Feburary 2024 Create Competition - An Apple a Day

[MilkyWayWishes]

A Create Competition is a level design contest where anyone can make a level or levels from a given prompt or theme, which are then judged and ranked, with feedback. Whether you're a veteran designer with hundreds of levels or have never made a level before in your life, your submission is welcome here!

This competition is once again hosted by everyone's favourite dynamic duo, Sickly & Sharpeye!

The meme theme this year is: Bad Apple, or specifically, its walls. That's right its a Walls Of competition based on hit meme Bad Apple, using Bad Apple.DAT.
Download here

The only restriction is that you must pick a single level/frame from the set, and you must keep the original walls and add no new wall tiles, anything else can be added or removed, including clone machines or thin walls or similar to make new walls. You must also inform us what the frame number you started with was.

CC1 and CC2 submissions accepted, winners be judged on creativity, and use of the original layout

And finally, some administrative details:

    Submit your level(s) to either sharpeye468 or viviandra on Discord or by PM on the forums on or before March 15th. Extensions will be granted on a case for case basis if one is needed because there are creative ideas flowing, if someone cries enough, or I find $200 USD deposited in my account.
    Whilst you are technically allowed to submit unlimited levels, please note that we will only be judging your best two, so if you submit more you must note which they are.
    Levels should be solvable, if its CC1 please include a TWS or JSON, for CC2 please record a replay for the level.
    We will be looking through the levels around the day of, most likely on a discord stream. Please don't make us get banned.
    If you have any questions about the competition, if a level is legal, or anything of that sort, please don't hesitate to ask here or on Discord.
    Finally, your levels only have to be solvable in as many rulesets as you choose (minimum 1 obviously), if you want to make an MS only level go right ahead. Lynx only? Right on! CC2/Steam only? It makes sense to me. But also do tell us what ruleset(s) each level targets, thanks!

[MilkyWayWishes]

Results! [Click to Show Content]

   

6th place [Click to Show Content]

       

Miika - Apple Limbo

            A very fun Gravity Well style level that was a very nice break from hard puzzles. Although last in the competition this is by no means a bad level, it was quite enjoyable, however in terms of the competition it did use the least original frame components out of all the submissions.
   

   

5th place [Click to Show Content]

       

Chipster - Super Button Bowl

            A nice tricky puzzle that made great use of the original level components, quite fun to try and figure out, although the struggles with the last bowling ball and the ice-railroad section do bring it down a bit.
   

   

4th place [Click to Show Content]

       

ʐ̈ee - Target Triple

            Ultimately we do have to be fair and judge the levels for just this competition, which is a shame because this is an excellent display of level creation made for 3 constraints at once. An excellent puzzle, although the hard mode version is quite tricky (not a bad thing we're just not good at puzzles).
   

   

3rd place [Click to Show Content]

       

Chipster - Now Look At This Key

            Oh this is a good resource management and routing puzzle, trying to figure out the best path to take for each key and lock makes this a nice challenge, especially with the bottom section having a few traps that could kill a run with bad planning. Although we do wonder what the ice-railroad sections are for as they're not needed to complete the level. Great use of original frame components.
   

   

2nd place [Click to Show Content]

       

Jeremy - Darkened Sanctum

            Who put puzzles in our puzzle game. Excellent level, each area adds a new layer to the puzzle that has to be detangled, and they all combine into a wonderful small area puzzle that is a joy to solve (even if we didn't). Excellent use of the original frame.
   

   

1st place [Click to Show Content]

       

ʐ̈ee - Ethereal Chip Secret

            Touhou Project in CC2, an excellent use of wires, the original frame, and of course the competition theme. While it is notably difficult, its not so much that it discourages play, since the patterns can be memorized and worked against fairly easily and then executed. Good work.
   

Further, the levels are attached to this post in a zip, and the streams can be found here:
Sharpeye's Perspective
Sickly's Perspective