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| Chill Observer:
Note: We have began broadcasting again, but this forum will no longer be updated. The following thread is preserved here for archival purposes. Stream Link Here: Touhou Replay Showcase For ALL intents and purposes, please visit Maribel Hearn's Touhou Replay Showcase page on his Github. Credits to ZM, Pearl, Permafrost Wolf and others for contributions, as well as Yu-miya's replay party stream for the original idea. Greetings, Touhou fans of all varieties of backgrounds! As a way of showing the diversity of the western Touhou community, we have decided to start a weekly stream in which we present and commentate on your Touhou player-made replays. We aim to demonstrate how different kinds of players approach the Touhou games at various skill levels, in addition to broadening gameplay perspectives. Whether your run is a survival or score attack run, from easy to lunatic difficulty, all submissions are welcome and we encourage you to showcase yourself to the gameplay community. Before submitting your replay, however, here are some general guidelines. * You may submit runs of any difficulty, survival or scoring. Main game, stage practice and spell card practice are all accepted. * Replays MUST be of your own. If we find out you stole a replay, you will be banned from having any and all future replays showcased. * We accept no-shooting/pacifist replays, but we will fast forward through them. * For obvious reasons, no runs that involve the use of TAS or cheats. The only exception is runs that go faster than the regular speed of 60 frames per second. * For survival: Any kind of submission is acceptable. Make sure you specify them. * For scoring: Make sure to include significant scoring strategies. Don't submit a survival run as a score run. Check the hiscores page for reference. The stream itself will take place on Saturday and Sunday, 3PM EST every week. Each player is restricted to one submission per month. For all related Touhou game replay uploads, please use Lunarcast, credits to Tom for making the site. Make sure to link your uploaded replay in the submission form! For fangames, upload via video (YouTube, etc. it can be unlisted don't worry). Looking forward to seeing your replays! :) If this garners enough steam this will become regular for sure. w Also I totally did not copy the exact post as I wrote on Reddit and Eientei Stream highlights with the entries |
| RB:
Are runs with Ultra patches acceptable? |
| Chill Observer:
--- Quote from: RB on September 14, 2016, 02:38:05 AM ---Are runs with Ultra patches acceptable? --- End quote --- They are... although that requires me installing the ultra patches in the first place. :p Just make sure you state that the run is ultra somewhere in your submission. Also if your submission doesn't get shown this week then it'll simply be saved for the next. I'll log the ones that have already been shown. |
| Mikuru:
This sounds great, and I'd love to take part and have the professionals pick apart some of my replays. I just have a query about one of your guidelines: --- Quote from: Satorical Komeijist on September 14, 2016, 01:38:14 AM ---For scoring: Your score run must be at a considerably different level than a survival run. In other words, don't submit a survival run as a score run. --- End quote --- You see, I'm the kind of player for whom survival and scoring are not separate goals. I always try to score, even if it's a category I haven't cleared yet. I try to learn scoring techniques a little at a time and incorporate them into my runs. I'm nowhere near professional scoring level yet -- but I'd still prefer my runs to be treated as scoring runs and for you to tell me what's good and what needs improvement. Is that okay? Or maybe I should mark my runs as both survival and scoring to show that I'm kind of a bit of both? |
| amalgam:
I just made a submission (IN Hard, Alice Solo); thanks for this initiative! I was wondering if you could provide instructions on how to view this weekly stream, as I have no background on streaming in general and would like to watch. Normally, I consider myself an insular and stubborn Touhou player when it comes to outside advice - that's just a result of really enjoying the process of trying to work things out by myself and not being exposed to too many 'spoilers', even when I'm having difficulty. But I also would like to share my Touhou playing with others, and see what strategies others have come up with. I also think the goal of "showing the diversity of the western Touhou community" is a good one, and I hope it encourages more community participation in Touhou playing :) --- Quote from: Mikuru on September 14, 2016, 01:37:27 PM ---This sounds great, and I'd love to take part and have the professionals pick apart some of my replays. I just have a query about one of your guidelines: You see, I'm the kind of player for whom survival and scoring are not separate goals. I always try to score, even if it's a category I haven't cleared yet. I try to learn scoring techniques a little at a time and incorporate them into my runs. I'm nowhere near professional scoring level yet -- but I'd still prefer my runs to be treated as scoring runs and for you to tell me what's good and what needs improvement. Is that okay? Or maybe I should mark my runs as both survival and scoring to show that I'm kind of a bit of both? --- End quote --- I think this is a good point to raise - in my opinion whilst there are obviously 'pure' score runs and 'pure' survival runs, there are definitely runs that are on a continuum between the two. Would the threshold for inclusion as a 'scoring run' be something above what a 'defensive/conservative' NMNB could achieve? Also, there's a distinction between intent and result - somebody could be trying to do a scoring run but not do very well and get a lower score, but the replay could still indicate a preference towards scoring-based play rather than survival-based play. For example, suppose I play SA, and I try some of the easier scoring strategies (increasing graze via timing out attacks, using bombs as ReimuA, positioning my character in riskier positions). I could still end up with a score lower than that achieved by a No Miss run, simply from dying due to the added risks I'm taking. On the other hand, to a relatively average player like me, the scoring runs at a significant percentage of World Record scores are obviously on a whole other level of gameplay to what most of us can achieve. It's almost like watching a different game mode being played, and I think it is important to maintain this distinction. My personal preference in this case would be to allow ticking both 'scoring' and 'survival' in the online submission form for replays like the ones Mikuru is suggesting. A run that uses a few scoring techniques but nothing really crazy (e.g. significant usage of point-blank safespots) can be still commented on like it's a survival run, but the individual scoring techniques deserve to be commented on too (for example, manipulation of the human/youkai meter in IN to get time orbs). I'm not sure how discussion of replays is planned or structured (obviously), but I'm assuming each replay will be viewed at least once prior to the stream, and so issues like these can be addressed if relatively minor. Maybe the bit in the original post that says 'Check the hiscores page for reference' could be a little more specific? E.g., for a 'pure' scoring run, your score should be around X% of the MotK top score/World Record, or similar? |
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