High Score Challenge - S19 - R10 - Hunkidory

[KarateEd]

Stardot high score challenge
Season Nineteen: Round 10
Hunkidory chosen by Venger

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RULES
Round Ten starts at 9pm on Monday the 6th of February and ends at 9pm on Monday the 20th of February
The aim is to score as many points as possible
Post scores and screenshots/photographs in this thread
The rules are here
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DISK IMAGE
http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=530
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INSTRUCTIONS

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SCORING
Points will be awarded using the following formula.
points = (YS / BS * 50) + ((NOP - YP + 1) * (50 / NOP))
YS = Your Score
BS = Best Score
NOP = Number of Players
YP = Your Position
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HIGH SCORE TABLE

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Link to Overall High Score Table...http://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=25601

Thanks to Galax for the Mode 7 fonts.

Another platformer with some interesting twists and turns......Ed ...........
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[Venger]

Here's a starter score from level 4. The learning curve is quite brutal, so be warned...

[KarateEd]

Here's a starter score from level 4. The learning curve is quite brutal, so be warned...

Yup, I introduced this to the HSC a few years ago (I think) and was quite good at it then but......not so much now. It is a bit of a difficult one for sure.

EDit: I checked, we played this one back in 2016, so hard to believe, 7 years ago?.....hmmmmmm

[klintworth]

First go for me on this!

[FourthStone]

Nice game, need to learn the levels, only had a few goes to start.

Score: 5120

[KarateEd]

I used to breeze through several levels of this game......wonder where all that went, can't even get through level one now.

[Rod C]

Yikes! It's brutal alright.

[Rod C]

Got to level 2 but my best score so far is for repeated attempts on level 1!

[Venger]

Got to level 5 after a few tries and just broke 20K. I like Peter Scott's games but the one thing that takes the shine off them is the fiddly jumping. A lot of the time, when you're trying to jump onto a moving platform, you end up going through it and not ending up on it, sometimes causing an untimely death. There shouldn't be any reason for it as a shorter press on the jump key doesn't affect the height/length of the jump.

Anyway, apart from that niggle, it's a pretty nice platformer.

[Venger]

Up to level 6 now, but unfortunately my game crashed! It's not the first time it's crashed either but the other times it was after I'd aborted a game by pressing Escape. This time it happened in "mid-zap" when a floating platform was passing my exact location.

I'm still submitting the score though, via screenshot.

[KarateEd]

Almost through level 1 now.....can't believe it was this hard before.....must be getting old.....

[klintworth]

[FourthStone]

Got to level 2... more figuring out to do...

Score: 8345

[MatthewThompson]

First attempt, been a while since played this one.

This was a bargain 1.99 game, not a duff one either, very typical Peter Scott game, and amazing for a Bug Byte release to be so playable, and not have bugs and errors in it.

[KarateEd]

Well, got all the stuff from one, just failed to get off the screen....bad jump.....

[KarateEd]

Ok, level one down, working on two.....

[klintworth]

[MatthewThompson]

Up to level 3 now.

[MatthewThompson]

A little bit higher - still level 3 .

[MatthewThompson]

Up to Level 5 now.

[Venger]

I can't believe that the game glitched again in exactly the same place

[KarateEd]

I can't believe that the game glitched again in exactly the same place

Yeh, that's weird, don't remember it doing this last time but then that WAS 7 years ago.

[klintworth]

A bit of progress, enjoying this game!

[FourthStone]

Level 3, more discovery required.

Score: 11620

[Venger]

Up to level 7 now but absolutely bamboozled by it! I can get all the valves apart from the one in the top right-hand corner.

[MatthewThompson]

Still at Level 5 , but score increase.

[Venger]

I really can't see how level 7 is possible. Or am I missing something?

Here's a screen shot of the starting position, and a screen shot of me having collected 8 out of 9 valves. I can't see for the life of me how to get the one in the top right-hand corner. Any ideas?

I've got to level 7 lots of times now but I'm really struggling to figure out how to do it.

[MatthewThompson]

New high score, got to the end of level 5 but ran out of time !

[KarateEd]

A slight nudge up......it's coming back.......very, very slowly......

[MatthewThompson]

Higher score, but still level 5 !