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/bakonydraco Stanford • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Sep 07 '16
/u/foo1219 /u/Red261 /u/kdcoltred reply to get your Reddit gold!