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moocow · May 23, 2022, 8:08am

What a Masterpiece! Feature it!
Excellent project! Curate it!
It’s a rising project, it’s not quite there yet.
Maybe/No strong opinion.

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DogIcing · May 23, 2022, 9:01am

Awww thx :)

cool12317282728 · May 23, 2022, 12:12pm

What a Masterpiece! Feature it!
Excellent project! Curate it!
It’s a rising project, it’s not quite there yet.
Maybe/No strong opinion.

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FearlessPhoenix · May 23, 2022, 3:04pm

do you know if they coded the text to trail art system themself? (the string interpreter)

Tri-Angle · May 23, 2022, 3:17pm

if you ask me, i don’t think they coded it manually - the hopscotch’s real mushroom and the project are way too similar

FearlessPhoenix · May 23, 2022, 3:27pm

look at the code – it is definitely coded and so it can get curated. i just need to know if they made the system.
the string is not coded manually but if the string interpretation was, and its original, then it can be curated

as i’ve explained:

The Ultimate Curation Guide™ [Official]

This includes looking at the manual effort put into the project. While it is also worth 10 points on the 60 point scale mentioned above, there’s a slight distinction between the two categories. The one above examines the visible effort in the project without context. This additional one looks at how the project was created. It’s out of 40 points, weighing almost as much as the entire rubric above. A project gets either 40 points or 0 points, depending on whether it was fully hand-coded in Hopscotch or used an external program to import the code. This is a black and white, all-or-nothing kind of deal. However , the following exceptions will be made:

For the first time a project was imported using external code that the creator coded themselves , they can get a 40 on this section and have a chance at Excellent and Masterpieces. After this, future imported projects will only be eligible for rising, and will get up to a 10/40 on this section.

For a project comprised of both manually coded and imported elements, it can get up to a 33/40 in this section, depending on the extent of imported parts. This is the gray area, and Silv and I will be using our judgement here. It’s also where the requested distinct label/disclaimer will be helpful.

Only manually coded projects in Hopscotch, using only Hopscotch, will continue to be curated at high levels, with those above exceptions in mind. More information can be found here , and as always, we’re both here and happy to help.

FearlessPhoenix:

While these shortcuts are super impressive, and can take a lot of time and effort to code, they do all of the work for the user. Because of this, the user isn’t actively coding the pixel art. A 250 by 500 pixel art (125,000 pixels) with 100+ colors that would normally take at least 60-70 hours to complete, can be done in less than 5 minutes using a shortcut. You can do the same for an even larger and more complex picture, and render it almost perfectly. Doing this manually could take years, but you can do it in almost no time using an existing shortcut.

These shortcuts do take time and effort to code, but there’s a difference as they don’t take nearly as much as manually coding a pixel art do, and they’re not being coded in Hopscotch. Once you’ve coded a shortcut or have access to a shortcut coded by someone else, you’ve just gotta add the images and do whatever else is necessary to use the shortcut, and you’ve got a huge, complex pixel art at your fingertips. You don’t need to constantly be putting in hours of effort for every pixel art. You just need a few hours to create the shortcut, and it’s a one-and-done thing with manual coding.
It’s the same deal with all other shortcut projects, whether they be anything from games to music.

Now, there is nothing wrong with using shortcuts. These shortcuts aren’t cheating and people shouldn’t be called out for using them. It’s perfectly fine to create and use these shortcuts if one wants to. Arguing over this or calling out another Hop for using a shortcut isn’t nice and defeats the purpose of what we’re trying to do here.

However, because of the large time/effort imbalance present between the manually coded and shortcutted projects, we’ve decided to add a few new “rules” and modify our criteria for curating projects.

Tri-Angle · May 23, 2022, 3:32pm

oh, i thought you were asking if they coded the string manually- oops lol

Mouldycheese8 · May 24, 2022, 2:32pm

My pixel art pad!

What a Masterpiece! Feature it!
Excellent project! Curate it!
It’s a rising project, it’s not quite there yet.
Maybe/No strong opinion.

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Lauren · May 24, 2022, 9:28pm

Make-An-Avatar [FINAL] by CodeRose👾™️ very cool by my sistre
pleze put it in the cool masterpiece place thing! it’s is cool!

What a Masterpiece! Feature it!
Excellent project! Curate it!
It’s a rising project, it’s not quite there yet.
Maybe/No strong opinion.

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for my sistrer

via · May 24, 2022, 9:46pm

haha my vote is definitely a joke this should not be in masterpieces
this shouldn’t even be anywhere
this was an old old old project i did. and it still has some bugs so please don’t do anything with it unless you really want to i didn’t even put any effort into it ahhh

i’m not even sure why my sister put this here. trust me this isn’t a project i ever thought about about being curated soooo

Impasta · May 25, 2022, 12:33am

Cool project but can you speedrun it

RoadOcean · May 25, 2022, 12:51am

Pretty sure you can

PureAsbestos · May 27, 2022, 10:23am

Hey there
Saw that I got on Projects of the Week and figured it was time to make a forum account.
I indeed made the string interpreter manually, and the format is custom.
The art was originally made by tracing over the official artwork with polylines in Inkscape, then I munged the SVG into my custom format using a combo of Python and manual edits.

FearlessPhoenix · May 27, 2022, 2:29pm

that’s really awesome, tysm for explaining your method! i just wanted to make sure :))

congratulations on the project of the week showcasing --very very well deserved-- and welcome to the forum! it’s really awesome to have you here

cool12317282728 · May 27, 2022, 2:59pm

What a Masterpiece! Feature it!
Excellent project! Curate it!
It’s a rising project, it’s not quite there yet.
Maybe/No strong opinion.

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Hulk2 · May 29, 2022, 7:15am

RoadOcean · May 29, 2022, 11:14am

What a Masterpiece! Feature it!
Excellent project! Curate it!
It’s a rising project, it’s not quite there yet.
Maybe/No strong opinion.

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moocow · May 30, 2022, 7:56am

i know it’s not that great but im doing something nice for my friend (:

What a Masterpiece! Feature it!
Excellent project! Curate it!
It’s a rising project, it’s not quite there yet.
Maybe/No strong opinion.

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cool12317282728 · May 31, 2022, 2:23pm

What a Masterpiece! Feature it!
Excellent project! Curate it!
It’s a rising project, it’s not quite there yet.
Maybe/No strong opinion.

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moocow · June 1, 2022, 11:15am

What a Masterpiece! Feature it!
Excellent project! Curate it!
It’s a rising project, it’s not quite there yet.
Maybe/No strong opinion.

0 voters