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guffguy89 posted...

If it makes you feel any better, I made a similar blunder earlier in this contest that I wasn't going to say anything about, but what the hell, why not.

In the Yuffie/Zidane match, I accidentally voted for Yuffie, when I fully intended to vote for Zidane. I don't know what happened, and didn't even notice it until hours later. Like it was just a complete mental brain fart where I selected the wrong name by accident. Yuffie ended up winning 20-18, so it would've been tied, all else being equal, had I not made that blunder. Whoops. Sorry Zidane!

The worse part about all this is I made a similar mistake when I hosted the Disney music contest. I accidentally saved Be Prepared over Belle when I intended to save Belle, and of couse, the match was decided by a single vote (Belle lost).

As the host, I should be better with this, and the fact that the mistake actually mattered the only two times I ever did it is bizarre.

Haha that does make me feel slightly less dumb, I suppose. Still brutal way for Barret to get eliminated one match away from the finals.

I think my personal dumbest ever contest flub was accidentally saving in the wrong save my. I can't remember specifics, but there were two contests going on that had the same character in it and they both were like in the top ten or something. I was one of the final saves of the round, and I saved the character I wanted to in one topic (I thought) but what I had actually done was saved them in the second topic and eliminated the character I had been saving all along. I forget which two contests it was and I forget which character it was, but it was a brutal way to end things.

Oh dear.

I went back to check to make sure votals were accurate just in case and discovered I did not vote in a match Barret lost by a single vote. I could've sworn I did nearly as soon as I saw the topic so I have no idea what happened.

Kefka

Luigi

Ugh one single vote.

Ah well Barret you had a great run.

Football was a mistake.

Crescent-Moon posted...

Imagine it now.

Bears vs. Jets.

Don't you put that evil on us.

Someone please relegate the Bears before they get another prime time game.

Currently Playing: Grand Tour Legends

What Is It? A bicycle racing game where you aren't really racing.

Gameplay Overview: So, you're racing on bikes. But I use the word "racing" very loosely. All you're doing is controlling your speed, which you do via the crank. You have a stamina bar and you want to pedal while keeping your stamina positive. The faster you pedal, the faster you go but also the faster your stamina drains. If it empties all the way you "BONK" (with the BONK itself appearing in big capital letters) and you can't pedal again until your stamina completely refills. You want to pedal faster up hills and then stop pedaling entirely down hills because your stamina will refill and your momentum will carry you down those hills anyway. Also, probably worth noting there isn't actually characters you're racing against here. To get the game to work, the developer has you in control of a video file. All the opposing racers always finish the race at the same exact time regardless of what you do, and there is no flexibility in that.

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Thoughts:
-How do you even get a racing game on the console? Guess I'll find out!
-Ah, so you don't steer here at all. You just control pedaling speed. That's how you get a racing game on the console!
-I have no idea how to play the game and it doesn't tell me because it's shy. Or because Playdate developers think its cute to give you no instructions and let you figure things out on your own. It isn't cute.
-Ok so first attempt I get fifth place. I mostly figured it out I think. I figured out I go automatically on the downhill portions so if I stop pedaling there I get my stamina back. Nothing too crazy.
-Second attempt I beat the first race and get some sort of bonus "trophy" for never bonking. Good job me.
-Oh a bonk is when you lose all your stamina. Obviously.
-Oh no I beat the game.
-That isn't a joke, either. There are three tracks here and I got first in all three. I think it took me roughly fifteen minutes.
-I also figured out what one of the other trophies is. It is for never getting passed by someone you already passed. No idea what the third trophy is but I didn't get it on any of the stages.
-Also, I boost sometimes? I have no idea how. It just happens randomly at the bottom of hills sometimes.
-Boy, do I wish this game came with "instructions" or "directions" or "a general sense of what the hell to do".
-I go and check the Discord, and this is bonkers. You can scroll through the entire discussion, and the early portions are a descent into madness with theories of how the boost works. No one can figure it out, but there are like five people here that are super competitive and keep trading times back and forth.
-Eventually one of them summons the developer. They explain it thusly: you first have to stop cranking on a downhill portion as youll naturally be carrying momentum at this point. Then, the boost window opens the frame [you] start deceleratingthe exact frame when you start to decelerate is not fixed on the trackit depends on the speed you were going when [you] stopped cranking.
-It is pretty cool the developer showed up.
-Also: WHAT THE FUCK?
-How was I possibly supposed to figure that out on my own. Do you know how far down "guess your speed when you stop pedaling and then the frame when you stop accelerating from your downhill momentum and match the speed of when you stopped pedaling" was on my Bingo card? What kind of madness was this? And then to not explain it in game? What kind of shenanagins is this?
-The best players in the world at this game, who were competitively trading times and actively trying to figure this out, none of them had that as their guess.
-Also, those same players? Afterwards they were like "uh I think I sort of get it but I can't still pull it off consistently." What an awful, terrible mechanic. To 1) not tell you its in the game 2) not explain how to get it and 3) make it so hard to activate that even after you explain it the very best players don't know how to do it right all the time. That's bottom of the barrel game design. It isn't fun to have to guess at how to play the game.
-I will say, boosting doesn't matter for beating it. I got 1st on all three (!) tracks without boosting at all, I don't think. But you definitely need it to get that final achievement on each track.
-I do get it on the first track pretty easily but even on my best run I can't get it on the second track. The guy finishes like maybe a third of a second in front of me so I'm super close.
-I'm nowhere near them on the third track though. The third track has some really poorly defined hills so it's hard to tell when to boost, at all.
-Also I'm terrible at boosting. I pull it off like once every five attempts. It seems like it is borderline frame perfect.
-The longer I play this, the more frustrating it gets. There are only three tracks and you just play them over and over and over. You know what my favorite racing game is? I'll give you a hint: it has more than three tracks. Oh, oops, I only eliminated one game from contention, and it was this one.
-This is a stupid complaint, but there are three racers you can pick from. The have speed and stamina ranked on a scale of 1-5. The first guy has 4 stamina 2 speed, the second guy has 3 stamina 3 speed, and the third girl has 2 stamina 4 speed. So...why the hell is this on a five point scale? No one has a one or a five in anything? What's the point? It's like that scene in This Is Spinal Tap where the one guy confusedly points at his amp like "uh this goes to 11 though" even though its totally meaningless.
-I still can't get those final two hammer achievements. I don't know if I want to. I'm not enjoying myself and I can't keep playing these same two tracks over and over.
-OH. Also. I have no idea how Playdate developers can't figure out how to do a good leaderboard. Snak was the only one I've played so far that kinda got it. I want to know what my rank is. I want to see my rank climb. I shave my best time from 3:01:45 to 3:00:00 on the second track and I have no idea how many people I jump. You only see the top five times and your score isn't ranked at all unless you're there. I know you could, because Snak did it and that game was coming close to setting the Playdate on fire with its slowdown so if those developers could figure it, everyone should be able to.

Time Played: Probably 2 hours or so. Lots of repeats of those second and third courses.
High Score: Track 1: 2:24:19; Track 2: 3:00:00 (yeah, exactly 3 minutes which is more impressive than hammering, I think); Track 3: Can't be bothered to look it up but it isn't that great. Good enough for 1st place though.
Beaten? First place in all tracks, but only 1/3 did I get all achievements. I'm counting that as beaten though as I don't hate myself enough to perfect the other two tracks.
Grade: 3. Racing game that barely counts as racing, that doesn't explain to you how to play it, and that has one real mechanic that seems to barely work. It's lucky I found cranking mildly enjoyable, again, or this would be even lower.
Favorite Part So Far: Getting that hammer on the first course felt pretty cool. Now if only the second and third courses weren't borderline impossible.

Intent matters a lot. And Freddy's intent is far more evil to me. Also for all the 'horror villains aren't actually characters' arguments, that doesn't fit Freddy at all. He's not just some scary monster who lives to cause pain and misery. He actively chose to become a dream demon after murdering (and potentially molesting, version depending) young children, and he relishes in everything he does.

This is absolutely a key distinction between Freddy Krueger and "generic monster with a knife".

Freddy killed kids before he became supernatural. He's human, with human origins, doing what he does to children. He doesn't benefit from what he does or need to do what he does or have any sort of lofty goal in mind. He's not just some generic and ill defined "evil" force with vague origins that might as well just be a bear.

Also he messes with sleep I mean come on how evil can you get.

Carolina
Indianapolis

Game #15 Complete! DYG

Throw This Quote On The Back Of The Box: This game really captures the endless repetition that comes with digging a grave. Most realistic grave digging simulator to date.

Final Thoughts: I had a work trip I had to go on so I spent roughly 2 straight hours playing this at night and slowly spiraling into madness. By the end, I think I liked it more than when I started, but that could also just be the Stockholm Syndrome talking.

I've played enough crank vs non-crank games on the Playdate now that I feel like I can definitively say - using the crank is just kind of fun. Games that don't use the crank on this do so at their peril because I've played straight up bad games where they let me use the crank and my thought always is "well at least the crank part was kinda fun". That's the case here too. I don't think this is a good game but there was something about using the crank for that precision timing that was pretty enjoyable. Like I kept going "ah I can do better" and got stuck in this cycle of playing over and over again trying to top my score.

I got on the leaderboard, which was sort of my goal to consider this one "complete". https://play.date/games/dyg/ Sixth place aw yeah. In your face onedanband. All my homies hate onedanband. But damn, lost to ThrillhouseVH both in grave digging prowess and username awesomeness level.

I got my fill of DYG though. Don't think I'll ever come back. It almost feels more like a mechanic than a full game. You know that part where you have to start the generators in Dead By Daylight? This game is basically just that without the game part around it. You just use the crank to match the movement on the indicator over and over again, and you really need to chain them together. So doing one in a row means nothing to your score, and it isn't until you start digging out 10/12 inches at a time that you're really going to make a run for the leaderboard. That person at the top of the leaderboards probably never missed a single swing.

It is definitely repetitive as hell, too. Like you're always doing the same movement. From top right to bottom, then from bottom to top left. That second bit is only for throwing out the dirt though so you don't need to time it like the first half, but it is that same movement over and over and over. It's borderline maddening after a while. I'm not sure why I played it as long as I did. If someone asked me what I was doing, I would've said, "digging a grave" and if they asked why I would've said "because ThrillhouseVH won't stop taunting me from his deeper grave."

Oh, and the interface to this game is awful. You don't actually see how deep your run is after you finish it unless you were watching the bottom of the screen to see the number you were at. That straight up disappears once you lose and then you don't see any number after that so if you weren't looking you just have to guess. The game doesn't show you your all time high score for reasons I can't begin to guess at. And then the in game leaderboard only shows you the top two depths of all time by showing you how tall the gravestone is without any numbers attached to it. At the end of every run too (although you can skip it). Why? Why is it like this? Why do I have to go to the website to see the top ten overall depths with actual numbers attached? Why can't the leaderboard be in game, with numbers?

Also, if you aren't in the top ten you don't actually see where you're placing. I know Playdate has the ability to do that because I was tracking my progress in Snak. Any game with a bad leaderboard is going to get yelled at going forward because I know it isn't a hardware issue now. You can do leaderboards on the Playdate, and if you are a score chasing game you have to. That's the rules. No leaderboards, no score chasing.

Should You Play It? I'd say no, probably. Like...ok, the crank is fun enough but there are other games that do that and do a better job. Do you really want to be the best grave digger in the world? That's a borderline cry for help, honestly.

Final Score: 3, again. Slightly better than Whitewater Wipeout because I like the precision cranking here a bit more. Slightly better than Snak on account of it not feeling broken when you start scoring high enough. Just below Lost Your Marbles as that was at least better than endless non-stop grave digging.

Games Completed: 15/118

Game Rankings:
15) Boogie Loops
14) A Joke That's Worth 0.99 Cents
13) Whitewater Wipeout
12) Snak
11) DYG
10) Lost Your Marbles
9) Demon Quest '85
8) Flipper Lifter
7) Questy Chess
6) Echoic Memory
5) Omaze
4) Sasquatchers
3) Casual Birder
2) Pick Pack Pup
1) Crankin's Time Travel Adventure

I expect Al Michaels to just drop his microphone and walk out into Lake Michigan sometime in the middle of the second quarter.

I can't imagine there being thirty that are worth watching.

I can't imagine there are ten worth watching, tbqh.

I think Pennywise counts as a cosmic horror entity too from that same list. Although thats probably defined more clearly by the book than the movie.

20/30

1/2 Terry Bradshaw movie tho

Cioccolota

First easy one in a while!

Alucard

Vanille
Auron

Currently Playing: DYG

What Is It? You dig and then you dig and then you dig and then you die and you look at your wallet and go "oh no, my three dollars!"

Gameplay Overview: It is a digging simulator. There is an indicator along the bottom that you follow to dig. The important bit is the downward swing to actually "dig" and that part is timed. If you move along with the indicator, you dig! If you miss, you clank and no digging occurs. The movement appears random, sometimes super fast and sometimes very slow. You want to dig as deep as you can before time runs out (indicated by a setting sun behind you).

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Thoughts:
-DYG is the second non Season 1 game I've played now. I was just looking around the catalogue and this one stuck out to me for some reason. It is a game I downloaded solely for the name. One of these days Ill look into games beyond the titles but today is not that day.
-Uh. Did it start?
-Im just a guy with a shovel and there is no intro or anything. So Im not quite sure what to do.
-What the fuck? The game ended while I was typing this.
-Oh. DYG is DIG YOUR GRAVE. You apparently have like ten seconds to dig as deep as you can I guess? Im not positive. I was typing and not touching anything and then the sun set and I died and those words popped up on the screen. It goes right back to another attempt though. I have no idea what my goals are or how to play. Woo hoo?
-It took a little bit of messing around with, but I think I figured it out. This is like the fourth Playdate game Ive played that doesnt tell you how to play it. I have no idea why they think that is fun. "Hey our game is short as hell - maybe if we don't tell them what the hell to do it will extend play time by a whole five minutes?" is probably the prevailing thought.
-So, theres this indicator at the bottom of the screen. You move the crank around as indicated and its supposed to mimic moving your shovel and tossing dirt out. If you dont hit the timing right, it makes this clank noise and you dont go any further. Get the timing right and you dig.
-Thats, uh, it. Thats all the things in this game I think.
-So far my top score is six inches. The all time top score is 2425 by Quinndini. Why Quinndini? Who hurt you?
-Ok, so if you get several digs right in a row, you get a multiplier and you start digging more at once. -So it starts with 1 then 2 inches then 3 inches, increasingly linearly like that every couple of successful digs. Hulk over here digging like ten feet at a time eventually.
-I have no clue if missing makes the time go faster or if there is a global timer that you just have to deal with. The game doesnt tell you because it hates you.
-Top score so far is 70 inches. Tenth place is 387 inches. I have no clue if I have the patience or desire to actually try for that though.
-Ill give this another shot in a bit but I dont know how much longer I want to keep playing it. Im not interested, really. Shouldve just set my three dollars on fire.
-OH. One other thing. Playdate games need to figure out how to do a leaderboard system because so far on Snak has any clue what its doing. Snak showed you what place you were in. Like, you couldnt view the full leaderboard but it would be like hey that score is 26th place so you actually felt like you were climbing the leaderboard. I have no clue how my score of 70 is. What place is that? Why do you only show the top two scores at the end, and not even show what my score was so I have to look and play attention when I know its almost over to actually figure out how deep I am? There is zero content to this game, why couldnt you have at least included a personal high score?
-Spoilers: this one isnt going to rank very high.

Time Played: 15 minutes. I already feel like I've exhausted everything there is to do with this game.
High Score: A whole 70 inches. So close to a true six feet under.
Beaten? Um. Sure. I saw the ending, which is them showing you the top two high scores you will never achieve.
Grade: 2 or a 3. Have I mentioned I'm not a huge fan of score chasers? That's even more true when they're 1) not fun and 2) as basic as this one.
Favorite Part So Far: Seeing DYG spell out "dig your grave". I imagine the developer thought out this game for that specific bit alone and then stopped thinking entirely after that.

NYG are criminally high on that list.

Barret
Cloud

Auron
Cecil

Big Boss

How tf did this Giants team win two games?

Game #14 Complete! Snak

Throw This Quote On The Back Of The Box: Snak

Final Thoughts: Oof, what a bummer. This one started off so promising. First off, and this is going to sound like damning with faint praise, but they have a leaderboard system! A good one that updates automatically! Go and check them out here: https://play.date/games/snak/. They also show top five in the game and what your rank is, but you get a top ten on the website. I'm thegoodgurmain, so I'm ranked on all the leaderboards so I am one of the world's foremost Snak experts. What an embarrassing thing to be an expert of.

Score chasing, quick reflex type of arcade gameplay seems like a good idea but this one doesn't work. First, the core concept is flawed. The apples move on your back and cannot jump on if you've doubled up on yourself, so the best strategy becomes to start winding yourself up and down to create a loop you can jump back on top of when needed. Since you don't need to chase down the apples, you can basically ignore them and just wait until you get to a point you need to loop back on yourself. It makes the game a lot more boring than you initially think because that whole frantic, jumping over yourself to avoid apples and nab ones running away from you only lasts the first 30 seconds or so of the run. The rest is just repeating the pattern you built over and over until you possibly fall asleep which sounds like a joke but was something that almost happened to me twice mid run.

The other factor that torpedos this game is the slowdown, which is inexcusable. It is really, really bad after 150 or so. So bad in fact that the late game is significantly easier than the early game. On that second most difficult setting (Snaaaak), I could get to 150 points roughly once out of every 3 to 4 times. But if I got to 150, I was guaranteed to get to 350 or so. There is only one way you can lose, and that is if an apple randomly spawns at that little loop section you can't double up on right after you make it. Otherwise, as long as you don't fall asleep, you're going to fill the whole screen. The slowdown is so bad and you're moving so slow and you're just following a pattern that it becomes utterly mindless, and not fun.

I like the idea of taking a classic game and remixing it to make your own thing. Fun ideology. This is just a horrendous example of that, and all it did was make me wish I was playing Snake.

Should You Play It? On the one hand, it's free with the season. On the other hand, there really isn't any reason to. It doesn't show off the crank, it isn't a lot of fun, it is borderline broken...just a mess of a game, really. I got some mild entertainment climbing the leaderboards but there are so many better options out there that you can probably skip this.

Final Score: 3. Just straight up bad. Ever so slightly better than Whitewater Wipeout for me just because that was a score chaser that is even less interesting, even if the use of the crank was good. They're almost tied, but slight nod to Snak.

Games Completed: 14/118

Game Rankings:
14) Boogie Loops
13) A Joke That's Worth 0.99 Cents
12) Whitewater Wipeout
11) Snak
10) Lost Your Marbles
9) Demon Quest '85
8) Flipper Lifter
7) Questy Chess
6) Echoic Memory
5) Omaze
4) Sasquatchers
3) Casual Birder
2) Pick Pack Pup
1) Crankin's Time Travel Adventure

Washington (+3.5)
HOUSTON (-2.5)

bonus 6

oops early game

0-2
Atlanta
Cleveland
LA Rams
New England
New Orleans
Baltimore
Houston
Indianapolis
Las Vegas
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
LA Chargers

I kinda think this one should at least be a semi-finals.

I dunno who to vote for. Hopefully I remember to come back this time

Vanille
Kefka

Professorson

Tifa
Cloud

A few of Alex's crimes in the novel that aren't depicted in the film include him getting two 10 year old girls drunk and then subjecting them to rape.

jfc

Also it sounds like he was more "cured" that cured.

Alex is volunteered for a government experiment intended to "cure" psychopaths such as himself. The experiment, known as the "Ludovico technique", consists of Alex being strapped to a chair with his eyelids being held open while drugged, and being forced to watch a series of extremely disturbing film images which, when shown in combination with the drugs, traumatize Alex and make him hypersensitive to the type of violence and mayhem he used to enjoy, to the point that he can become physically ill just by thinking about it. Alex is still evil, but is now harmless because he can't act on any of his impulses without hurting himself.

I'll say Alex for now. These two are very close but I'll give the first passage a quoted above a slight nod.

I'm also very unfamiliar with both of these characters.

Help.

Mario

Radix posted...

and we back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvS28XD9VTU

00:00:00 - Intro
00:07:10 - Skate or Die
00:28:18 - Super Off-Road
00:51:00 - Super Dodge Ball
01:27:00 - Ghostbusters
01:43:30 - Ice Climber
01:59:20 - Master Chu & The Drunkard Hu
02:23:30 - Super Spy Hunter
02:46:40 - Rockin' Kats

heard of some and played none. will watch video later

I feel like he's way too lenient on Ice Climber here. His experience with it ended with him (rightly) getting frustrated and saying "fuck this" before closing out of the game.

Ice Climber is my least favorite title on the NES. I fully admit I haven't played nearly the full library but my gosh is that game absolutely putrid. It also doesn't do it justice to play until you lose and then try level 30 one time and then stop. To fully let that hatred seep into you, you need to play it until you beat it. That's when the madness truly begins to crush your soul.

Oh, this doesn't matter but that scoreboard you see in that last image is also strangely broken. It goes from 0-99, then back to 0 then it counts upwards and will go over 100. So that 214 is actually a 314 and the previous high score of a 173 was a 273. No clue why it does that but it's weird.

Still Playing: Snak

Thoughts:
-Well, time to chase some high scores!
-My goal is to get on the leaderboard for one of these modes. Let's see how long that takes.
-Leaderboards are also posted on the game page on the Playdate website, for the curious: https://play.date/games/snak/
-First thought: Okay so it looks like Snaaaaak will be the easiest. Tenth place is 155 which is nothing. I'm already at 70 after barely trying!
-Second though: Who the fuck is 2257259091194867 and why are they 100 POINTS BETTER than literally everyone on every high score board?
-2257259091194867 is a robot built to Snak and only Snak. We can only hope he doesn't gain sentience and view us as the apples he must consume.
-Seriously though what the hell 2257259091194867 save some Playdate high scores for the rest of us.
-It is not as easy as I thought it would be to get on the Snaaaaak leaderboards. The snake moves so damn fast in this mode and I'm having trouble getting 70 again. What sort of Snak zone was I in last night?
-I do eventually top it, getting to 100. Let me try one of the baby modes first and see if I can get on that high score board.
-Im curious exactly how big these score boards are and how many people are actually trying, so I check by repeatedly only boosting my score by one. I'll try Snaak as that one is pretty easy and I don't have a score posted yet. Snaak score of 4 gets me 1721st place.Snaak score of 5 is 1611. Snaak score of 6 is 1507. Snaak score of 8 is 1314. Snaak score of 9 is 1220. Snaak score of 10 is 1136. Snaak score 11 is 1064. Snaak score of 12 is 977. Snaak score of 13 is 902. Snaak score of 14 is 830. Snaak score of 15 is 743. Snaak score of 16 is 672. Snaak score of 17 is 615.
-Even 17 is barely what I'd be consider trying, so I would guess less than 500 people actually tried multiple times to get a score posted to this mode. Time to embarrass those 500 losers.
-I try and I get a score of uh 273. Good for 11th and one off the leaderboard. AH NUTS.
-Also the slowdown in this game gets craaaaazy when you get this far in. It really messes up with the performance and it kinda ruins the experience a bit.
-Ive pretty much figured out the way to win and now Im just replaying the same pattern over and over. Fun.
-Since the apples climb on you, once you get long enough it is better to just let them crawl along your back towards your head and then loop back on your own body to snatch them up. They only seem to go ever so slightly faster than me so Im mostly free to ignore them unless they climb on super close to my head.
-Uh so using my method I get to 4th place. thegoodgurmain. That's me on the leaderboard suckaaaaaaas
-I'd like to thank those of you who supported me and rub this in the face of those three of you that told me I'd never amount to anything in Snak (you know who you are).
-I also go back and get on the leaderboard for Snak default. Snak Classic? Whatever, I'm 10th now. I might try again to get up to at least 9th so my leaderboard spot isn't so perilous.
-I'm going to try to get on the leaderboard for the other three modes and then I'll call it done.
-But. Bad news. This game is worse than I thought it was. Worse than the default version of Snake, honestly.
-Couple of issues. First is the slowdown. It is horrendous. Like I'm half expecting smoke to come billowing out the side of my Playdate. If you heard of someone who died in a Playdate related fire, just know that was me and avenge my death at the hands of Snak.
-Slowdown is so bad it works to your benefit though. After you get to 100 or so, it gets soooo much easier it's crazy. Your movement is so damn slow that it is incredibly easy to make each and every turn you need to. There's no challenge and I swear that the only reason I had to do Snak twice to get on the leaderboard after I figured out the best strategy is because I yawned really big and crashed into the side of the wall mid-yawn. This games best defense is boring you into a stupor.
-Beyond that though, there is a fundamental flaw in the design that wasn't obvious to me at first. The hard part about Snake is those little dots appearing around seemingly randomly and having to chase them down and maneuver your snake around different patterns. I could be wrong as I wasn't a Snake expert, but each game felt different to me.
-Here, because the apples literally climb on you and go towards your head, every attempt is the same by the end. Once you get to say 40 or so, there is zero point going after apples. I would do a loop.A long line at the end, go down, then up and down until I got to the middle or so, then come back to the other end. The apples honestly aren't fast enough to get you unless they jump on really close to your head. It's hard to describe, but here's what I mean:
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-That's actually sideways from the best strategy I found, but you can sort of see what I'm talking about. The limitation there are those little bits in the middle where you have to loop around and jump back on yourself, so it is actually a bit better if you turn that sideways as there are less squares you don't double up on, thus extending the maximum possible footage you get doubling up on yourself.
-It becomes this endless loop. Apples only spawn on the sides, and they cannot climb on you when you're doubled up, so you have this huge buffer built in where they cannot start chasing you, and they are no where near fast enough to catch up. So every attempt is forming that and going back and forth back and forth. Mind you, the game is so slow at this point that timing becomes really easy.
-Which, brings me back to one final little point: 2257259091194867 you cheating bastard
-Fuck you 2257259091194867 all my homies hate 2257259091194867
-Those second place scores I think are essentially "perfect" runs. You cannot triple up on yourself, and trying to jump over a double is a death. My best score is 361, but that was with leftover space on the loops. I think if you get lucky and double up perfectly on that extra space your last time going over yourself, you should be able to hit 371-373 which is when the entire screen is fully doubled up, nowhere else left to go period.
-So how the hell does 2257259091194867 get a score in the mid/upper 400s? It shouldn't be possible unless he's found out some trick or hack.
-TELL ME YOUR SECRETS 2257259091194867. I WANT TO KNOW.

Time Played: I haven't really been keeping count. At least 3 hours. A lot of that time is me slowly watching my lagging snake trudge around at speeds lower than most elderly mall walkers.
High Score: 361 on Snaak. 4th place bby. 353 on Snak because I tried to get cute at the end and double up on the "extra" space to get above 361 but I messed up. Shouldn't have gotten greedy. 95 on Snaaaaak but that'll get easier too once I lag it enough. 0 on the other two modes but I'll get there.
Beaten? Beat the game so bad it is borderline broken
Grade: We might have a 3 on our hands. Worse, broken Snake clone is not a good thing.
Favorite Part So Far: Finding out the true villain of the Playdate commuinty: 2257259091194867. I'll find you someday, you stone cold bastard.

Car

Robazoid posted...

This was mostly a bad day, bad job everyone

You jerks killed FFIX.

Ramza
Barret

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