Danmakufu Contest #7 - All Hallow's Even 2! Results announced!

[Grumskiz]

Waaah, I want to parcitipate so badly...but I couldn't figure out how to make stages so far...(Well, I tried once...and suddenly I got more ideas for the bossfight i'm working on, soo ... bye bye first stage attempt)
Dammit I knew I should have participated in Contest #6!
I will try to make some crappy stage+boss attempt this week out of old things I made and then I decide if I try to make something halloweenish and of course BETTER out of it...
(It's not going to work >_<)
Anyways, I will at least judge the other scripts!(But hey! I'm REALLY bad in Danmaku! Be fair to the players, okay D:)

(Did I reallz just used a school computer to write that oO)

[Beef Owl]

• Having two difficulties is recommended. Not all people play the same difficulty, so having only one difficulty poorly balanced is a big no-no. It isn't a must, but as your peers are judging you you'll want to be careful with balancing.

Does this rule imply that in addition to our "Normal" difficulty we need an Easy Modo for accessibility or a Suikama Mode for profit?  :V  Just to be safe I'll make both

[Drake]

A Normal and Harder-ish difficulty would suffice? You don't need it, it's just more enjoyable for an experienced player to play something that isn't like riding a merry-go-round and a less-experienced player to play something that doesn't rape their face.

suikama mode is a terrible idea

[Iryan]

Does this rule imply that in addition to our "Normal" difficulty we need an Easy Modo for accessibility or a Suikama Mode for profit?  :V  Just to be safe I'll make both

In general, you should make an easier and a more difficult one, so that a larger amount of players can enjoy it.

You will usually want one that is at about normal mode difficulty (or a little easier) and another one that is harder.

You should neither make your script easymodo only or else most people will find it boring by default, nor should you make your script exclusively hard or harder because most people will just get frustrated.

Dammit, lunardial'd!

[Suikama]

suikama mode is a terrible idea

so is this what were calling it now

[Nobu]

I challenge Suikama to make a 'normal' script. No, not the difficulty. I want to see if he can actually make a script without instagib Unzan-Brofistlasers or psychadelic LSD-inspired themes. :V

[Suikama]

I challenge Suikama to make a 'normal' script. No, not the difficulty. I want to see if he can actually make a script without instagib Unzan-Brofistlasers or psychadelic LSD-inspired themes. :V

Kilgagenie doesn't count? :V

[Drake]

Sapz counted but it was based on already-made patterns so yeah.

[Suikama]

Sapz counted but it was based on already-made patterns so yeah.

Fair enough.

Alright I'll see what I can do amidst all my uni work :3

[rickyguy]

i'll be playing with the entries :3

[Kylesky]

CURSE YOU EXAMS FOR ENDING AT OCT 29!!! oh well... time to rush this script next weekend :V

[GenericTouhouFailure]

CURSE YOU EXAMS FOR ENDING AT OCT 29!!! oh well... time to rush this script next weekend :V

LoL my school ends on 28th
Cruel irony.

[SAS]

So, submits come here?

Sasupoika's Halloween-entry:


So abstract that I don't know what it is about!

The story
Suddendly, ghosts and aberrations! Are you bad enough loli to beat them?

Features:
- Two difficulties ( Deep One {Easy} and Outer God {Original} )!
- Scoring system based on chaining point-items!
- Custom animated bullet-sheet!
- Awesome music by Udderdude!
- Bad coding.
- A secret!

Download!

Known bugs:
- Sometimes homing shots will try to go off-screen. This was reported to me, but I could not replicate it.

[Suikama]

Oh man first blood~

Those are some sexy animated bullets.

[Formless God]

- Cannot comment much on the difficulty. Deep One took me two continues :ohdear:
- Overall quite fun to play, though.
- STYLE IS WONDERFUL OH GOD
- Animated bullets is love.
- I see an Espgaluda pattern :3

[Chronojet ⚙ Dragon]

Hm...
Gonna comment on Sasupoika's entry.

- Fu-... how do you even make the scoring system?
- This is easy. 1cc'd the script on my first try (by the way, I tried Outer God first) The replay is here: [attachurl=1]
- The nice darkening effect and the enemies is fucking beautiful. I want to steal your skills. :derp:
- Anyways, it's a nice entry. Let's see what everyone else has to present.

8.5/10 (God this one is easy)

[Treasurance]

that one pattern smells of HELLSINKER

anyways...looks like we have a winner

[Bananamatic]

I love how normal touhous are forced to no focus :V

[Foremoster]

I'm gona Upload mine  :ohdear:  I'll upload the easier version later.

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Normal Version
http://www.mediafire.com/?e6t9xej78eiy1nt

Edit :

Easy version for elementry kids
http://www.mediafire.com/?ur1m9b2a9x9rfhm

Harder version for errr . .  .  :/
http://www.mediafire.com/?wjqcu2a2iur3qmd

 :yukkuri:

[Suikama]

I'm gona Upload mine  :ohdear:  I'll upload the easier version later.


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http://www.mediafire.com/?e6t9xej78eiy1nt

Well it figures thaああああああああああああああああ


As for me, I think I've got a decent idea, although I'm not sure if I can complete it within the week we have left.

Maybe I'll just enter a condensed version and finish the rest afterwards.

[Chronojet ⚙ Dragon]

I'm gona Upload mine  :ohdear:  I'll upload the easier version later.


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http://www.mediafire.com/?e6t9xej78eiy1nt

Lolwut :V Can never not laugh at the intro. :getdown:

Anyways, holyshit the background it's so trippy

* Mewkyuu spazzes happily

Anyways the stage is fucking longer than PCB Stage 4 for me. Massive amount of points taken off. *rageragerage*
This is made up for by Reimu dressing like fucking Shinki. :V
Then there's the boss battle.
Since you use Paint.NET, you can tile Reimu over Marisa or something and have all three of them (Reimu, Marisa, and Wriggle) be visible at the same time. :3 Just a suggestion. (Also, why is Wriggle randomly skipping around instantly? Suggestion: Draw the fireflies separately and make them revolve around Wriggle instead of in the same sprite as her.)

Now for the non-spell.
The randomly turning bullets. Have you been playing ChaoStar's shit? It has a lot of it. :V It always gets me...

First spell:
Bright lights on something made for Halloween. Pretty unique there, but not for the better, if you ask me. :|

Second spell:
Why do the Wriggles suddenly disappear like that? Try making them fade away or something, at least.
(Also, have you been messing with my computer or something? I once had a spell card exactly like this. Clones and all...)

Third spell:
Surprise! No spell card bonus for this one! This one is the best part of the entry, if you ask me. :V Music = fitting, image is fucking trippy, and yeah. (Sometimes I even skip everything just for this part of the boss battle...)

Rating: 5/10

[Prime 2.0]

I'm gona Upload mine  :ohdear:  I'll upload the easier version later.


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http://www.mediafire.com/?e6t9xej78eiy1nt

Oh god, a script that is tangentially related to Yume Nikki! No wonder the stage took so long.

[Iryan]

Because boolit foarge is still being a dick, not letting me upload any archive that contains sound files for some reason, have a mediafire link instead:

A Rainy Evening v1.1

[attachimg=1]

2:20 in length, with a four-phase boss at the end.

Available in the normal-ish Just a drop and the lunatic-ish The whole bottle.
I hope those are the difficulties, at least.  :flamingv:


Not entirely happy with it, but I don't really have the inspiration nor the time to make large improvements.
Then again, it is better than my entry for the first halloween contest, I suppose, if only by a small margain.  :V

If you are wondering why everything looks so horrible, it is because everything save for the shotsheet and a single sprite image was drawn by yours truly in MSPaint.


Edit: I updated the entry insofar as that there are now "lite" versions of the script, i.e. versions with reduced backgrounds for those who got slowdown from them. It also features miniscule aesthetic changes to two boss attacks.  :derp:

[Blargel]

Because boolit foarge is still being a dick, not letting me upload any archive that contains sound files for some reason, have a mediafire link instead:

My apologies to anyone who tried to use BulletForge in the past half week or so. On Friday, I upgraded the site to use the latest version of Ruby and Rails at the same time and neglected to do any testing. Although I had fixed most of the issues after they were reported to me, I still forgot to check some settings. Turns out I had something limiting the upload limit to 5MB which is why stuff with many sound files (which tend to be huge) couldn't be uploaded. All this has been fixed so feel free to use BulletForge again if you want. Since I worked on it a little recently, maybe I'll bug Totaku again to see what's up with his disappearance and see if I can get cracking on having a real design again.

[Suikama]

Oh man everyone's entries are rocking so far

[Drake]

All three of them.

Come on people, you have four days. Can't judge a contest with only a few entries very well!

[Naut]

And the days shall be used to their fullest  :3

[Chronojet ⚙ Dragon]

Iryan's entry.

How the fuck do you make that wavy effect with the boss?!

* Mewkyuu looks into the code

Anyways, the stage took way longer than 2:20 (7:45!!), you sure you played at 60 (or rather, 57) FPS?
The stage is really repetitive, and a lot of the time, you put lots of walls (not really) and holyshitturning bullets, which generally is a bad idea, if said bullets turn indefinitely (StB-Wriggle style). :/

7/10.

[Drake]

Dude, you start judging them once the deadline hits because then you have a global standard to work with. You send your judgments to me through PM, not this thread

EDIT: I suggest you go over your judgments once all the entries are in, but yeah whatever.

[Chronojet ⚙ Dragon]

* Mewkyuu derps

You do have what I'm giving, so uh... is it still alright?