ANIMEBRYAN'S PROFILE

So, after all this time since the event finished, it was never released? That's a shame. I was craving some puzzle solving & wanted to play this, bummer.

author=Kloe

author=Animebryan
You got the mushroom in the beginning to not move, that's impressive.

(Pssst, you just check the "don't move" bit in the NPC menu for the mushroom...)

But that option is on the NPC tab, the power-up block is set using the Blocks and Tiles tab, which doesn't have a Don't Move option.

author=halibabica
Auto-scroll is very buggy in SMBX. An auto-scroll will only work if the following is true:

A) It's scrolling section #1
B) The player starts in that section

It looks like the editor is supposed to be able to do more, but those features are broken. Only section #1 can scroll, and the player can't warp in from another section. It will only activate in the Level Start event, so you can't even delay its beginning. Yyyyep.

Well, that explains things. Guess I was right about Redigit being an incompetent moron, leaving that so buggy it doesn't even function right.

author=halibabica
In my experience, playing the game is often a good break from making the game.

I thought it was encouraged to be testing each other's levels to begin with. Nobody has provided feedback on my 2nd version of Fire and Brimstone yet. My problem with creating levels isn't lack of creativity, its the editor being a piece of shit because it's programmer is an incompetent moron (read my 2016 strategy & planning pic on page 26 again).

@Hali Y U no comment on my Naval Piranha boss battle?

author=Seiromem
So I started on my world 9 level. I'm gonna make it into a spooky "Glitch" realm (with coherent tile placement, i assure you) . Had to find a good piece of music to use that would fit the theme. I Thought "Lavender Town, why not?".
So I worked it out and put it in the level and started working.

10 minutes into working on the level my body is shaking like I'm starting to get an anxiety, but it never escalates any further. I managed to endure it for 5 more minutes before snapping and turning off the editor.

So anybody have an idea of a piece of spooky music I should use?

Are you saying you were experiencing symptoms of Lavender Town Syndrome? Which version of it were you using? As for creepy music, you can find plenty on YouTube like this one:


Anyway, I have more feed back for your levels:

Giga Funklen (W3) Seiromem:
The precaution you took with the flower & P-Switch, the block on the right of the flower can lead the player to their death (even while pushing left). It would be better if you move the flower & the blocks 1 tile to the left, so the right side block isn't flush with the edge of the platform. Other than that, much better.

Debilitating Depths (W5) by Seiromem:
Apparently, if you're underwater while standing still (no momentum) & standing on a slippery surface, you can't walk to the left or right. Thanks for the 1-up factory at the 1st big cracked ice block :) When I got to the cracked ice block with the trapped 1-ups, I couldn't manage to break it, but when I left the room & came back, 1 of the 1-ups was out of the block without breaking it (the other 1-up simply wasn't there). Apparently, yoshi can also just eat the 1-ups right through the block. Quite the challenging level.

Fiery Flumes (W7) by Seiromem:
Nice to see you fixed that impossible to reach pipe toward the end. The difficulty is definitely on par with a world 7 level instead of a world 4 level.

Abandoned Factory (W8) by Seiromem:
The difficulty hasn't changed much, still rage inducing. Poison mushroom generators still too fast. Bots are a pain when getting the 1st flower. I'd feel sorry for anyone trying to get all 5 flowers in this level without relying on the checkpoint.

One problem I kept having during my testing of all these levels was whenever the P-Switch effect ends, I would get a ridiculous amount of lag, which lasted for a few seconds, enough to get you hit or killed without knowing what was going on. I don't know if its just on my end or what.

@Hali's feedback:
As for my Naval Piranha boss fight, I've been testing it to get it to work right. I'll put up another video by Monday (no internet access over the weekend) showing how the boss fight plays out, but to be honest, its kind of a mess.

For the W7 level, I don't mind taking the 'Hell' out of it into 'Fire & Brimstone'. This wasn't a revenge level but meant to be a challenging fire/lava level that I was excited to work on. I usually keep mp3s outside the level folder & did that by habit. When you say 'expand the ground' are you talking about making all the landing surfaces wider or actually using more of the black ground tiles? Because that almost requires a redesign of most of the stage.

I'll cut back on the power ups & get rid of the invisible coin blocks too. I'll cut the fireball generator's duration by a whole second as well. I guess I need to cut some more hazards from the 2nd half as well. I'll have the 2nd version up by Monday then. Aside from those 2 levels, I'll try to get my world 6 level finished (if the editor will stop trolling me with layer movement & auto-scrolling) & maybe a world 4 level next.

Btw, I'm not so sure a 2 week extension is going to be enough. While some people here can generate a level more quickly, some people like me can take a while (1st time making professional grade levels).

More feedback:
Switch Swap Swamp (W1) by Ratty524:
Well this is an interesting concept. I love puzzle levels. Oh look at me! I'm stuck! (literally)



I definitely liked the amount of 1-ups in the stage, but I don't see anyway to reach the 3-up moon. There's no point in putting something in a level if there's no way to obtain it within the level. Maybe swap out a fire flower for a leaf or hide a blue koopa somewhere. Good level though.


Sinister Crypt (W2) by Jalex:
Dry Bowser's sprite is a bit off when he breathes fire. I don't remember enough about the 1st version to notice the diffence, but the level seems a bit too easy for a boss level, otherwise it's a good level.

@Hali Actually, I was planning on having fire flowers spawn during the fight among other generated things (nipper plants & poison mushrooms). But then I realized that the fire flowers should be swapped out with ice flowers so you can freeze the nipper plants & throw them at Naval Piranha. I just need to get the generators to work right.

Btw Hali, have you tested my W7 level yet? I have a video of me testing it to show how to get through it without dying & getting all 5 flowers:



Even if you watch the video first, at least give it a try a few times first to really gauge the difficulty of it.