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1E: This is one of two possible rooms that could be the player's first impression of the level, and as such it deserves extra scrutiny. On the whole I thought this one was really solid. The briar timer seems to be set up to put pressure on the player right at specific points to enforce efficient the most efficient kill. Most of these choke points weren't super interesting, but they provide a nice set up for the linchpin at the end, which I thought was a nice one. The one thing I'd like to see re-worked here is that an optimally efficient run through the main room will necessarily end up with the player having to wait a turn at the end for the water skipper to be killed. If possible, I think it would be nice to have that skipper killed a few turns earlier (it's already served it's purpose of preventing the U.S. of just waiting out the briar.) That way optimizers won't have to sit around at the end, or worse yet, not notice the skipper and exit before clearing the room accidentally.

1N: This is the other room that could possibly serve as the player's first impression. I enjoyed this room too. It's pretty clear what needs to be done here and it's mostly a matter of execution. The execution is pretty fun though, and this never gets tedious or anything like that. Killing everything on the bridge is satisfying too. I'm not much good for checkpoint placement, but the checkpoint at (18,19) seems completely useless. A checkpoint in the middle of the room seems like it would be a good idea though for the task of luring out the lower golems. (15,15) possibly, or some thing a bit higher up even.

1N1W: This room was okay. It had a few "oh, and one more thing" moments that made it feel a tiny bit clunky. The pressure plate at (15, 25-26) being a fail condition and the fact that you need to clear gel at (6,25) to get out feel a bit like an extra add on to the room. The difficulty level is still okay, I guess this room just feels like it has a lot of little things going on and it's easy to miss one or two of them. I like the fact that the gentryii's path is pretty much forced, since gentryii chains are usually so fiddly and unpredictable.

2N1W: Please tell me I did this wrong and missed something obvious. I usually love snake manipulation, but I found this one to be a slog. I like the idea of manipulating the serpent from the middle area, but things like the orthosquares making gel babies get caught in annoying places made this one feel rather tedious as I had to spend a lot of time on clean up. I was by no means trying to optimize, but my demo is 1500+ moves and I would be surprised if the average demo for this room is under 1000 (unless I somehow missed something completely obvious.) I would suggest reworking this one.

3N1W: This was another room I really enjoyed. The timer is generous enough to make this fit easily within the 6 brain goal you set for yourself, and finding patterns for clearing the babies while under the speed potion was a lot of fun. The extra fuse at the end to kill the brain more quickly if you have extra time was a very nice consideration. Solid room.

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2N1E: This one took me a while to figure out since I didn't realize at first that I could place a clone on land. I actually figured it out by experimenting with trying to get to the secret room. It's a neat trick, and once you figure it out the pieces fit nicely into place. Neat room.

2N3E: Hmm. Rooms that depend on the vagaries of stalwart preference are usually not all that well received. I'll be honest, I mostly brute forced this one since I can't be bothered to work out what the heck the rules are for those things. Best to keep it as a secret room at any rate.

1N1E: Not sure what's going on with this one. I feel like I'm missing some aspect of the mechanics of the water skipper player role.

3N: A fun little manipulation room. Short but sweat. I liked this one.

2N: The spider isn't particularly obvious at first. I'd put a vision token in here for good measure. I enjoyed manipulating the construct to drop all the trapdoors. But I couldn't be bothered with the timer. Well, that's not entirely true. I gave it a half hearted try or two, but tight timing rooms like this are seldom fun, especially if you're going for 6 brains. I'll give it another go later, but I suspect either ditching the timer and leaving it for the challenge, or loosening it considerably, would fit better into your goal of making the hold 6 brains.

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My Published Holds
Smitemasters' Selection - Finding the First Truth
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Advanced Concepts
Advanced Concepts 2
Blind Race #1: On Your Marks
The Custom Element Contest Compilation
Doorless Hold Contest Compilation
DROD Flash Project Audition
DROD History Month
Elemental Showcase
Elemental Showcase 5.0
Good, Bad and Ugly Contest Compilation
King Dugan's Alternate Reality
Labyrinth of Mellenfral (unpublished contest compilation)
Lunchbreak Special
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Take Five
The Mining Business
Twelve Days of Christmas
Way Forward

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Styles

Workshop - DROD 5.0
Voids - DROD 3.0
Cavern Redux - DROD 2.0
Laboratory - DROD AE
Snakepit - DROD AE
Twenty-Sixth Level - DROD AE

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×1E - nice room, idea not too novel, but works well with skipper, because of the need to separate the spiders
1N1W - beautiful concept, really liked this one. In the end, you even need to pay attention to kill the mothers in the correct way without creating unreacheable babies.
1W - What are the three colors needed for? I just went to the E side of the room with my mimic directly and finished off the spiders. No need to deal with the black gate. Is this just a red herring?
2N1W - Felt like a lot of work. The many different pressure plates are kind of confusing and I did not find an elegant way to solve this.
2N2E - Really cool mechanism with the self-push. Figured out the idea pretty quickly, but still had to actually do it. Very satisfying room.
2N1E - Nice solution, but very easy once you get the linchpin
2N - Cool concept, nice level of difficulty to keep it fun.
1N - Seemed very difficult at first, until I realized that the aumtlich does not belong in the middle of the bridge (between the golems). Nice idea for a room, well executed without to much fuss.
3N1E - Nicy entry from 2N1E, concept is a bit tedious, but OK for a secret room. It's perhaps possible to make a slightly simpler version. All the back and forth manouvring is (for me) a bit frustrating.
3N1W - Did not solve this room. Objective is clear, but very tedious to actually solve. But that may be my personal taste: don't really like tar/horde rooms.
3N - ??? Haven't got a clue...
1N1E - Should I get the giant down somehow? Can't figure this one out either.

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1W - Nice, easy room. Bit of fiddling to get the sequence of paths right, but nothing difficult/unexpected. Good to have a couple of rooms like this in a hold.
Entrance - Surprising! This is not trivial, but does require some precise moves to get it right and separate the roaches. Very nice concept and not tool difficult.
1E - Neat mace implementation. First build it and then (at least the way I did it) shift the kegs while the action takes place to guide the stalward.
2E - ??? Nothing seems to happen here. Is there another way to get here apart from the SW corner? Or might there be some scripting gone wrong?
1S1W - Too much going on in this room for me. Had a couple of all-most solves, but then was a bit put off by all the different elements.
1S - Looks intriguing, but I'm clearly missing the trick here. Haven't got a glue how to proceed.
1S1E - Too much going on, didn't really dive into this.
1S2E - Did not really try this room.
1S3E - Idem
2S - Nice room, looks like precise manipulation of the slayers is required, but actually pretty accessible. Hidden room hidden in an interesting way. I guess it is always necessary to get the last (upper) tar baby from the SW side, since the PP above is blocked? That's what I did at least.
2S1E - Did not really try this room
3S - While I do like the idea very much, the execution seems to be very, very hard to get just right. The timing gives me a real headache. It would be pretty easy to stay with this concept, but make it quite a lot easier by constraining the platforms a bit, using easier shapes, having less tasks to complete etc. Your decision, but I think this room is now just a bit too frustrating.

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2N2E - Nice room. Bit of fiddling to get the slayer to hit all walls, but the time pressure from the gel is not a real problem at all. I don't really understand the mechanics of the pressure plates. In the end, the mother dies and all doors open again. Then I just kill the one gel baby that forms in the corner with the slayer. No need to do anything there. I'd image a little more challenge if you somehow needed to avoid a gel baby from popping up.
2N3E - Pretty straigtforward if you've seen this type of room before. (I have). Thing left to figure out is where to put each monster and which path allows you to do so. However, it does not seem to be very specific and many paths will probably do. The hardest thing about this room is that you have to realize that you can step around the Gentryii in the lower room when it is facing left and you go right. While being perfectly natural once you do it, it's pretty hard to figure out in your head when deciding which monster goes in which room. Nich touch.
1N - I get the impression that I did not do this as I am supposed to do it. Was very easy and I did not use the ortho squares or all the decoys. I first pushed the roach into the corner with my mimic, then pushed the SW decoy on top of it to stab it. Is this intended? If yes, I'd remove some of the unnecessary elements here.
1N1E - I have many ideas here and am fascinated by this room. But I can't solve it. I manage to play around and do lot's of interesting things here. Get the aumtlich out of his box (to left or right of central column, both possible), get fluff into central column, but I don't manage to get fluff across the hot tiles to assist me in the roach box. Same with the aumtlich: down and up along the corridor, but never into the box before he burns on the hot tiles.
1N2E - Didn't solve. Killing the longest snake by spikes alone is not gonna work (yes, I did optimize opening of the release door, but no, this is not good enough). So I guess I need to let the snakes block eachother just often enough to shorten a couple extra tiles. I did not succeed in this. With all those snakes, it's just too random for me. Perhaps it's possible to force the same tactic with less snakes / less room?
1N3E - A very cool room, which I could not solve in the end. Tactic seems to be straightforward here: place golem corpses to block rays, then do your thing with the power plates. However, execution is baffling me. For in stance, I can never cross the passage 14,6 -> 13,5 (aumtlich above will paralize me). So I have to come through 10,9. That means putting a corpse on 8,7 or 9,8. I really don't see how...
Am I missing something here?
Entrance - Very nice start. Not too difficult. Glad you did not use more roaches. This strikes a nice balance between difficulty/strategy (e.g. don't start with N plate) and solveability.
1E - The south passage is a mistery to me...
2E - Lot's of ideas, lot's of playing around, but nope. No solve...
1S - I believe the idea is simple (avoid the plates). But execution feels hopefully messy (at least when I try to achieve it). Got frustrated and gave up.
1S1E - Same as 2E
1S2E - Wow, this is more difficult that I thought at first. Nice secret room, but beyond me. To be fair: I did not really try very hard. It is a room I'd work on at some point (having more time to play drod).