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World Listing and Level Classification (3/1/15 update)

As of about an hour ago, I've finished judging. I don't actually have the results ready yet (waiting on the two other judges), but I've managed to sort all of your levels into worlds. As of now, I can't say which eight will be in the "best" world, nor can I say which eight will be in the "worst" (though there are two obvious joke levels that will fill two of the spots). In the meantime, this is the set-up I've made for when we design the overworld in a couple of weeks. The grass world is the largest, but I can say with utmost certainly that at least four of those levels will end up in the worst world.

Here's the list:



*NOTE: PLEASE IGNORE THE COLORS AND NUMBERS. THESE ARE FOR MY OWN PERSONAL USE.*

GRASS WORLD (MAIN MAP):
Star Hills --- Adam (102)
Yoshi's Starvation --- Eminus (010)
Wholly Unnecessary --- ferrety111 (003)
Chai Tea --- Final Theory (012)
Platform Panic --- Gregor (103)
A Walk --- Guilherme F Santos (107)
Copyright Violation --- Milk (01A)
Pipes and Vines --- Nin (10F)
Lightning Lands --- Samario (008)
Pipe Path --- Snowshoe (119)
Before Brightness --- tcdw (10E)
The POW Perspective --- TheOtherGuy25 (10D)


FOREST WORLD (MAIN MAP)
Bright Forest --- DanielGolosneanu10 (00F)
Purple Pyre --- Dr. Tapeworm (120)
Sea Side Course --- dragoniante174 (12A)
Ruinswamplatformist --- imamelia (023)
Trunk Trouble --- Izuna (105)
Verlassen --- JackTheSpades (115)
Rex's Shroom Garden --- JaphethMario21st (005)
Tragic Revolution --- Koopster (12B)
Kind Timber Biome --- KTBHacking (015)
Fez 2 --- Richard Nixon (022)
Eating Block Ruins --- SomeGuy712x (129)
Goal Hunt --- SyStemkraSh (124)
Conveyor Coppice --- Wuthering (018)


MOUNTAIN WORLD (MAIN MAP)
Kobalt Quarry --- Blue Leaf (11A)
PISTACHIO CLIFFS 3 --- agie777 (001)
Pokey's Paradise --- Alexis (101)
Lake in a Mountain --- Gabriel Yanni (004)
HOW DOES MOLES --- lolyoshi (01B)
Exciting Expansions --- Lui37 (130)
Somber Sepia --- MegaMarioMan9 (110
Mushroom Skies --- nick 139 (020)
It Really Makes It --- Sockbat Replica (009)
Variety Path --- KevKot (12F)
Yellow Switch Palace --- leod (134)


CAVE WORLD (SUBMAP)
Matrix Mines --- Aquamentus (12D)
Ship Ruins --- Ivan Sword54 (013)
Cakewalk Cavern --- Kerkec (11B)
Cave of Bones --- LimeMaster92 (01C)
Dangerous & Wet --- RedChomp (12C)
Cave of Wall Springboards --- waffledoctor87 (00C)
Caloric Crater --- ZMann (017)
Archaic Art Archive --- Galactaknight (132)

FIRE WORLD (SUBMAP)
Barren Badlands --- Nic Nac (118)
Doritos Desert --- Minimay (11D)
Castle Collapse --- Hinalyte (121)
PaperDomo101 --- Mt. Blazius (133)
Super Hot Field --- TheInsanity115 (002)
Searing Stronghold --- Wakana (11F)
Normal Ghost House --- MercuryPenny (117)
Red Switch Palace --- NGB (137)


ICE AND SKY WORLD (SUBMAP)
Permafrost Pass --- Mineyl (019)
The Ice Fortress --- bbk61 (10A)
A Nice Level --- Teyla (00B)
Green Switch Palace --- JackTheSpades (135)

Peachpuff Peaks --- AxemJinx (00D)
Eye of the Storm --- eXcavator (108)
Laputa, Sky Castle --- Luks (01D)
Skybreeze Castle --- Trollope (01E)


FACTORY AND CASTLE WORLD (MAIN MAP)
Nephe Court --- Feenicks (011)
I. C. Castle --- Mechanic (128)
St. Patrick's Fort --- PatPatPat (007)
The Koopa Airfleet --- Poloros (021)
butts.zip --- Zyglrox Odyssey (016)
Hostel --- Giant Shy Guy (111)
The Dark Dimension --- Retronom (127)


WATER AND BEACH WORLD (MAIN MAP)
Seaside Tropical Ruins --- Carld923 (131)
Crystal Reef Garden --- GeminiRage (113)
Signs are Useless --- levelengine (11E)
Waterflow Temple --- SilverSwallow (122)
Log Jammer Jog --- Sokobansolver (114)
Zone 434 --- Master Lakitu (11C)
Blue Switch Palace --- SomeGuy712x (136)


LOWEST RANKED WORLD (SUBMAP)
Epic Nothing --- KDeee (006)
A Vanilla Level --- switchpalacecorner (00A)
MariYOLO's Adventure - Negativelysonette (12E)
Black Ice --- Dakras Hayashi (00E)
Night of Fire --- Proto Man (112)
P is for Pandemonium --- paran01abug97 (10C)
Holyoke World --- Holyoke (01F)
2 Bros Make a Level --- Kaisaan Siddiqui and Maimur (014)

HIGHEST RANKED WORLD (SUBMAP)
Subterranean Canal --- worldpeace (106)
Manic Mechanisms --- Roykirbs (127)
The Podobooru --- Lazy (10B)
Monocloud Castle --- Lightvayne (125)
Throw Block Heaven --- Gloomier and Mirann (123)
Abandoned Mine --- NGB (116)
FUZZBALL FRENZY --- allowiscous (109)
Municipal Swimming --- Morsel (104)

"WORLD 10"
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TOTAL = 95 LEVELS, 118 EXITS
I'm on the forest world, but that probably makes sense since I made a forest woah

The size of the grass and forest worlds shows that many people went for simplicity with their levels, but I'm happy that we have whole new themes this time around, especially water.
I don't know if I'd be able to put some map thingy together that's good enough to make justice of the VLDC, but the themes seem pretty inspiring :3

I don't really have anything important to say, oh well

(Also I see Confirm SMW got disqualified for kaizo this time around)
It's easily the best thing I've done
So why the empty numb?
Are they in a particular order? As in castle/fortress levels appear later?
I'd like to end each world with a castle this time (hence why I've done my best to put a castle level in each world this time .. or at least something that resembles one).

Ultimately, I'll let the overworld designer place down all of the tiles/paths, and then I'll try and determine the best order based on my own experiences. Ideally though, I'd like to order them by rank in each specific theme, yeah. We'll see.
Won't there be a contest this time?
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... what even am I doing with my life?
There will be. It'll start once I know which levels are going in the worst/best worlds.

(technically, people could start designing it now since the themes/rough amount of levels are known, but it might just be worth waiting.)
Oh, sweet then.
Also, wow on the fast judging. I've pointed this out before but just for the lolz:

VLDC 8 -> ~86 full levels -> judged in ~1 week
25hc 7 -> ~67 big boo fights -> judged in ~6 weeks
... yay for effort I guess.

Also, should the map take into account the number of exits of a level?
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Yes. This time, I have a list of all of the levels that have a secret exit, so I'm expecting that they'll be red dots instead of yellow.

Originally posted by Negativelysonette
I find it odd that I have a chance at not being last this year.


We actually disqualified your entry. We're not Kaizo players, and we have no idea how to rank it or how it holds up compared to a "standard" vanilla level (which is literally every other entry in the contest). While it may be well-designed from a super hard/TAS-ish standpoint, not everybody is into that style of gameplay.

The alternative is to rank it but put it in the worst world again, and frankly, I think that's more of an insult to you than anything (considering you pretty clearly DID put more effort into making it than some of the other people there).
Originally posted by S.N.N.
We actually disqualified your entry. We're not Kaizo players, and we have no idea how to rank it or how it holds up compared to a "standard" vanilla level (which is literally every other entry in the contest). While it may be well-designed from a super hard/TAS-ish standpoint, not everybody is into that style of gameplay.

The alternative is to rank it but put it in the worst world again, and frankly, I think that's more of an insult to you than anything (considering you pretty clearly DID put more effort into making it than some of the other people there).


...I honestly thought you did a nicer job executing the order of disqualifying me. You got smart for once.

In all seriousness, I would like the alternative. It was my choice to be in this contest, and mine alone. (P.S. I don't know how putting it in the worst world would insult me, at all. I officially only published levels for the VLDCs...and frankly, I don't care what people think I am.)
Ahahahahaha, although I do seem inhuman, I am still a human.

I have almost no social experience. Srsly.

Your life...do you deserve it?

I'll show you that you do because clearly, I'm the ****** devil here.
Why don't you put my switch palace in the Worst World?
After all, you seem to think everything else of mine is that kind of quality...
thx to e r i k for layout
Originally posted by Samario
Why don't you put my switch palace in the Worst World?
After all, you seem to think everything else of mine is that kind of quality...


Because different levels can have different qualities -- as one level of mine got (possibly) disqualified, while my VLDC7 level just got last place.
Ahahahahaha, although I do seem inhuman, I am still a human.

I have almost no social experience. Srsly.

Your life...do you deserve it?

I'll show you that you do because clearly, I'm the ****** devil here.
Originally posted by Negativelysonette
In all seriousness, I would like the alternative. It was my choice to be in this contest, and mine alone. (P.S. I don't know how putting it in the worst world would insult me, at all. I officially only published levels for the VLDCs...and frankly, I don't care what people think I am.)


Then we'll rank it accordingly. As I said, it's a bit of a tricky case since I'm sure by some standards, it is well designed. For this contest, however, it's not what we're looking for and will likely end up at the bottom of the batch (and it also won't be required for completion .. but you knew that already).

Originally posted by Samario
After all, you seem to think everything else of mine is that kind of quality...


Do you ever wonder if the negative attention you're gaining isn't from your level, but rather from your attitude? Give it a rest already.
Originally posted by Samario
Why don't you put my switch palace in the Worst World?
After all, you seem to think everything else of mine is that kind of quality...


Yeah you're not gaining any sympathy by moping around.
Originally posted by Samario
Why don't you put my switch palace in the Worst World?
After all, you seem to think everything else of mine is that kind of quality...

You're literally losing face in front of every single person reading this, just because like 20 minutes of your work didn't end up in there.

Even if you hadn't been beat by others in the speed department, your palace has a grand total of 4 coins, doesn't fit vanilla SMW at all, both in graphics and room structure, has two places to EASILY get stuck in permanently, has some broken map16 tiles and a 1UP + feather that are literally impossible to reach and absolutely nothing else.
So, with that in mind, what are you even complaining about? It would've been rejected either way, and this time it'd be all your fault.
Your layout has been removed.
Let's just stop the Samario drama...okay?

Originally posted by S.N.N.
(and it also won't be required for completion .. but you knew that already).


...I didn't know that.
Ahahahahaha, although I do seem inhuman, I am still a human.

I have almost no social experience. Srsly.

Your life...do you deserve it?

I'll show you that you do because clearly, I'm the ****** devil here.
Originally posted by Negativelysonette
Originally posted by S.N.N.
(and it also won't be required for completion .. but you knew that already).


...I didn't know that.


...or should I say, the main exit won't be required for completion. It'll be like last year's case, where you can either play the main level or take the (now heavily guarded) goal at the start.
If I had completed my level, I would have been in the Forest World, because I put in a forest section at the beginning and end.

But anyways, I can't wait for the overworld contest! It'll surely make up for the loss of my level...
Just so you know, I'm very active on the site anymore like I was before; I'm mainly on Discord now.
Originally posted by S.N.N.
Originally posted by Negativelysonette
Originally posted by S.N.N.
(and it also won't be required for completion .. but you knew that already).


...I didn't know that.


...or should I say, the main exit won't be required for completion. It'll be like last year's case, where you can either play the main level or take the (now heavily guarded) goal at the start.


...are you going to be inserting a goal just like last year?
Ahahahahaha, although I do seem inhuman, I am still a human.

I have almost no social experience. Srsly.

Your life...do you deserve it?

I'll show you that you do because clearly, I'm the ****** devil here.
You already did (and covered it with Munchers), so I don't really need to.
I just wanted to point out some things in my submission so I made a pic showing some stuff. I hope this is an okay place to post this.



I noticed after the fact that I have one ledge corner tile which uses the wrong tile and so there is cutoff. It's an easy fix.

Also I have some water edge graphics which have very noticeable cutoff. This wasn't because I was lazy, but because I still don't know how to make custom tiles yet. So I am requesting that SNN or someone in charge if they could fix it so that it doesnt look bad.

One last thing. Right before I submitted my entry I changed the location on my sublevel of one of my noteblocks (the bottom one yellow circle) and moved it to the right one tile.

I now regret this decision and wish to move it back. So could my bottom noteblock be moved to the left one tile as is shown in my image.

THANKS!