Vote submitted, and for those who are interested:

http://files.byondhome.com/Megablaze/reviews.txt

I put it in a "Con/Pro" format, I apologize if the Cons outway the Pros, or if the review is very short, I'm not trying to be mean :S.

PS: In glorious .txt format.

A bit of a postmortem:

I really regret making the game that I did.
It's yet another case of designing a game that was too ambitious for the contest timeframe.

I had a bunch of content design that tied into the theme a lot more strongly, but I ended up spending about 16 hours debugging and trying to fix a specific problem that ended up not getting completely fixed. A lot of the thematic content I had designed ended up getting cut, because of time. :X

The level I was going to release was originally going to be accompanied by a story that explained that an alien infestation had afflicted a colony ship, and your job was to destroy the infested colony ship and its alien escort before they could reach a human settlement. The colony ship ended up getting cut from the final game, and as a result, it's not entirely clear that the alien escort ties into the theme without the colony ship. If you look closely, you'll notice that the enemy ships have these bulbs of flesh growing on them, a small piece of what had remained of the original content design.

The Adrenaline Bar, when it fills up, slows down the game speed to 50% for 5 seconds. You gain adrenaline by scoring hits, taking hits, or by flooring the afterburners. It is accompanied by some sounds to indicate the slow-mo. It's a light mechanic that does help the gameplay a little, but since I had to cut the planned thematic content, the game ended up being incredibly light on all of the themes.

I should have made a friggin tower defense game with my silly mesh-renderer. Sprites and relative prerendered orientations be damned.

Yep! :) I'm excited too!!

yut cheated, baird deserved first place

i hate this contest

Congratulations to Yut Put. I voted Yut #1, myself. What he managed to complete within the time limit was amazing. I also Voted D4rk3 my #3, because while his game was kind of broken, what he pulled off was something that had never been done before, and deserved some serious praise.

Great contest this time around, guys.

Akto wrote:

Woot woot! Congrats everyone! It was a fun contest, those that entered did great. Also, thanks again to everyone that donated.

I wish I would have donated more. A few days later, my PayPal got jacked and now I'm negative $900 and despite my having rock-solid evidence, PayPal won't reverse the transactions. The account doesn't have my SSN though, so I'm ditching it. I just wish I would have been more frivolous with my money so more of it would have been enjoyed. I lost, not including the negative and lost wages (I exchange currencies), about $400.

At long last: Narto in the third dimension.

If only Masterdan were here to see this.

Digits wrote:

EmpirezTeam wrote:

sweet, time to replace the all the graphics with shinobi, and release BYOND's first 3D naruto game

Couldn't resist:

lmfao

Aw, so disappoint, I feel like I wasted time/effort in designing the game for this time frame.

Gratz to everyone else anyways.

Yay, I missed yet another contest! (Would a charitable BYOND-goer remind me, next time?)