Sunday, February 2, 2014

Optimal Peggle Scoring

Oh man, it's been a while since I've posted anything here.  Anyway, I recently finished up Ape Escape time attacks, with a final time of 1:59.62, and submitted them all to Cyberscore.  I also looked through the list of games they had, adding in some EoSD scores (can't let bad scores take the top spot when I can make the top spot a slightly less bad score :V), AE2 and 3 time attacks, and a couple other assorted things.  What I noticed, though, is that Peggle had had some decent competition.  The highest score for the first level and the one I'll use to explain why my scoring method is optimal, was 963,830, with 5 scores above 700k.  My method, is done optimally, yields a score of over 4.5 million with very little luck required-or ~2 million, if you decide to ignore one aspect.