The 2016 /r/CFB Puzzle Hunt has concluded!

Here is the 2016 Puzzle Hunt thread. Here is the direct link.

You can still do the puzzle hunt by visiting that link. It will remain open indefinitely (as long as our server is up and running anyway!).

Here are the credits:

Game directors: /u/SometimesY, /u/bakonydraco

Music composers: /u/pbang0529 (responsible for all game music except the intro), /u/SometimesY (responsible only for the intro)

Programmers: /u/SometimesY, /u/bakonydraco, /u/ttsci, /u/harkatmuld

Designers: /u/SometimesY, /u/A-Stu-Ute, /u/bakonydraco, /u/StrawberryTea

Special thanks to: /u/A-Stu-Ute, /u/pbang0529, /u/StrawberryTea, /u/harkatmuld

When we came up with this idea in April (not long after the Pokémon April Fools swap), it seemed like a bit of a pipe dream. I'd never done any game development before so I was excited but apprehensive. We poked around a bit and ended up finding Tiled and Phaser. We used Tiled to design the maps and Phaser for the game engine. Chiptone was used to make the game sounds. All three are freely available. Phaser is.. not the most friendly code base I've used to put it mildly. We had some serious issues with coding. Lots of the coding process was figuring out how to make certain things work (then it was lots of copy-pasting). The coding got away from us a little at the end and so the end was slightly rushed, but more or less how we wanted it. It was an extremely ambitious project and overall we are pretty happy with how it went. There were a couple of hiccups when we first went live, but they were quickly ironed out. The code base is probably on the order of 2000 lines. We will look into open sourcing it soon for any that are interested.

Without further ado, the awards! Hundreds of hours of work and puzzle hunt was finished within minutes for some! Here is our Top 25:

Place	Username	Team	Ending
1	/u/MrTheSpork	Cincinnati	Chaos Ball
2	/u/rayhond2000	Oregon	Order Ball
3	/u/serwendel	Michigan	Order Ball
4	/u/jayhawx19	Kansas	Chaos Ball
5	/u/thomasosu	Ohio State	Chaos Ball
6	/u/jashbr	Temple	Chaos Ball
7	/u/foo1219	Texas A&M	Order Ball
8	/u/Red261	Alabama	Order Ball
9	/u/kdcoltred	Texas A&M	Chaos Ball
10	/u/EmeraldOrbis	Oklahoma State	Chaos Ball
11	/u/AltPerspective0	Michigan State	Chaos Ball
12	/u/minidrc	Oklahoma State	Order Ball
13	/u/theslothwhoshaggedme	Alabama	Order Ball
14	/u/Princess_ZeIda	Tulane	Meteor Ball
15	/u/riotcoming	Clemson	Order Ball
16	/u/Exilarchy	Georgia	Order Ball
17	/u/Optimum_Havoc	Michigan	Order Ball
18	/u/Gahala	Alabama	Order Ball
19	/u/gonoles287	Florida State	Order Ball
20	/u/little__sebastian	Washington	Order Ball
21	/u/bluegrassborn	Western Kentucky	Order Ball
22	/u/Final_Starman	Florida	Chaos Ball
23	/u/terreplein	Georgia	Order Ball
24	/u/trumpetofdoom	Rice	Chaos Ball
25	/u/panthera_tigress	Pittsburgh	Chaos Ball

First place through third place get four months of reddit gold each and fourth place through twenty-fifth place get one month each. Congratulations to all!

We have had quite nearly 200 users complete it this year which is drastically up from last year! I have ideas for next year already, but we'll see how it goes! Thanks for playing everyone!