The contest is over, thanks everyone for participating!
If you missed the contest, here is the main topic:
http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=726.0Solutions and statistics are attached to this post. The levelpacks and level archive can be found here:
http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=726.msg15908#msg15908Though it was a bit of work for me, I enjoyed the contest a lot. I think the levels produced here were really great. I'd like to post the pack with the levels on the levelpack database in a bit, once the remaining backroutes have been fixed (I think Gronkling's, Akseli's and Crane's levels still have backroutes, and I hope I'll get Crane's intended solution soon.)
ccexplore also suggested:
Overall, like you said, there are no bad/trivial/Tame levels, everyone's levels provide a little bit to a lot of challenge in their own way. It would be worth considering getting as many of the levels into the Lix community pack as the level authors are ok with, as they are all pretty high-quality levels.
I think that's definitely a good idea, if there are no objections.
Anyway, on to the results. First off, who solved how many first and how many final versions, respectively. (A * indicates I didn't receive the corresponding replays, a # indicates that I'm not entirely sure whether I got all levels solved, i.e. I might be missing that some more levels have been solved.)
We have a 5-way tie at the top with players who managed to solve all levels from the first version pack. For the final versions we have the same five players who've manage to solve at least 8 level, but only ccexplore (and geoo, the author) manage to solve the remaining level, 'Stroke at Retirement Age'. Detailled data on who solved what are in the stats spreadsheet.
First versions solvedname | amount |
Akseli | 9 |
Gronkling | 9 |
ccexplore | 9 |
Clam | 9 |
geoo | 9 |
Pooty | 7 |
Proxima | 7 |
Steve | 6 |
Crane# | 4 |
möbius*# | 3 |
Final versions solvedname | amount |
ccexplore | 9 |
geoo | 9 |
Akseli | 8 |
Gronkling | 8 |
Clam | 8 |
Pooty | 5 |
Proxima | 3 |
Crane# | 2 |
Steve | 2 |
möbius*# | 2 |
Next, prettiest and most fun levels. If you're wondering about the fractions in the following two tables:
ccexplore came up with the wonderful idea to distribute fractional votes (wish I had thought of that myself, would have made things a lot easier. Turns out they also serve as tie breaker now, breaking a tie by 0.01 point.
) Crane also told me which levels he'd have put his other votes on (that I received a bit too late), which is reflected by the (+1) (one of them indicating the alleviated -1 penalty).
But now, without further ado, best looking and most fun rankings (individual votes again in the spreadsheet):
Best lookinglevel | author | points |
Stroke at Retirement Age | geoo | 11.99 |
Evacuating a Retirement Home | Clam | 10.93 (+1) |
The Isle of Skye | Gronkling | 10.11 (+1) |
Prize Catch | Crane | 9.24 (+1) |
A sea of purest green | Pooty | 6.11 |
Tres Hombres | möbius | 5 |
Feel the Pressure | Akseli | 1.62 |
The "Hole in the Head" Gang | Steve | 0 |
Brute Fours | Proxima | 0 |
Comments:
3: geoo (this is better than any of the dirt levels in Lemmoings or ONML iirc, well done)
1: Crane (Like the theme, wish the solution were as cohesive)
1: Gronkling (again, a nice looking level in a style I never use, good work)
1: Clam (if only for the design idea)
3 votes: Prize Catch. Exquisite and imposing.
2 votes: The Isle of Skye. This deserves points for tileset choice alone, but also really excellently done.
1 vote: A sea of purest green. Cool boat, and the dock really completes it.
Gronkling almost went with 3 votes for 'The Hole in the Head Gang' here.
For me, having one last vote available, it was a toss-up between Pooty, Akseli and Steve. I really love the dock in Pooty's level at the right, and the thematic design really stands out, just the ship looks a bit messy (which is I guess why it ended up scoring lower than I expected in the end). I like Akseli's design for its simple elegance. And Steve's design, at least the last version, is pretty unique. I ended up giving a vote to both Akseli and Pooty, at the cost of one vote for Gronkling (so only 1 vote instead of 2), which is a really nice level with beautiful details, unlike most dirt levels in L1 that just look slapped together. 2 points from me go to Clam's thematic design, nice idea and cleanly realized.
Most funlevel | author | points |
Feel the Pressure | Akseli | 10.67 |
Evacuating a Retirement Home | Clam | 10.66 |
A sea of purest green | Pooty | 7.71 |
Prize Catch | Crane | 6.57 |
The "Hole in the Head" Gang | Steve | 4.78 |
Tres Hombres | möbius | 4.48 |
Stroke at Retirement Age | geoo | 3.66 |
The Isle of Skye | Gronkling | 2.9 |
Brute Fours | Proxima | 1.57 |
Comments:
2: Akseli (any level I can spend this long on without actually getting to work is a winner for me)
2: geoo (any level that's intended route stumps everyone )
1: mobius (It's easy but not terribly so and there's a couple ways to do it, I kind of like the idea really)
1: Clam (I have to assume all that stuff isn't just there for background. I think, anyways)
3 votes: Feel the Pressure. Really simple design, but so many things to try, and surprisingly difficult.
2 votes: A sea of purest green. This wins my prize for Best Red Herring. Simon can draw that one up
1 vote: Stroke at Retirement Age. Lots of things to do, and (clearly!) not many that lead to actually solving the level.
Voting is much harder than I initially thought, because I find the levels very equally enjoyable and pretty-looking. Originally I wanted to give votes for the three best levels like 1, 2 and 3 points, but that was too hard. I also thought of giving one point for six levels in both categories due to many good levels, but perhaps that would have been a boring choice. I decided to compromise with my votes.
I concur, I pretty much enjoyed all of the levels as well. I ended up distributing 1 vote to 6 levels each, but order-wise among these I guess things would be Steve >= Akseli > Clam >= Crane > Pooty > Proxima
On a short notice, I asked players to rank the levels by difficulty. 6 players gave me a ranking (I excluded the level by the respective author from the ranking). I assigned 1 to the easiest, 2 to the next easiest, and so on, and took the average.) Here are the results:
Difficultylevel | author | average rank |
Stroke at Retirement Age | geoo | 8.2 |
The "Hole in the Head" Gang | Steve | 6.67 |
The Isle of Skye | Gronkling | 6.2 |
A sea of purest green | Pooty | 5.17 |
Feel the Pressure | Akseli | 4.2 |
Evacuating a Retirement Home | Clam | 4.2 |
Brute Fours | Proxima | 3.5 |
Prize Catch | Crane | 1.83 |
Tres Hombres | möbius | 1.6 |
Some people ranked their own levels:
möbius considered his level the easiest, Akseli considered his the third easiest ('Tres Hombres' Taxing, 'Prize Catch' and 'Feel the Pressure' Mayhem, and everything else above Mayhem).
Pooty's was also interesting, I think he manages to hide the intended solution very well by making it seem like there are a lot of other more straightforward alternatives to try first (ignoring some of the backroutes that needed to be eliminated, though even then it only got to v3).
Special Prizes (names and ideas courtesy of Steve, picture courtesy of Simon):
Brickout Memorial Trophy: Gronkling - The Isle of Skye (8 versions + known backroute by Akseli)
"haha, this won't be so hard at all! ... wait, nothing I try is working WHY?!" award: Akseli - Feel the Pressure
I concur with Steve how surprising Akseli's level was, it looked so deceptively simple but not that easy to actually get a working solution.
Finally, the list of backroute finders:
name | amount | levels |
geoo | 22 | Gronkling v1, Gronkling v2, Gronkling v3, Gronkling v4, Crane v1, Crane v2, Crane v3, Crane v4, Crane v5, Crane v6, Crane v7, Akseli v1, Steve v1, Steve v2, Steve v3, Clam v1, Clam v2, Pooty v1, Pooty v2, möbius v1, möbius v2, möbius v3 |
Akseli | 18 | Gronkling v1, Gronkling v8, Crane v1, Crane v2, Crane v3, Crane v4, Crane v5, Crane v6, Crane v7, geoo v1, Steve v1, Steve v2, Steve v3, Steve v4, Pooty v1, Pooty v2, möbius v1, möbius v2 |
Gronkling | 13 | Crane v1, Crane v7, geoo v1, Akseli v1, Akseli v2, Steve v1, Clam v1, Clam v2, Clam v3, Clam v4, Pooty v1, möbius v1, Proxima v1 |
ccexplore | 12 | Gronkling v1, Gronkling v6, Gronkling v7, Crane v1, Crane v7 (confirm), geoo v1, Steve v1, Steve v2, Steve v4, Pooty v1, möbius v1, Proxima v1 |
Clam | 9 | Gronkling v1, Gronkling v7, Crane v1, Crane v7, geoo v1, Akseli v1, Akseli v2, Steve v1, Pooty v1 |
Pooty | 7 | Gronkling v1, Crane v1, Crane v4, Crane v7, Akseli v1, Steve v1, möbius v3 |
Proxima | 6 | Gronkling v1, Crane v1, Steve v1, Pooty v1, möbius v1, möbius v2 |
Crane | 5 | Gronkling v1, Gronkling v2, Gronkling v3, Steve v1, möbius v1 |
Steve | 5 | Crane v1, Clam v1, Pooty v1, möbius v1, möbius v3 |
lyygak | 2 | Pooty v1, Pooty v2 |
Luis | 1 | Akseli v2 |
Discuss the levels, results, things you liked and things that could have been done better, and things that should be done differently in future contests, below!