I'm not going to make a post about the next round or the end of this round until I wake up tomorrow morning. However, I will delete any submissions with an email timestamp that is after midnight tonight New York time.
Complaints for this round are legitimate. Whatever the results, we were playing versions with gameplay differences (therefore, technically different games) and presumably being easier to move arround 10-20k on mobile ones. Stop bullshitting.
The mobile discrepancy could be accounted for by the simple fact that people play it more often if they can play it anywhere and at any time on their phone...
More play = high scores. Most people can't play at work or in class on a computer, and thus probably are simply not playing as often if they're not phone-enabled.
There is no complaining for one simple reason. Can anyone here name one single game for which there is less to complain about? The next round might be one of the only such games.
Complaints != demands to invalidate this round and find a better game. Just stating objective issues that affect the fairness and seriousness of the competition, some times accompained by the level of botheration they produce on us.
So let people complain, wich is totally healthy, and do the best you can with the organization.
If you are serious enough about the competition to complain that the free download flash version might be marginally more difficult than the paid mobile version, you are serious enough to pay the three dollars to buy the download version.
In the same way, if I have to boot into Windows to play a following game, I'm going to spend waaaaaay less time on it than on Canabalt.
I got a high score because I played it for about two hours every morning for three days in a row while waiting for my girlfriend to wake up. If a game requires non-iOS, there's no way I can schedule the same kind of time.
I will grant that the free Flash version is harder to get higher scores on simply because the amount you can see is significantly smaller than on iPhone. But that said, the scores I got on the Flash version were about the same that I get on the iPhone. I'm just not that good at twitch games like this.
There is no complaining for one simple reason. Can anyone here name one single game for which there is less to complain about? The next round might be one of the only such games.
This statement intrigues me.
For this statement to be true, the game must be 100% hardware non-specific.
Some examples of games that fall into this category are puzzle games and board games.
The game ITSELF needs to be solved/played and the hardware is irrelevant.
My initial guess was Tetris for round 2, but now I'm really doubting that. Tetris is VERY hardware specific, and every version plays differently.
Shit, I'm stumped.
Edit: Hmm, now I think about it, a Browser based game probably fits this category too...
Also, original Pacman is a shit game for tournaments. It's a slog of time spent and concentration rather than a more interesting skill once you are basically proficient.
Old arcade game tournaments tend to be tedious to watch and play.
probably CE DX. They have CE DX on Android and iPhone, but not PC. There's also a free flash regular pacman that I used to play all the time that is pretty good.
Also, original Pacman is a shit game for tournaments. It's a slog of time spent and concentration rather than a more interesting skill once you are basically proficient.
Old arcade game tournaments tend to be tedious to watch and play.
Original pacman (like the legit cabinet version) is kinda butt anyway. Ms Pacman is where it got better.
That's a bullshit Pac-Man. Some crappy ass unofficial clone nonsense.
probably CE DX. They have CE DX on Android and iPhone, but not PC. There's also a free flash regular pacman that I used to play all the time that is pretty good.
Yeah, that was really just an example of a game that no-one could complain was unfair based on platform, but now I think about it, ALL browser based games fit this category. You have a fuckton to choose from, I'm sure *some* are good
probably CE DX. They have CE DX on Android and iPhone, but not PC. There's also a free flash regular pacman that I used to play all the time that is pretty good.
That isn't CE DX, it's just CE.
The only phone with CE DX is Windows Phone 8. In other news, I am still the only sane person using WP8.
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More play = high scores. Most people can't play at work or in class on a computer, and thus probably are simply not playing as often if they're not phone-enabled.
So let people complain, wich is totally healthy, and do the best you can with the organization.
In the same way, if I have to boot into Windows to play a following game, I'm going to spend waaaaaay less time on it than on Canabalt.
I got a high score because I played it for about two hours every morning for three days in a row while waiting for my girlfriend to wake up. If a game requires non-iOS, there's no way I can schedule the same kind of time.
For this statement to be true, the game must be 100% hardware non-specific.
Some examples of games that fall into this category are puzzle games and board games.
The game ITSELF needs to be solved/played and the hardware is irrelevant.
My initial guess was Tetris for round 2, but now I'm really doubting that. Tetris is VERY hardware specific, and every version plays differently.
Shit, I'm stumped.
Edit: Hmm, now I think about it, a Browser based game probably fits this category too...
http://www.browserarcade.com/games/classic/pacman/
Old arcade game tournaments tend to be tedious to watch and play.
EDIT: Only Matt has one.