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alex2 wrote:Or we can all just be civil fucking adults and stop bitching about people arguing

I like this idea. Let's go with this one.

Septentrion Pleiades wrote: We haven't had any super creative levels with could be created without much quality. SMBX is pretty easy to mess with. Here's what I was hoping for in the lower tiers: -snip-

I think we'll see more of that kind of thing later on. I don't believe we've seen any custom graphics at all, yet, and I know only a few of the levels used custom music. Basically, I think the kind of level you're talking about is lacking in all but one department, whereas what we've seen so far has more-or-less been lacking in all areas of level design.

All the words before that left me with the impression that that was your definition of arguing.

Horikawa Otane wrote:Not quite. That's just the bit you saw.

If two levels had the same score unrounded, they went into a tie breaker.

If the two levels had the same rounded value, but different unrounded values, the one with the higher unrounded value was awarded the bonus 0.1.

Yes, that part I've understood but... Uhh... before the scores went into the rounding and tie breaking... How does 19,21,23 give a "final unrounded score" of 22.3333333333 when the average of those three numbers is 21.0000000. I don't mean to offend- I'm just a little confused at the "final unrounded score" numbers you have there Horikawa.

alex2 wrote:

Doctor Shemp wrote:All the words before that left me with the impression that that was your definition of arguing.

The point I was trying to make is that this isn't arguing, but rather discussion.

Help, I'm stuck in a Monty Python sketch.

Man, rao, during Fluffy Sky Tunnel you were playin like an idiot. I guess I'm the observer and not the player, but the blue switch and yellow switch weren't impossible at all, and it wasn't hard to notice. If you take the level's gameplay and ignore how easy it is to break and the visual stuff, and pay attention to just the "what you're supposed to do", it's pretty ok.

alex2 wrote:Or we can all just be civil fucking adults and stop bitching about people arguing

That will never happen (around here), so find a work-around.

So, trivia time.

1) I'm pretty sure I'd used two exit stars originally, and not one exit and one "Oh just keep going" star. I could be wrong, though.
2) Originally, what was the main exit was in the same room as the boom booms, and the secret exit was where the peach switch is now. I should have left the main exit where it originally was and put the secret exit where the main one is now.
3) Those pillars in the exit room? Yeah, they weren't there originally. It was supposed to be a one-way trip from the other direction using Peach, but I kept having trouble making that jump.
4) At one point, I had all of the character blocks at the midpoint, and there was a Mario block in the entrance room. I believe that was scrapped since you could only leave that area as Peach.

Horikawa Otane wrote:8flight and Ignoritus's published numbers do NOT include bonus or Mulligan. Mine do.

Ahhhh, thanks for clarifying.

alex2 wrote:

MrDeePay wrote:

alex2 wrote:Or we can all just be civil fucking adults and stop bitching about people arguing

That will never happen (around here), so find a work-around.

Under other circumstances I'd say something like, "you're the cause of it all."

However, this is just fucking stupid. You're all insufferable.

Even under other circumstances, this has been going on long before I was more active in my posting. So if anything, we look at YouTube as the real "source."

Horikawa Otane wrote:I used excel formulae

Love excel. Anyways, good to know that there will be no reshuffling of levels.

Zpto wrote:So... yeah, that was a boring level and I was aware of that when I delivered it, so I wasn't expecting a good score honestly. For people complaining about lack of kirby, I did a google search and either my google fu is not strong or nobody has used kirby graphics in a while because what I found where dead links and sprite graphics that I didn't want to use.(both because I was being a little lazy and also didn't want to use sprite graphics)

For future reference, you and anyone else should use a site like this for all your graphics-ripping needs.

I was kinda' excited for this LP at first, but with how fast this thread is going and how terrible the levels have been so far, I'm not so enthused. I hope the quality picks up soon.

I don't think you were supposed to ACTUALLY complain about who got last place

I, Rednaxela the Newbie, by the non-powers vested in me by nobody, hearby declare that the small number of people that are making a fuss, shall cease and desist making a fuss

Arguing about the ratings this far down is just a parody of sensible discussion. I don't see why anyone should give a shit.

I, however, like parodies. Continue. I, personally, think that I should have been scored two or seventeen ranks higher. In fact, I should've won the contest. So... There.

For what it's worth, I think AUS' level is a good benchmark of zero fun and so should score lower than all levels that contain some fun and higher than all levels that contain negative amounts of fun. A better benchmark of zero fun would actually be the lowest ranked level but then it did lose points for not sticking to a name.

Is it really the penultimate in zero fun though? Sure, it's short and you don't do anything, but perhaps the humor of it existing even could count for some non-zero number of fun points. :D

No effort= Zero from me. Doesn't matter if technically speaking it matches some of the criteria.

This is why I didn't want to be a judge.

I think that Aus Level should stay where its at and not be given zero points.
The level is a deconstruction of levels, because the player expects the level to contain a theme and a reward at the end. By including an empty level AUS laughs at the player for expecting anything more than a level and a star. Of which the player takes and moves On.

/academic BS.

...Well this thread spiraled out of control quickly. :V

OverHyped wrote:No effort= Zero from me. Doesn't matter if technically speaking it matches some of the criteria.

No effort would require no submission

This is Arguing About Game Review scores, only with every single level in a game.
Add some more anime boobs, and this thread could become the Next Kotaku.

I liked the level with the falling and the sky.

Nothing against the judges at all. Kudos to judging 134 levels in only a month actually, and in the grand scheme of things, who really cares whether you were last or 5th to last?

alex2 wrote:

Rezanator wrote:I think that Aus Level should stay where its at and not be given zero points.
The level is a deconstruction of levels, because the player expects the level to contain a theme and a reward at the end. By including an empty level AUS laughs at the player for expecting anything more than a level and a star. Of which the player takes and moves On.

/academic BS.

No I'm pretty sure he just didn't care

oh, I know.
Its just more fun to pretend that bad levels can be justified through clever BS.

Validon98 wrote:...Well this thread spiraled out of control quickly. :V

Oh, I dunno. I think this is the best thread ever. And it'll only get better and better.