Super Community Contest - We have a Winner!

Megar · Postby **Megar** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 4:20 pm

>taking the bait this hard
yare yare daze.

Quill · Postby **Quill** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 4:25 pm

TLtimelord wrote:Well I'm forced to allow mediafire again.

I didn't force you to allow it. You told me you were not accepting submissions from people who used it without giving me any heads up at all.

I told you it would be unfair to not accept submissions from people who use mediafire, as a significant amount of people still use it.

You then said you'd allow it. Except you decided to say I 'forced' you to allow it. That did not happen, so I'd appreciate if you didn't lie like that to help people support you on the issue.

FireyPaperMario · Postby **FireyPaperMario** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 4:35 pm

Idiot question: Is graphics made with other 16-bit/32-bit color palettes allowed (32-bit Example: GBA, PSX, 3DO), or just SNES colors?

Megar · Postby **Megar** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 4:36 pm

why would it not be allowed

Rixitic · Postby **Rixitic** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 4:38 pm

Megar wrote:>taking the bait this hard
yare yare daze.

Good tidings, Nathan Poe.

Edit: Okay, I saw more hosting service discourse in the other thread and on Discord and assumed there was more of a debate over here. I should have checked to see how many people were unironically advocating the service in this thread before going in guns-a-blazing.

I still firmly support phasing out Mediafire in favor of better alternatives and I still stand by my restaurant analogy, but the way I presented it was a cringeworthy overreaction. So, my bad.

Zha Hong Lang · Postby **Zha Hong Lang** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 5:19 pm

Alright, so it was a communication breakdown. However, I think it's still worth addressing this:

Quill wrote:it would be unfair to not accept submissions from people who use mediafire, as a significant amount of people still use it.

I don't think it would be unfair, because it's not truly disallowing them from submitting to the contest. They do have to take an extra five minutes to make a new account, perhaps, but maybe not even that if they already have google drive (and if they have a youtube account, then they do).

CopyLeft · Postby **CopyLeft** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 8:20 pm

New contest open
I comment rarely these days
But count me in this
~shitty haiku

Jayoshi wrote:They do have to take an extra five minutes to make a new account, perhaps, but maybe not even that if they already have google drive (and if they have a youtube account, then they do).

starting to regret this username

Snessy the duck · Postby **Snessy the duck** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 5:54 am

MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:Idiot question: Is graphics made with other 16-bit/32-bit color palettes allowed (32-bit Example: GBA, PSX, 3DO), or just SNES colors?

Why exactly would there be a rule against that?

Yoshi678 · Postby **Yoshi678** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:16 am

rockythechao wrote:Hey, everyone who's pushing for Mediafire: say you opened up a restaurant but told the customers, "oh, tables are too much of a hassle, you can eat off the floor. What? Germs? Nonsense, I eat off the floor all the time and I don't get sick. If you're really that worried about it, you can bring a blanket or a tray or something." How long do you think it'd take before Gordon Ramsay showed up with his TV crew?

That's certainly one way to put it. Makes sense though. I use mediafire quite often and I've not had a problem with it since I started using it 4 years ago but I know that LOADS of people have problems with mediafire regardless. Lads, the last thing we need is for his computer to get f*cked six ways all at once while a contest is going. I suggest we listen to him.

Rixitic · Postby **Rixitic** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:34 am

I should probably edit that post to say "seriously pushing for mediafire" or something along those lines...

Yoshi678 · Postby **Yoshi678** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:26 am

I've been tossing a few ideas back and forth through my mind for a level to create. I feel as though my life would be easier if I knew how to work PGE. I just can't figure it out for the life of me. I've been using the legacy editor since 2008, 2009 when I was around 8 years old so only just recently learning about PGE, It confuses me, plain and simple. Anyway, how are the rest of you doing with the contest?

Radiance · Postby **Radiance** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 10:00 am

I have many ideas for the contest but I don't know how to implement it. I already discarded 4 levels that seems good to me.

And why won't you use the legacy editor if you're used to it?

JupiHornet · Postby **JupiHornet** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 10:19 am

Yoshi678 wrote:I've been tossing a few ideas back and forth through my mind for a level to create. I feel as though my life would be easier if I knew how to work PGE. I just can't figure it out for the life of me. I've been using the legacy editor since 2008, 2009 when I was around 8 years old so only just recently learning about PGE, It confuses me, plain and simple. Anyway, how are the rest of you doing with the contest?

I totally agree with you, actually. I've been using SMBX since 1.2 and I can't get used to PGE for the life of me.
That being said, I haven't even started a level yet xd

Yoshi678 · Postby **Yoshi678** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 10:53 am

Mr Briney wrote:And why won't you use the legacy editor if you're used to it?

I've heard many great things about PGE that seem to render the legacy editor rather obsolete, such as it's ability to utilise large blocks. For my current project (Not the contest) I just resumed making it and finish world 5's fortess out of what'll probably be 9 or 10 worlds. I'm trying to make a level using SMB3 airship tiles which are a damn nightmare to use in Legacy because all the ones I see are built to work with PGE and it's not the end of the world but still pretty damn irritating.

CopyLeft · Postby **CopyLeft** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:11 am

in a similar boat, never tried pge for like 5 minutes and then decided legacy was better, still havent given pge much of a chance. in other news, i have literally no idea how to execute my level without it being hot garbage

Cedur · Postby **Cedur** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:21 am

You guys should give PGE a chance. I also hope that one day we'll have transparent guides for all of its features.

Black Mamba · Postby **Black Mamba** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:53 am

PGE takes a while to get used to, but once you get it, it will help a lot. Honestly the only hard thing to relearn is events and layers. Everything else is quite simple.

TLtimelord · Postby **TLtimelord** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:59 am

perhaps wrote:in a similar boat, never tried pge for like 5 minutes and then decided legacy was better, still havent given pge much of a chance. in other news, i have literally no idea how to execute my level without it being hot garbage

You used one for 5 minutes and decided it wasn't good because you weren't used to it.

Believe me, it's MUCH better but it takes a lot of adjusting to.

Radiance · Postby **Radiance** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:25 pm

perhaps wrote:in a similar boat, never tried pge for like 5 minutes and then decided legacy was better, still havent given pge much of a chance.

Try PGE. PGE has many features that makes it very useful than the legacy editor. The reason why I told to Yoshi678 to use the legacy editor because learning PGE takes time. For me, it took 2-3 months. And this contest ends after a month, so I just recommended him to use the legacy editor.

in other news, i have literally no idea how to execute my level without it being hot garbage

We're the same!

Yoshi678 · Postby **Yoshi678** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 2:34 pm

perhaps wrote:in other news, i have literally no idea how to execute my level without it being hot garbage

Well lad, I think we can all agree that hot garbage is much better than a steaming pile of stinky dog sh!t which some of the entries will surely be. I mean, not to be harsh but if you place dead last or well, anywhere in tier 1 there's probably a reason behind it. No joke levels here either so last place will most likely be a REAL stinker.