Twenty three entrants. Two disqualifications. Plenty of platformers and plenty of talent. Thanks to all those who took part in the competition; we apologise for the length of time it took to judge, but we've finally finished! (hurrah!)
Christmassyness seems like an extremely dodgy judgement system. I mean aside from plot, weapons, setting, storyline, antagonist, protagonist, enemies, music and color scheme my game had NOTHING to do with Christmas! You rode a reindeer for Christ's sake (Literally)
I didn't win. I knew I wasn't going to. This game did not survive through 4 computer crashes (3 BSoD and 1 fatal chrash) In the beginning, I should have went with the santa snowbourding!
oh well I didn't give it my best so I didn't win the best
"Christmassyness seems like an extremely dodgy judgement system. I mean aside from plot, weapons, setting, storyline, antagonist, protagonist, enemies, music and color scheme my game had NOTHING to do with Christmas! You rode a reindeer for Christ's sake (Literally)"
I don't make fun of people for making simple typos or errors. .hell If I know where they're from . . .thats just unfair .
The reason I said that is that . . .elf bros isn't that great so therefore any game below it must not be terribly great themselves. . .
Feel free to bitch at me if thats your cup of tea. My standards for quality are much higher than the communities obviously, and I don't think a game like that should have won first place. Just my opinion.
"Feel free to bitch at me if thats your cup of tea."
That's nice, but you're the one calling people retarded. If you want to be elitist and put down TDC I'm fine with that, I'm not a fan, but you're breaking the elitist code of honor by acting immature.
I agree it wasn't that great, it was a shoddy Dragonwarrior clone with poor sound. The battle engine was nice and it was good for the time alotted. I think you should try the other games though; of the 2 I tried the 2nd one is definitely an improvement besides being a direct copy of megaman.
I don't even know what you're talking about anymore. Perhaps I'm being too charitable in assuming you're capable of having a discussion without resorting to schoolyard blah blah blah...
Continuing on:
Santa Fanta would have made a great flash ad... Good graphics and animation.
Barfer Sickmess... I don't know why I'm santa and I'm in his sled shooting laser beams at hostile crackers while collecting beer to then regurgitate on evil christmas trees, and frankly I'm scared.
Hayo's game: Extremely clean graphics, nice parallax shine on the floor, but somewhat uninspired. Pretty good.
Santasm: Probably the most unique game so far. Though it's obviously rushed it has heart. The customisation feature is nice but there's not enough money and tooltips on the toy parts would be nice. Not very pleasant having to start over again after dying but more money would also fix that.
Circy, where's my copy of MMF2? I remember you posting on the Christmas Compo page: "And, in the jolly spirit of Christmas, I send forth copies of MMF2 to all the DCers around the globe! I bought them with my own monies, and I am now homeless! Ho ho ho!"
YAY!
I'm Singaporean by the way. And yeh, i also won the christmas compo somewhere in 2002...or is it 2001...well, i forgot! Never mind, i really thanks the judges for taking the time to judge my game.
@AndyUK: Sure you can play them all. The judges did it... It just takes some time before you played through them all, except if you take a 3 sec peek for every game.
I've finished playing through the games at about 5 mins per game now, I played them in reverse order so that they got better and better! All the top ones were really good.
Wow, there were some really excellent entries here!
Congrats to the winners, all the entrants, Circy, the judges, and everybody else who made this competition such a success!
Dustin - I'm sorry if you feel hard done by by the score I awarded your game. It's very difficult to review and rate 23 games and stay consistent with scoring. But I tried my hardest and tried to stay fair. Sorry if you're not happy with the score I gave.. I expect there are others that are unhappy with the scores some of the judges gave their games too.. but you just have to see that with 5 people judging scores will get rounded out and the best game should win.
I enjoyed playing your game and I think your hard work did pay off in making something special.
It was a tough competition to judge - there were more entries than expected and a lot of them were of a very high professional quality - including yours.
When i first started my game i thought to myself that this competition would almost certainly be dominated by platformers and rpgs. So you tell me, why did i make a "pure destruction simulator"?
Hehe hishnak, what is WITH that storyline! Growing crops on top of a mountain? in the middle of winter?! And that kids mother is a bit of a sadistic cow isn't she! "Santa can't get through this weather, no presents this year"; who would say that to a kid
Not that i'm flaming your work, i just thought it was pretty funny
Congrats CYS, your game's pretty good. The only other game I've tried so far was Robotic Santa. It's actually quite fun when you get to blow up everything as a Santa robot.
I had to rush my game in 2 weeks since English class was evil and wouldn't let me work on it until school was out.
Well done to everyone who entered. Sadly I didn't get my game in on time (long sad story). I'll post a link here so people can have a look at what I made. I wouldn't have won, but I did make a very cool game in under a month. That's good enough for me. Thanks for hosting such a cool contest. Host another soon! It seems to bring out the best in the community.
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. I knew I wasn't going to. This game did not survive through 4 computer crashes (3 BSoD and 1 fatal chrash) In the beginning, I should have went with the santa snowbourding!
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