by Spoonweaver
First up in the contest, we have Nightmare on Elmo Street in last place. This game seems to have gotten some bad press. It has a couple things going for it, though. The no miss attacks, that you must find in order to cleanly kill all your targets, were a really neat idea. Making them invisible AND randomly hidden was not so neat though. The game's lack of color was almost forgivable thanks to some of the great graphics it has. Some of the other graphics are pretty bad though. The game's major flaws were the misnaming of enemies, lagging, and the fact that Oscar is the only enemy you really have to defeat to win. For these reasons and perhaps others, Nightmare on Elmo Street ended up in last place.
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Nightmare on
Elmo Street by J_Taylor |
5th Place - Average Score of 3.1 |
Next, we have a funny little game called Seinfeld Teaches Typing. Boasting a full length episode script, this game wants you to type, A LOT. The typing is accompanied by scenes from the show, and an evil picture of Newman when you make a typo. I enjoyed telling people about this game, but I didn't really enjoying playing it. It was a great idea, but typing out a complete script for a T.V. show seems more like work.
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Seinfeld
Teaches Typing by James Paige |
4th Place - Average Score of 4.7 |
I entered my own contest. It's become normal for contest holders to enter their own contests here in the OHR community, but it still felt weird to me. I didn't know what I was going to do if I ended up winning. Thankfully, I got third.
Anyways, my game was basically an attempt at a 3D space fighter game done in a similar fashion as Star Fox. I wasn't too thrilled with my results, but completed the game none the less. Some people have commented that this would make a great full length game. I don't have any plans to do this myself, but I do plan to both release the source code and explain how it works in the future. So, maybe we'll see a full length Star Fox like game on the OHR after all.
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Star Wars:
Episode 4 - An OHR Hope. by Spoonweaver |
3rd Place - Average Score of 6.6 |
This next entry received a wonderful response. Voters really seemed to love Who Killed Dinosaur Giant?. If I had to pick a reason for it coming in second instead of first, I'd have to point to the fact that it's not actually a game. This entry was instead a video made with the OHR. This genre can also be seen in OHR House by JSH and Twilight by Barnabus.
In this game, Surlaw's character, Dinosaur Giant, travels to McDonald Land on vacation and is quickly declared dead. It's up to Salom Lancoven, another one of Surlaw's characters, to figure out Who Killed Dinosaur Giant. I don't wanna spoil the end, but I really liked how Surlaw portrayed all of the McDonald Land Characters.
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Who Killed
Dinosaur Giant? by Paul Harrington |
2nd Place - Average Score of 7.8 |
Finally, we have our winner! Batman and Robin by RedMaverickZero really took the show. This game has great graphics, terrific gameplay, and an enjoyability factor that rivals some of the OHR's most popular games ever.
But, this game almost missed the contest completely. RedMaverickZero wanted his game to be so great that he took a point deduction in order to fine tune his game to the point of perfection and release it a bit late. I guess it was worth it because he ended up winning anyways.
Congratulations, RedMaverickZero, you've won an OHR bumper sticker from Cafe Press. I hope your car wears it with pride, or whatever you end up putting it on wears it with pride of equal or greater value.
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Batman &
Robin by RedMaverickZero |
1st Place - Average Score of 8.1 |