01-Dec-2024, 7:53 AM
I didn't mention a deadline in the announcement above. Let's set it at the end of the day of December 23rd where you live, and for any first submissions that arrive before the end of the 8th are eligible for the Early Bird Bonus Chip Cup Point. Please send your submissions directly to me at either my email valeosote at hotmail or PM me on Discord. The primary ruleset for this competition is MS, but Lynx solutions are also accepted.
Those things actually already came up on Discord, but I'm recording them here too. The other thing that came up was a clarification on where the line is between having computer assistance and not. This time I do want to allow solutions built manually using Melinda Router, which has a feature that can be interpreted as outside computational help, specifically by indicating to you if you have reached the same state in slower time than in an other approach you input yourself. I feel you can still be responsible for the main decisions of structuring your route even if this feature happens to help you in some of the bookkeeping. Hopefully this is fair and clear enough to avoid surprising disqualifications of routes or turning away possible participants. I am open to more discussion on this issue, particularly if and when more assisting features are made available in these sort of tools.
I also promised to post a video with some thoughts on the level designs, so here you go:
https://youtu.be/B2tlMOCOxR0
That's all for now. :-)
Those things actually already came up on Discord, but I'm recording them here too. The other thing that came up was a clarification on where the line is between having computer assistance and not. This time I do want to allow solutions built manually using Melinda Router, which has a feature that can be interpreted as outside computational help, specifically by indicating to you if you have reached the same state in slower time than in an other approach you input yourself. I feel you can still be responsible for the main decisions of structuring your route even if this feature happens to help you in some of the bookkeeping. Hopefully this is fair and clear enough to avoid surprising disqualifications of routes or turning away possible participants. I am open to more discussion on this issue, particularly if and when more assisting features are made available in these sort of tools.
I also promised to post a video with some thoughts on the level designs, so here you go:
https://youtu.be/B2tlMOCOxR0
That's all for now. :-)