Saturday, December 24, 2022

Achievement Crafting: Crush Roller NGPC

A game from my childhood, I really enjoy it. I've actually already made leaderboards for it.

An achievement per stage for custom par times earned via the Trial mode. Note: you can only play a level in Trial mode if you've beaten it in the main mode. Should have leaderboards per stage for both score and time. More research needed for what an appropriate time challenge would be. Would likely have custom titles per stage to try and reference the layout, tricks, or just jokes or frustrations. Simply naming them "1-1" etc. is fine, but not as exciting. 1 point a piece, but can be adjusted depending on difficulty of the stage/par time. Alternatively, and perhaps much more simply, they could just for beating the stages in Trial mode: Trial mode forces single life completion, so it's a built-in no death challenge, albeit divvied out one at a time per stage. Some stages are real pains to beat deathless, so this may be just fine.

An achievement per stage (kind of) for collecting their respective Trickster. I would likely just name each achievement after the respective Trickster, and mention which level it can be caught in the cheevo description. The badge could be easy (just use their album art) or hard/fancy (use their album art with a "painted" border with their paw prints in the border, and their in-game sprites from every angle [up, down, left, and right] somewhere on the respective edge of the border). 1 point a piece, but consider 2 pointers for the handful of Tricksters that are 2 separate sprites.

A Relaxing Stroll - beat the game. 10

A Crushing Weight Lifted From My Shoulders - beat the game without continuing. 25

This Clock...Smells Like Cheese! - Beat the game within a certain in-game par time, which allows deaths and can be cheesed; just kind of a way to point it out but also still make it challenging. I'm thinking 5 minutes. More specifically, the game only tracks your best times and combines them in a run, and does not care about if you used a continue. So you could grind for a great time, move onto the next level, mess up somehow, kill yourself enough to continue, and the game still has your good time from the 1st level and resets the timer to 0 for the 2nd level. Continue that way until you beat the game with a low time. 10

This Clock...Smells Like Burnt Rubber! - Basically take the same challenge from above, but restrict the use of continues. 25

I Wanna Be The Very Best - Collect all Trickster entries and fill out the Trickster album. 10

What's Crushma? - Crush the maximum of 4 enemies at once (can only be done on final stage). 5

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