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54 I'm getting better, but definitely a second-class player compared you bastards!

2 player bonus, with my son [Darth Kinzer] - made it to the 3rd maze.

got 40 several times tonight... guess that's a sign it's time to post that score!

Only shrink the world if you need to in order to add something truly compelling... given how fast you can gallop, emptiness is not a concern to me. I'd frankly be concerned if the world felt too small! This seems so close to finished, and there's a great polished feel to most of it. I look forward to seeing what you come up with to replace the bats.

I like the basic gameplay and concept, but it would be nice if the player sprite was anything, you know, other than a box

Oof. 29. I have a looong way to go this week.,,

Played this new demo for the first time tonight, and here's my thoughts. General concept and execution is top notch. It looks great and controls well, with great character and enemy sprites/animation and a nice colorful playfield. Jousting on the road gives me a little trouble, but I'm sure it won't be a problem with a little more practice on my part. I particularly liked how the foot soldiers became skeletons as I progressed, and the larger dragon appears. For what it's worth, though, I don't care for the bats. They don't look terribly interesting, don't do much, and just disappear when they die. The dragons and foot soldiers are all well designed and animated, noticeably attack the castles, and have death animations. I would axe the bats to add something, whether it's the fabled princess or not. I'm ok with only one dragon at a time for the sake of more enemies types. First run through got me to the 5th wave.

Luck player # 20, I believe! Double Score all around!

Oof! Crypts has it in for me tonight! Wandering monsters came stacked 4 deep, with 2 or 3 in almost every lair. Randomized, my ass! Clear 3 fewer levels and still almost hit my previous high score. Now it's an hour and a half later and I don't have time to play again. Argh!

Submarine Commander: 2375. I don't see how you all are scoring so well on this game. Every shot a hit, I guess?

There's actually a much, much easier way. The turns consistently appear at the same number. The first one is at 7, next at 15, then I think 24, etc. If you pay attention, it's the same point every time. Or, the only time the track turns left twice.

I see Wonder Woman didn't make the team?

Thanks for the shout-out ! Glad I made your cut-off in my [slightly late] debut season.

Ok, so I said I'd post at 10K, so this is a little early... but a wizard had me in a lair and I ran out of wand AND ring, so there's nothing I could do, and it's late: Totals so far: Night Driver [old] - 75 Spike's Peak [old] - 80,250 Submarine Commander [new] - 2240 Crypts of Chaos [new] - 9695 Jacob, looks like Chaos is between you and me! I believe my cumulative works up to 1,461,250 now, though I'm not sure how that ranks with everyone else's recent scores...

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JACOB!! THE CRYPTS OF CHAOS LAYOUT REALLY HELPED ME TO IMPROVE MY SCORE!! So I suppose the difference in propriety is posting maps halfway through the competition, rather than the second night? Welcome oyama, and thanks to SeaGtGruff for making them @ DT, uh what?? lol I don't think there's a differ in propriety?, REASON WHY IS... I just posted these Crypt maps here "6 hours" after I used them, I was mostly working on spikes peak by second day, and in 2 days I did 3 (no map runs) at Crypts of Chaos, I decided to go find and use 'em. Then I put the link down at the HSC here hours later, not on purpose days later. People can still use them for another full week. If I was to post them 2 days before competition end, yeah then I see a difference in propriety. No biggie... I was just recalling some debate when I posted the Fathom map early in that week's competition.

Modest bumps in 2 games tonight... Crypts of Chaos: 5,553 Spike's Peak: 80, 250 [does not display correctly on my 1984 model 7800, but I monkeyed with the port enough to get my VCS on tonight] I'll post new pictures once I crack 10K and 100K, respectively. No way I'm gonna hit 80 on Night Driver [seriously, WTF kind of mad skillz does that take!?!], and 3K in the [yellow?] Submarine seems beyond my torpedo range. Should be hitting 1 million combined competition score here soon.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JACOB!! THE CRYPTS OF CHAOS LAYOUT REALLY HELPED ME TO IMPROVE MY SCORE!! So I suppose the difference in propriety is posting maps halfway through the competition, rather than the second night?

I've been using these as well, though I recommend changing the black background to white before printing them out.

I think I'm about peaked here:

Too much wine to play well last night, so I hopped on first thing this morning and finally got into the 2K club on Submarine Commander where all the cool kids are: Having a rough hardware week, though... possibly a gremlin infestation... The wiring on a joystick went bad, and I had to transfer pieces with another broken joystick to get one working, one of my paddle sets seems close to going now, and the left controller port on my VCS is on the fritz [not sure who in the area can re-solder it] so I'm playing through my 7800 now, which has not been modded and thus everything is pretty muddy looking on my big screen now Thankfully none of these games have tiny fast moving things to track [ala DK Jr] so I should be okay to play. Also, Stan, you're making me nervous! These last weeks you've been groovin' hard and catching up on the overall rankings.

Improvements in 3 games today: Spike's Peak - 57,100 [frustrating funkiness, with a death-dance-shuffle too] Crypts of Chaos - 4287 [time=score, this'll take a looong time to really master, oh Snail-Lord] Submarine Commander - 1575 [can't yet anticipate the fast boats by radar] And, of course, I keep scoring 70 on Night Driver - Every Other Freaking Game I Play! - so I have hopes of adding a couple more points to my best before the competition is up [afraid this set of paddles might not survive, though]

improvement on Submarine Commander: 1200

Boy, do I play a lot more Atari these days. Broke a joystick today

Joining the Night Driver 70 club... with... 70 points. Am I correct in assuming that the maximum score for a timed game is 90?

Night Driver improvement: 65! [camera is with my wife and daughter in Chicago]