High Score Competition: #193 - Land Maker

[acvieluf]

High Score Competition Rules and Scoreboard

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Game Name : Land Maker
ROM Name  =         landmakr
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Settings:
   default : difficulty normal

Controls:   
    4 way joystick, 1 button





Wiki: Land Maker

Description : (this is the only one i could find)
Landmaker (ランドメーカー?) is an arcade puzzle video game developed and released by Taito Corporation in 1998. It is a versus action puzzle game similar in appearance to Taito's own Puzzle Bobble, though it plays more like Puyo Puyo or Baku Baku Animal. The arcade version was released only in Japan, though a prototype for a worldwide release exists.

Gameplay video:


Last day: Sunday, June 12, 2016 midnight Pacific
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- Quest for the Bronze Joystick! The most successful competitor of each calendar year will possess & display the BYOAC Bronze Joystick Trophy. See this thread for details:The BYOAC Bronze Joystick.
Happy Gaming!

[acvieluf]

I'll start us off.

1,578,800



Sent from my Atari 2600

[ninjabadger81]

Oooh,

Been meaning to try this one!

Only problem is my set-up is set to load landmakrp as this is the English text version.  Would this be acceptable?

[acvieluf]

Personally, I couldn't care less, I didn't realize there was an English version. I'm sure they're the same.

EDIT - although there's no hindrance in playing the Japanese version, either.

Sent from my Atari 2600

[acvieluf]

Also here's my last score before calling it a night last night. It's a MUST to build pantheons.

16,902,870



Sent from my Atari 2600

[WakiMiko]

Pantheons score WAAAAY too high. Pretty much nothing else matters. Getting one in the first level is easy, but after that it feels almost impossible and quite luck dependent. I played a lot and I only had a single game where I managed to get a pantheon in level 2. Score was 16M but lower than yours acvieluf 


So I just had to grind it out. There is one bonus level at the end that's pretty much a guaranteed pantheon.

22,712,760



Final boss(es) spoiler:

[acvieluf]

Pantheons score WAAAAY too high. Pretty much nothing else matters. Getting one in the first level is easy, but after that it feels almost impossible and quite luck dependent. I played a lot and I only had a single game where I managed to get a pantheon in level 2. Score was 16M but lower than yours acvieluf 

I agree.  It takes skill to advance, it takes luck for the pantheon's (and subsequent high scores).  Still, not a bad game though.  One i was interested in, but hadn't played much until now.

[yamatetsu]

17,233,310.

[JDFan]

Agree -- the 5 Million bonus for a pantheon is a bit much when it also gives you several other bonuses as well - 15,697,200 just by getting to the 2nd level with a pantheon on each !!

EDIT : Bit of improvement 17,802,720  Almost had the 3rd Pantheon but level moved and it was game over just before placing the final piece 

[WakiMiko]

42,406,106



I'm done 

[yamatetsu]

18,294,150. Small steps.

[WakiMiko]

Creating a pantheon is worth 1M points, clearing it off the playfield another 5M. What I always tried to do in the first level is to create a pantheon as fast as possible, then "destroy" it by changing parts of it to another color. Clear that color and recreate the pantheon. Another million. Repeat as often as you can. Most I've managed is 4 times or so, with ~11M after the first level.

[acvieluf]

Creating a pantheon is worth 1M points, clearing it off the playfield another 5M. What I always tried to do in the first level is to create a pantheon as fast as possible, then "destroy" it by changing parts of it to another color. Clear that color and recreate the pantheon. Another million. Repeat as often as you can. Most I've managed is 4 times or so, with ~11M after the first level.

WOW. I had never thought of that. Awesome!

Sent from my Atari 2600

[yamatetsu]

Ah, so that's what it was ! I made 9.5 mil once first level but I couldn't figure out why.

[yamatetsu]

19,615,540.

[JDFan]

Finally put together a game where I made the 2 pantheons on the first 2 levels and then kept going for several levels (usually it's either make the 2 pantheons and lose on the 4th or so level or miss the 2nd pantheon and get past several levels  ) This time made it to the second boss stage with a 3rd pantheon along the way (there seems to be one leveel in there where the pantheon is fairly easy) - 28,583,090

[yamatetsu]

24,920,270. 3 Pantheons, but not good enough.

[acvieluf]

I have played all week, and have only managed to beat my score by about 50,000, so i didn't bother updating it.  Argh, haha.

[pbj]

Unplayable by the colorblind.

 

[JDFan]

Unplayable by the colorblind.

 

Yep I have some problems with the yellow and orange squares - very hard to tell them apart when playing - they should have included some way to tell them apart other than the color.

[WakiMiko]

I'm not colorblind but the yellow and orange blocks still ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up plenty of games for me. You can tell them apart in the preview, but once they are in the "shooter" and pulsing it becomes almost impossible.

[acvieluf]

Welp, close the books on another one.  Congrats to the three of you!   

1) WakiMiko - 42,406,106
2) JDFan - 28,583,090
3) Yamatetsu - 24,920,270

You're up next, Yama.

[yamatetsu]

The scoreboard.




The next game will be Spelunker.

[acvieluf]

oh frig i hate this game.