I'm starting threads to give feedback to all of the entrants to this year's CCN Speedgame contest. Everyone did some good things this year, and I wanted to make some threads to give encouraging comments and constructive criticism. This week, I'll be making threads for 3 games each day, so as to hopefully not bump all of the other discussions off of the main page, and give everyone some daily-focused-feedback on their games. Feedback is an important part of the CCN contest, and I hope that we can give a big "thanks!" to our entrants by letting them know how they did! I don't think everyone should necessarily give numbered ratings like I did -- just some words of feedback and encouragement would be fantastic.

Super Sower: (Ereon)
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Xian: 5 (Not much there, but that's okay)
Fun: 8 (Nice and fun, and I was able to enjoyably replay it a number of times. A bit unpolished in the controls, but still fun)
Orig: 6 (A fairly standard 3d platformer)
Gfx: 8 (Very nice job with the 3d depth -- I really liked the Little Big Planet style of 3d platforms -- that was a very nice touch and I found it to work invredibly smoothly. The graphics were nice and consistent as well, which was a huge bonus)
Stab: 7 (It did lock up the 4th time I played it, and I had to end task, but other than that it was great)

Summary:
It's late and Clint is tired of writing summaries.

Feedback:
Ereon, nice job with your entry this year! Despite being somewhat rough, I actually had a really good time with it and it was a lot of fun to play! I'm sorry you didn't get to showcase it with the shading and ground textures applied, but I actually had a really good time with it! It was fun to try to speed-run the game and see how far through the game I could get without letting up on the "right" button.
The enemies were really cute! The 3d depth thing was *excellent*, and totally reminded me of Little Big Planet (which is a really good thing!). I'm impressed you were able to get it to behave so solidly and naturally -- it felt like you put a good amount of work into getting the core of the gameplay engine to work right, and I think you did a fantastic job on that.
Don't be too bummed that you didn't get further -- it really was a good project, and it sounds like you ran into some unforseen snags near the end of the development. Hi-five on being able to recover well enough to ship something out the door though! It's not an easy thing to do, but it's an important thing to learn how to do.
I liked the level design -- particularly the "End" spelled out in seeds -- that was great.
All told, good job! It was nice to see how you've learned and improved -- I really look forward to seeing what you do in the future!

[This message has been edited by HanClinto (edited August 31, 2007).]

What engine did you use?

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Nanostorm: Machine Uprise

[This message has been edited by Calin (edited August 31, 2007).]

Calin:It's coded in DarkBASIC so the graphics are standard DirectX fare. The engine itself as far as the gameplay and such was all of my own creation using the DarkBASIC language. All the rendering stuff and such was built in to the language though.

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the work you put on the terrain definitely shows. Would love to see this game carried to completion.

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