Badges and Challenges: Extending Your Game!

[sk89q]

There are "iconic" badges on the FC Res site:
http://fc.therisenrealm.com/design?designId=4725#badges

[onion]

There are "iconic" badges on the FC Res site:
http://fc.therisenrealm.com/design?designId=480831 ("Badges" tab)
For penalty shot:
http://fc.therisenrealm.com/design?designId=583270

what the awesome!

[ConnorK]

Solved badge: check

[Mikemc]

Are these badges just honor things or does the registered game apply them?

- Mike

[sk89q]

Are these badges just honor things or does the registered game apply them?

- Mike

They're honored things, though my site (FC Resource) does "apply" some of them.

[Mikemc]

I have created/modified 4 new badges if you care yo use them.
Complete the map
Use max 5 extra parts
Use max 3 extra parts
Hit every land chunk and finish
Credit to remy for Rebound and onion for the check mark.

- Mike

[allididdle]

why not make a medival badge?
EX: make some stuff medival (has to be green because there wasnt any electricity in the medival times) like green carts and green trebuchets?

[diggoran]

Champion Boomerang: Impossible? I think not! lookee here: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=920649

I THINK this qualifies as a champion boomerang... the boomerang leaves yet again, in order to eventually slow to a stop in the red.

[diggoran]

oops! here's the real one... : http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=921249

[martinthatcher]

! I got a boomerang badge! http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1099044
And here's boomerang/clean. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1115452

[NightStryke]

You know, weasel, you can probably remove the big flashing light and link to the level 21 contest now.

[jtbowden]

What about the idea of a "Kudos" badge, or a "Thumbs Up", that other players can award your design? This is similar to rating, I suppose, but the egotist in me would like to see that 10 people gave me a kudos for instance, rather than a 5 star rating, cause once you've reached 5, the fun is over. It's basically just saying, "hey, I like this", or "this is cool and unique".

If you want to extend that, you could have a variety of player awarded badges, like a "Wow!" badge, or "Gold/Silver/Bronze Medal" badges.

It would count as a single badge, but you could put how many a player was awarded: "Gold Medal (10 awarded)".

Just a thought...

[marhawkman]

Maybe one for compact designs with lots of parts in a small space? I managed to fit 45 into my "centipede Crawl"(awash) design.

I like the idea of designs that only LOOK like they're going to fail...

Champion: doesn't leave goal
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1133850
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1326267

Clean: most of mine dispose of themselves... I guess I like car designs too much. Can't build a decent catapult to save my life, but I can throw together a tank in seconds.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1133553
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1133500
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1077045
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=856279
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=856109 this one also reenters the goal a few times.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=856079
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=855934
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=855855 takes literally at least a minute. I timed it. ~2:57 O_O!
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=816723 Insane number of components in that tiny design.

Brown: No wheels of any kind
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1133850

[rabid squirrel]

Have you considered adding "Unattached"?
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=889 (unattached champions)

or "Pilots"?
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=978

or maybe my all water rods? *big cheesy smile*
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=974

[aacsd]

It'd be great to have badges for fastest and slowest solutions. That's something the game could track automatically.

[woofie]

um? a yellow badge? (really simple contraption) may there beone and its own l*how evar you spell it*?

[quote2004focus]

Hi,

My name is quote2004focus and I'm an FC-holic...

Can I get official verification of something relating to badges, please? I was under the impression that a boomerang must return to and remain in (not just pass through) the workshop area after achieving victory in order to qualify as a boomerang, just like a champion must remain in the goal area indefinitely... Is this correct? Thusly, a design cannot be both a champion AND a boomerang
...unless the goal area is a smaller square inside the workshop area, which I have also seen.

Is my understanding correct? (I'm preparing my second set of competition levels and this may affect my designs...)

[mnielsen]

Hi,

My name is quote2004focus and I'm an FC-holic...

Can I get official verification of something relating to badges, please? I was under the impression that a boomerang must return to and remain in (not just pass through) the workshop area after achieving victory in order to qualify as a boomerang, just like a champion must remain in the goal area indefinitely... Is this correct? Thusly, a design cannot be both a champion AND a boomerang
...unless the goal area is a smaller square inside the workshop area, which I have also seen.

Is my understanding correct? (I'm preparing my second set of competition levels and this may affect my designs...)

For competition purposes this has been the standard so far, yes.

With regards to champions there can be no doubt. If the goal piece doesn't stay in the goal, then it's no different from any other solution and not a champion, imo.

For boomerang you could argue, that once it has returned to the workshop, then it has completed it's boomerang, and then it doesn't really matter what it does after that.

[quote2004focus]

That was a little contradictory (or non-committal ), but I think I get the point: After victory, boomerangs must return to and remain entirely within the workshop area indefinitely to qualify as a boomerang.

So sayeth the flock....

And I wasn't kidding about that whole "PC-holic" thing... the dog now barks at me and greets the mailman. Anyone ready to start a support group yet?

[dr_xemacs]

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=855855 takes literally at least a minute. I timed it. ~2:57 O_O!

My improvement takes hell of a lot more driving wheels and takes 183 ticks:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2341013
Cheers Doc