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| Weekly Update for June 26 Friday, June 26, 2009 4:21 pm — Posted by Livio |
ShareThisHighlights of the Week
Saturday: Bmwsu started a Free Rider 2 mini-comp in the forums where you had to make a level inside a box that he drew. Three people, including me, made tracks for it, and it was pretty cool.
Click here to see it.Monday: Articles now have commenting in the same way that the level galleries and other parts of the site do. This feature has proven to be very helpful to how much attention is payed to our article system. We spent a lot of time this week writing articles.
Tuesday: Jell starts a new forum board so that judges can discuss the competitions that they're judging in order to reach a closer consensus when sending in their results. So far only people who are judges have permissions to the board, except for my account, which has access to everything on this site.
Anyway, that's one step closer to a better judging system, so now all I have to do is make the judging page more intuitive.Tuesday: N and Free Rider 2 have been turned into Chosen Games.
Wednesday: There's a new option in the video archive where you can submit the replay codes from N as if they were videos, and since it's release, it has continued to be the least useful feature on the site.
Thursday: Both Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died. There's no way you could've missed that.
Friday: A new game has been submitted into our system: Karoshi 2.0, which is a somewhat violent game where the goal of each level is to find a way to kill yourself.
Sometime this week: Intertester's name has been changed to Interbot.
Articles
There's been a lot of updates in the article system this week, thanks to the new commenting feature.Monday: The How to Make a Video has been updated with info about Youtube's copyright deletions.
Monday: Jell posts a new article called: History of the Raters Guild.
Tuesday: Jell makes a List of HATPC Glitches.
Tuesday-Wednesday: CSD and Jell make an article about Beginning HATPC.
Wednesday: I posted a new article about the history of the The Pirate Caves CaveMakers Association (PCCA).
Levels
Thirteen new levels this week:Catta made the first level of the week with screwedlevel for HatPC.
I made a Free Rider 2 level for Bmw's mini-comp: Puzzle Box for Free Rider 2. It's pretty cool even though it came last place in Bmw's mini-comp.
Sinpokman later released his self-proclaimed greatest cave, No Title for HATPC. I thought it was kinda frustrating sometimes, but it's pretty good. He also entered this cave into the Random Word comp?
Isa made a really cool DDA (don't-do-anything) level in N called Achieving Nirvana. Right now it has a rating of 9.7, so that's proof of how cool it is.
Krotomo also released his Random Word Comp entry with his HATPC level Plasma.
Ckjr actually made two entries for Bmw's Free Rider 2 mini-comp. The first was Geometry World, but that was ruined by a glitch caused when using the "???" vehicle. So he then made Geometry World II, which uses the truck instead. Both levels have a really cool look to them, and Geometry World II is a really good level, too. It beat Jell's entry in Bmw's mini-comp by one point, apparently.
Semiloop stadium is jellsprout's entry for the mini-comp, and it's some kind of hardcore Free Rider track.
Bike Park is another Free Rider 2 level by Ckjr, which features 9 out of 10 stars within possible reach and a tenth star nowhere to be found. 0_o
Potpourri is Jazz's entry to the Random Word comp. I haven't gotten the chance to try it, but shos rated it an 8, and coming from shos, it must be pretty good.
Sinpokman also made two HATPC levels today that I didn't get to try yet: Little Space and Little Space II. From what I can see through the level code, it looks pretty cool, so you guys should try these out.
Another level made today is by Ckjr for Free Rider 2 and it's called Slackin' 2 in Free Rider 2. It's a DDA and the sequel to his first epic attempt to make a Slackin level in FR2. I just ran it right now, and it looks awesome.
Videos
We had six new videos released this week:On Saturday, I released my Triple Walkthrough in Free Rider 2, which shows me beating my first three FR2 levels: Weird Short Track, Into the Vortex, and Into the Abyss. I thought it was a cool vid, but I went through a lot of work just trying to get the video to upload right.
Krotomo made a cool video called Levels of Hannah and the Ice Caves. Right now it looks like I was the only one who watched it.
And I gave it a 4-star rating, to show how cool I thought it was.Still on Saturday, Quirvy released his walkthrough for Soul of Death and The Descent. It's a pretty cool walkthrough, even if some people said that they got bored by watching the Descent part.
Dando released two videos on Wednesday: the walkthrough for her latest cave There And Back Again, which is a really great walkthrough currently holding a full 5-star rating. She also made her own walkthrough for Quirvy's cave Canadianstick..., and it's really cool to watch.
Finally, today Isa released the first part of his N starter's guide with a video that covers the very very basics of the game: Basic N Instructions.
Future Stuff
The HATPC Random Word Comp 2 will end tomorrow night, and so far we only have 4 entries. I wonder if Shos is still making that cave... Also, I'm working on a new look for the Interguild along with a possible logo for the site. And, as of tomorrow, the Interguild Olympics will be one week away. Get ready for that too. User Comments (5)
| jellsprout | ||
| Lord of Sprout Tower Karma: -2147482799 Posts: 6445 Gender: Male pm | email |
Quote: Isa starts a new forum board so that judges can discuss the competitions that they're judging in order to reach a closer consensus when sending in their results. That wasn't Isa. Spoiler: | |
| Quirvy | ||
| Â Â Karma: 655 Posts: 7753 Gender: Male pm | email |
I edited the bit about the n replay feature. I thought it needed more detail.  spooky secret | |
| Isa | ||
| No. I'm an octopus. Age: 31 Karma: 686 Posts: 7833 Gender: Male Location: Uppsala, Sweden - GMT +1 pm | email |
Njet, Jell did that judging board. He gave me access at once though, and after that I gave him access, but only because he is a judge. Jell also made a very good post about judging in that forum, I edited in the sticky you'll see if you ever become a judge. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
you know, you guys can fix those errors yourself... and I was expecting more out of your edit quirvy. | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
Lol, I love how these updates actually make it sound like stuff happened. | |
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