Summer 24hozzt results by myth. Dateline Berkeley, California. I woke up today to everything grey. Apologies for the tardiness of these results. Who'd have guessed that both xf and I would suddenly develop a life? (Mr. Hewer, I'm sure, has had a life long enough to be able to balance having a life and being a 24hozzt judge.) Certainly not me. Anyway, thanks to pickled/Glass/juju/whatever for picking up where xf left off. And thanks to *you*, a member of the understanding zzt community, for being so patient and encouraging. Or something. How to read these results: the name of the entrant is given, followed by four scores. The first three of these scores are the scores of individual judges (in no particular order); the last is the average of these three scores. Comments from the judges are beneath the scores. Poor comments from the judges. So, without further ado, the results. ============ THE WINNERS! ============ Listed in order of winnerness! E-mail me (myth@inquo.net) to claim your prize, if any. -- 1 Shigesato 8.5 9 10 9.167 * ahh tony. it's atmospheric, somewhat artistic {heh} and nice to look at. * I don't know what the fuck this thing is supposed to be but it's hella cool whatever it is .. entertaining (but extremely, uh, trippy) game ... love the mushroom place, awesome * tantalizing .. dammit, testa, you know how to push my buttons -- 2 WiL 9 9 8 8.667 * verry good use of the topic. i very much dug it. * Very original, detailed .. Didn't get close to finishing it, guess I didn't "get" it * fucking cool. -- 3 Kadro 8.5 8 9 8.5 * good job * Obvious writing/art talent .. Not much gameplay, didn't like the various areas much * kick-ass graphics. prose is a little heavy-handed =========== THE LOSERS! =========== Listed in no particular order of loserness! -- Cait Sith 5 4 3 4 * not all that fun. or pretty. * I like the concept .. Short, gameplay was not very enjoyable * amusing, but shirt. I mean, short. -- Fishfood 6 6 6.5 6.083 * he's right, it's a cliche rpg. looks like plenty of effort went into it, and the graphics are decent enough. * Nice graphics, I like both towns (2nd one looks creepy) .. A couple bugs * augh! passages don't connect. Lots of material here. -- Dragon 4 6 7.5 5.833 * looks like it would have been rather nice if it had worked out properly * Lots of cool new gameplay engines .. Second challenge was way too hard, even on the "wussie" level * too short, but nice gameplay ideas. ending is hilarious -- Chuck 6.5 6 7 6.5 * suprisingly likable! * Story/cinemas that was both interesting and annoying at the same time .. Short game, not much challenge, one RPG battle * some fairly cool graphics, humourous, but really really short. The font was sorta useless, but cool. -- Benco 5 5 5 5 * it's unintentionally really freaky looking, which i dig.. otherwise not much to say about it * Good length, lots of boards .. Plot was kind of hard to follow .. Poor spelling really didn't help * fairly good graphics, some humourous moments. lame interpretation of the topic, and boring as HELL. -- Ian Huisken 7.5 7 6 6.833 * i enjoyed this. graphics lacking. * Pretty good graphics, decent gameplay with many locations .. Couldn't finish the game due to snake bug * snakes bite in an infinite loop (buggy) -- DP Lobster 7 10 8 8.333 * passable plot, mostly good graphics, thought out to some extent * Great storyline and great graphics! .. Probably my favorite game in the contest * nice -- Gipface 4 7 7 6 * would have been nice. * Interesting use of the topic .. Not enough stuff to do * good idea, funny game. disappointingly cut short. -- Igsel 8 7 7 7.333 * creative. nicely put together. * Very nice ANSI graphics during the History of Cats * heh -- Kev Vance 8 8 8 8 * purdy * Very polished .. Sort of an abrupt end, and some general uselessness/weirdness at the end there * ORT BUTT! great title screen, good premise, funny. but too damn short -- Leamas 7.8 7 6.5 7.1 * above-average graphics, but not exactly enthralling * Nice idea with the frogs .. kept getting killed by Mable's dad * boooooooring. too many instant deaths -- Lemmer 3.5 2 0 1.833 * would have gotten lower, but at least it's not boring. * bleh -- Mole 5 5 7 5.667 * started out promisingly enough... * I like the concept, and brief flashes of artwork .. Not a great ending * hilarious concept. well-executed but short. -- nny 1.5 0 0 0.5 * didn't he do this last time too? * Playing this thing is worse than sucking mono's butt (MITMOWP) * mother always told me there'd be days like this -- Parasite 5.5 5 4 4.833 * more space games. Hurray * Fairly long, probably a lot of effort went into this .. Seems unfinished? * buggy and uninteresting -- Raichu 3 4 1 2.667 * Blugh * Interesting concept ... Not much fun to play though, and I'm not sure it had much to do with the topic of the contest * b0rken -- Ryosuke 5.5 2 2.5 3.333 * very cute. * You just know that any game including a character named "Princess Faggot" is going to be a quality product .. but I didn't like the game much * guh -- Snorby 5 5 5 5 * running out of comments for these goddam things * Okay, mutating your sister, so far so good .. Ending battle is a shooting engine thing, okay .. But I don't really get it ... it's weird but not in a good way * interesting idea, but meh -- Spazm0016 7.5 5 4 5.5 * i really like the concept, and the engine kinda works. * Lots of different engines, one for each evolution stage .. Engines weren't very fun to play .. Some bugs too which detracted from the experience * whatever works for you. -- Viovis 1.5 0 2 1.167 * excellent!! * This is the most horrible thing I've ever seen .. It hurt my brain .. Urge to kill ... rising ..... * unfortunate -- Whirligig 4 5 5 4.667 * fairly unoriginal * Gameplay is varied, always good .. Story wasn't very good * hunh? -- Zamros 0 1 0 0.333 * i'm sorry. i really can't give this any points.. * Uh, no. * oh, to be prince caspian. -- Zzblue 7.5 7 9 7.833 * nicely done with the alotted time * Pretty cool overall although the cinemas (while they're cool and all) get pretty stale by the end * wow. This is actually a game. -- ZZTDog 2 0 1 1 * i dislike unfinished entries * Why bother submitting tripe like this and wasting my time when I could be playing Diablo II?!? * wittgenstein! ======== THE END! ======== It was worth the wait, wasn't it? Of course not. But too bad. It all spells trouble on a rainy day.