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TotoIsGud4boy:
@hullaman guess it’s not just me that loved it… 🤡

Tagging other comment to support your ignorance doesn't change the fact that what should not be broken in the game is broken, It’s like building a car with a powerful engine but using square wheels, it doesn't matter how strong the engineering is if the basic functions don't work well.

TotoIsGud4boy:
I enjoyed his GAME, how about that? Typical nairalander, can’t respect opinions of others. I enjoyed his game and I’m a user. Kiss the sun

If you actually enjoyed a game where the pieces don't even stay where it's suppose to, then your standards are clearly in the gutter, this is a technical competition, not a fan club.

​If you're happy with what's broken, keep playing it in private, but don't expect the rest of us to celebrate mediocrity just because your feelings are hurt, You’re talking to me about opinions while defending a literal bug, get your head checked or go hug a transformer.

TotoIsGud4boy:
Dude it’s a F-ing game not a sit on a board contest or an alignment contest.. it’s a GAME!!!! is it enjoyable? Is it playable? The irony: look at nairaland UI, outdated and archaic yet it does its job perfectly. That’s the point. But like I said to each its own. You can blab from now tomorrow but everyone has thier own opinions. It’ll be great to setup a judging panel but then again he who pays the piper dictates the tune. Admin is doing a good initiative but you can’t force me to conform to his opinions that’s just hypocrisy.

Comparing outdated UI to "broken" UI makes no sense, speaking of hypocrisy, you sound like one, also Nairaland’s UI actually works, pieces not sitting on a board is just bad is broken,
You said it's a game to check if it's enjoyable, playable, but how can a game be enjoyable if the UI is broken, think and stop yapping.
this is a 3D challenge, if the 3D positioning is wrong, you failed the most basic part of the task, It’s not about conformity, it’s about competence, you can keep crying about bias and opinions, but in the real world, nobody pays for broken broken UI then the dev blame the user for it. If you can’t handle the baseline requirements, you don't get to move to the next stage. Simple as that.

TotoIsGud4boy:
There’s a reason I stepped back from the contest, a single judge is going to be biased. He who pays the piper dictates the tune. Regardless it’s a fun experience for you. My advice? Get busy with your life and build a product for yourself and the world and add this to your portfolio. Again, your entries was one of the best here so let’s see which entries he picks as the winner lol

It’s not about bias, it’s about standards. If the pieces don't even sit on the board correctly, then there's an issue, you don't launch a product with a broken UI, even with a perfectly working backend, the user don't care. You can't call an entry "the best" when it can't handle basic alignment. You choose your own best, I also looked at other ones, and there are way better entries than this.
Also who told you the entire thing is being handled by a single judge.

showtechedge:
I get your point, but I respectfully disagree that this is about 'passing for passing sake.'

My argument is about Proportionality. In any competition (or exam), if you make a mistake, you lose marks. You don't get expelled.

The 'sin' here was a visual alignment issue—a UI bug. The penalty applied was Disqualification. That is the equivalent of 'Capital Punishment' for a minor offense.

If the judges deducted 5 points for 'Bad UI Alignment' and I moved to the next stage with a lower score, I would accept that as a 'learned lesson.' But to delete an entry that has valid AI, Physics, and a Save System etc (which are technically harder to develop than aligning a pieces on a designated holes) feels like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

On this "I don't think there is another competition between the passed 23"

Actually, that is exactly my point—the competition does continue.

The organizer explicitly stated regarding the 22 passed entries: 'You are moving on to the next stage of assessment where we will look closer at gameplay, code quality, and sweetness.'

This means Stage 0 was just the gatekeeper. The real grading happens next.

I am not asking to 'pass for passing sake.' I am asking to be allowed into the exam hall because I know I have the answers for the difficult questions (Logic & Engineering), even if I messed up the handwriting (UI Alignment) on the cover page.

You're missing the point, this is a 3D Ludo challenge, If your pieces aren't even sitting on the board properly, the 3D implementation is fundamentally broken,
It doesn't matter how advanced your save system or AI is if the basic visual interaction fails the first eye test, stage 0 is a pass/fail filter for the core requirements, not a scoring round where you get partial credit for trying hard
Also there are definitely other disqualified codes that have save system and AI stuffs you claim you have, the board was the priority, and yours didn't meet expectations, move on.

Henrify117:
I didn't see my entry in the list of submitted entries.

You forgot to make your repo public bro

Seun:
You can see the all the submitted entries here:
https://www.github.com/nairaland/ludocontest

Nice, when will the results be out

@seun, I thought this thread was already locked
Please lock it before they turn it to something else

Potvalor:
lol, I'm in no way affiliated with the poster. I have been following the thread for the past 2 days, and his game was the first one I could finish. I have checked a few others, too, but not everyone's. You can check my profile history if you care😂

Edit: Just to protect the game dev/owner, I have taken down my earlier appreciation comment cos I understand why competitors might mistake it as foul play. I will check more entries with good mobile views.

Lol, you see human psychology is my thing, reading through the thread, I see there's an outright here that alot of the games here are not responsive on mobile, because yours is, you see that as an advantage get the point out by saying "you enjoyed it on mobile".
And here you go, doing it again
We are not fools

I see some people replying to their own posts with another account with positive reply to their game @seun take note of this

Potvalor:
Nice game. I enjoyed playing it on my mobile.

Lol, common, stop trying to increase your chance by dropping positive reply on your game with another account, you're causing yourself more harm than good

linearity:
The quality of iPhone screens are far better than those of Samsung, they must not be using the best quality.

Samsung screen is way better than apple screen and did you know Samsung is responsible for manufacturing iPhone screen
the issue he has is software related, not the screen itself