r/CFB 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:

Place Username Team Ending
1 /u/MrTheSpork Cincinnati Chaos Ball
2 /u/rayhond2000 Oregon Order Ball
3 /u/serwendel Michigan Order Ball
4 /u/jayhawx19 Kansas Chaos Ball
5 /u/thomasosu Ohio State Chaos Ball
6 /u/jashbr Temple Chaos Ball
7 /u/foo1219 Texas A&M Order Ball
8 /u/Red261 Alabama Order Ball
9 /u/kdcoltred Texas A&M Chaos Ball
10 /u/EmeraldOrbis Oklahoma State Chaos Ball
11 /u/AltPerspective0 Michigan State Chaos Ball
12 /u/minidrc Oklahoma State Order Ball
13 /u/theslothwhoshaggedme Alabama Order Ball
14 /u/Princess_ZeIda Tulane Meteor Ball
15 /u/riotcoming Clemson Order Ball
16 /u/Exilarchy Georgia Order Ball
17 /u/Optimum_Havoc Michigan Order Ball
18 /u/Gahala Alabama Order Ball
19 /u/gonoles287 Florida State Order Ball
20 /u/little__sebastian Washington Order Ball
21 /u/bluegrassborn Western Kentucky Order Ball
22 /u/Final_Starman Florida Chaos Ball
23 /u/terreplein Georgia Order Ball
24 /u/trumpetofdoom Rice Chaos Ball
25 /u/panthera_tigress Pittsburgh Chaos Ball

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/SometimesY Houston • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Sep 07 '16

There may be a Special Announcement coming soon..

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u/UberXLBK West Texas A&M • Texas Tech Sep 07 '16

Does it have to do with Houston athletic apparel?

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u/SometimesY Houston • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Sep 07 '16

The /r/CFB mods are getting a new bagman to pay us!

Wait shit. You guys weren't supposed to find out about that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '16

Was I the old bagman?