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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

×97th Sky Watcher!

×General:

I noticed there are a few missing voices, namely the female in the first room of the first level, I have lent my voice to games before (DROD and other titles), I have a good/great quality microphone (Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Sound Headset) that has voice morphing capabilites, if you wanted some extra help in voice acting for the hold, I'd be happy to help, it would be a great way for me to slide back into the DROD Community after being away for too long .

Also (more personal issue), I am pleased to see you added a bit of a tutorial like theme to the first few rooms, saved me running through the DROD Tutorial again .

Level 1.1

No problems there, everything worked perfectly, all rooms are compelteable, nice architecture,

a few small puzzles, was a great introduciton to the hold.

Level 1.2

All puzzles were quite good, namely the one in 1S2E with the roaches behind the orb doors.

All in all this looks like the makings of a great first hold, cannot wait to see more from you

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Warp Room: For the voices, you should use Audacity to cut out the silence at the start and the end of your clips. It's free, don't worry!

Also, I don't really get why you have a warp room. Personally, I would link each level to the next. Warp rooms usually work better when you give the player a choice between several levels to clear. Just some opinion though, do as you will.

Level 1.1: From the get-go, I can see you're trying for a 'introduce elements with each level' type of hold. If that's the case, you might want to add some description for some of the elements, such as the arrows and the platforms. It's not of a big importance, though, since the player can experiment with them on his own. But if you're going to explain how green doors, orbs and roaches work, then you might as well.

I'd like to add that the player has no real incentive to go through the secret room, seeing how he can just walk right out after finding it, and the game would believe he's cleared it. Perhaps add a Conquer token or a monster to have him do some work?

Level 1.2: This level felt very reminescent of KDD. It was mainly how the rooms were constructed, though I see you borrowed a few concepts from its first few levels (I'm thinking of rooms 1S, 2S1E and 3S1E here), but that's alright.

I don't understand the point of the force arrows in 3E, outside of teaching the player how to restart the room. That information would be best given in 1.1: 4N1W, where the player can actually get trapped in some of the dead ends.

Level 1.3 2N: You don't need to have the broken walls above the bombs. Bombs can't be crossed by any entities, so things should work fine.

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(Updated 5/05/2020)
-Witherwood Castle
-Escort Mission
-Subterra Prime

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Like Grains In An Hourglass (TSS) NEW!
Homeward Adventure (TSS)
Out the Deep End (GatEB)
Rough Adventure of Budkin (TCB)
The Test of Mind (RPG)
Mysteries of the Deep (TCB)
Smart Brain Sanctum (TCB)
Tardustrial Park (JtRH)
Jeffrey's Hold (JtRH)
An Event #1 (JtRH) (Warning: terrible)

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Riddles Within the Below (TSS) Progress: Levels 1-17 finished!
Caravel Building RPG (RPG) Progress: Cancelled due to loss of data. RIP...
Jeff_Ray's Hold Yard (TCB) Progress: Frozen for now.
An Event #2 (TSS) (Not quite as terrible) Progress: All levels done, need to wait for feedback and record remaining voice lines.