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CHOCOLATE LEVEL DESIGN CONTEST 2016 - Discussion

Anything ya wanna discuss regarding the contest? Discuss it here, please~
<Adam> I feel like smwc is a prostitute now, because we put up a porn ad for money
Woah, a chocolate contest! What a surprise!
DANGIT I WAS JUST GETTING READY TO PUT THIS OFF AND WORRY ABOUT IT LATER

i hope i win
ask me if i give a f*ck...
Aaahhh should I enter? I shouldn't enter. But it's been a while! But no. It's chocolate I can do what I want! But I'll make something too ambitious and I'll have to stay up at night to finish it...

I hope the best one wins!



...I'm talking about my internal battle against myself
Only if I weren't in middle of making my hack..#tb{:(}
Really too busy with my own hacks to enter. Imma pass this one.
How 30% of the points go toward aesthetics is absolutely outrageous. I will enter a completely vanilla level, aside from some ASM gimmick, and try to disprove the "best levels have custom graphics" trend.

I'm not happy at all, but still, good luck to all of the participants.
considering that like 60% of the participating users (and I'm, probably, not exaggerating) have no idea on how to mix chocolate visuals in a correct way, I'm pretty sure you can make a good-scoring vanilla level. Both of those are independient anyway, so even if every level with custom GFX looks nice, maybe you can pull off some god tier vanilla map16 manipulation in the level.
but you always enter pure vanilla so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i scrapped my chocolate assets (ill release them later) and im gonna make a vanilla level. this would be the part where i set out to prove some sort of point but my
shit level design
is gonna cause me to lose anyways so LOL

either way i hope i win


e2: meep
ask me if i give a f*ck...
Originally posted by ft029
How 30% of the points go toward aesthetics is absolutely outrageous. I will enter a completely vanilla level, aside from some ASM gimmick, and try to disprove the "best levels have custom graphics" trend.


Nobody said you can only get a great aesthetic score through custom graphics. If a level would get a good aesthetic score in VLDC it'll still get one here.
Originally posted by ft029
I will enter a completely vanilla level, aside from some ASM gimmick, and try to disprove the "best levels have custom graphics" trend.


This hasn't been the trend for years, and you're being an idiot if you truly believe this (see: the winners of most VLDCs, which aren't exactly graphically special at all compared to entries that rank far below them). Furthermore, it's foolish to define a level as a set of cookie-cutter parts that don't operate together - you need to consider the entire experience, and aesthetics is absolutely a part of that. If two people submit a level with similar design quality and creativity, the one with the better aesthetics will obviously score higher.

Also, a vanilla level can still look and feel really good without being graphically complex simply via the palette choices.

Originally posted by ft029
So even if I made something as brilliant as Ice Cutting Site (VLDC9), I would still get demolished


Couldn't really be further from the truth considering that particular level almost won. The judges aren't stupid - they can tell if a hard level is well-designed.
Time to figure out how to go beyond vanilla~
Also I assume we just have to submit an ips patch or something, right?
That's what you're meant to submit, yes.
Windowless ride, feeling alive
Are you alive or just breathing?
Let's see if I've got enough time to get something done for this contest.
Just a short question:
Can I use the level I create in my own project after this contest is over? Today I started building a new level and since the contest has no particular theme I may as well try to get it done till the deadline.
My Youtube channel

Currently working on:
Project C

Finished project:

Extras



I should have something witty to put here (even if it's just to update dated info), shouldn't I?

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Do whatever you want with your own levels. It's a waste of time of anyone tries to shun you for it.

Fucc 'em up guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not gonna enter this one tho

Originally posted by FrozenQuills
Time to figure out how to go beyond vanilla~
Also I assume we just have to submit an ips patch or something, right?

You have one of the cutest avs, why do you never post here outside of contests

I get that you're more of a talkhauser but

Originally posted by ft029
How 30% of the points go toward aesthetics is absolutely outrageous. I will enter a completely vanilla level, aside from some ASM gimmick, and try to disprove the "best levels have custom graphics" trend.

...Where was that implication even?
Who even says that?
HackPortsASM"Uploader"

Originally posted by FrozenQuills
Time to figure out how to go beyond vanilla~
Also I assume we just have to submit an ips patch or something, right?

Yup! Just post a .ips in the submissions thread!
<Adam> I feel like smwc is a prostitute now, because we put up a porn ad for money
I would say I'm not entering but the deadline's a hecking month and a half away, I might be a lot less busy by then.
Never entered a choco contest though, but who knows.
It's easily the best thing I've done
So why the empty numb?
CLDC during the ASM contest? That basically makes it so I can't participate. Probably wouldn't anyway, since TLMB doesn't really come around anymore.
Originally posted by HuFlungDu
CLDC during the ASM contest? That basically makes it so I can't participate. Probably wouldn't anyway, since TLMB doesn't really come around anymore.

He actually came around on IRC just yesterday or so asking hacking stuff, so...

Bad timing still though, yeah.
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