2012 Harmony Games-Last round - Seaweed Assault

[+Random Terrain]

Kudos to Dan!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFq1o4XEVd0

[Schizophretard]

Nice score!

 

Thanks, and that was my very first time playing Seaweed Assault! I'll play my second game of it later today

 

Your monitor has a fantastic picture!

 

That it does, and that picture doesn't even do it justice - check out this one.

 

That's an impressive first.

 

Those scan lines are beautiful.

 

Check out the TV effects in Stella, particularly RGB mode (press Alt-4). It looks quite a bit like the screenshot above.

 

I just updated and looked. Not bad.

[Gorfy]

Love this game!!

 

Score: 3930

[Dan Iacovelli]

thanks REVEng, as I mentioned I had to include at least one bB game in it.

I might make Harmony games a permemante fixture for AVC Online next year

but not on Atari Age thugh since there are already the 2600 high score club.

keep up the good job on the scores guys I do try to upadte list each day.

[+SpiceWare]

24,912

 

[Schizophretard]

24,912

 

 

Do you spell your name Darrell or D.A.R.Y.L.?

[Schizophretard]

Here are my first two:

[Schizophretard]

I just found something cool. Tomorrow it will be 23 years to the day that the Gainesville Sun reported a Seaweed Assault. From the paper:

 

Gainesville Sun - Jul 11, 1989

 

Seaweed assault

 

Galveston, Texas - Gobs of brown seaweed are piling up on some beaches quicker than they can be hauled away, and officials don't know what is causing the seaweed assault.

For weeks, tons of seaweed have washed up on beaches from Padre Island National Seashore below Corpus Christi to Holly Beach, La., and beyond on the Gulf of Mexico coast.

It began in early-to-mid May and, although it may have tapered off some in spots, it hasn't quit yet.

"It's a losing battle." said Thomas Garza, a Mustang Island State Park ranger. "You can't fight Mother Nature."

The seaweed is really sargassum, or brown algae.

 

http://news.google.c...pg=2826,3270624

 

I also found the same story in the HOUSTON CHRONICLE. It starts out like this:

 

GALVESTON - It crept silently, ominously toward the Gulf of Mexico shoreline. It reached out, snaring unsuspecting swimmers by their arms and legs, causing them to yelp as if they'd been stung by jellyfish.

Relentlessly, it assaulted the beaches, covering the sand like a thick carpet of brown sludge. Then it began to rot, fouling the healthy, salt breeze with the odor of decaying organic matter.

It may sound like some terrible scourge from the deep, but what is being described here is just some regular old seaweed - lots and lots and lots of it.

For weeks now, it's been hitting the beach by the ton. The massive seaweed assault has occurred from the Padre Island National Seashore below Corpus Christi to Holly Beach, La., and beyond on the Gulf Coast.

 

http://www.chron.com...ng-beaches.html

 

Here is another article from the Ocala Star-Banner - Aug 15, 1991 talking about a seaweed assault on a nuclear power plant:

 

http://news.google.c...pg=1667,3703475

 

Here is the best one I found so far. It is titled,"California joins global assault on killer seaweed / Europeans provide ideas for destroying resilient, toxic algae." It is about a strain of seaweed that mutated in people's aquariums and found it's way to the oceans. It is spreading like cancer and destroying ecosystems. Here is part of it:

 

"It gets bigger every year," laments Ante Zuljevic of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in nearby Split, whose efforts to eradicate the invasive seaweed merely slow its expansion. "Caulerpa spreads like cancer in a human being. Our hope is that we can keep it in check until somebody finds a way to stop it."

Like some B-grade science-fiction alien, Caulerpa has gone global, showing up in bays and estuaries around Sydney and Adelaide in Australia. It also was found growing in a saltwater lagoon in Carlsbad, 20 miles north of San Diego, in July 2000. It has since been discovered in Huntington Harbor in Orange County, 50 miles north of the first site.

 

http://www.sfgate.co...8557.php#page-1

 

 

So, it looks like RT's science fiction is science fact.

[LidLikesIntellivision]

80,340!!!

I didn't expect to reach such a score when this round started, I'm very happy with this one!

 

I know 100,000 would be cool but I was really tired so I stopped playing after 80k. Now even typing isn't as easy as it uses to be and I didn't want to pause the game.

[Schizophretard]

80,340!!!

I didn't expect to reach such a score when this round started, I'm very happy with this one!

 

I know 100,000 would be cool but I was really tired so I stopped playing after 80k. Now even typing isn't as easy as it uses to be and I didn't want to pause the game.

 

Nice! You beat my 75K.

[Gorfy]

small increase........... 5,245

Edited July 11, 2012 by Gorfy

[Dan Iacovelli]

keep the scores coming guys.

Iwas thinking for prize at the show a free color program of this years show and a E-cert to my cafepress shop

(if there is no winners at the show, I will give an e-cert to my cafe press shop to the online winner(or winners)

would you guys be fine with that?

[Impaler_26]

Awesome Game!! I'm having fun although i totally suck at it...

 

First Try:

 

937

 

[Impaler_26]

A bit better...

 

1702

 

[Gorfy]

new score: 6607

[roadrunner]

New score 2,858

[Dan Iacovelli]

scores updated don't forget you have until 6pm tomarrow to play

I will anounce winners on sunday for this round only since this will

continue till VGS ends(other two will be announced at VGS at 5pm

and sunday as well)

Edited July 14, 2012 by Dan Iacovelli

[Austin]

Bah, looks like I am going to miss this round. Been busy the last couple of weeks.

[+SpiceWare]

30,997

 

 

bummer - I misread the deadline

Edited July 15, 2012 by SpiceWare

[Dan Iacovelli]

maybe next year you can join in

[+SpiceWare]

It didn't change my ranking, I'm still 3rd

[+Gemintronic]

I stayed in the low 200's It's a quality game. I just suck at it.

[Schizophretard]

80,340!!!

I didn't expect to reach such a score when this round started, I'm very happy with this one!

 

I know 100,000 would be cool but I was really tired so I stopped playing after 80k. Now even typing isn't as easy as it uses to be and I didn't want to pause the game.

 

I want to congratulate you for winning. Great Job! At first I wanted to win but then I started rooting for you. I thought your playing style in the video looked awesome with the Immelmann turns. I would love another video. Maybe if you decide to try for 100,000 points? If I don't do it first. A review would be cool too.

 

Here is something funny you may enjoy. When I saw your score of 45,798, I planned on posting a score just right above yours to push you to try harder. Right before I posted my score of 42264, I paused the game and said,"Honey! I'm almost there! He is going to be so pissed!" When I unpaused I quickly died because I lost my concentration from the excitement. LOL! Anyway, awesome work and the same goes to everyone else. You all did an excellent job and it was fun. I dedicate this Bill Nye the Science Guy video to all of you.

 

[LidLikesIntellivision]

Thank you!

 

I was seeking that score but was very tired so I stopped playing, of course, not before I could get a score right above your 75k mark

 

And yes, I will try the 100k and maybe record the last 5k or I could make some video edition.

[Schizophretard]

Thank you!

 

I was seeking that score but was very tired so I stopped playing, of course, not before I could get a score right above your 75k mark

 

And yes, I will try the 100k and maybe record the last 5k or I could make some video edition.

 

You're welcome. I got screwed by a Brazilian by not properly boxing my Dactar 007 before shipping and now I'm screwed again by one beating my high score.

 

What I really enjoyed was you went from,"My score (4,680) seems to be a good one but schizophretard mentioned a huge score of 75k I wonder if that score is a super Easter Egg effect by RT..." to annihilating me in about a week. That is just awesome. It just shows how cool of a game RT made. It can be learned quickly and once you learn it it is addicting.

 

When I played one of his original versions, I could tell he was on to something but I was frustrated with the controls. But as I was play testing and helping him test out ideas, I realized the controls are perfect. I was going about them all wrong. Usually in games you shoot moving targets like the fish going up and down in Seaquest but in this game what you are shooting are stationary and YOU are the moving target. When I realized that and learned the controls, I could tell he did something clever. If you have a game with stationary targets what do you do? You add a paddle and a ball or add a living sub that glides through water! My first impression was like the Video Game Critics. I thought the controls were slippery but after learning the controls they are spot on and I wouldn't have it any other way. Learning how the Manatee glides through the water is part of the game. It is part of the challenge. It isn't slippery controls. The Manatee goes exactly where you put him. He just glides a little after. You just have to learn how to move in water. Your quick climb to the top showed how quickly people can learn this game and when they do they will love it. I've read RT's ideas on controlled randomness, replay value, and game design. He manifested those ideas beautifully in this game. I'll always love it. It is kind of a hidden gem right now but others will love it too.

 

If you do another video I would be interested in clips showing the times when something really interesting happens. For an example, you get stuck, almost die, get out with low health, and survive to get the canister. I do that many times in a game and those near death experiences are intense.