"All games contain crates, therefore all games can be judged empirically on those crates.
Games can be rated and compared based on the shortest amount of time it takes a player to reach the first crate, which represents the point where the developers ran out of ideas."
Exact rules to determine start-to-crate, including penalties. (http://starttocrate.tumblr.com/submit)
How well does Lix do on the test? Here's a screenshot from the very first level, without scrolling:
(http://lixgame.com/img/lix-d-screenshot.png)
0 seconds until the first crate is visible
-2 seconds due to penalty #1: crate is on fire
= -2
This sucks pretty bad, I consider it a design bug. :>
-- Simon
Given that the cuber icon in the skills toolbar looks rather like a crate, and even with no cuber skills given we'd still display a grayed-out icon, one can argue that Lix's StC can never be higher than 0? :P
If there is doubt, it's a crate? :-[
geoo has already suggested that the low StC is a feature. The game welcomes you with its open arms, and declares Completely Unoriginal!.
-- Simon
As I mentioned in chat, DROD does better here, perhaps setting some kind of record (if you don't count games with no crates at all -- yes, they do exist -- as having an infinite score).
The attached picture shows the first appearance of a crate, four minutes into The City Beneath. But this game is a direct continuation of the previous game, Journey to Rooted Hold, so perhaps it would be fair to include the time taken to play through JtRH in its entirety -- which, on my most recent playthrough, was twenty hours.
Quote from: Proxima on February 18, 2016, 11:01:03 PM(if you don't count games with no crates at all -- yes, they do exist
Pong, the world's very first video game by most definitions, is decidedly crate-free (unless you want count the ball as a "barrel"). Anyway, I think that relevation was what decidedly clued me in that the whole thing cannot really be taken seriously even if you try. :P
And looking at the original post of the people who invented StC, I also noticed a heavy focus on FPS type games, of the 27 or so games they "reviewed". I feel like even as a joke, it probably works much better humor-wise for those games compared to other types of games.
Right, 3D games are more likely to have crates. Therefore, having a -2 score in a 2D game is even more of a problem. ;P
With Lix and the crate metric, I love how the coincidences pile up here. Our level designers have come up with a few ingenious decorations. The burning crate, cut open with an eraser piece, is a nontrivial leap of mind. We even have many crate-free levels after this.
-- Simon