Summer 2008 Dualstream Day of Zeux Judging Sheets:Risu2112
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+ Risu2112's summer 2008 DoZ judging results! +
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Quick totals:
#1 (G) 59446: 257/400 *
#2 (G) 84459: 218/400
#3 (S) 76722: 216/400 *
#4 (S) 38887: 180/400 *
#5 (S) 36825: 159/400 *
#6 (G) 61892: 86/400 *
#7 (S) 99348: 82/400 *
#8 (S) 51921: 81/400 *
#9 (S) 91210: 38/400 *
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Topic:"Summer 2008 DsDoZ and the End of the World"
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Entry: 36825
Summary
Collection of minigames wii style, most of the games suck though.
Theme: 5/20
Barely connections at all, end of the world button added in a shameless
effort to simply mention the topic instead of actually using it. 5
points almost seems like a gift I feel dirty. The dirt's not coming off.
Gameplay: 58/120
Really shitty at first but then I noticed the varying difficulties
for each game, that little fact GREATLY aided this score. Some
like the bomb game seem to have the potential to be impossible, oh
well, most are pretty easy.
Graphics: 40/90
Why is there a pink rabbit head, why is it dodging UFO's? Bonus points
for tricking me to quit out of the game 3 times on the editor mock-up
screen! Some use of robotic to aid the graphics at least.
Technique: 47/80
Most games were pretty straight forward, a good amount of points gets
awarded here for the varying difficulty and some more subtle touches
like the movement pattern of the crosshair in the shoot the alien game.
I wasn't able to break any of the mini games, horray!
Story: 5/50
About as close to none as you can get, basic intro on the start screen.
I dunno whats going on, but I think that's the point.
Sound: 4/40
All bad had to kill the speakers.
Total: 159/400
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Entry: 38887
Summary
"You can press I to use an item in the direction in the direction you're
facing." good times!
Theme: 10/20
loose connections on the DoZ, end of the world wasn't too far off at least
Gameplay: 53/120
I was pleased to not see conventional bullets, but having to duck shoot
every enemy seemed hardly worth the trouble, especially since I can just
jump over them all day long. The caves part was a little frustrating,
challenging puzzles are good, but these ones I managed to permanently
fail before I even realized I was in a puzzle :<
Graphics: 47/90
Nice style lots of sub character work, kinda looks like the player is
jacking off when he's firing though. Oh well. I like his posture and
walking animations. The caves look pretty boring but the starting area
was really well done.
Technique: 33/80
The enemies and the gun need a bit more work to really score any higher
here. Several critical bugs in the game prevent forward progress. At
least this team was trying some stuff out though.
Story: 15/50
Oh no! It's the end of the world- read no further and the game will
make about as much sense as if you did.
Sound: 22/40
Music wasn't great, the sound effects did help a lot. Several bonus points
for sneaking a-ha's "take on me" into the game. Nice touch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWXyEHoN88
Total: 180/400
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Entry: 51921
Summary
Something about Lancer-x releasing hell on the DoZ judges, game starts
out looking fairly promising but turns out to have some broken linking
issues that REALLY should have been reported in the "fix my DoZ entry"
thread. No bother I guess, almost no content made it into the game.
Theme: 10/20
Digging through the editor shows the underlying plot connects pretty
well, none of the other content really shows it though probably due to
the incomplete nature of the entry.
Gameplay: 6/120
Some what fun to watch the bar fill up from holding enter on the menu.
Graphics: 21/90
Clean mzx styling, title screen looks nice, not much robotic going into
anything.
Technique: 4/80
Severely broken and incomplete, doesn't really look like anything
advanced was being aimed for.
Story: 24/50
Had something pretty good starting up, I was all excited to get a cameo!
But I didn't very little story content (again obviously incomplete).
Sound: 16/40
Menu sound effects were nice, nothing too offensive being played.
Total: 81/400
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Entry: 76722
Summary
Clean pixel perfect side scroller
Theme: 12/20
Aliens attacking the planet, some DoZ references. Satisfies the
requirements but the connections aren't really strong
Gameplay: 75/120
Jumping around pixel perfect is much more enjoyable than char by char,
however very limited content and a frustrating weapon really cap how
much I'm willing to award here.
Graphics: 66/90
The house blowing up was the best part, Graphics were simple but heavily
aided with robotic. The entry looks as solid as it feels
Technique: 48/80
Again, pixel perfect is carrying this score a bit, at this point these
engines aren't revolutionary, but many past entries have shown exactly
how hard it can be to pull these off.
Story: 12/50
Lame story, token points for at least giving a little bit of direction.
Sound: 3/40
With the exception of the subtle player gun sound effect, painful at best.
Total: 216/400
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Entry: 91210
Summary:
"Welcome to ARG" Oh no the world is ending during the DoZ! Take control of
Odell the mermaid and float around aimlessly while every one faces certain
doom. Save us Odell! Save us! Oh jesus my face is melting off and everything's
on-- Oh, she's just going swimming around?
Theme: 2/20
The title page and intro dialog box mention the Topic, yay!
Gameplay: 6/120
Almost an inertia engine, slightly less fun than watching a lazy fish in an
empty tank.
Graphics: 8/90
I doubt SMZX helped this entry, maybe should have left it off.
Technique: 10/80
Nothing moderately interesting. token points for at least having some pseudo
inertia engine.
Story: 2/50
No story for the game, but I did like the story about how it's not finished.
Sound: 10/40
Sounds like the music from one of the old TMNT nintendo games, not sure if
it is or not though.
Total: 38/400
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Entry: 99348
Summary
Durrghghghh. probably the only game that takes longer to play than it did
to make. Touch 4 computers, steal a TV, or don't- it doesn't matter.
Theme: 12/20
loose connections to both themes.
Gameplay: 19/120
Nothing fun to do, at least linking isn't broken and the game is stable.
Graphics: 11/90
I find myself longing for detached retinas
Technique: 5/80
None. Token points for the throw away inventory system?
Story: 20/50
Boring story but at least it had one. Horribly presented through use of
the message line.
Sound: 15/40
Thankfully the game is short, if it had dragged on much longer the music
would have really started to grind on me. The first 20 seconds of the
out door music is a little catchy.
Total: 82/400
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Topic: Bureaucracy
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Entry: 59446
Summary
My top pick out of the entries, a solid game here that really hit theme on
the nose. AND actually got me to laugh a few times. great job
Theme: 78/100
While not quite dead on, this entry had a lot of great ties into bureaucracy,
Including aspects of the story, the environment, the music, and one of the
two mini games. Hopefully people pay attention to this game and start realizing
to score big on theme you need to connect on more levels than simply having a
story that supports the theme. Nice work.
Gameplay: 54/90
Liked the elevator game even though it didn't have much to do with the theme
The slow stepping of the player was a great touch. 6 bonus points for the guy
that falls out of his chair, I wish some how a mini game could have been made
just about that.
Graphics: 38/70
Very fitting for the office building, decent use of robotic to assist with the
graphics, nothing too flashy but certainly not painful to look at.
Technique: 32/60
I would have loved to drop the message line, the mini games were handled fairly
well, tried to break both but was not successful, congrats.
Story: 28/50
A little short and pretty to the point, nothing particularly stood out to me
other than making me chuckle a few times.
Sound: 27/30
Brilliant elevator music.
Brilliant.
Total: 257/400
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Entry: 61892
Summary
As the notes in the entry suggest, this project might have been a little
to ambitious. It's basically a very incomplete stand & fight battle engine
with almost no content
Theme: 18/100
Not sure what dwarfs pixies treemen and whale guts have to do with bureaucracy..
The only time this game actually made me sense anything about the topic was
drudging my way through the character creation, 80% of which ended up being
being completely unnecessary
Gameplay: 7/90
Character creation wasn't fun, combat wasn't fun, neither were presented in
a very appealing way and/or with sufficient content. (again incomplete game)
Graphics: 22/70
Message row, bracket dialog boxes, What the hell is "treeman" ? looks like
a cardboard box with eye holes and whiskers drawn on it. Good looking
palette at least!
Technique: 20/60
some decent use of sprites and a few other touches, however the combat engine
isn't pulling any weight, and it really needs to for this category.
Story: 7/50
whaleguts whaleguts bacon or something. Why am I fighting treeman any way?
he seems like a pretty stand up guy.
Sound: 12/30
City music was catchy, the rest of the music seemed really awkward and out of
place.
Total: 86/400
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Entry: 84459
Summary
Theme: 15/100
Pretty much completely disregarded the them, thats a real shame since
this is a general topic entry. This game very well might have won if it had
been entered under the specific topic.
Gameplay: 70/90
Hit detection feels a little sloppy, this might have more to do with grapic
limitations.None the less multiple weapons add a ton of value here, took me
a while to figure out I actually had other weapons though. My best advice
here would have been to make better use of sprites and make some larger enemies.
Graphics: 52/70
The game has some pretty environments, but the real meat of this score comes
from use of robotic. The particle effects never once bored me through out
the game.
Technique: 51/60
The presented results from the particle effects as already stated were lovely
But a lot of this score comes from some interesting enemies that show up later
on. There are some efficiency problems however, under a very heavy load even
I was ending up with some slowdown. good show still.
Story: 8/50
Mostly absent.
Sound: 22/30
Great use of cheesy sound effects, music was alright as well.
Total: 218/400
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