Radiant
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This is the level design challenge for June. The idea behind this contest is as follows: The Tower. You may not add any more doors and gates, although other barriers (and keys!) are fine. Also, your level must contain at least one Seeker.

You can download the levels here: http://crystalshard.net/test/June.zip

Please vote for the level you like best. Participants may vote (because turnout would be a lot lower otherwise also it's not like we can stop them or anything); however, I'd appreciate it if everybody did not simply vote for themselves

Thanks to everyone who participated!

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Bigwig
Level: Goblin

Rank Points: 25
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Dammit i spelt liquorice wrong!

No wait... you did!

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Bigwig
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Ok when it came to choosing with me it was between danjen's level and CM's level but i think i'll have to go for CM's level because of the variety of things you have to do in it and it was quite fun at the same time. I also liked the fact that you had to go back to some places you had already been.

My vote goes to Celtic Minstrel.

Radiant
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Bigwig wrote:
Dammit i spelt liquorice wrong!

No wait... you did!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

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Bigwig
Level: Goblin

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gah oh well atleast the level is spelled liquorice.

Are you North American?

Celtic Minstrel
Level: Roachling
Rank Points: 12
Registered: 09-06-2008
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Oh, it opened earlier than I expected, so I can possibly vote today after all...

*downloaded*

Celtic Minstrel
Level: Roachling
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Um... I'm leaning toward "Open and Shut", but I was judging by watching the solutions and Stew Boy's doesn't seem to have one... That is, I click "Replay", and the player moves up one space and explodes...

So I don't think I'll vote just yet. I'll vote on Monday. (If it hasn't been fixed by then, I guess I'll try playing the level.)

The Stew Boy
Level: Master Delver
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That's because I posted the level by itself without a solution, and sent the level with the solution to Radiant.

Danjen02
Level: Roachling

Rank Points: 11
Registered: 11-08-2007
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It was a close choice between Stewboy and Benjamin's level, but I eventually settled for the latter.

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B.J.Earles
Level: Goblin

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My vote goes to Taking its Toll by The Stew Bow.

Great job everyone . I hope turnout is this good for July.

wonkyth
Level: Goblin
Rank Points: 15
Registered: 06-18-2007
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The Stew Boy's level was good, but I eventually settled for Yours, B.J.

AALTY!

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Bigwig
Level: Goblin

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Hmm. It appears in need to step up my level making.

The Mystic
Level: Goblin
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Five levels...Not bad. Mine had a bug I couldn't work out, and was only half-completed; otherwise, we'd have six.

My vote will be in later this week, after I replay all of them.

Bigwig wrote:
Hmm. It appears in need to step up my level making.

Don't sell yourself short, it's still a good level. When it comes to level design, "good" doesn't necessarily mean "complex" or "difficult."

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Bigwig
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Well i wanted to make a complex level so i've tried to make a level like that for this contest. I mean for the july contest.

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Danjen02
Level: Roachling

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I tried to make mine fun and solvable for once.

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The Mystic
Level: Goblin
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I'm just looking to post a level; no small task, since I never quite got used to most of the ST2 objects.

In the meantime, my vote goes to Open and Shut. It's not often you see a good cloning level these days.

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Celtic Minstrel
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Stew Boy's level is confusing. It may be a very ingenious level, but there are a zillion possible routes to take (probably only one of which is correct) and I already know that I really liked BJ's.

So, BJ gets the vote. (I quite liked Bigwig's level too, though. If there were a ranking I'd probably give him second place.)

Bigwig
Level: Goblin

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Just depends what kind of levels you like playing really.

wonkyth
Level: Goblin
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In SubTerra, there's no such thing as a bad level....except for maybe that one level of mine.....may it die a horrible death....

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Celtic Minstrel
Level: Roachling
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Which level?

The Mystic
Level: Goblin
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wonkyth wrote:
In SubTerra, there's no such thing as a bad level....except for maybe that one level of mine.....may it die a horrible death....

You should have seen some of the ones I made before I found this forum; they were probably among the worst pieces of trash ever to disgrace the editor screen. If I can find them again, I might post them (yes, that is a threat), especially the one I called "Think Outside the Box".

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Bigwig
Level: Goblin

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Congratulations B.J Earles!

Celtic Minstrel
Level: Roachling
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The Mystic wrote:
You should have seen some of the ones I made before I found this forum; they were probably among the worst pieces of trash ever to disgrace the editor screen. If I can find them again, I might post them (yes, that is a threat), especially the one I called "Think Outside the Box".

If you really hate them, and they can't be redeemed by some tweaking, perhaps you shouldn't post them.

Then again, there may be people who do like them, so perhaps you should post them.

Also: What, no-one voted for Bigwig's level?

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Bigwig
Level: Goblin

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Competition was too good. Hopefully my level for the July contest is going be better.


Or maybe it was because of the name of my level...

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Danjen02
Level: Roachling

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Congrats BJ!

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Celtic Minstrel
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...wait, the total vote count is listed as 8, yet 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 is actually 6 ...

Tim
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Celtic Minstrel wrote:
...wait, the total vote count is listed as 8, yet 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 is actually 6 ...

Don't worry about it. It's a feature of this forum. People are allowed to vote blanks here.

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The Mystic
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Celtic Minstrel wrote:

The Mystic wrote:
You should have seen some of the ones I made before I found this forum; they were probably among the worst pieces of trash ever to disgrace the editor screen. If I can find them again, I might post them (yes, that is a threat), especially the one I called "Think Outside the Box".

If you really hate them, and they can't be redeemed by some tweaking, perhaps you shouldn't post them.

Then again, there may be people who do like them, so perhaps you should post them.

I don't really hate my unposted early levels, they were just really bad.

When I first came here, I had already made 10 homebrew levels. The 6 I posted are in the 2006 level set; the other 4 either were deleted or are so well-hidden that I'll probably never find them. If I do happen to find them, I'll start an "abandoned levels" topic and post them there.

Also: What, no-one voted for Bigwig's level?

So? Nobody voted for my level back in the April contest.

Bigwig wrote:
Or maybe it was because of the name of my level...

I doubt it. Good levels aren't necessarily determined by names, but by content.

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Either I'm crazy, or everybody else is nuts. And I know I'm not crazy because the little man who lives on my shoulder told me so.
If people don't think there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with you.
Oh well. Another day, another dementia.

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B.J.Earles
Level: Goblin

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Registered: 04-29-2009
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Wow, thanks everyone .

Bigwig wrote:
Or maybe it was because of the name of my level...

Are you kidding? I loved it! I'm a sucker for licorice .

On the subject of lost levels, there where quite a few levels that I made and then scrapped because I didn't think were good enough before I joined this forum. I now wish I hadn't as I'm sure some of them were probably pretty good. I really wish I could get the first level I made back. It was called "Beam Me Up, Scotty" and was a lot of fun to play.

wonkyth
Level: Goblin
Rank Points: 15
Registered: 06-18-2007
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Congrats, B.J!


It seems that most of the angel/demon levels that have been made have disappeared....
CONSPIRACY!!!!
....or not.

I must say, I'm really peeved that my old computer died before I found the forums.
I had what I'd call The best ST2 level ever made. It should have been too, as I spent a good 30+ hours perfecting it.

I also lost a rather good ST1 level, but I don't miss that one so much.

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"Satire denounces the world;
Wit penetrates it;
Humour accepts it;
But Nonsense Transforms it"
- Cedric Whitman
w.r.t. Aristophanes