1st July 2025, 2:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 1st July 2025, 3:07 PM by Overbeing. Edited 3 times in total.)
Having an annual or semiannual event for the community seems like a great way to bring semi active players back and interacting at the same time. Holiday dash and duck season speed run contest both did a good job of doing that, but having set times when things like that happen (like in the summer and/or over the holidays) is important so that players know to return.
And that has me thinking of how to follow up my event Duck Season. I feel like a got a good number of things with the event right, as well as learned that I knew even less than I thought I did, and I'd love to work with the community to polish the concept and follow it up at some point.
I would love your feedback for how a season 2 would work.
Here are some brainstormed ideas:
Player built and chosen levels, maybe choosing the levels could be an event of it's own and get players building more levels.
Duck season versions of the levels so that we can patch some issues with older levels for the event that would be on an event profile.
Better defined rules about glitches and cuts.
Rules chosen by the community
Some questions:
What rules would you change or add?
How would you adjust the structure? Did you like the 3 week structure?
How many levels should be included in the event? Was 30 a bad number?
Is there a better way to time speed runs than the ingame timer? Can a better timer be implemented into the game?
What types of levels would you want to see in the event? A wide variety? Levels designed for speed running? Casual classic levels? New levels designed for the event? Frusts? Rng? Levels where skips and glitches are specifically allowed? Hats allowed?
What stat distribution rules should there be?
What rewards should be up for grabs? How was the prize structure for duck season?
When should the next event of this size be?
How were the duck time challanges? Too easy? Inconsistent?
What levels were fun to run? What levels did you dread having to speedrun? Why?
And that has me thinking of how to follow up my event Duck Season. I feel like a got a good number of things with the event right, as well as learned that I knew even less than I thought I did, and I'd love to work with the community to polish the concept and follow it up at some point.
I would love your feedback for how a season 2 would work.
Here are some brainstormed ideas:
Player built and chosen levels, maybe choosing the levels could be an event of it's own and get players building more levels.
Duck season versions of the levels so that we can patch some issues with older levels for the event that would be on an event profile.
Better defined rules about glitches and cuts.
Rules chosen by the community
Some questions:
What rules would you change or add?
How would you adjust the structure? Did you like the 3 week structure?
How many levels should be included in the event? Was 30 a bad number?
Is there a better way to time speed runs than the ingame timer? Can a better timer be implemented into the game?
What types of levels would you want to see in the event? A wide variety? Levels designed for speed running? Casual classic levels? New levels designed for the event? Frusts? Rng? Levels where skips and glitches are specifically allowed? Hats allowed?
What stat distribution rules should there be?
What rewards should be up for grabs? How was the prize structure for duck season?
When should the next event of this size be?
How were the duck time challanges? Too easy? Inconsistent?
What levels were fun to run? What levels did you dread having to speedrun? Why?
