At 9/15/10 07:13 PM, ixfd64 wrote:
Here's what I sent him:
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Hi PG, thanks for fixing the medal issues. Unfortunately, you did miss a few:
1. Medals for Enigmata: genu's Revenge are appearing on this page.
2. Medals for Alkie Kong 2 are showing up here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/43 7622
3. Medals for SeoMX Skating Video pt. 2 are appearing here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/50 4842 (the former shouldn't have the medals in the first place because they don't work)
Looks like the misplaced medals you listed have been returned to their original games. As well as that SeoMX Skating Video pt. 2 has had its medals removed and been taken off the games with medals list.
At 9/16/10 01:15 PM, DiMono wrote:
In other news, the medal for this game is presumably working, but it's set at an impossible goal, so there's no way to know for sure.
I agree but I'd be suspicious of whether that medal works or not, even if you could reach that score. Since it's the only medal for that game and apparently impossible to obtain, it seems out of place as such. Some of the other broken medals seem out of place too. Like the single medal for Monki Bound should be ridiculously easy to get, and the names of the medals on Paradoxion Express are odd too. It's like whoever made up these medals didn't put any thought into them, or not as much as an author would anyway.
At 9/16/10 11:23 AM, ixfd64 wrote:
That's because the author of the Flash would have to program in the triggers for the medals. The staff can add medals any submission, but they will be broken unless the author intended for it to have medals. I suspect this was the case for SeoMX Skating Video v.2.
That is a plausible explanation. Perhaps the staff picked these random games to test the medal approval system but the games themselves were not designed to award medals. The staff probably just made up the medal descriptions specifically for the test and they were never meant to be visible in the portal.
It probably has something to do with the recent portal/api synch that PsychoGoldfish was talking about. I've PMed him with the list of games with broken medals