Level Design Contest #30 - Playing Phase (Discussion Topic)

[JRT]

Ahhh yes of course, I remember now. I suppose edits don't spit out the notifications like new messages would.

[kaywhyn]

Ahhh yes of course, I remember now. I suppose edits don't spit out the notifications like new messages would.

No problem at all. Just a friendly reminder, really Yup, you're correct about edits to posts in that notifications of them don't appear in the box at the bottom on the home page. Only new posts do and reflect that. Contests also happened to have done this for a long time now that it's essentially standard practice and routine to just delete posts in the update topic and to make a new post whenever you release a new version of any of your contest levels. Just global admins doing some Forums housekeeping for contests, really, for posts in the update topic and to make it easy for everyone to get the newest updates of your levels and for Icho and I to update the contest pack more easily

Anyway, I look forward to playing your levels and all the others when I get to them sometime next month!

[JRT]

Here is my replay for Always Remember V5

I really like the level, I don't think I saw the V4, where was the steel?

[kaywhyn]

Updated the contest collection pack to include V6 of my R3, as JRT was able to backroute it

@JRT

R3 - Thanks for playing and the nice compliment That is a backroute, and something that I did think could be exploited but I wasn't able to get a backroute of it like you managed to. Or rather, I didn't really extensive do enough testing in that area. In any case, very easy fix for V6, which has been patched with another flamethrower trap. There's another one added, but that one is just purely for decoration and to add a bit of symmetry to the level

If you fancy giving my updated R3 a try, that would be awesome, as I think you'll like the level even more if you're able to get the intended solution At least both Armani and Crane have given the level a lot of praise, though the latter needed one tiny hint from watching Armani's replay, as he was very close to solving it without help but didn't quite get there. I honestly thought he would eventually get it solved on his own, but apparently the deceptions in the level have worked far better than I expected! Same thing with it being far more challenging than I thought it be, as I honestly thought my R3 wouldn't give anyone here problems

[Crane]

Nobody's perfect!  I'm still learning to see deceit, even if unintentional!

[kaywhyn]

Nobody's perfect!  I'm still learning to see deceit, even if unintentional!

Understood! Depending on the level, they're not always easy to spot or even know whether they are distractions ahead of time and therefore can be dismissed

[Crane]

Nobody's perfect!  I'm still learning to see deceit, even if unintentional!

Understood! Depending on the level, they're not always easy to spot or even know whether they are distractions ahead of time and therefore can be dismissed

Also, with the newly-placed flame blowers of V6, I would have worked it out because it makes it clear

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that the miner has to be used to get through.

edit by kaywhyn: Spoiler tagged a part of your post!

[kaywhyn]

Also, with the newly-placed flame blowers of V6, I would have worked it out because it makes it clear

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that the miner has to be used to get through.

Ok, that's with the current version. You didn't have this in earlier versions of my R3!

[Crane]

Also, with the newly-placed flame blowers of V6, I would have worked it out because it makes it clear

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that the miner has to be used to get through.

Ok, that's with the current version. You didn't have this in earlier versions of my R3!

That's fair!  And for some reason I forgot that the spoiler tag was a thing!

In the meantime, here's my solution to Don't Bash it Before You Dig It 2.

[kaywhyn]

And for some reason I forgot that the spoiler tag was a thing!

What???!!! Even though you did it correctly when you did your first round of solves along with some resolves? Hehe, no worries, all good. Staff will be happy to do so if it's necessary! You're doing pretty good with getting these levels solved yourself!

[Crane]

And for some reason I forgot that the spoiler tag was a thing!

What???!!! Even though you did it correctly when you did your first round of solves along with some resolves? Hehe, no worries, all good. Staff will be happy to do so if it's necessary! You're doing pretty good with getting these levels solved yourself!

I just woke up and got mixed up with Discord's spoiler thing, thinking it existed in one system and not the other.  I'm a bit more awake now!

Playing these levels has improved my solving skill quite a bit, although I am somewhat slower than you and Armani... certainly not fast enough for a YouTube series yet!  Certain tricks I wouldn't have thought of though, since I'm still getting to grips with some of the newer skills.

[JRT]

In the meantime, here's my solution to Don't Bash it Before You Dig It 2.

Ahhhh I'm having a hard time preventing the basher brute force methods.
It's good to see though!
I think I have a quick fix for this so I'll post a V4 shortly.

[Crane]

Solved "Don't Bash it Before You Dig It 2" again.  The second replay is me optimising the first one to save all but one.

[Crane]

And this one saves all 20!

If the solution is what i think it is, then...

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a fix could be to move that platform above back 1 pixel, although it will increase the precision a bit.

[JRT]

Ahhh damn it!!!!

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Yes moving the platform by a pixel might help, it didn't before but then it was terrain.