Most teams started with overall scores in the 4s from the expert judges, and now are all in the 2s and 3s. Seems like a bit of a PR game right now. The more unbiased votes we can get the better. Go vote!

Yeah, the judges were mostly nice and gentle, and they had to back up their votes with comments. The public voting round isn't going to grant any leniency, since if someone doesn't like something, they'll just 1111 it.

congrats to all the finalists! It's amazing what has been done in 48 hours.

Most of the web designs look great! How did everyone manage to put together such sharp looking sites?

I'll just tell myself they had designers so I don't feel to badly about my design skills (i'm a programmer) :)

Yep. We had an awesome designer working with our team. He mocked all the pages up after discussing our ideas, then cut then up perfectly for html/css (button sprites, background images, etc).

Wouldn't have been nearly as good without him.

Many teams did have a designer or somebody with some web design chops - so don't feel too bad.

Smart move, too. For a rapid development competition like the Rails Rumble, a good first impression goes a long way.

Absolutely true. I did a solo project, and not only did my site suffer from my poor design, but design sucked up an inordinate amount of time because I'm so much slower at it.

Lazeroids is an awesome idea, but it doesn't work in Chrome (asteroids have trails) and I find the frame-rate is consistently pretty low.

Love the sound and music though.

Thanks for the compliment! We do have some hacky code that gets chrome to work, but we're not sure why we need it. Googling around you don't hear other people facing the problems we are.

We built http://lazeroids.com in 48 hours for the http://railsrumble.com/ programming contest. Since we didn't have a lot of time, we didn't get to much performance optimization. There's a ton of low hanging fruit in that area that we'll deploy after the contest voting ends on Sunday. (You can't make changes during the contest, only during the 48 hour weekend competition).

Just tried lazeroids on Chrome again. Vast improvements! No trails. Great frame-rate. Very responsive.

Please help vote. Rating some of the apps at the bottom of the list and solo apps will be extra helpful! Thanks.