I was just curious about the logic behind the decision, because it seemed strange to me. I don't care about awards, I'm perfectly happy with a legitimate loss, but the reason's you've outlined are a bit silly to me. You're essentially discrediting two years of work I've put into my project, even though you're trying to cover your hide by saying "no offense." Hint: That never works.

Quote:a rom hack with a few custom levels and classes compared to a fangame created from scratch.

Yeah, that's pretty much discrediting not only my work, but the fantastic effort by the Dream of Five team. Their graphics are nearly completely custom, as is most everything in the hack. It's on-par with everything you should expect from a fangame, and to have it at a natural disadvantage is, quite frankly, bullsh*t of the highest degree.

At the end of the day, I simply find it absurd to judge ROM hacks on a different basis. They're all fangames. The only difference is in the methodology; cracking Nintendo's engine, being able to reverse engineer something and create something completely new from it, that's pretty difficult. We've not only taken their engine, we've taken it further than they ever did; creating things like achievements in a GBA game, coding completely custom chapter goals, it's nothing to scoff at.

The games should be judged on the quality. That's the philosophy I bring to this sort of thing, and I hope you'll understand why I found the decision a bit baffling. It's not that big of a deal, I just wanted to understand what the people behind the decision valued about that entry. No reason to start a shitshow out of it. I'll take my leave.

EDIT: You guys censor bullsh*t to "cowpoop"? :|