Feburary 2022 Create Competition - Monochromatization

[MilkyWayWishes]

Blue/Cyan [Click to Show Content]

    Gliders, gliders, and yet more gliders. The blue ocean and the surfing sharks. That being said there was still a good variety of levels in this one.

   

6th place [Click to Show Content]

        Bacorn - BLAARGH

        :nicememe:

   

   
   

5th place [Click to Show Content]

        Dave - Blue Heron

        CHIPMINE without the chip. Pretty good use of fake exits to trick up the player, however I'm afraid not even that can make up for the 200 second blue wall maze, and the blind death tele, ouch, mean.

   

   
   

4th place [Click to Show Content]

        76 Tanks Cloned, Leading the Big Parade - ChosenID

        You can find my comments on this in my PhD thesis. Good spectacle, fun to watch, no idea what's going on without checking a memory editor.

   

   
   

3rd place [Click to Show Content]

        JB - Wild Blue Yonder

        Big, a little too big in our opinions. Despite that its still a good level and a fun puzzle, it just suffers from a bit of "ok what the hell is over there?"

   

   
   

2nd place [Click to Show Content]

        Glander - COLD REDIRECT

        Boss there's puzzles in my puzzle game. Good level, very clear what you're supposed to do and how you should do it without the solution being obvious or trivial.

   

   
   

1st place [Click to Show Content]

        Uberliam - Running in the Pool Area

        Short and pretty sweet, doesn't wear it outself out, might want to consider a slight redesign on the bottom-left section, its a bit... iffy as is.

   

   

red/yellow [Click to Show Content]

    Now this is a tough palette, very good levels from everyone here, even a low rank is still pretty high overall.

   

6th place [Click to Show Content]

        Tom Brown - Reactor Core Meltdown

        Its a neat idea and I am a fan of some tight maneuvering block puzzles, however this level is way too damn big, you spend over half the time waiting around for thing to happen. Please shrink the fireball area in future.
       
        Also side note, completely my fault but this was accidently left out of the inital stream and Sharpeye and I have not had the time to do another sync'd stream, I'm extremly sorry for this but I assure you we played the level.

   

   
   

5th place [Click to Show Content]

        JB - When the Fire Nation Attacked

        I'll just preface this by saying we didn't have the ability to fully evaluate this due to a missing TWS or JSON so our perspective was a bit lacking.
       
        Despite that its a very good level, lots of interconnected puzzles and tricks, wish we had some more time to go through it properly.

   

   
   

4th place [Click to Show Content]

        Chipster1059 - You Can't Flame It With You

        More teeth! More fireballs! More bombs! There's quite a bit going on in this level and figuring out all the disjoint parts was quite fun, even if a slight bit tedious at times.

   

   
   

3rd place [Click to Show Content]

        Jeremy - The Towering Inferno

        Run, and do it fast, now even faster. Big brain level, takes a few tries and inspections to figure out what's going on and is quite action packed once you have that. Good level.

   

   
   

2nd place [Click to Show Content]

        Like a Phoenix - Bacorn

        Boss there's even more puzzles in my puzzle game. This feels like a (somewhat) early CCLP3 level (that's a compliment). Difficult but not unfair, fun to figure out, wish we had more time to play it honestly.

        How does the bug move again?

   

   
   

1st place [Click to Show Content]

        Ida - Fire and Fury

        She does it again, I don't know how but everytime we throw out a silly contest idea Ida comes in and shatters our expectations. The game of life? In CC2, I had forgotten about that, excellent use of it. Got dang.

   

Green [Click to Show Content]

    A sickly green aura permeates through this palette.

   

3rd place [Click to Show Content]

        Miika - Feet of Clay

        Agony agony agony agony agony agony agony. Sir please have the last movement of the blob be trapped so that the level can't be screwed by RNG at the very end.

   

   
   

2nd place [Click to Show Content]

        Flareon350 - The Greenhouse Effect

        Pretty good level especially given the restrictions with this palette, however it started to decay quite a bit at the end with blobs and teeth being thrown at the player.

   

   
   

1st place [Click to Show Content]

        ChosenID - Monochromatization is Insanity

        Whilst I've got mixed feelings on abusing MSCC to summon things from outside the dedicated palette, I do love me some good old MSCC abuse. And this MSCC abuse was attached to a fun puzzle, good job.

   

Grey [Click to Show Content]

    I am so sorry for this palette.

   

5th place [Click to Show Content]

        Flareon350 - Monotonous Monarchy

        Yeah this is really about the limit of what you can do with the grey palette.

   

   
   

4th place [Click to Show Content]

        Miika - Thunderbird

        See prior.

   

   
   

3rd place [Click to Show Content]

        JSON - STRONGHOLD OF SECURITY

        This one can be figured out live, I think. We're not smart enough for this stuff.

   

   
   

2nd place [Click to Show Content]

        Uberliam - Dogfight

        This one is pretty alright, should really consider making it more obvious where the gaps in the walls in the bottom-right are and reducing the possibility of getting screwed by an invis wall in the bottom left.

   

   
   

1st place [Click to Show Content]

        Dave - Grey Goose

        There's puzzles here, nice.

   

Pink [Click to Show Content]

    The first (and only) CC2 only palette

   

2nd place [Click to Show Content]

        Chipster1059 - ELECTRIC ROLLER

        This is the second time Sharpeye and I have run a comp and its the second time a Chipster level has sent us into hysterics, keep that up.
       
        Good level overall, nice set of puzzles that don't feel bad to redo if you mess one up, plus the bust is funny as hell. Good job.

   

   
   

1st place [Click to Show Content]

        Ida - Pink Parade

        Ida please leave some winnings for the other designers. Great level, tight timing, however its replayably tight. Even the one section we struggled with is pretty alright (and would have been easier if we weren't brain dead).

   

So that makes the overall winner:

Secret! [Click to Show Content]

    Ida! With Fire and Fury, what a damn good level, using gimmicks almost everyone has forgotten about in novel ways. You should be proud, congratulations!