Yay for contests

[cooba]

An another contest, far far simplier than always. Edit Battle1 in most imaginative way you could ever think of. The rules are :
Only JJ2 levels allowed. (duh)
No TSF.
You must change at least two things in gameplay, like deleting shield or changing seeker PU to RF PU instead (just a few examples).
You haven't to change tileset, but if you desperately dislike Castle, feel free to use something else.
The secret room at upper right corner *MUST* stay.

September 18 6:00 PM GMT+1 is the deadline. No exceptions.

All the entries must be send by an e-mail or be hosted on your own website. Entries uploaded to Jazz2Online *won't* be accepted.

A prize? If being the edit hosted with the losing ones too on my server during some time count as prize for you, then.

That is all. GL HF EP, whatever EP does mean.

EDIT : Prior edits are accepted, too.

EDIT 2 : The rule of using two other layers has been deleted because most people didn't want to enter because using two more layers is a requirement (R3p in particular).

[Violet CLM]

What do you mean by "use two other layers"? And do entries have to be made specifically for the contest, or are prior edits acceptable?

[R3ptile]

I wanted to edit B1, but I won't because I'm not gonna change anything related the eyecandy. Too bad. May I will make something for fun, though.

[FoxBlitzz]

Yeah, I'm working on an edit, too. However, I'm using a different tileset, and I've only converted half of the level over to the new tileset so far, so it will take a bit of time. :P

[snzspeed]

I think i'll participate in this contest too.. i already know which tileset ill use, and how ill edit. :)

[FoxBlitzz]

Okay, I have a question.

Can I edit the level a bit so that, for example, a platform that is 1 tile thick would be 2? And what about connecting the two parts hanging from the ceiling that have red springs (At 86, 59) on them to form one (Tileset restrictions)?

[cooba]

Sure. You can do anything you want/must do. You can even remove those pillars. You can do lot of stuffness with your edit! Creativity is always welcome.

[cooba]

In case if this contest confuses anyone, here's the example entry for the contest.
www.freewebs.com/xooba/b1ex.j2l <-copy and paste to URL browser

See, it applies to all rules in the contest:


Only JJ2 levels allowed. (duh)
No TSF.
You must change at least two things in gameplay, like deleting shield or changing seeker PU to RF PU instead (just a few examples).
You haven't to change tileset, but if you desperately dislike Castle, feel free to use something else.
The secret room at upper right corner *MUST* stay.
This remake, is in fact JJ2 level.
It's 1.23.
Seeker PU has been moved to the coin warp, so did the shield. The balcony where seeker PU previously was has been deleted, and the big wall has been enshortened. (sp?) I put some stuff there. Also, you will notice that seekers go through the purple tubes below that area and whatnot.
Tileset changed to Labrat.
Secret room is edited to actually serve its purpose with more convinience. Those powerups there are not deleted, and that's actually what I meant.

Enjoy my first 1.23 level, d00ds ;D

[Violet CLM]

Only JJ2 levels allowed. (duh)
It's JJ2.
No TSF.
It's not TSF.
You must change at least two things in gameplay, like deleting shield or changing seeker PU to RF PU instead (just a few examples).
Trust me, more than two things are changed.
You haven't to change tileset, but if you desperately dislike Castle, feel free to use something else.
Tileset remains unchanged.
The secret room at upper right corner *MUST* stay.
It's still there.
ftp://ftp.tachyonlabs.com/pub/users/ttachyon/sam/b1forcooba.j2l
There. Prior edit, though I changed it a little bit just now for a few things like putting the secret room back in. It's not the best.

[FoxBlitzz]

Cooba: When I've tried to download your file, it just says that my security settings don't allow it to be downloaded.

UR: Quite an interesting level you have there. It seems as though you have changed to much, that it's barely recognizable (Although it still is). :P About those flags, is that incase someone wants to host CTF instead of Battle? Just wondering.

Everyone: Here is a sneak peak of my edit so far:

http://www.alpha-works.com/jj2/EMB1SP.png

[Violet CLM]

UR: Quite an interesting level you have there. It seems as though you have changed to much, that it's barely recognizable (Although it still is). :P About those flags, is that incase someone wants to host CTF instead of Battle? Just wondering.
Uh, did you see the level name? It's a CTF version of Battle1.

[LittleFreak]

Uh, did you see the level name? It's a CTF version of Battle1.

That's a good idea, but Cooba wanted to host ALL the levels together with the winner which is impossible now. :r

[LittleFreak]

I'm completely finished with the conversion to another tileset and started making edits. :D

[FoxBlitzz]

That's a good idea, but Cooba wanted to host ALL the levels together with the winner which is impossible now. :r

That's what I was thinking. :P Ah well, I suppose that level will still work in Battle.

[DoubleGJ]

I'm in. The only problem is I don't have 1.23 JCS. Cooba, will you help me converting the edit to 1.23 when it's done?

[R3ptile]

Guess what? THE BEST LEVEL EDITOR EVER IS GONNA PARTCIPATE.

Prepare yourself.

[cooba]

h8 @ converting to 1.23

Find someone with 1.23 JCS to send it. <s>or just ask me to do so ;p</s>

[LittleFreak]

Cooba, you said entries have to be sent to you via email.. So I'm asking myself, what's your email address? :D

[cooba]

1) Enter my profile
2) Press the link "contact via e-mail"
3) AND THAT'S IT!

You don't have to send it, either; I recall that you can make some website and put the edit inside.

[LittleFreak]

I don't want to make a website (even if it's only for that upload) and if try to do it it says you don't want messages from this board. So what? JUST SEND ME YOUR ADDY VIA PRIVATE MESSAGE :D

[cooba]

It says you don't want messages from this board.Fixed.

I have no idea what you meant with that caps stuff ;o

[LittleFreak]

Copy + Paste:

"Sorry! That user has specified that they do not wish to receive emails through this board. If you still wish to send an email to this user, please contact the administrator and they may be able to help."

[cooba]

Strange, it applies every time I click that button. It does for EVERYONE. Ph33r

[R3ptile]

My contest is nearly done. (45%) PROGRESSIVE STUFF OMG:

Eyecandy - 60%
Layout - 70%
Placement - 40%
SHIELD AND STUFF - 10%

[LittleFreak]

Another thing, check your pr messages and send me "the cheese" :D

[cooba]

"The Cheese" is during production. Back on the topic.

Monkey, people never had trouble with remote linking to my levels, so problem lies on your own. ;p

[LittleFreak]

So when can I send my entry? :rolleyes:

[cooba]

September 18 6:00 PM GMT+1 is the deadline. No exceptions.<!--fdf>

[LittleFreak]

You actually misunderstood my question..

[cooba]

You actually misunderstood the fact that you can send it whenever you want but no after 18th September...

[FoxBlitzz]

Monkey, people never had trouble with remote linking to my levels, so problem lies on your own. ;p

I got it to download. Apparently, my anti-spyware software added an entry under restricted sites for freewebs.com. I had to temporarily change the settings for IE to download it.

[LittleFreak]

You actually misunderstood the fact that you can send it whenever you want but no after 18th September...

And you actually misunderstood that I still don't know to which address I should send it because in your profile it's blocked. 8D

[LittleFreak]

Why can't I just upload it to j2o? :D

[cooba]

BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO DO SO ARE IDIOTS WHO HAS NOT NEVER HEARD OF SPACE LIMIT.

[LittleFreak]

You really begin to annoy me, how first don't call me idiot as I don't call you idiot (you idiot! :D). Second if I can't send it via email and I don't want to make my own homepage just for that contest what else could I do?!!? This is my last try, otherwise I will get out of the contest.

[cooba]

Last time I checked, you were not called the idiot by me yet.

coobnoob@op.pl is your destiny. clicky clicky

[DoubleGJ]

I would submit my entry if it wasn't made in TSF...

[cooba]

I might take a look on it; it won't win, obviously.

[DoubleGJ]

OK...
http://www.jsz-clan.republika.pl/Battle1cr.j2l
cr stands for Contest & Race. Guess what's the point. If somebody can convert this, I would be very thankful.

[cooba]

My IQ still pwns yours.

[LittleFreak]

Ah question, what do you think about my entry? ;D

[cooba]

Ah answer, wait for results ;D

[LittleFreak]

OK ^^

[DoubleGJ]

You know, that's pure spam.

[LittleFreak]

You know, that's pure spam.

Who do you mean?

[cooba]

YOU. BACK ON THE TOPIC. NOW.

[LittleFreak]

I feel all you guys are against me, so I'll better leave and make you happy. :P

[Violet CLM]

Getting bored with this topic. Maybe I should go edit Battle1 again. Can we have multiple entries?

[cooba]

If you wish so.

[FoxBlitzz]

Okay, I haven't had much time to work on this, but here is my level (The e-mail link through your profile still does not work):

http://www.alpha-works.com/jj2/XDCB1Edit.zip (520 kb)

[cooba]

I think I provided my e-mail here.

Anyway, today contest ends, so take your time before 18:00 GMT+1!

EDIT : The contest just ended HORRAY

<i>Battle 1 CTF - Violet CLM</i>
I heard much of a CTF battle1 edit, but never saw it. It's now a contest entry, so I finally can see it.

As the gametype has been changed, it's obvious that there's ton of stuff modified too. Like, no seeker PU balcony, and warps were added to dead ends.

Still, no level can be quirkless. Both bases are placed on the level's top, so the bottom might be pretty much unused during standard play.

It has a Jazz Start, which DEFINATELY IS NOT the thing anyone could put in a CTF level.

The eyecandy is not changed. Tisk tisk.

<i>Battle1a.j2l - PHT</i>

This edit apparently uses Carrottus 1 Night set, not my favorite tileset hence it's a night version. Anyway, eyecandy is somewhat mediocre. I expected much more than a cave-styled layer 8 background and barfing translucent tiles which apparently are substitute for the stone layer 4 background in Castle tileset. Stuff there is overdone as some places, too, which also is not a good sign.

Seeker area has been replaced with an odd device with tubes, springs, lots of ammo and such. Not really understandable concept if it is a concept anyway ;o

This level has got fly carrot instead of copter. BUTBUT author didn't put its MCE version which works during multiplayer play, unlike the event itself does. So, played on the net, this is unplayable. Room with springs is now filled with lots of airboards, which makes the game unfair automatically.

<i>EM's Edited Battle Game - EvilMonkey</i>

This level was worth its own sneak peak. The eyecandy ruxored, it was very well done. From smooth waterfall animations to the neat multi colored destructable blocks. No real complaints in that departamnet.

The level itself has been hollowed with new passages which link some parts of level together. It's pretty confusing at the first time you play it, but you will like the upgraded design immediately. EM made it even so that there are no dead ends maybe except for the bottom right one, but that one is barely used.

Some placed are questionable, like the removal of warp to seeker balcony to "encourage balanced gameplay". But, the coin warp leads to a box with seeker PU, so people can camp here anyway. Why just not put that to a sucker tube? ;p

<b>OVERALL</b>

I was really dissapointed with lack of entries. Anyway, no level was quirkless; Violet's had Jazz Start, Monkey's had lag ammo crates, and PHT used FLY CARROT EVENT. More or less, two first levels were heavily modified, while PHT's one had some places which looked rushed.

So, there are the results! 8D

1. EvilMonkey
2. Violet
3. PHT

Because of lack of levels and the gameplay change in Violet's edit hosting any of the levels is not possible O.O And PHT's was barely playable.

So, what the prize might be? I will have to think on something 1337... darnit >|

[FoxBlitzz]

Heh, I wasn't expecting to win at all, but with this little entries, I guess it did happen. :P

I've completed version 1.1 of my level, which includes a fixed version of dreams.xm that loops, a few fixed tile bugs, the RF PU in a different spot, and some extra fixes. Now if my FTP server would stop acting up I would upload the new version... ugh.

[DoubleGJ]

Congratz.

[Nitro]

Aw deadline passed... I made a mod of battle1 ages ago I just copyed and mixed around and connected all the main "rooms" or areas... it was a really cool level I wonder where it is..

[Violet CLM]

Still, no level can be quirkless. Both bases are placed on the level's top, so the bottom might be pretty much unused during standard play.|
Thought of that. The full energy carrot is at the bottom, the powerups send you straight to the bottom, and I think most of the ammo is at the bottom.

[LittleFreak]

Congrats to Evil Monkey, and also for Violet for making a better level than me (that's not difficult though). :lol:
I didn't knew about the fly carrot glitch, so sorry for that. Remember, I can't play over the internet.
Anyways, even though I lost I'm not angry, just take my level as an example how not to do it. 8D

[cooba]

Just because you can't play on the net doesn't mean all your levels are supposed to work only in SplitScreen. ;p

[LittleFreak]

Just because you can't play on the net doesn't mean all your levels are supposed to work only in SplitScreen. ;p

I know, but I'm also not really able to know what things work in internet and which don't.