well, I want a least 20 hours of gameplay...so once I finish coding I will make LDKs and pass them out to a few people and see how many levels I can fit in.  For the sake of massively speeding up the games, I inflated the maps by adding a list to each of them that lists all of the switchable items.

programing with a deadline that is close forces you to put as much creativity into as little substance as possible: eg if you were making a puzzle game you couldn't put in tons of diffrent elements and all and if you were making an rpg youd have to limit the number of enemies and length of game and such...and youd have to do your best to work with what you make in the aspects of how creative you can be with it.  Eh, maybe its just me but having to make a program in 2 weeks sounds like a fun challenge.

The real reason I never get an entry into any of the contests is that I try to put to much stuff in because others might put that much in, so on and so on, until I give  up.  With a short time frame youd know everyone has a short time frame too.

some suggestions:

omega : goomba
n : koopa
u : flipped koopa
n w/~ : flying koopa

v
:  :pirahna plant (tube flower)
:


pi :small mario

o
6 :big mario

r
6 :fire mario

* :fireball

L :floor

= :bricks

?: question block

[ ]
[ ] :tube

w :fire flower

pi :musheroom

x :starman

flashing pi :1 up

*sighs at messy 1337*

Ok, I know the whole point of 1337 is to be hard to read, ...but... '|'|-|1.:' 1.:' 2
/\/\3 \|//\':' 4|\|[]':'1|\|6...so, my personal thoughts on 1337 are these.

1337 should be creative with out being riddiculously messy, that it should take just as much room as regular text to speek, and that it should be well punctuated and spell for phonicitic correctness.  Iow, 1337 13773R~ ~hu1>'t hvae mor 7en 1  ledder to represent each ledder. 4=A: OK, /\=A:bad...and to me the phonetic spellings can be more fun than the actual 133t and the over 1337ing can actualy d-trct frm the awsomns tht is a 13373d mesige.  And if you aren't going to use punctuation to clarify things that need it, it becomes in my opinion bad (e.g. of good "she, as in her, was doing that.", e.g. of bad "she as in her was doing that." [was she inside of her doing something?])


What do you guys think?

just curious...(as I was one...)

and you probably ought to make miscelanious stuff not restricted to post new topics in (especialy since there are no topics in there)

Any chance we could have the pixel art contest thread expanded to just include all kinds of contests and that there could be a pinned thread to suggest contests.  Further, contest management could be extended to multiple staff and such...and could also orginise joint contests between multiple sites.  Iow, can the contests be stepped up a bit, oh, and the deadlines made much shorter (like 2 weeks max) between each one?  I think that would be a great improvement.