ddavex wrote:I've managed $410 by putting two sheets of metal either side of the 'dillo and pushing them together with some weighty bars so that he gets squeezed up into the portal. The difficult bit is getting the balance just right, problem with this level is that you have to do endless tweaking to get a working solution which I imagine most people don't have the time to do.
Strange, my solution balances itself without tweaking. Well, minor tweaking. Maybe 1 minute worth of it. It sits rock solid even after the dillo vanishes.
But I guess if you are going for the cheapest solution, like always, some major tweaking is required. On Crestas last level I spent nearly 2 hours tweaking my winning solution to balance. $10 cheaper was easy, but two hours work to save the $10.
It's always difficult to get a level just right. If it's too obvious everyone ends up with the same result.
Originally the portal on this one was much higher and smaller and off centre (forcing much more tweaking) but I changed it so it wasn't such hard work. See attached for original if you want a harder challenge. Hey, let's say that if it's a tie for 1st place (which is quite possible on this level), then you can prove you are the best by completing the harder version (again, my method lets me build a solution to this in a matter of 2 minutes, no major tweaking). The medals now are irrelevant really anyway.
But I have two solutions submitted so far and they are within $2 of each other. Come on Cresta