r/CFB • u/SometimesY Houston • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod • Sep 07 '16
Post Game Thread 2016 /r/CFB Puzzle Hunt Recap
The 2016 /r/CFB Puzzle Hunt has concluded!
Here is the 2016 Puzzle Hunt thread. Here is the direct link.
You can still do the puzzle hunt by visiting that link. It will remain open indefinitely (as long as our server is up and running anyway!).
Here are the credits:
Game directors: /u/SometimesY, /u/bakonydraco
Music composers: /u/pbang0529 (responsible for all game music except the intro), /u/SometimesY (responsible only for the intro)
Programmers: /u/SometimesY, /u/bakonydraco, /u/ttsci, /u/harkatmuld
Designers: /u/SometimesY, /u/A-Stu-Ute, /u/bakonydraco, /u/StrawberryTea
Special thanks to: /u/A-Stu-Ute, /u/pbang0529, /u/StrawberryTea, /u/harkatmuld
When we came up with this idea in April (not long after the Pokémon April Fools swap), it seemed like a bit of a pipe dream. I'd never done any game development before so I was excited but apprehensive. We poked around a bit and ended up finding Tiled and Phaser. We used Tiled to design the maps and Phaser for the game engine. Chiptone was used to make the game sounds. All three are freely available. Phaser is.. not the most friendly code base I've used to put it mildly. We had some serious issues with coding. Lots of the coding process was figuring out how to make certain things work (then it was lots of copy-pasting). The coding got away from us a little at the end and so the end was slightly rushed, but more or less how we wanted it. It was an extremely ambitious project and overall we are pretty happy with how it went. There were a couple of hiccups when we first went live, but they were quickly ironed out. The code base is probably on the order of 2000 lines. We will look into open sourcing it soon for any that are interested.
Without further ado, the awards! Hundreds of hours of work and puzzle hunt was finished within minutes for some! Here is our Top 25:
First place through third place get four months of reddit gold each and fourth place through twenty-fifth place get one month each. Congratulations to all!
We have had quite nearly 200 users complete it this year which is drastically up from last year! I have ideas for next year already, but we'll see how it goes! Thanks for playing everyone!
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u/MrTheSpork Sep 07 '16 edited Sep 07 '16
Edit: Amazing work, by the way. I was greatly entertained.
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u/Princess_ZeIda Sep 07 '16
u/SometimesY, I think you're missing the underscore in my username.
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u/SometimesY Sep 07 '16
Woooops. Fixing! It didn't end up in the high scores either (which is where we ported this from). Must be something in our code. Sorry about that!
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u/amazin_raisin99 Sep 07 '16
Shoutout to u/PrincessZeIda for being the only one with that ending in the top 25.
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u/Princess_ZeIda Sep 07 '16
Thanks :)
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u/trainmaster611 Sep 07 '16
How did you even get that?
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u/TheReformedBadger Sep 07 '16
You run away and don't make a choice and after doing that a couple of time a a pikachu appears, just like in the TV show.
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u/A-Stu-Ute Sep 07 '16
Redesigning all the balls segued perfectly into my first grad semester of school which will then perfectly segue into my second child which will perfectly segue into my career/more grad school! I'm never sleeping again
You're lucky I like all of you.
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u/bakonydraco Sep 07 '16 edited Sep 08 '16
I owe people some reddit gold (courtesy of Reddit! Huge thanks to u/Drunken_Economist for helping get that set up)! I'm going to username summon the top 25 in the comments below this 3 at a time. Please respond to your username mention with something witty so I can gild your comment.
Edit: All 25 users have claimed their Reddit Gold, congratulations!
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u/bakonydraco Sep 07 '16
u/EmeraldOrbis u/AltPerspective0 u/minidrc reply to get your Reddit gold!
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u/minidrc Sep 08 '16
I'm happy I placed, but sad that I didn't make the top 11. :'(
Also, it's 01:38:05 GMT-0400 (EDT) and OU and IU still suck.
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u/bakonydraco Sep 07 '16
u/MrTheSpork u/rayhond2000 u/serwendel comment 4 times, so you can get 4 months for coming in the top 3!
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u/bakonydraco Sep 07 '16
u/foo1219 u/Red261 u/kdcoltred reply to get your Reddit gold!
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u/bakonydraco Sep 07 '16
u/gonoles287 u/little__sebastian u/bluegrassborn reply to get your Reddit gold!
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u/bakonydraco Sep 07 '16
u/jayhawx19 u/thomasosu u/jashbr reply to get your Reddit gold!
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u/jashbr Sep 07 '16 edited Sep 07 '16
Penn State fans liked the ending of Bleach
edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!
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u/bakonydraco Sep 07 '16
u/theslothwhoshaggedme u/Princess_ZeIda u/riotcoming reply to get your Reddit gold!
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u/riotcoming Sep 08 '16
I saw a man get savaged by a dictionary on Twitter today. Normally it's the books getting burned by the man, not the other way around.
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u/bakonydraco Sep 07 '16
u/trumpetofdoom u/panthera_tigress reply to get your Reddit gold!
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u/trumpetofdoom Sep 08 '16
Here's a reply.
A note: Rice had more Top 25 finishers in the puzzle hunt than UH did. SUCK IT, COOGS.
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u/panthera_tigress Sep 08 '16
"something witty"
EDIT DAMN SOMEONE ALREADY DID THAT
Idk I'm just happy that I, like Pitt last season, managed to barely sneak into the Top 25 for a hot second.
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Sep 07 '16
This was so fun. All the man hours that were put into this is incredible, so thanks for the entertainment!
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Sep 07 '16
There was last year too? O_O
Also, the Game Over music was inspired from Womp Womp! Just wanted to point that out.
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u/Gulo_Blue Sep 07 '16
I am so frustrated that I was travelling and didn't get to do this when it happened. Looks amazing.
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u/trainmaster611 Sep 07 '16
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u/Moldison Sep 07 '16
I got pretty far, but eventually it was lagging so bad I couldn't finish. It was taking minutes to restart from the death screen when I finally gave up. Not sure if there's a memory leak in the game or if it had to do with also having Terraria up, but it slowed way down after a while. Fun game though!
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u/theguy02 Sep 07 '16
I had the same thing happen! I thought it would keep my score/progress if I refreshed the page :(
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u/mgoyoda Sep 07 '16
Again, you guys are the BEST; thanks!
I had a lot of fun.
Even though it took me five tries to get past the first boss.
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u/ScarletFever333 Sep 07 '16
Will you end up revealing some of the secrets of the game, like how you get the Team Meteor ending or how some people ended up vacated?
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u/CripzyChiken Sep 07 '16
Vacated was if you got impermissible help along the way (like a nice gold bonus early on or something)
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u/ABloodlust1998 Sep 07 '16
nice game, sadly not being able to save was the death of me.
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u/cinciforthewin Sep 07 '16
I did it once. With going back and fourth between screens so much, it was bound to happen.
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u/Papahoff25 Sep 07 '16
HOW CAN I FIND OUT WHEN THIS PLACE WAS CREATED????????????????????????????????????
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u/minidrc Sep 07 '16
Hover your mouse pointer over anything that says "r/CFB"
The easiest place to see this would be to hover over the football in the header (or the link in this comment).
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u/SometimesY Sep 07 '16
There may be a Special Announcement coming soon..