Sky Level Contest (Deadline March 20th)

[The Thwomp King]

The Standard Rules

Violation of these rules will result in disqualification.

• The judges mustn't know which level you made. You may not reveal any details about the level to the public before the judges are done judging all the levels. This includes showing screenshots of the level prior to this announcement. You may not submit a level that you've posted screenshots of, or videos for that matter. And you can't say which level you made.
• You may only submit one level. If it's an accident, we'll just drop the extra level but if you submit a second level under another name, both levels will be disqualified.
• The level has to be made by you and you alone.
• You must submit the level before the deadline. If you submit after the deadline you will automatically get 2 points off your score after all scores are averaged together for your level.
• You must inform us what characters can or cannot be used in the level.
• The level cannot end to other than a Star (SMW or SMB3) and it can't have more than three.
• The level can't end the game.
• Don't put the .lvl or the music in the graphics folder.
• Do not use music that goes beyond 6 minutes. And this refers to just one song, not all the songs together.
• Levels with unreasonable difficulty will be scored low. Judges are not required to beat levels if they're crazy hard. This is because they often take too much time to complete, they are generally tedious.
• No Joke or Kaizo (as mentioned with difficulty) levels
• Adding a boss is optional
• LUNADLL, LUNA LUA, SMBX 2, PGE, are allowed. No SMBX 1.4 Please include all APIs in the level folder.
• By submitting a level you agree that it will be in a public episode containing all the submissions.
• By submitting a level here, you agree that all scores from judges here will be accounted for if you submit this level to the levels sub-forum. The scores will not be accounted for if you updated the level after the results of the contest are posted. If results don't come three weeks after the deadline, then you may post your level publicly on the level sub-forum if you want to.
• The level you submit must not used in any contests prior to this one. Furthermore the level must not be from a completed episode either as it is already available to the public, and the level must not be revealed to the public in any way, shape, or form.
• Lastly, please test your level!

Additional Themed Rules

• The level must take place in the sky. There don't necessarily have to be clouds, but the environment is expected to have the player believe they are very high up in elevation.
• Floating platforms should outnumber ground platforms by a good amount, otherwise it might as well be a mountain level or any other theme.
• Must not be outside of the atmosphere. No levels in outer space basically.
  Spoiler: show

  Yeah you don't need examples. PM me any questions you may have regarding what's allowed.

How to submit a level

• Sign up by posting in this topic that you want to participate!
• Put your level in a ZIP along with the optional custom graphics folder and custom music.
• Please don't put the files in another folder before archiving because I will have to move them out afterwards and that's more unnecessary work for me.
• You may include a readme with tips if you want. But if your readme only has credits for graphics or something, please put it in the graphics folder. I only want critical info regarding playing the level next to the levels themselves.
• Submit the level to me through pm. If you submit it to anyone else or post the submission anywhere else it will be disqualified.

Judging Standards

• All scores cannot surpass two decimal points. It really shouldn't come to giving a level a rating past that, and you can use one or no decimal points too.
• Do all reviews in order of Entry 1 to the Final Entry This saves me a lot of time when everything is sent to me organized and done in order, so please do this!
• Submit all reviews in either one single text or word document, or you can pm me all the reviews at one (IN ORDER). I will not accept zip files with multiple text files for it becomes tedious work for me to copy and paste everything into a final document of all of the reviews.
• The Backup Judge must only submit reviews of levels made by the judges (in order of entry number still).
• No additional judges or guest judges. If they didn't ask to be a judge and aren't listed as a one of the five, or a backup judge, then their scores will not count for the final result.
• No spoiling reviews or scores before they are posted. You can discuss your reviews after the results have been posted.

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The Judges
The Thwomp King
bossedit
MECHDRAGON777
Linik
PROX

The Backup Judge

RSuper

The Contestants Bolded = Submitted
Intuition
MECHDRAGON777
Artturer
thehelmetguy1
MosaicMario
The Dwarven Digger
dragonfan96
darkmewd31
litchh
RPG_Magician
Supershroom

The Deadline
February 28th

[MECHDRAGON777]

May as well sign up, even though I am busy in Febuary. Also, how many years do we get? I do not have a time machine, but there is no way of knowing if Febuary will ever have more then 28.25 days in it. So is deadline Febuary 28th or March 3rd?

[Artturer]

Can I participate?

[ElectriKong]

Is there a backup judge position? Or have you decided that there is no point in such a position existing anymore. Also you have got the dates wrong.

[Thehelmetguy1]

"Deadline February 31st". So the deadline doesn't exist?

[Cedur]

Deadline March 3rd

Also this time I'll at least try to start a level. However don't put me on the participants list until I say so, please.

[Fuyu]

I want to participate on this contest.

[The Thwomp King]

May as well sign up, even though I am busy in Febuary. Also, how many years do we get? I do not have a time machine, but there is no way of knowing if Febuary will ever have more then 28.25 days in it. So is deadline Febuary 28th or March 3rd?

Holy shit that's a typo. Fuck! Good catch. February 28th

[Fuyu]

Holy shit that's a typo. Fuck! Good catch. February 28th

You edited the post to change the date on the MP but you didn't add any contestants even though people are asking to join. =P

[The Thwomp King]

Holy shit that's a typo. Fuck! Good catch. February 28th

You edited the post to change the date on the MP but you didn't add any contestants even though people are asking to join. =P

Was on a phone. It's easier to edit on the computer than on phone. Patience too, it hasn't even been that long. XP hahaha

[PersonNamedUser]

Spoiler: show

[MacDuckBeat]

Sign me as a backup judge

[The Dwarven Digger]

Yeah, I like the sound of this. Count me in!

[dragonfan96]

Count me in on this Contest!

[The Thwomp King]

All of you have been added.

[Thehelmetguy1]

All of you have been added.

I didn't sign up, but I am there anyways.

[The Thwomp King]

All of you have been added.

I didn't sign up, but I am there anyways.

Just because you're on the list doesn't means you have to commit. XD hahaha
Just look at the dozens of people listed in my past contests that didn't submit.

[The Thwomp King]

Added a rule specific to this contest.
Must not be outside of the atmosphere. No levels in outer space basically.

[Cidro]

I wanna join this contest. I might actually make a level..

[The Thwomp King]

I wanna join this contest. I might actually make a level..

2 submissions thus far and 12 days remain! What will happen next!?!