Quote:Original post by d000hg

Quote:Original post by DrewGreen
d000hg: every time I've tried downloading your game (from here and Capn_midnight's site) it's come up as a corrupted archive. Winrar was able to repair the one off the contest site & it seems to work ok but I'm wondering if I'm missing any files?

WinAce produced a .zip only WinAce could read. I've sent capn a fixed version.

Quote:Original post by visage
capn, is there anyway those of us who didn't make it in time can get a shout on your website for our games under like "honorable mention" or something? That would be pretty sweet, and wouldn't make me feel so bad about losing.

1. ApochPiQ:
   pros: This was amazing. For three hours you put out a lot of work. The presentation is hillarious ("This only took 3 hours to WRITE... win faster!"), the gameplay was rather original (I've never seen an ASCII game control like this), and the addition of sound was a big plus. I actually played this game a lot, just because I liked it so much. Hands down, this one is the best.
   
   cons: the control is a little spotty, especially at the bottom of the screen. Apparently the wall is a row higher than it looks.
   
   
2. DrewGreen:
   pros: very fluid movement and control. The effect of the entire screen rotating when you get hit was very jarring and sickening, which is about right. I could actually manage to collect bottles, avoid rocks and cars, and play the game. Definitely one of the more complete entries.
   
   cons: everything is way too blurry, and I suspect that is because you drew your sprites in photoshop of GIMP and didn't set the brush hardness properly.
   
   
3. d000hg:
   pros: one of the more complete entries. Your game has an objective, it requires some level of skill the graphics are sufficient and do not display any defects.
   
   cons: it's boring. It's too easy to get from the beginning to the end, and then there is nothing else to do. Also, the menu was kind of wonky, rather difficult to read.
   
   
4. BeanDog:
   pros: another one of the "complete"-like games. Here we have an actual objective, collect the boxes of video games. There is also an AI opponent, and even though it doesn't really work, it does move some, so props for the effort.
   
   cons: I was really turned off by the lack of effort you put into the sprites for the slopes. It's a white block with a black line through the middle. At the very least you could have filled the upper half of the block with black and made it blend with the background. I can understand not having tools to make transparent sprites, and not knowing how to set transparency keys. But a simple click of the mouse in paint to at least make it LOOK like it's hidden is too simple to miss. I even tried it out, editting your image files, and it looks ten times better. For the two minutes it took, I would have waited.
   
   
5. xaver:
   pros: you have a game system, you have an objective, and you have score tracking. The gameplay increases in difficulty as time goes by.
   
   cons: the carts kind of make me cross my eyes. The gameplay is a little TOO simplistic. There doesn't seem to be any final objective, or a means of ending the game in either a win or a lose. You just seem to play into perpetuation.
   
   
6. H_o_p_s:
   pros: it plays and actually works.
   
   cons: it's a little simple, and the interpretation of "carts" is a thin stretch. I know A is Art, I can't remember what the others are. For an implementation of a Simon game, it's not a very good cover. If you had made an anti-terrorism game featuring cows "Cow Action Responce Team Supreme", that would have been acceptable, because the name and the game go together. That's just one idea and I'm not saying that's what you should have done. However, I don't really see how a Simon game goes with the title "Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students".
   
   
7. nagromo:
   pros: your graphics don't show any defects, your horse looks like a lamb. The bird animation is pretty good.
   
   cons: There's no game. I couldn't figure out how to win or even lose. all I did was roll back and forth with my homey Lambchop.
   
   
   
8. Michalson:
   pros: the stamina meter was implemented well, and the idea of cracking the whip to make the horse go faster was quite original.
   
   cons: no game. You know why there is no game, so I won't go into it.
   

1. EvilMonkey:
   pros: Very fluid graphics, excellent work on that part.
   
   cons: no objective, ends too soon, I warped through the rail at one point.
   
   
2. visage:
   pros: I don't know, I couldn't play it, it only appeared in a tiny subsection of the page.
   
   cons: I had to kill the internet explorer process to get the music to stop, even after I had closed all the IE windows. Just something to be away of.