Oh wow I completely missed this was happening. Great.

The waste was mine - I wasted time waiting on you - who, having found time to send a PM and complain about having their game page denied, I expected to actually work for a moment on the issue and get the page up. Not like you gave any reason as to why you couldn't, after all. Instead I could have been working on my game and actually getting it done and up in time instead of sitting on the queue, waiting for that one straggler who I assumed was actually aiming to get their game up.
Fool on me for bothering.

How did the list get cut down to seven entries?

Oh, I see it now. We had to hit an additional submit button. Well I screwed myself on this one.

BC, if you post a link to your game here people will probably still give it a go. Hell, I know you had your page up before the day was over and the time stamp on your download was before time end, so I'll count it. Just keep in mind for next time that submissions in events need to be added to the event page itself.

author=Liberty
BC, if you post a link to your game here people will probably still give it a go. Hell, I know you had your page up before the day was over and the time stamp on your download was before time end, so I'll count it. Just keep in mind for next time that submissions in events need to be added to the event page itself.

Wow, thanks! I missed that part up in the contest rules section (and partially because I never finished any previous contest submissions), but now I know for next time.

So if anybody wants to take a look at it, free of any major bugs thanks to previous feedback: Last Quest IV: The Prequeling

author=pianotm
Well...I think Fredrick to the Rescue is broken. The first map is completely contained and there's no way up the road.

Have you used the different coloured rock switch to change the cliff into a ramp?

author=pianotm
I can't get Frog to work.

Frog works for me, and the opening sequence is just hysterical. Logical, but hysterical.

What are you stuck on now?

Okay, so I finished Destiny Quest.

I can appreciate that it's hard for a new dev to make a game in a week, and condensing the storyline down to bite-sized scenes was a good idea, but there were a lot of issues with the game's polish including unfinished maps, teleports that sent you to the wrong places, being able to buy the top-tier Ultimate items (gifted in a scene) at the start of the game, spelling mistakes and text cut-offs, missing sprites, too-easy battles and overly-large maps.

That's not the say the story wasn't interesting - it had promise - but a lot of these issues caused the game to be hard to take seriously in any way. The biggest issue I had were the battles, honestly. I literally Auto-battled my way through the last boss - both forms - and didn't die once in the whole game.

That wasn't the issue, though - I started the game on level 50 (top level) but still got EXP for each battle (bar one). This would make you think that the dev made a mistake with the starting levels, however the length of the battles would have been painful if you weren't on level 50. Extremely so as they were very long even on top level.

Still, it is a complete game made in a week, and while it has a lot of issues, there's something to be said for making something complete over that period of time. Here's hoping Rose_Guardian learned a lot from the experience and I'd like to see how it looks after some major polish has been applied.

Well, my favorite of everything is Might and Magic Tsukuru. In spite of how awesome it is, I did notice a couple of issues. One, if you talk to the guard at the inn, for the rest of the game, your text windows permanently turn clear. Two, you can pretty much just walk back and forth from screen to screen and get infinite gold. For realz. In the last dungeon, it's even easier since the chest is right next to the teleport crystal. Infinite megalixers. That really helped with the last boss.

Edit: Harmony.dll should be automatically included. I'm aware that some boots of 2K and 2K3 don't do it. Other people on this fine site know more about fixing that than me...of which I actually don't know. But to include the harmony.dll in your immediate project folder, all you have to do is copy it from another 2K game. You can even grab a copy from the other games in this event. As for the FullPackageFlag=1, open up the RTP_RT file, add a space under the line that says RTP_RT and put FullPackageFlag=1 in that space.

Pro tip - open the game in the editor. You can see the dig spots (which are otherwise unmarked in any way - and yes, there are a few of them).

Seriously, though, this game is impossible to beat without dying a million times. >.<; The balance is way off - I've had to cheat to get past encounters because they're too hard to beat legitimately.

For example, the Minotaurs do 60-80 damage per turn. You have 150 life. Two unlucky turns and you're dead. It hits first every time. You have, at that point, three skills - one has a low chance to numb and is the only way to beat the monster. The first is a good healing spell and the second is a stun fire spell. Unless you get super lucky you're going to die over and over again.

And I won't start in on the boss battles until I finish the game (I'm up to the dragon. I've had to increase my walk speed just to dodge the flames and I'm going to have to add more points into my health variable because 4 hits = death is just... so bad.)