Castle Paradox

[TwinHamster]

Give the thread a name change and we're good to go.

[Moogle1]

[Baconlabs]

Okay okay, here's my vote.
EDIT AGAIN: Oh, a ten-point scale? How did no one notice that before? I'll bet Gizmog just now added that.

Do You Want To Be A Hero?
I feel like this doesn't belong in a Halloween contest - a single Halloween-themed world has become standard in lots of games these days, so that doesn't count. Even so, it was a unique, fun experience. Also very frustrating. In fact very frustrating. Halloween-world, I'm convinced, requires you to die in order to heal. Even so, I cannot kill those bats for the life of me. I play as Bruce and I will not reconsider doing so because he's the best character.

Originality: 9/10
Depends on how you look at it. It's an amalgam of not-so-creative cliches, but it's the gameplay originality that wins me over.
EDIT: It just hit me like a brick, the gameplay is a parody of Dragon Quest.

Fun: 7/10
A fresh new experience that quickly became repetitive and difficult. World 5 felt like it should have been the final world, but it just kept going.

Scariness: 1/10
The same "fear of dying" thing Twinhamster mentioned, but I really don't think that's the same kind of scary this contest is being judged on.
(Notice: I may change this tomorrow if there's something genuinely creepy in World 6 and beyond)

Sleepover
After hearing all the hype behind this (and accidentally hitting ESCAPE after the sandwich "scare"), I walked into this game with a sour attitude. Is it creative? Yes. The idea (at first, anyway) was quite ingenious. The gameplay (or lack thereof) is top-notch too, lots of innovations here. The sudden genre shifts definitely kept me on the edge of my seat.
The quirky effects and attempts to scare me, however, did not.

Originality: 9/10
As I say, top-notch. This is obviously taking advantage of some highly advanced-- wait. You saw this coming, Charbile. You knew that it would turn into this kind of discussion. You know your audience too well.
EDIT: FOR CHRISSAKE YOU'RE READING MY MIND AS I LOOK AT IT IN CUSTOM
This entire game is nothing but some kind of Xanatos Gambit. I hate being played like a pawn. But, none of this will deduct from the Originality score. You win this round.

Fun: 2/10
It quickly became apparent to me that this was a mind-game, not an OHR game. At one point it felt like a drug trip, which was about the best part.

Scariness: 5/10
The sandwich scare? Not scary. The sudden map changes and bizarre naked humanoid possessing me? Scary. It has an even share of successes and failures when it comes to scaring, a good job overall. I do have one small complaint, though. The ending, it was a little...

Predictable!

[TMC]

Excuuuuuse me but it clearly says on the first page that

[Moogle1]

I can vouch for it being Valkayree, but I thought that's who it credited.

[Moogle1]

For anyone still struggling with world 6, here's a video walkthrough using Bruce:




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[Rimudora]

Saving the world is easy when you're Jesus.

[Moogle1]

Baconlabs reported that bug (it's a wallmapping issue on that level that allows you to dismount anywhere). Given that you can achieve the same effect on any level via F11, it's not incredibly impressive.
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Slime Salad :: Independent Game Design

[JSH357]

Sleepover
Originality: 10/10
Fun: 8/10
Scariness: 6/10

Do You Want to Be a Hero?
Originality: 3/10 (Same as the Wizard's Bomb basically)
Fun: 5/10
Scariness: 1/10

ShiDa:

Started in a walled area I couldn't get out of/10

Scary Test:
Tech demo/10

[Baconlabs]

JSH, you're the first person to not make it out of that first area on their first try.
In which case you'd have about as much trouble navigating the remaining area.

Thankfully I left the debugging keys on. (F11)

[Gizmog1]

Voting's going to end on the 13th, so you've got about 72 hours left before we name the winner. I've been in sort of an M&M induced stupor and haven't even played all the entries yet, dang you gotta love leftover candy.

EDIT: I have it on good word from IRC that there's a few voters still playing the game. I hate to disappoint everyone who made such great entries, but the voting's gonna go on for a few days yet. (If you want to nag the delayer, his name is TMC)

[Charbile]

Why are IRC people so lazy? (ba dum tish) Been busy, sorry to anyone who cares (you shouldn't, but will.)

Scyree has this 'tom green' vibe to me, which I didn't like at first either. I think it fits in with the sociopath-ness of it all.

Salteens is just a band I heard on yo gabba gabba. Was thinking of including something with TMC and Giz, it didn't happen. Just like the difficulty selection mode, where if you use the bathroom too far from the sides and miss, you get easy, use it proper and you get normal, and if you dial in a 3 pointer, you want it hard. But it's more of an experience than game.

And yes, I swear to surlaw it is an OHR game, Baconlabs. Thought you guys like acid trips! Boy, i miscalculated THAT one... (i want to print out your originality review and hang it on my wall )

Shida
O: 10
(reminded me of splatterhouse in a way, forgot to mention that as one of the great creepy games of all time)
F: 5
(a fun ride, but I have to agree with JSH about that first room, you should remove/redo it)
S: 0
(i stand by my original sentiment in the thread)

Hero
O: 5 (please focus on P Tactics)
F: 5
S: ZERO times a million billion

Scary Test
O: 5 (I didn't get the joke!)
F: 1 (this game has so much potential, it's a strong 1)
S: nill

[Charbile]

wait wait wait

How can Moogle1 and Rimudora both have a 2006 halloween creativity winner icon??

EDIT: they must have joined forces!!

If I win, I want a "Beat Moogle1 in a contest 2009"

[Moogle1]

I think that's a mistake. Rimudora probably won a different category. I want to say his game was Sundown (the vampire cowboy game) and mine was Scare Spree with RMZ, but I don't know.
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[Rimudora]

Moogle1: That's exactly what it was. We had a tie for creativity winner.