Dragon Fogel
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This is the voting thread for Wacky Widgets. It is recommended but not required that you vote 10 for your own entry.

Please try to base your votes on how well each entry used the widgets as well as its overall quality. The template level is included in the contest hold for your convenience.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Dragon Fogel
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File: Wacky Widgets Contest Voting Anonymized.hold (41.3 KB)
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Here's the contest hold, which Schik has kindly taken the time to anonymize so you won't know whose entry you're rating. Unless it's your own, I suppose.

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Dragon Fogel
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The hold download has been updated to correct a small error that made a room unsolvable. The south fuse end was in the wrong place in Widgeing Hour 1E.

Xindaris
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Okay, time for me to call this in. I could really use some hints; several rooms here are pretty tough.

Rooms I can't solve:


Also,

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Dragon Fogel
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I have some hints passed along to me by architects.

Heat Mirages 1W:



Widgeing Hour 1E:

First, double-check that you have the updated version of the hold. The previous version had an error where the south fuse end was misaligned with the aumtlich, so it couldn't be set off.

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General observation: You could fill a warehouse with the unnecessary resources in these entries. It will be interesting to see how many changes are made after voting.

Hints for things I've solved:

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRY4M8TMwO9aaFU4XVDbN_RCCTVJ583QE

Playthrough of the contest entries, including all challenges.

Pretty sure I broke some of the rooms so won't necessarily show architect's intention.

LovaP48
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I solved most of the rooms and include some hints for the rooms that I solved that Kalin did not mention.

Hope that helps! (If not, Rabscuttle's videos should help you get unstuck, but I can't know that, because I haven't watched any yet)

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Only about three days left to vote!

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Less than a day and a half before the poll closes!

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Only about eight hours left to get your votes in!

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Voting has closed! Here are the results.

1st Place: Heat Mirages by LovaP48
2nd Place: Land of Rotation and Exchange by Xindaris
3rd Place: Break the Widgets by Red XIII

And the other level authors were as follows:

The Widgeing Hour, by Dragon Fogel
Twisted Ziggurat, by Clock
Emerald Iceberg, by PigmyWubba
Serenity Springs, by disoriented (my apologies for misspelling it in the poll)

Thanks to everyone who participated! I enjoyed seeing people come up with cool ways to use the widgets I quickly whipped together. It's interesting that "include the widgets alongside variants of them" was a recurring theme.

I'll try to get an Architecture thread together promptly so people can note if they want to make any changes.

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File: WWCV Break the widgets 1S Victory.demo (3.4 KB)
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Demo of solving Break the Widgets 1S without taking the decoy potion.

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LovaP48
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Wow, I really won!
Thanks a lot for the high votes everyone, I'm glad that people loved my creation this much.
So much so that my first ever contest entry is a winner.

As I played the entries myself, I did take some notes, I wonder if I should post those here or wait for the architecture post (probably the latter).
See you there, fellow architects!

Dragon Fogel
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Contest compilation thread is here.

I was focused on making it quickly, so the hold isn't beatable yet. That will be taken care of during the polishing process.

Xindaris
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This was quite fun! Congrats LovaP48.

I said this in my submission post, but after building my first room for my contest entry, an entire idea congealed in my head for how I wanted the level as a whole to be, and I semi-obsessively followed the ridiculous set of constraints that that idea created alongside the existing contest constraints.

And: I recorded some videos of attempting all the entries, including a semi-"dev commentary" for my own entry, but...really want to edit some of it before uploading. Might be a few days.

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mrimer
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Thank you, everyone, for the entries, and congrats to the winners!

A big thanks also to Dragon Fogel for running this contest.

I'll be handing out rank point prizes now.

LovaP48, please select a prize from the prize pile.

Nuntar
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Don't forget that LovaP48 also gets 10 points for it being their first contest entry.

There are no new qualifiers for 8-timer prizes this time.

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mrimer
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Thank you for reminding me. Doing this now!

Xindaris
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Due to moving house and needing to re-learn how to use video editing software, it took me a while. But I'm finally getting my playthrough of all the contest levels for voting purposes uploaded!

Everything is or will be in this playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW8jkVlxh1M&list=PLaHFS9y2eFffbesNr8Ms3UuP_6R3kV5EJ

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