January 2016 Create Competition - Palettes

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Final results are in!

Palette 1
1st | Flareon350 | Serene Village | 15 pts
2nd | M11k4 | Double Vision | 12 pts
3rd | Eric119 | Tankometry | 10 pts
4th | MyDisplayName | Teleport Times Eight | 8 pts
5th | ChocophileBenj | The 456977th password | 7 pts
--- | MyDisplayName | The Fun House | - pts
6th | RB3ProKeys | Four Leaf Clover | 6 pts
7th | chipster1059 | Border Patrol | 5 pts
--- | RB3ProKeys | Polarity | - pts
NULL| IHNN | Key Insight | - pts

Palette 2
1st | Flareon350 | Western Standards of Living | 15 pts
2nd | chipster1059 | Walls Without Walls | 12 pts
3rd | RB3ProKeys | Reflexion | 10 pts
4th | M11k4 | Matchbox | 8 pts
5th | Eric119 | Lucky Thirteen | 7 pts
6th | ChocophileBenj | Volcano lake | 6 pts
7th | MyDisplayName | Easy as 1, 2, 3,4 5, 6, 7 ? | 5 pts
--- | MyDisplayName | Six Rooms, Three Exits | - pts
8th | Cyberdog | Lotus on Fire | 4 pts
NULL| IHNN | Diametric Opposition | - pts
BAD | RB3ProKeys | Entropy/Extropy | - pts

Palette 3
1st | Flareon350 | Nectar Meadow | 15 pts
2nd | M11k4 | Bind Mender | 12 pts
3rd | Eric119 | A Few Travellers | 10 pts
4th | RB3ProKeys | Lateral Moraine | 8 pts
5th | ChocophileBenj | Stressful maze | 7 pts
6th | MyDisplayName | Blocks are Not Friends of Bombs | 6 pts
--- | MyDisplayName | Not As Scary As You Think | - pts
7th | chipster1059 | Patterns of Confusion | 5 pts
8th | Cyberdog | Greenland | 4 pts
--- | RB3ProKeys | A Winter's Tale | - pts
NULL| IHNN | Miasma | - pts

Palette 4
1st | chipster1059 | Shapes on the Wall | 15 pts
2nd | Flareon350 | Golden Sand Labyrinth | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">12 pts
3rd | M11k4 | Zookeeper | 10 pts
4th | RB3ProKeys | Dungeon | 8 pts
5th | ChocophileBenj | Smoke on the water | 7 pts
6th | MyDisplayName | Blocks are Not Friends of Bombs | 6 pts
--- | MyDisplayName | Not As Scary As You Think | - pts
--- | RB3ProKeys | Dextrality | - pts
7th | Eric119 | Exercising Bug | 5 pts
8th | random 8 | CYCLOIDS | 4 pts
9th | Cyberdog | Ordivicia | 3 pts
NULL| IHNN | Pyrite Factory | - pts

Totaling up the best 3 from each of these, we get...

Flareon350 | 15 + 15 font='courier new', courier, monospace]+ 15 +[/font] 12 = <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">45 pts (a perfect score :O)
M11k4 | 12 + 8 + 12 + 10 = 34 pts
chipster1059 | 5 + 12 + 5 + 15 = 32 pts
Eric119 | 10 + 7 + 10 + 5 = <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">27 pts
RB3ProKeys | 6 + 10 + 8 + 8 = 26 pts
ChocophileBenj | 7 + 6 + 7 + 7 = 21 pts
MyDisplayName | 8 + 5 + 6 + 6 = 20 pts (my mom)
Cyberdog | 0 + 4 + 4 + 3 = 11 pts
random 8 | 0 + 0 + 0 + 4 = <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">4 pts

Which translates to, in final Chip Cup points...

1st |
Flareon350 | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">15 pts
2nd | M11k4 | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">12 pts
3rd | chipster1059 | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">10 pts
4th | Eric119 | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">8 pts
5th | RB3ProKeys | 7 pts
6th | ChocophileBenj | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">6 pts
7th | MyDisplayName | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">5 pts
8th | Cyberdog | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">4 pts
9th | random 8 | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">3 pts

Congratulations to Flareon350 on a very well deserved win!


Finally, some choice thoughts on 1 level per person, because I don't have the time nor the space to write thoughts on all 40 levels :V

Western Standards of Living: Alongside Nectar Meadow, my favorite level to come from this competition. I preferred this one just because I felt it flowed and looked better- very fun gameplay and visually stunning aesthetics. Exactly what I was hoping to see, not just working around the restrictions, but working with them.

Double Vision and Bind Mender: I know I said 1 per person but I had a question for both of these. For Double Vision, I wasn't able to beat the tank, with my best efforts coming up one move short of sneaking past it. Was this intentional, or are you able to slip past it? Likewise, I believe I busted Bind Mender by using 3 half wait+slide delay tricks to push blocks across force floors. I was unable to find a solution that would work in Lynx, though I suspect there is one. The latter of these is my 3rd favorite from the competition, by the way

Patterns of Confusion: I was only able to solve the level via the bust. What was the intended way- getting lucky with RFFs?

Exercising Bug: I'm going to be honest here, I wasn't able to solve this level. Part of that is I was dead tired when I got to it, and the other part is the level came down to coming up with an idea -> 4 minutes later, test the idea. Moving the blocks into position from all around also felt quite tedious, which was a recurring theme for palette 4 levels...

Entropy/Extropy: Mr. ProKeys, were you even able to solve this level? That goes for A Winter's Tale, Polarity and Four Leaf Clover (in MS- it worked well in Lynx. Polarity, however, was unsolvable in Lynx).

Smoke on the water: I'm pretty sure I busted this by using 5 blocks and the lower cloner to start the toggling in the first place, which gave an irregular rhythm I could turn on or off from another toggle button, remotely. I'd be very interested to see the intended solution to this one

Where are the Chips?: Even though this comment won't be seen, the level really shouldn't have worked in MS at all and only does because of a couple design flukes. Very easy to trigger the controller/boss glitch here.

Greenland: I can see what the intended path through the level is, and it looks really annoying, with juggling blocks around through force floors in a small space to get chips otherwise unreachable, RFFs to pick up chips and especially moving the blocks out of the teeth room. However, my best time is 993

CYCLOIDS: Covered this in the stream a bit, but the level is way too rigid. No variation to the order you can attempt rooms, and any death while working out how one of the many rooms works means you have to do them all again.