Last week I made a contest where the person who had the #1 score on the hard for the shoemoney group on desktop tower defense would win a 100$ shopping spree on Amazon from me.
When I woke up Tuesday TylerC had just destroyed all competition with a score in the 9,000 range.
I emailed him, congratulated him on his victory and asked him what he wanted. I also asked if I could ask him a question to get a quote from him on the blog.
He selected this from the amazon store
The question I posed to him was pretty simple:
Shoemoney: You pulled out a huge victory in the ShoeMoney DeskTop Tower Defense challenge. Can you give us a little insite on how one achieves such a dominating performance?
His answer?
TylerC: Well, after looking through the rules I noticed that nothing was said that we actually had to play the game. Using this to my advantage, I opened up my trusty memory hacker that every shady blackhat should have (how else would you send traffic with highscores?) and got to work. In about 10 mins my 1337 skills granted me access to unlimited money, unlimited time, whatever the frick I wanted. I know there was some whiners but its not my fault they where afraid to test the waters, I saw it as a way to get some new office supplies for free
Thanks for the competition Shoe, and shout-outs to Ice and Mick
Also, look forward to a little tutorial on how to do it at RotInPieces.com
WELLL ALLLLLLLLLRIGHTY THEN!
I was pretty surprised this game was so easily cheated and while I wish someone would have won playing the game straightup I am a man of my word and paid out as he was the #1 (dont hate the player hate the game).
So I guess no more flash games contests lol.. I have a few more ideas in the pipe though for a contest soon.
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August 4, 2007 at 11:15 am
Yea man…?! Givin’ away anymore sooooon!?!? Guess you don’t really need the promo anymore though huh..
June 3, 2007 at 12:02 pm
I’d say Tyler won the prize fair and square. He did read the rules after all, which is saying a lot. Some people never even bother browsing game rules. Congrats on the win, T. I suggest beating other people the old school way some time though — could be a whole lot more fun.
June 3, 2007 at 10:59 am
Its more like “leveraging your abilities to achieve your goals”..
June 3, 2007 at 10:57 am
“Its a game, of course its assumed you have to play it.”
Why do you have to assume that?
June 3, 2007 at 10:55 am
That if you want it bad enough you will do whatever it takes to make it happen..
June 3, 2007 at 10:53 am
I agree. Its all about ‘thinking out of the box’, right..?
June 2, 2007 at 8:22 pm
C’mon people – Tyler C just smoked ya! Looks like from the comments I’m glad I never clicked the link.
June 2, 2007 at 6:04 pm
The tutorial is up on my new blog…. Click the T to tha C
June 2, 2007 at 10:09 am
Me either, but it was fun and now I keep getting the urge to go back.
June 2, 2007 at 10:08 am
What if you did get DQ. Does it matter if you were not going to win?
June 2, 2007 at 9:45 am
Shoe, I don’t know whether to curse you or praise you for turning me on to desktop td. =) I’ve already wasted so much time on it lol. Thanks for the contest and congrats to TylerC! Now I have to get back to it, defense that is….
June 2, 2007 at 12:03 am
All you did was take Shoe at his word, nothing wrong with that, although you did miss out on all the fun and lost productivity. =P
June 1, 2007 at 11:32 am
Congrats to TylerC
Hey man anyone complaining is just trying to wash away the taste of sour grapes
If I’d found a hack I’d have used it – maybe a few others would have too lol.
June 1, 2007 at 10:43 am
I swore off the game, never to touch it again. But NOW that I know you can backdoor it…hmm…unlimited money would be pretty cool. OK, I’m in. Looking for the RotInPieces guide soon…
June 1, 2007 at 10:01 am
Congrats, Ithink we all are probably playing to mcuh now though!! LOL
June 1, 2007 at 9:50 am
damn this game is addictive! been playing it for 30 minutes and got around 2000 on hard, is that good or just average?
June 1, 2007 at 9:41 am
It says to get to the top. Thats what I did?
June 1, 2007 at 9:40 am
Whats your point?
June 1, 2007 at 9:40 am
Thanks Neil, been reading your blog. Keep up the good work!
June 1, 2007 at 9:39 am
Put it this way… If I had said anything before and people found out it was okay everyone would have done it and I would not have won. Stop crying.
June 1, 2007 at 9:38 am
if you aint cheatin, you aint tryin
June 1, 2007 at 9:30 am
Well at least he was honest about it.
June 1, 2007 at 9:05 am
Wow TylerC. I don’t have any respect for your cheating ways. But now I have a tiny bit of respect for the fact that you finally came clean about it.
June 1, 2007 at 8:50 am
Donate the $100 to charity and dont send him anything
June 1, 2007 at 8:46 am
Congrats to him… that game was hard and I sure didn’t have the time to sit and battle it out….haha.
June 1, 2007 at 7:33 am
Just another true-life example of those who know how to cheat the system come out on top, and those of us who don’t know how, or who follow our parents teachings to not cheat, continue to plug away by the rules and come out on the bottom.
June 1, 2007 at 7:06 am
at least this one didn’t lead to a lot of spamming and people hating him
June 1, 2007 at 6:48 am
That shouldnt count. I mean, its kind of impressive that he figured out what to do but the contest was about playing the game straight up.
“nothing was said that we actually had to play the game”
Are you kidding me? Its a game, of course its assumed you have to play it.
June 1, 2007 at 6:26 am
Hahahah. That’s awesome! By the way, my kids and I are now addicted to DD. Thanks for nothing…
June 1, 2007 at 5:08 am
What can I say… Do what you gotta do
June 1, 2007 at 4:49 am
nice and evil little tactic.
June 1, 2007 at 2:16 am
This reminds me of all the guys making huge cash from virtual goods using World of Warcraft type bots. SEOblackhat had a good post about virtual goods about a month ago.
June 1, 2007 at 2:08 am
Doesn’t require a special prize though. I think the main prize is pretty appropriate.
June 1, 2007 at 2:08 am
Nice idea… it’s always about carefully studying the rules
June 1, 2007 at 1:20 am
Ha Ha, that’s class. Though, to be fair, he was only doing what Shoemoney has himself suggested a number of times in the past. I often recall him saying at one point on a webmasterradio.fm show that ‘The gray area’s where you make the money’ – as in not doing the obvious. I think there should be a special prize for showing such devious initiative.
May 31, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Dangit! I should have known. I couldn’t even touch that score on the easy level.
May 31, 2007 at 11:36 pm
LOL. I was thinking about doing that, but thought I would get disqualified.
May 31, 2007 at 11:12 pm
haha no doubt. It happens…
May 31, 2007 at 10:56 pm
you aren’t really lucky with you contests… i still remember the seo contest