HALIBABICA'S PROFILE

This is Spelunkying: The Colossal Cave. It's based on the PC version of Spelunky, of which I'm responsible for a few mods. The game may be the setting, but the story is (more or less) original since the game doesn't have a proper one itself.

Even if you've never played Spelunky, you don't need to know anything about it to understand the comic. The pages are a bit large for forum viewing, so I'm keeping them in hide tags and leaving links as well.

I'll change the topic line with each new update! I hope you all enjoy the read. :3

~ Spelunkying: The Colossal Cave ~

Ch.1: That's How It All Started



Ch.2: A Lush Load to Bear



Ch.3: The Cold Depths

Part 1: Dark Descent

Part 2: Yetis Are Chill

Part 3: The Missing Lunk

Part 4: Yetis Are Too Chill

Part 5: Platforming at Its Worst

Part 6: One Night at Yeti's

Part 7: Spring Heels

Part 8: Superior Beings

Part 9: Giant Heads

Part 10: Slip Up

Part 11: What Are the Odds

Part 12: Don't Need No Man

Part 13: Accessorize

Part 14: Meet Again

Part 15: Death and Life

Part 16: Human in the Middle

Part 17: Shiny Slippy Icy Floor

Part 18: His Majesty

Part 19: Yeti King is Not Chill

Part 20: Cold Feet

Part 21: Enemy Intel

Part 22: Breaking the Ice

Part 23: Mandatory Thin Ice Pun

Part 24: Damsel in De-Stress

Part 25: Abduction

Part 26: Think Pink

Part 27: Flying Saucers

Part 28: Minions in the Meantime

Part 29: Out Cold

Part 30: Her

Since the SMBX engine is compatible with mp3s, people have used all kinds of different music in the stages and games they've made with it. I recently went through a bunch of these games and collected together all the cool tunes that were used.

But the problem is that I don't know what a lot of these songs are. I was able to decipher most of them through Google and YouTube, but some don't even have enough information in their file names to search off of. Thus, I need help identifying these songs I don't know. So I decided to make a forum game out of it!

I'll link these songs one at a time in this thread. Anyone who can tell me the correct title of the song and what it's from will earn a point. Whoever has the most points by the end of my backlog wins. Sound fun? No? Well, goddammit.

Current Song: None, it's over!

Unclaimed (name for points!):
Castle1f
Crystal
dimension2
Spooky1
Spooky2
Spooky3
suspense

Put your video game music knowledge to the test! Name that BGM!

*If the file name and track title are the same, just repeat it in your answer. Also, it's possible not all of these are from video games. Also also, if the source doesn't have an official soundtrack, the name of the place/character/situation will be fine. Basically, if I can plug the answer into YouTube and find it instantly, it's good.

Avee: 3 pts.
Cavern = The Cave - Super Castlevania IV
Dark Castle = Dark Castle Remix - Kirby's Dream Land 2
DC2JURAK = Lizard Dance - Chrono Cross

Marrend: 3 pts.
Credits = Serenade of Sympathy - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
DT Desert = Go to the Wilderness - 3D Dot Game Heroes
smb3-world6 = Winters White - EarthBound

Jeroen_Sol: 2 pt.
Blizzard = Internet World - Mega Man Battle Network 2
wiiUworld8 = World 8: Peach's Castle - New Super Mario Bros. U

Feldschlacht IV: 1 pt.
Ballroom = Dance of Gold - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Isrieri: 1 pt.
Chapel = Requiem for the Gods - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

GreatRedSpirit: 1 pt.
Clock = The Den - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood

Dyhalto: 1 pt.
funky = Goblin Underworld - King Arthur's World

LockeZ: 1 pt.
Necrofilm = Necrofilm - Aretha II

kentona: 1 pt.
smw-worldmap = Dyna Blade Overworld - Kirby Super Star

Travio: 1 pt.
tarolisk = Tower of the Tarolisk - Skyblazer

Lost Answers:
Confrontation = Carmeaty Burana - Super Meat Boy
crystal sea = Crystal Sea - Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll
Trial By Fire = Trial By Fire - Sakari Infinity

Has this idea come up before? Because some method of organizing my locker would be greatly appreciated. Sure, there's the search function, but sometimes you can't pull up everything you're looking for just through file name alone.

As some of you may know (probably not), I have an affinity for art tournaments on deviantArt. I entered quite a few back in 2011, all of them were Pokémon-related, and I even managed to win one of them! That tournament happened to be STAB. And now they're holding a sequel tournament, and I'm totally entering it again.

Before I get into the comics 'n such, I think I should first explain a little about how these things work. For the most part, they follow this general format:

The tournament is single-elimination, accepting a typical number of participants (16, 32, 64, etc.). Entrants create a character of their own design and submit it along with a reference page and audition. The judges examine the auditions to select their roster, pair the artists with each other, and begin the games.

Each round usually lasts about a month or so (art takes time to make! ._.), and each artist is charged with the task of creating a comic showing their character overcoming their opponent's character in whatever way that might entail (you can, and should, be creative about it!). When the deadline passes, the judges look at the submitted entries, decide who won, and those artists advance to the next round. The champion is declared when only one artist remains.

For Pokémon tournaments, it's a little trickier, since you also have to make a Pokémon team to go with your trainer character. There are plenty of guidelines to follow, but it's pretty simple otherwise.

The tournament I won was something of a unique case. It allowed both comic AND written entries, and it started with only 48 members. They decided to let two people back in as wild cards after the 3rd round to make up for it. I lost the 2nd round, but performed very well as a spectator in the 3rd, earning my way back in for the 4th. After that, I went on to be victorious over the whole thing. Given that this tournament is a sequel to the last, reading my story for the original is advisable, as it's considered tourney canon. You can find the start of that here.

All that said, here's my ref and audition for STAB II. The pictures are too big to fit on the forums, so I'll leave links to them and put 'em in hide tags.

Ref Sheet!


Audition start!


I've tried to share my comics on these forums in the past, but they were all kinda really shitty back then, so I hope things can go differently now. I'll keep this thread up to date with my progress in the tournament, and I hope you guys enjoy it enough to see it through to the end.

If you have any questions or comments, I'd be happy to hear them. :3

Two ideas I decided to finally get off my lazy butt and share.

The Workshop is actually just a rendition of The Void that I proposed a while back. Basically, a place for games that would otherwise be denied, where they can receive feedback and criticism for improvement. The name was changed to be less potentially offensive.

The Showcase, however, is rather the opposite. A place to single out the best that RMN has to offer.

Now before you all start shouting ELITISM ARGH BURN THE WITCH, let's think about just how this feature should work. For a game to get in the Showcase would not be a simple matter. It wouldn't be based off page views, star count, download count, pretty screenshots, or any of that non-indicative superficial crap. No, for a game to get in the Showcase, its creator would have to request it, and a member of the staff (or maybe two or three) would have to sit down and actually play it. We might need some new staffers for this, as it would require that they not only have the time for such an endeavor, but also the critical eye and attentiveness to detail that can discern the games that truly stand out. Okay, so we'd actually need new members with these qualities.

Pros of such a thing would include having a place to celebrate RMN's best beyond the ephemeral featured game slot, and something to show the rest of the world we're not all just Billy's First RPG Maker Game.

Cons would probably be a huge backlog of whiners who don't understand why they're not good enough to be in it. How we deal with that would probably need to be handled case by case, much like the submission queue. Not all suggested games would have to be played; if one's obviously not worth it, it could be knocked off the list with an explanation to the creator or something.

But that's the gist of the idea. What do you guys think of these two things?