top ten + bottom four (that'll give exactly two weeks)

Raowee :3

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Got 48th (20.17/30). Not too bad, considering I finished it at the last second and most of the complaints from AxemJinx and MrDeePay were because it was rushed, which were completely valid complaints.

I had fun making my level, up until I was having a panic attack with 5 minutes to go, and I'll definitely enter again next year (and not wait till the last minute to finish it up).

Originally posted by MrDeePay

(unless for some god forsaken reason you have that disabled)

Ummm... ya, about that, I've had it off for years now (I keep it off because if I didn't I'd have the warning pop up every time I saved a level because of my "building tiles" I have in my leve), I would have caught that error but since I was rushing at the end to get it done, so I didn't fully test the level.

Congratz to the winners, I'll have to check your levels out for myself sometime

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Demo Exits Complete: 11/40
Exits Complete: 11/90

Originally posted by Underway

Originally posted by Raocow

I'm not going to do a 'full thing' but probably like... top ten + bottom four (that'll give exactly two weeks)

Raowee :3

That's a very bad thing. Oh well. I guess the REAL entries do get an "honored" LP from "cow rao"(Heard it somewhere).

It's better than nothing!

First, congratulations YCZ! your level was my favorite level (design-wise). You totaly deserve it =)

So, I shared the 27th place with Dinomar, not bad eh. But, to be honest... I really don't deserve it. I've been looking at my level a couple of times after I submited it, and I got to say I just hate it more and more each time. The net gltich was a huge dilemma in the design process, and that damn "demo koopa" in the start of the level - to prove my own "super level design skills"... that koopa has become the slowest koopa in the world to me, he just never finish his purpose before dat player is already dead. Man, I could pointed out more than the judges already has done, but thanks alot for the confirmations to all three of you! You've done a good job judging!

Originally posted by MrDeePay in "MrDeePayJudging 2012.rtf"

Other Notes:
- Wendy was the boss of Chocolate Island, not Vanilla Dome (Lemmy was.)

Probably the most akward thing about my entry, as it is actually a misstake by me.

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Last words: I'm happy to see the trophies I made are still used! ...if only I could get one

Originally posted by Underway

Originally posted by Raocow

I'm not going to do a 'full thing' but probably like... top ten + bottom four (that'll give exactly two weeks)

Raowee :3

That's a shame actually. There's quite a few good levels in the middle too, at least, the upper half.

Seems like some of that was due to some big differences in judge scores too, which is interesting.

Well I didn't expect too much cause of my hasty finish (hence some problems)

Peeday:
'- Water has no bouyancy, allowing enemies to drop down on your much faster than they should.
- Cave section does not have vertical scrolling at will.'
Like that D:

Next time I will take more time and put more effort in it!

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WHAT THE!? They worked for me! Now I am sad...

9th Place...

Somehow, I figured I was going to place within the top ten when I looked at most of the other entries. Now to read the reviews...

Originally posted by TRS

Something I really was hoping to get feedback about was how the autoscroll affected the level design. But other than MrDeePay saying it could freeze the game since it happens mid-level, nothing. :V

But on the other hand, there weren't any negative comments either, so... no news is good news, I guess?

I suppose I was already "comfortable" with the juxtaposition of scale platforms and autoscroll (having already seen it in the original game), so it wasn't the primary focus for me, but...how do you feel it affected the design? Were you trying to achieve some kind of effect?

@Uthrix: Don't sell yourself short- it wasn't a terrible level by any means, and if you can see all the issues the judges brought up and more besides, then you're well-equipped to improve :b The same goes for many of you, actually- if you take this experience as a chance to learn and improve, that makes the commentary I wrote more than worth the effort.

@Vink: I'd be willing to provide some feedback and maybe a "psuedoscore" if you upload a working patch, but it wouldn't be officially judged.

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I can't say I made a good level because I got 86th place, but I'd like someone to LP it too, just for fun.

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Originally posted by Vink

WHAT THE!? They worked for me! Now I am sad...

Maybe your ROM was unclean?

<blm> zsnes users are the flatearthers of emulation

I thought the rom was clean, but now I can not do anything about it. I will take part at the nextt contest.

Eh, 47th. Wasn't expecting such a mediocre score, either, but whatever.
The thing is, the level was tested - by myself and other(s) - and the issue of the super koopas not really being that big of a threat never really popped up. I understand why them not really being too much of an actual threat could be an issue, but honestly direct interaction isn't the only way an enemy can impact the player.
But, again, whatever. Maybe next time I'll do better.

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i got 69th. ~~trololol~~

Well, I wasn't expecting anything, but 69th isn't a good place for my standards. Looking back on it the level didn't really hold up to the quality i hope i was beggining to produce nowadays. I have no complaints, as i can't argue with any of the comments made. So, congratulations go out to the trophy winners, and such and so forth.

Well lets hope i have time to improve my skills before the next contest!

And when you're lost, and out of time
I will be right here
waiting