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
Mmm, stickers, balls, pens, business cards! I want a BR squishy ball, seriously D:
I also have a YouTube account with many videos of flash games, so I’m in for sure.
So we can pretty much take as much time and everything as we want to get the upgrades. All we have to do is try to get an even more ridiculous amount of money in one time than you did? It doesn’t have to be on the first launch or anything?
yes…thats cool!
ok, ill try this..315k on one day sounds hard to beat but ill try
i want the squishy ball :O
any chance of adding a free play mode so you don’t have to worry about accidentally going into space?
Right now, it’s tedious just getting started for a competitive run. Especially with the super harsh penalty for going to high: loss of current run AND loss of ALL purchased items. Not really worth the effort.
***Note: Yes, I managed to go into space twice, while attempting your challenge, before giving up.
everyone wants a squishy ball
I think I might be interested. I just had a 355K run, but I didn’t record it (I don’t have the means to record things with…yet) and it was on the wrong website.
I just got 365K but didn’t record it. Oh well, the trick is to use your radar! Use as little fuel as possible. I focus more on hitting the pads rather than collecting coins. Get a high altitude but don’t go into space! Go immediately back down a little. All of this and a little luck will get you a good score. Fun game
humm prety cool but i wouldeve put better graphic’s if it was my game
Hmm… This should be…. FUUUUUUUN.
It looks like it’s time to try again on the challenge for the best. I’ll have it uploaded asap. And for all you aspiring for victory, good luck.
Hi John!Its me…i know your cats name mvhahaha,i want a squishy ball!lol
I won’t put it on youtube but Iwill try.
oh btw beating 312 k is possible though you ma not believe this without a vid witch i don’t have. I got $597997.40 Total. I wasn’t playing to beat it just to see if it was possible. Also it was in under five min.
genkiller, i’m trying to load my video up… it’s taking a long time.. but i expect the winning total to be over a million.
My youtube vid of my 446k, 4min run is now live!
lol, I’m going to get owned so fast..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EbGScxJzU-w
Well, it took a while… but! here is some hedgehog-fu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49BNGNkEXFU
My first contest I participate and I’m going to win… $857556.00 in 06:41:06 … I’m uploading the video…
So, here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JAFvimq6EU
$857556.00 in 06:41:06
ha it wasnt over a million it was 900 somethin thousand
amazing.
“including you Australians who dominated our last contest.”
I feel special
I was an Australian in the top 5 or so ;P (iirc)
Aw do I have to post my vid now?
It’s sitting on YouTube right now, but don’t want to submit it yet in case you guys get ideas/shock/whatever
Yeah, it’s over 1 mil. But, er, “a bit”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slBL4-bg-T4
Just $459,000, and it was more difficult than I thought
I was concerned about escaping into space, too, but I tried to follow the technique in the video above, and it has worked for me.
heh, obviously i’ll have to work on a 2 million launch won’t I Sp?
I love it but i cant get good enough graphics in myvid i also got into out of space on my 3rd TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hm…score to beat: One million. And I think silver’s gonna get 2 million. Ah whatever.
bloody good score…I’ll see if I can top it
Is using a program like CPUkiller that slows down your computer (or just opening a few dozen youtube videos to do the same thing)allowed?
Well I got 361284.90 which is enough to knock john off the scores
. Of course, SP is going to knock me off soon enough too. I’ll upload the video soon.
Ok, uploading my entry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PgafTl0No
It was not as smooth as I would have liked and the stupid camstudio made playing it a little weird to play so forgive the color shifting thing that happens in it. it seems to flash while it plays and looks kinda like it’s skipping but it’s really not
though I did have to speed it up 2X just to get it onto youtube
Nearly 2 million, lasting more then 10 minutes, and I know I messed up at a few parts too, haha.
and yes I know I should have boosted to 4400 but I forgot :’(
If anyone manages to beat my score I will have to try again, after all this was only my first attempt at the score and I know I can do better ^^
Go Team Canada!!
OMG OMG OMG
I need to learn when to wait, just trying to post a new video I just made topping out at just shy of 3 million >.<
Hey, is it against the rules to have a computer that’s way too slow cause I do and I can’t help it!!!
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Ok, up and working ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQWiM9MWp74
I actually sat down and watched my first one and it is very dry so I added music to this one, haha
2,940k, almost 13 minutes long, 2X speed compressed
And not sure if some of you will notice, even though it happened by luck I do have a max height of 4490 exactly.
Still has that weird color bleed thing going on but it’s only to the background for some reason. what is up with that?
And I apologize for the post spamming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CjaYU24N5Y is my score of 361284.90. Now to work my way up the list
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Aw stuff this. Here’s my video. 3 and a half mil. Go knock yourselves out.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mLKtNuSPh7c
566304.75 and slowly moving up the ranks
. Video as soon as youtube lets me. Now to beat 857k 
Wow… 3.5M? I did 1.2… I was going to post, but I give up…
my friend got 572k yesterday…too bad i didnt have my video camera with me
Using Sp3000′s strategy, I made it to 1.2 mil. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2lwf_KARw0
Ow, man! On 7/8/08, I recorded this comment on Kongregate:
“Woot! One day total: $401.75 collected, altitude 3622 ft., runtime, 5:58.87 = $522,909″
But it was long before this contest began, so longer before I found out about it. So of course, I didn’t record it.
I think that this conclusively proves that all of you need to find better ways to spend your time :/
uh… 3.5 mill… oy, before i even try to make a video, i need to try to get there without one ><
Put me on that goldurned leaderboard! It’s not $3.5 million, but it’s big.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtdMrfG1kYM
Well, I don’t think no one’s gonna go near that record, yah know. I doubt I’ll win cause someone’s already close to that
Random Fact: If I had gotten 4490 as my max height, I’d have gotten an additional 150k. Yeah, every single multiplier helps, and that one’s just x1.8!
So, really nuancing your pull so you get the most possible height without ending up in space really makes a difference, hunh? I’ll have to mess around with that.
1.15mil
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zSy5guzrgHU
1.1 M
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zSy5guzrgHU
Well if we only look at the scores that are on the list at the top, I could be first.
If we look at the comments…
Here’s my first attemt to get the high score. Its not amazing but one of the top. http://youtube.com/watch?v=8oKUJ15r_7o.
314 K.