This topic is for the purpose of discussing #4292: Kaizoboy's Windows Doge's Adventure in 00:47.52

Could have been funny (at least vaultable) but it looks way too suboptimal. Voting no.

Spikestuff, I wont improve yours.

I am a boring rule person. Here, have a boring rule.

Game Choice

• Unlicensed and homebrew games are eligible but may be judged on a game-by-game basis based on their notability.

Such simple. Very unoptimize. Much boring. Wow. (For those who don't know what I'm talking about, see http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge) This makes me think of Jezzball but is way lazier design. This shouldn't even qualify as a Vault-able game. (Thanks, Mothrayas, for pulling up the relevant rule.) The end result is just not impressive enough, sorry.

Nope.

The grue looks hungry.

I was able to save 602 frames (10.03 sec) from this submission. A few notes: Doge seems to move at the same speed no matter which of the 8 directions you travel in. This means that no matter what your combination of up, right, and up+right, he'll usually complete the room in the same amount of time as long as you hit the potato in the optimal way (which is hard to describe, but you can find it for yourself with a little testing). You should never stand still or move left or down. Any time you do, you lose two frames (one for going down/left, and one for having to go an additional frame up/right again). There are always other ways around the cats (see below). The cats' starting angle is determined randomly (RNG), based on the frame you enter the room. If you get a really bad RNG where it seems all the cats are trying to surround you every step of the way, don't start going left/up. Just wait a frame or two before entering the room, and you will usually able to breeze through the new layout of the cats with the optimal input. And just generally strategize your movements. If you have a cat coming at you from the top and one coming at you from the top-right, you can either simply head right or try squeezing between them by alternating right, up, and up+right.[/userfile]

Spikestuff, I wont improve yours.

OH HELL NO. It's freaking Doge. Also no vote.

If CoolKirby submits his run the I would vote yes.

Eszik, I appreciate the support, but I don't think this game is of either the needed quality or popularity to be publishable, and I wouldn't want to submit a run that would inevitably be rejected because of game choice. Also, while I did work hard on my run, my intent was to help the author improve his TAS skills. On a side note, I didn't notice earlier that you said you made this game, Kaizoboy. I suppose you already knew exactly how the RNG worked and I didn't need to tell you, lol.

On a side note, I didn't notice earlier that you said you made this game, Kaizoboy. I suppose you already knew exactly how the RNG worked and I didn't need to tell you, lol.

edit: I can't decide what he wanted to say, but I think he wanted to say that. So... Yes, he made this game. OT: I always wondered what would happen if someone develops a game for the sake of making a TAS of that game and "miraculously" lets the author to end the game with an idiot combination/fake "bad" condition. I doubt judges will debug the game to the very core especially if the author obfuscate it into a precompiled place.

Let me get this straight. You made a game based on a (terrible) meme and TASed it. YEs, I'll vote "no" here.

If you want to TAS your own game, it's been well established that you need to write it for the 65c816, glitch the game into the SMW cartridge, then TAS that. no.

om, nom, nom... blech, bitter!

This sounds weird, but does anyone have this game or an encode? The game's link appears dead, and I'm really curious what this was.

The game's link appears dead, and I'm really curious what this was.

The mediafire link to the alternate encode still works.

Thanks. How about the game? Does anyone have that? Coolkirby made a run of it, and now it's not exactly playable. There's no runs of it on his channel as well.

I believe the reason the link is not working is because the file is saved at SMWCentral, which is down today due to a update. If you try in 2 days maybe you can get the game. Or I can ask Kaizoboy when he enters on Discord tonight.