×I agree that all these rooms need more, and better placed, checkpoints.

Bug: Re-entering Two Passes entrance (e.g. looking for secrets by travelling down the east side of the room) re-activates the cutscene, Beethro starts at the original entrance and you end up where you started.

3N has a cheap trick, but I liked the trapdoor puzzle. Having a checkpoint somewhere in the puzzle would be nice.

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Winner of the Erik Hermansen Award for Lifetime Architectural Achievement (2008)

Smitemasters' Selections:
Beethro and the Secret Society
Smitemastery 101 (A Hold for Beginners)

Other Holds

Layout and Aesthetics Award Winner (2006):
Figure or Ground (Multi-entrance room maze)

Most Promising Hold Award Winner (2007):
The Goblin (Monster-less puzzles)

Hold of the Year and Technical Design Excellence in Concept Award Winner (2008)
Advanced Concepts - I made the Goblins, Fegundos, Eyes and Potions levels
(Tutorials and Challenges involving specific DROD elements)

Creative Design Excellence in Entertainment Award Winner (2010):
Uncle Arable's Rooms (Bite-size lynchpins)

Technical Design Excellence in Concept Award Winner (2010):
Going in Circles (An infinite loop)

Technical Design Excellence in Concept Award Winner (2012):
Advanced Concepts 2-I made the Mirrors, Stalwarts and Hub levels
(More Tutorials and Challenges involving specific DROD elements)


The Grinfidel Quadrilogy:
Labyrinthitis (DROD:AE and JtRH versions available.)
The Domain of The Grinfidel (DROD:AE and JtRH versions available.)
The Hunt for The Grinfidel
The Final Confrontation

Easy/Moderate Lynchpin Puzzles (playable in DROD:AE)
Aurora's Palace

Tough puzzles and Shapeshifting:
Choose your adventure

Reflected Rooms and Mirrors:
Reflections

More challenging puzzles:
Beethro's Generic Quest

Tar-switcher and arrow-rotator tokens.
Token Effort

Pressure Plate based puzzles:
Deconstructed Dungeon

Rooms differing by just one tile (Contest compilation):
Missing Pieces

Fun with scripting:
Beethro's Bad Dream

Other levels in Collaborative Holds
DROD 5: The Second Sky
DROD 4: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
DROD History Month Compilation
Way Forward
Copycat Contest Compilation
Doorless Hold Compilation
Invisibility Compilation
One Room Hold Compilation
Unfortunate Architect Compilation
Lunchbreak Special
Cheap Tricks Compilation

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First Forest
2N: Did this room in two passes, cleared it on the first one and exited and reentered to open the yellow door.

The Two Passes
1N: I liked using the wraithwing in this room.

2N: Had to exit/reenter a couple of times to get to a survivable location. I assume that is intentional.

3N: I got caught by the cheap trick spider on my first try. I recommend not having it in. I took two passes to complete this room, clear it out first and solve the trapdoor puzzle second.

4N: Fun roach manipulation puzzle. Could use a checkpoint or two somewhere.

5N: More checkpoints please! It becomes very tedious to keep restarting from the beginning after almost any mistake.

6N: I just released the guards, killed them and exited south. I ignored all the bombs and stuff.

7N: Took a few tries to get it, nice variation on a simple horde room.

8N: You should put in a message telling the player about the scripting you use to speed up the mud growth. Also, it is extremely tedious to clear out the mud. Needs more checkpoints.

9N: Nice aumtlich beam puzzle.

10N: Again, very tedious to restart from the beginning every time I make a mistake. Even a single checkpoint at (19,18) would be useful.

×
Winner of the Erik Hermansen Award for Lifetime Architectural Achievement (2008)

Smitemasters' Selections:
Beethro and the Secret Society
Smitemastery 101 (A Hold for Beginners)

Other Holds

Layout and Aesthetics Award Winner (2006):
Figure or Ground (Multi-entrance room maze)

Most Promising Hold Award Winner (2007):
The Goblin (Monster-less puzzles)

Hold of the Year and Technical Design Excellence in Concept Award Winner (2008)
Advanced Concepts - I made the Goblins, Fegundos, Eyes and Potions levels
(Tutorials and Challenges involving specific DROD elements)

Creative Design Excellence in Entertainment Award Winner (2010):
Uncle Arable's Rooms (Bite-size lynchpins)

Technical Design Excellence in Concept Award Winner (2010):
Going in Circles (An infinite loop)

Technical Design Excellence in Concept Award Winner (2012):
Advanced Concepts 2-I made the Mirrors, Stalwarts and Hub levels
(More Tutorials and Challenges involving specific DROD elements)


The Grinfidel Quadrilogy:
Labyrinthitis (DROD:AE and JtRH versions available.)
The Domain of The Grinfidel (DROD:AE and JtRH versions available.)
The Hunt for The Grinfidel
The Final Confrontation

Easy/Moderate Lynchpin Puzzles (playable in DROD:AE)
Aurora's Palace

Tough puzzles and Shapeshifting:
Choose your adventure

Reflected Rooms and Mirrors:
Reflections

More challenging puzzles:
Beethro's Generic Quest

Tar-switcher and arrow-rotator tokens.
Token Effort

Pressure Plate based puzzles:
Deconstructed Dungeon

Rooms differing by just one tile (Contest compilation):
Missing Pieces

Fun with scripting:
Beethro's Bad Dream

Other levels in Collaborative Holds
DROD 5: The Second Sky
DROD 4: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
DROD History Month Compilation
Way Forward
Copycat Contest Compilation
Doorless Hold Compilation
Invisibility Compilation
One Room Hold Compilation
Unfortunate Architect Compilation
Lunchbreak Special
Cheap Tricks Compilation

×1N1E: I have seen this trick before, but it could potentially be very frustrating to someone who went ahead and killed the roach only to find out ten rooms later that the roach had to be left alive. I would put a green sister door across the very top of the room or something similar to prevent that sort of situation.

2N1E: A good room.

3N1E: The instant I saw this room I quit playing. Not fun, just frustrating. I reviewed the rest of the rooms in the editor.

4N1E: Fairly easy, but what is the point of the yellow door and green door? They had no impact on my solution.

5N1E: Getting through the guards was not too bad, still trying to figure out the uppper chamber.

6N1E: I like this room, it took me a few tries to get the solution.

7N1E: Stumped on this one.

8N1E: Stuck at the same point as Blondbeard.

9N1E: An easy room.

10N1E: Got through fine.

×The Two Passes:

1N: The speech "The wubba blocks the passage to the east" is repeated when coming back after the wubba is gone.
Also you can make the serpents one tile longer, forcing the player to send in the wraithwing first to kill both serpents.

4N: I would add a checkpoint on the pressure plate at (28,3).

8N: Add some checkpoints on the north end of the mud.

1N1E: Add a checkpoint on the bridge tile where the wubba was.

3N1E: I would rather have a checkpoint at (16,16) where the player needs to be to hit the orb.

Cave Level:

Entrance: I managed to kill all the enemies including the slayer, but when I went to hit the orb they were not connected to the doors blocking the arrow rotators.