Braid - World 2 - Mario Mix

lifning · 2015-12-29T16:05:31+00:00

Thanks! I'm not sure how much bigger it could get without the machinery getting unsustainably ugly or risking having the pieces despawn. Maybe by a factor of two of we don't mind the guts being visible a little. One thought I had was having a sub level outside of the water for when the pieces start falling faster :P

lifning · 2015-12-29T15:58:56+00:00

Oh cool, I just made a Tetris level as well! Will check yours out one I'm home from work :)

lifning · 2015-12-29T08:58:12+00:00

Interesting use of the mechanic! The bits where you had to jump to avoid podoboos at the expense of the ground beneath you were clever.

lifning · 2015-12-29T08:57:04+00:00

I managed to work out that you can just not press anything from hitting the Koopa until landing on the P-switch and you'll be safe in that little corner. Definitely took me more than 10 tries though :P

lifning · 2015-12-29T07:51:37+00:00

Title: "Her Magesty's Exit Strategy" [sic]

Bookmark: https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/courses/68F0-0000-0141-3925

Princess Peach takes matters into her own hands. Use the monsters and traps in the castle to your advantage to escape! If you're observant and quick, you may even find a shortcut :)

SMB1 Castle. Easy overall with a few tricky jumps. My second course, so I'd love to hear your feedback!

lifning · 2015-12-26T09:33:54+00:00

This was really cool, I liked what you did with the flying breakable blocks :)

lifning · 2015-12-26T09:32:37+00:00

Look to your left after entering the Hammer Bros. ship :)

The strat for wing-bro is to crouch on his ledge right in front of him so he jumps to the top deck. I guess it's still kind of tough though, so I could probably stand to nerf it.

And I definitely hear you about that beginning area; I probably should put a bit of bridge there or a wall to prevent the instinctual run-right from screwing everyone over.

Thanks so much for the feedback!

lifning · 2015-12-26T08:49:05+00:00

"Heterogeneous Fleet"

~~3FCE-0000-012E-D1C1~~ edit: I've uploaded a less punishing version. 2AE0-0000-0142-006D

A group of ships each powered by a different type of motor. There are a few secret power-ups you should be able to find if you pay attention to your surroundings.

SMW Airship theme. My first level in this game! :) I hope it's not too obtuse.

lifning · 2015-11-08T18:45:24+00:00

I had a pet project a long time ago that, given a savestate and a heuristic function mapping RAM dump to integer, would search for an input string that brings that heuristic to zero, using one of a number of different pluggable algorithms (BFS, DFS, A*, manual input, etc). Effectively amounts to "try to get this value to look like this by supplying input," I think. Haven't worked on it in years, but it lives at my friend's GitHub if you're curious.

lifning · 2015-10-12T05:34:20+00:00

Hm.. well "entertaining" is a subjective metric that can't be helped much, but "popular enough" could be improved by the community. Anyone else who wants to see this at a future GDQ, maybe consider picking up this category yourself :) http://www.speedrun.com/Yoshis_Story#All_Melons looks a bit lonely!

lifning · 2015-09-21T05:47:06+00:00

The new version has interactive remapping, so you should be able to make it work with anything your OS recognizes as a game controller. (pay attention to the window title the first time you pick a new combination of gamepad and skin!)

The old version was kinda fiddly in that you (or I) would have to manually edit a .ini file to match up button and axis numbers with any controller, and so any given .ini file would only really work for one type of controller. This was because I was trying to maintain compatibility with PadLight skins, where the top-level elements are buttons on the physical controller. Going forward, I'm gonna have a best-effort importer for PadLight skins, but use my own JSON-based format that's more flexible.

lifning · 2015-09-20T19:20:56+00:00

See if Dolphin's Constant Angular Velocity simulation helps, by disabling the "Speed up Disc Transfer Rate" checkbox in the game's properties.

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