Park / Divinity Ridge

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  • Corkscrewed%s's Photo
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    This is NOT a traditional Spotlight by any means, but there's no denying it is one sweet and addictive park! Introducing Divinity Ridge, by JKay! This colorful, whimsical park takes guests on a journey through the famed candy delights that have made many a childhood memorable!

    Talk about this most unique Spotlight (and first of the year... it took long enough didn't it?) here.
  • BreakAway%s's Photo
    Sweet (no pun intended)! A spotlight! And it's by the Furocious Tigers leader! *gasp*

    I love it. Color are a bit meh, but anyways, it was a sweet spolight.

    Congrats...again... :D
  • Corkscrewed%s's Photo
    And Jer, I felt the need to make the logo as fruity as the park. :p



    Anyway, this was sort of tough, but the enthusiasm and creativity pushed it beyond the border for me. Plus, Danimation had a Spotlight themed to candy. So should NE. Gives the park a sort of old school feeling. :D

    The coasters were pretty much the major detracting point. JuJu was just... ouch. And the flyer, while intense, was also sorta badly designed. I'll forgive you for 10+ intensity ratings this time, but don't expect that again.

    However, there are a lot of places where the atmosphere is just immaculate. The theming on the "south" end of Bubblegum Valley was just gorgeous in the way you arranged the shrubbery and landscaping to sort of enclose a cozy space. The Chocolate Factory was just awesome. Totally Willy Wonka! The Ice Cats was a really neat idea to do with the dodgems. The waterfalls at the top of the lift for Peanut Swamp Explorer.

    Basically, there are a lot of little details in the park that somehow gave a nostlagic feel, almost like the LL Spotlights of Danimation, where the perfect blend of parkmaking sophistication and old-fashioned scenario-ism fun come together to produce something sublime.

    There were enough of those moments to convince me to give this park the Spotlight nod.

    And in any case, this is one of those parks that will have arguers for both sides no matter what it is. :lol:
  • Panic%s's Photo
    On first glance I think I would have given it SRU, with the great idea behind the park being the thing that dragged it up from regular runner-up. I think the park was a bit too small for Spotlight, bottom line - seemed about 110x110 honestly and even though I know it was larger, it still had that "small enough to seem like a bit of a side project" sense IMO. The coasters, because of some "kinks" here and there, didn't generally hold my attention for more than one circuit and kind of added to the feeling of smallness. The theming, of course, was great and the atmosphere of the place was very pleasant. I think the fact that JKay got really good at theming well before coasters still kind of came back to haunt him here. Seeing how long Runner-Ups seem to get remembered around here anymore, though, this is probably very good fortune for this park, even if not for the quality of Spotlights. Enjoyable park nevertheless.
  • Six Frags%s's Photo
    Wow, defenitely deserves to be Spotlight imo!
    I'll just sum up what I thought were positive and negative;

    (+)
    -Architecture
    -Theming
    -Landscaping
    -Colour scheming
    -Twist-a-vator
    -Candy Cane Tower
    -Lollitrain's Station
    -Juju Racer's station

    (-)
    -Coasters. Most had a few awkward pieces of track on them, and their lay-out didn't really appeal to me.. For example Bazooka first meanders through some turns and hills after the initial drop before diving into the elements.. I prefer to after the initial drop have the inversion, but that can be personal.. Also, on Juju Racer after the lifthill it first drops into a not-so-steep track piece, and after some of those it suddenly falls into the steep track piece.. It takes the flow right out of the coaster imo... Almost every coaster has some of those moments.. But on a positive note, you certainly have improved on your coaster skills in comparison to your previous work!
    -I prefered sour patch planet and Lolli Pop had more architecture

    All in all a great park, so congrats JKay!

    SF

    Edited by Six Frags, 29 May 2006 - 01:51 AM.

  • mantis%s's Photo
    When I saw the word 'ridge' I thought i'd be seeing something like Lee's Faultline. Shame. Also you could have had some awesome cheesy park names, oh well.
    From your advertised screens it looks like i'd enjoy this park, but from the comments above it seems that'd be marred slightly by the coasters. I guess it's something you can improve from park to park - practice makes perfect and all that - but for the moment it really seems to detract from otherwise creative and accomplished parkmaking.
    Well done on spotlight!
  • X250%s's Photo
    Just looked through this (again ;)), and i really liked how you created the colourful, fruity atmosphere in there. It was pleasant to look at, the colours were bright- but they didn't give you a seizure. The coasters were okay aswell, some better than others. My favourite area was the pepper-mint area, i just loved how the red path worked well with the blue and white colours, it really gave you the impression of a mint! All it needed was a ride themed to Polo's and it would have been great. :p
    I'm kinda on the line on the spotlight, SRU debate. Its a fun park to look at, and its not a 'typical' spotlight park.. yet again, nothing you do is 'typical', lol. I looked at the park for quite a while, however that was probably because of the fact i wanted to see this coaster crash, and i wasn't dissappointed. :D

    -X-
  • tyandor%s's Photo
    Why is the mainpage talking about it being SRU when it's spotlight? Anyway I think this should have got SRU. For some reason Jkay's style just doesn't work for me anymore. The been there, done that feeling is high here. The park certainly has it's moments, but still. For a 'clean' park it still feels busy for some reason.
  • ekimmel%s's Photo
    I love the variety of coasters in the park. When was the last time you saw a Steeplechase, a Flying Turns, a Reel, and a Spiral in the same park? It's too bad some of them weren't executed that well.

    I think my favorite section is Sugar Whip. The castle with the Cheshire Cats ride in it was very cool and the coaster was probably the best in the park, IMHO.
  • trav%s's Photo
    I'm sorry, but I didn't like this park at all...I think it deserved Runner-Up and only just that.

    The colours were horrid in a couple of areas (Peanut Butter Swamp and the Lollypop land). The rest of the colours were just ok, except the castle area, those colours worked. Your architecture is getting really repetitive now, I think I said this to you in the topic for this, but the entrance is practically exactly the same as in RMM. And the colours in RMMs entrance were better. The rest of your archy all looked the same throughout the park, but with different colours and maybe a different block here or there, but they were all formed on the same basis.

    The coasters weren't all that good either, although I did like the coaster in the pink and blue area. The rest were going too fast in places and too slow in others.

    One thing I do like about your work are the details you put in like the chocolate fountains, like the red path under the maze, if only you calmed your colours down, varied your archy and improved on your coasters, then you could easily be one of the best Parkmakers around.
  • X250%s's Photo
    Me and JKay were just discussing how Cork's logo looks like its off the cover of a foreign gay porn magazine. :p



    -X-
  • JKay%s's Photo

    A spotlight! And it's by the Furocious Tigers leader! *gasp*

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    I hope you are kidding BreakAway, or that was accidental. WME only dreams of getting spotlight.... :p

    Anyway, I must say I'm thoroughly surprised this got spotlight. I kinda thought it would be borderline SRU - Spotlight, but I'm glad it had that extra "spunk" to get the highest award.

    Cork. You are the man. Period. First, for making this spotlight. Second, for putting up with my 14 re-submissions of the park. Lol. Third, for your constant dedication to NE and the parkmakers around this site. Thank you so much.

    I won't respond to anyone's individual comments quite yet, but I will say this park is not for everyone (obvious by some of the feedback so far).
  • Paradox%s's Photo
    I really like it. The coasters were the worst part. I'm not sure if anyone else said this, but Dum Dum Chase and Tutti Frutti crash a little while into the game (maybe 10 mins. or so) if no guests get on it. :p

    Anyway, great park JKay! :D
  • JJ%s's Photo
    but Dum Dum Chase ... crash

    it says that in the readme ;)
  • Ge-Ride%s's Photo
    I guess I'm the sucker. What a sweet park! The coaster's weren't the best ever, but the theming was pretty solid and it's the first park in a long time where I've wanted to look at each and every ride. I didn't even care about the poor coaster layouts and I think that this park is definitely worthy of a spotlight. Keep on cranking them out, Jkay!

    Edited by Ge-Ride, 29 May 2006 - 04:58 PM.

  • Paradox%s's Photo

    but Dum Dum Chase ... crash

    it says that in the readme ;)

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    Well maybe I didn't read the readme! :p
  • chapelz%s's Photo
    it was ok but the not spotlight worthy imo the coasters, colors, andsome of the architectureheldit back for me.
  • Phatage%s's Photo
    when you play the game at a fair/carnival/amusement park where you shoot a water gun at a target hoping to pop your balloon the fastest or one of many other variations of the game, they they will give a bigger prize to one who wins against 10 other people than one who wins against one other person (of course the game isn't even held if there is only one player, but I guess that's where the metaphor ssstops) of course you can't have a runner-up by definition if there is no winner, so maybe name changation
  • mantis%s's Photo
    Dude it is a spotlight. Croky made a 'funny'.
  • rK_%s's Photo
    i dont think this is spotlight quality, the idea is solid and every area has that quality feel to it which makes it a very nice park, but i still cant get over how undeveloped the coasters seem to be, every theme in here is nice with the usual jkay "in your face" type colors and choice architecture, but again, the coasters just dont seem to be what youd like in a spotlight, or from jkay. I think SRU would have been more suited, either way its a great park, peanut butter swamp was my favorite section, it had the best coaster in the park and the archy/colors/foliage in that area are choice, excellent work either way and congrats.