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Savant
09-08-2005, 02:40 AM
When I was developing Dr.Germ, getting over 200,000 points in the "Petri Dish" game type was impressive for me. Check this out from the high score page (http://www.drgermgame.com/highscores.php):

1. Lax 1,404,000

That's ... insane! I can't even imagine the level of discipline it takes to string combos together to get that kind of score in that game type but it's frightening to think about.

And wonderfully surprising at the same time. :)
Omega
09-08-2005, 02:46 AM
Well, you're still #1 in GeneSplice so you have nothing to worry about :p . In fact 2 people occupy 8 of the top 10 spots for GeneSplice. You should inject a bunch of fake names into the database to make it seem like even more people are playing! ;)
Emmanuel
09-08-2005, 02:53 AM
They might have the discipline to hack your high score publishing protocol. It happened to ggolf (took the bogus entries down but still.. geez)

Hey, my wife Jen is playing Dr.Germ enough to get #3 in stranded dna. Busted!

Best regards,
Emmanuel
Omega
09-08-2005, 03:02 AM
:D Some time after Who Wants to Be a Millionaire came out in the US, channel ABC introduced a play-along version online that was activated at the same time as the TV show was with regis in the evening. You could win T-Shirts. I forget the details. They would advertise it on TV during the game. This wasn't the flash single-player version, this one had you answer questions and get points that everybody saw live on the web site. (Maybe high scores were shown on TV at the end of the show? I don't remember now.) Somebody I know made themselves #1 on it. The score was also absurdly higher than the next highest score, in a weird way. Very quickly, that person got really nervous all of a sudden and took that score off.
Savant
09-08-2005, 03:34 AM
They might have the discipline to hack your high score publishing protocol.
Yeah, that's possible ... but then, I didn't think it was possible to get 500,000 either but Tuomas here on these forums proved me wrong during the beta test. And there are 2 people up there with over a million points. I think it's possible they're actually just that good...
GBGames
09-08-2005, 09:30 AM
I invented a game in high school that had three possible moves:
- create a new piece from your Base
- upgrade an existing piece
- move an existing piece

I didn't do much to test it or anything. I just came up with it one day. Still, I never won a game. My friend would constantly beat me at my own game, literally! It would frustrate me to the point that I never did make the port to the computer like I had planned.

Still, it is cool when your fans get so good at your game that they do things you didn't think were possible. Congrats!