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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

Postby Yoshi Boo 118 » December 14th, 2015, 8:46 pm

That moment when judging in 3 days might make me be the slowest judge. :O
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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

Postby Harmless » December 14th, 2015, 9:52 pm

MoD's series was so long I'm going to have to finish it tomorrow ;-;
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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

Postby Supershroom » December 15th, 2015, 12:53 am

Tbh such fast judgings aren't really pleasant for me. The quicker you rush through all the levels, the higher is the chance that you don't dive into its concepts properly, that you may not figure out the required mechanics, that you spot bugs where there aren't, or overlook bugs where there are, that you put your score on a slightly different scale than usual, all that stuff. I have lots of experience with playing levels and yet I quite take some time when I want to grasp a large level in its full entirety, and I always play each level at least twice for a reason.

TL;DR: Better let us wait a little bit longer than making careless, discussion-spawning mistakes only because you've rushed. And especially remember to zoom out when needed. Thank you.

and btw not judging illusion's Part 1 means that you should still play it to know its story, if you didn't already.

EDIT: It's not about trying to squeeze out an advantage for me somehow this way (it both could and could be the opposite, noone knows), if anything, it's about trying to make this more fair to everyone by calling on sufficiently thorough judgings.
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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

Postby MessengerOfDreams » December 15th, 2015, 3:42 am

Tbh I judged in one day mostly because I was in tremendous pain just from sitting at the computer in the library. But I don't feel the need to try and manipulate the judges into a certain style, esp. a style that might benefit you more.
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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

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Postby Yoshi Boo 118 » December 15th, 2015, 8:44 am

As an FYI, the time I take to judge doesn't affect how fast I play through the levels themselves. It's always based on how much free time I have and how many levels I'm willing to look at in one sitting. So don't worry about the quality of my judgings being subpar.
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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

Postby Harmless » December 15th, 2015, 9:29 am

Shroom, why do you not trust us to do our job sufficiently? There's no need to worry. We know what we're doing.
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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

Postby Raz » December 15th, 2015, 10:04 am

Taking 2 weeks to do judgings is not something anyone should ever do, and it does not signify quality judgings at all. It all depends on freetime, like YB said. Judgings really should only take a day with this many entrants.

With that said, I know this isn't completely relevant, but people who apply to be judge at the start of LDCs and then end up being the worst and slowest judge ever are the worst people (idk any recent examples but I know it's happened frequently)
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Karyete: You can stay up on your high horse, continue to twist the truth and act like an absolute child all you want. I refuse to give respect to a man who right now is picking up a dropped argument because he simply cannot fathom the idea that he might be in the wrong.
Karyete: How pathetic
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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

Postby l.m » December 15th, 2015, 10:04 am

Harmless wrote:Shroom, why do you not trust us to do our job sufficiently? There's no need to worry. We know what we're doing.


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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

Postby Harmless » December 15th, 2015, 10:06 am

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about then you should stop right there. -_-
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Re: 30th SM63 Level Designer Contest

Postby Oranjui » December 15th, 2015, 1:25 pm

hoowhee is it LDC drama time already :DDD
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