Summer 2010 Dualstream Day of Zeux
| Summer 2010 Day of Zeux | |
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| Host | Terryn, Lancer-X |
| Judges | Terryn, Lancer-X, Wervyn, duvel, CJA |
| Date | July 17-18th, 2010 |
| Topic(s) | Immortality (abstract)
Nanomachines (concrete) |
| Scoresheet | Theme-independent |
| Preceeded by | Winter 2010 Day of Zeux |
| Followed by | Winter 2011 Day of Zeux |
The Summer 2010 Dualstream Day of Zeux took place on July 17-18th, 2010, and was hosted by Lancer-X and Terryn. Two games of note came out of this Day of Zeux -- "immortality" by Kom and "King Yu's Tower" by logicow, which split the judges evenly, the hosts favoring the latter and the rest of the judges favoring the former. Otherwise, the turnout was rather standard-fare, with an RTS by GreaseMonkey and a highly-thematic game bby Baby Bonnie Hood coming in 3rd and 4th. GreaseMonkey's friend and tracker-scene composer coda submitted a joke entry, purposely choosing the Theme-Heavy sheet so it would not be disqualified.
Despite the general quality of the highest scoring entries, both had major technique bugs that made both games much more difficult to play than they should have been. "immortality" had a flawed bullet routine that could slow the game to a crawl by the 3rd level, machine dependent, as well as the potential to trap the player in pits, albeit ones that are fortunately easily detectable by the player before they become an issue. "King Yu's Tower" had a very flawed player detection algorithm in the bosses' vector bullets, causing them to damage the player at inappropriate times (Lachesis complained incessantly about this bug after the DoZ and finally proved it exists in 2012).
Another interesting entry is Mr_Alert's DOS port of the then-current version of MegaZeux, 2.83.
There was no DoZ drama generated from the scores of this competition.
Scores
- 1st place, #22677: immortality, by "Anything is Possible When You Believe" feat "Dragons (Yet again)" (asgromo, Kom) - 1604/2000
- 2nd place, #22625: King Yu's Tower, by "';DROP TABLE teams;" (logicow) - 1589/2000
- 3rd place, #7494: Immortal Nanomachines, by "diamond <3s club spades" (GreaseMonkey) - 1200/2000
- 4th place, #54188: Indiana Smiley and the Orb of Immortality, by "Cute Bounty Hunter" (Baby Bonnie Hood) - 1138/2000
- 5th place, #19798: One Tower, One Life, by "Team One-Hour-Entry" (KKairos) - 665 + pi / 2000
- 6th place, #75946: Mina and the Quest for Immortality, by "Team Frost Muffin" (commodorejohn) - 403/2000
- 7th place, #95763: "denis", by "ヽ(・ω・)ノ" (coda) - 237/2000
- DQed, #8724: "Nanofighter", by "Retro to the Future" (madbrain) - 703.5/2000 (DQ; low theme score)
- DQed, #24560: "^255 nano robotz(?)", by "<%Kuddy> "epic doz team name"" (mzxrules) - 217.5/2000 (DQ; low theme score)
- DQed, #3656: sick fetish for all things obsolete, by Some Sort of Team (Mr_Alert, Manani) - (DQ; submitted DOS port of MZX 2.83)
- DQed, #41608: わーふ！, by 今夜はどの娘とらぶいちゃえっち!?(綾瀬はづき) - (DQ; submission by judge)
- DQed, #71124: Goo! It's ALIVE!, by karaoke boys and the alcoholic beverages (duvel) - (DQ; submission by judge)
- DQed, #85132: Nanomachines from Space, by The ER department (asiekierka, Taitorian) - (DQ; submitted conversion of content made before the DoZ timeframe)