I’ve never really felt the need to beat other players at my own game. Maybe it’s that feeling that “I created the game, so I shouldn’t really be a contender at it.” But now I am thinking to myself that maybe once, just once, I could be best at my own game, Hedgehog Launch.
So I am issuing a global challenge.
Post a video to youTube of yourself beating my high score and everyone else’s on a single-run for Hedgehog Launch. Record everything from launch to score tally. I want to see of you can beat my score, and if you do, don’t worry, I’ll be right behind you to beat yours. I’ll update this thread as things change. No, don’t post images… I don’t trust your Photoshopping skills.
Winner with the single highest-scoring run (out of everyone of course) gets stickers, balls, pens, business cards, and whatever else I can fit in a manila envelope that’s sitting around the office. I’ll ship it anywhere as long as it’s legal, including you Australians who dominated our last contest. And if I end up winning this I will happily take the prizes for myself.
Official Rules
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You must play using the “Hedgehog Launch” game found on armorgames.com, unmodified and in it’s current working condition.
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Post a link to the youTube video confirming your feat via this thread. The video must account for everything including the launch sequence (the pulling back of the hedgehog launcher) to the tally of the score for your launch. Please make sure your video is decent quality, I will reject video that is poor quality, stutters a lot, or is ridiculous in some manner. You can record either via a good screen recording software (need free recording software?) or a handheld video camera. Please do not send screenshots or still images.
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Any indication of cheating will be detected. Don’t do it. We have ways of finding out. We reserve the right to take away a prize in the case that cheating has a occurred (ask us if you are unsure what cheating is).
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The one player with the greatest amount of money for a single-day run will be declared the winner.
- The current leaders will be updated in this thread as entries come in.
- If you have any questions feel free to ask in this thread or email me at John@armorgames.com!
- Deadline is July 31, at 11:59 pm PST.
Side Note:
I have come to terms with the fact that people annihilate my scores. The difficulty of my games have always been based on my own ability to beat my own games, and I use that as a measure to tweaking the difficulty up or down. I would think I would have an advantage over the common player since I wrote the code and know every single nuance from the get-go, but maybe that is not the case. Many people come back immediately after playing my games and destroy all my high scores on their first playthrough. Very disheartening, I assure you. Time to claim my revenge.
CURRENT CONTENDERS:
Silverfire: $937,345.50
Gabriel: $857,556.00
Chuck: $459,000.00
Maxil: $446,212.50
John: $312,606.52
Tags: challenge, contest, hedgehog launch
Ok so all I to prove I got over 1 million is a screen shot, how do I video it? Just set up a web cam?
great game just got over 100k iam into contest so i wont post a link
good luck and have fun all.
So whats the deal, is Armorgames staff usually this slow or do they heart Silverfire this much due to ass kissing?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bf9t_7VbctU 1.9 mil
aww, I got 950k, so I’m not going to post the vid cause you guys already got 2 mill omg!
Not really a contest entry — “only” $875,000. But I thought folks might want to see my idea of The Perfect Launch. As I suggested in my last post, I messed around with the launcher pull until I got what I feel is the optimum pull. You’re gonna say “No way! He’s headin’ for space,” but rest assured, I’m not. If anyone can beat 4478 feet, without going into space, I’d like to know about it. And if three launches between 4460 and 4478 are any indication, I can now do it consistently.
And some people say this game is all luck and no skill. Bah! I say, Bah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dVzAkbhuRo
Might as well put in my 2 cents.
Little over 4 million and about 14 and a half minutes. Filmed on a bit higher speed to make it fit on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7As9zsIUYQ
Edm, I hear ya bro, best I got was 4490 I just launched at a 45 degree angle and improvised as I got up there.
I have a new entry.
$6,126,270.22
16:05.90 minutes
The footage is in 2 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV05rGII974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuG3JmMN5-A
YAAAY DragonSoul beat me XD
To your credit, it wasn’t easy. It was pretty fun though.
Did my second entry get posted? It says the comment is awaiting moderation.
Yeah, I saw your 6M launch. Only have one thing to say.
IT’S OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!
You people are really good. The best I can do is 582K. I can’t enter because I don’t have a webcam.
I filmed it with CamStudio, the program linked under (free recording software) in the contest guidelines. Just had to tweak the framerate a bit before the video was useable.
Yeah, my strat basically is…
1. Parachute for an extra 3min or so of run time each drop.
2. Make it back up using platforms.
3. $5 coins FTW.
My strategy is:
1. Launch as high as possible
2. parachute and collect coins
3. minimize fuel usage by tapping button softly and having good aim
4. create lanes of launchers by staying in roughly the same vertical zone
5. At 1.5k altitude scoot a bit left into the lane you created and look for yellow launchers -repeat 1-5 until out of parachutes
6. try to stay in the air and conserve fuel while collecting as many coins as possible
7. when fuel is almost empty, boost to maximum velocity either left or right
I think coins are actually more important that given credit for. From what I can tell, collecting coins helps spawn more coins, and possibly extra platforms. Did anyone else find it suspicious that there were three types of coins as well as three types of launchers? As well as a slight bit of lag when collecting masses of coins.
The longer the game went on, the more platforms and coins I noticed all over. This is the reason that parachuting and creating lanes is so important.
That’s pretty much my strat Dragon
Lulz, good job
Yeah, I actually thought that you were going to beat the $4.2m run. That’s the only reason I tried again.
To rephrase the last post:
That’s the reason I submitted a new entry.
I could NEVER get that much cash
this is terrific
it’s a record
beat that 802k with less time
there was a guy who got 3 million!
There was a guy who got 6 million!
I got 677k using Dragon Souls strategy (But I didn’t know that’s what he did.) I could have got about 3M but I’m not patient enough.
Was there a winner? The leaderboard hasn’t been updated since the first time I hit this page.
i could have won that contest hands down with a score of 1,501,026.00 no lies no hacking i have a picture i wish i could add it. you can in the forums
(time = 46.00 h. elevation = 44.70 money = 730)
got 107k but didn’t record
got to space on day 8!!!
I just pulled a 5.5 mil score and i’ll try to recreate it for youtube, but frankly after 20 minutes in the air it gets boring to watch.
UGH!! Why can’t you trust me?!? I got 26m on a 32 minute launch and a height of 104k!! Look at these pictures! I swear to god they’re not photoshopped! You can email me and call me if you want!
MY TOP SCORE:1,272,920.40 CENTS…IM NOT KIDDING