This level was originally a demo by Sinix released back in 2009. I was looking through my library for a new level idea when I was inspired to finish this old beauty instead. I've done my best to make it look and play as if the original author had built it all himself. I'm happy to report, Sinix has not only given me permission to release this level, but he really liked it too.

download Island of Mimir by Sinix & egomassive 15MB



I want to thank Sinix, Harumbai, Fubaka, and my beta testers for your time and contributions.

Lately I've been revamping the Knytt Stories portion of my website to contain a repository of Knytt Stories related programs. This was spurred by the recent deletion of Nifflas's own website. Part of this web-project is the creation of a levels archive, just my favorites. It's still a work in progress on both the posting of levels and hammering out the site code, but the basics are there.

levels.egomassive.com

I'd be glad to hear opinions and criticisms. Also, if I've accidentally posted something with a copyright violation please let me know. I started with the beginning of the alphabet and I've already had to sadly reject THE RECKOMING by bradf and Night SE by Chezzy for copyright infringement.

Note: As it fills up with levels, they will appear in pages of 20. I've only posted 12 so far, so that feature is not evident.

todo list:

• fix a myriad of resizing issues
• post a couple hundred more levels
• do some decorating
• place proper links to archive from home site
• find a plug-in for multi-tag filtering, maybe
• create an about page, of course

Dear Juni,

I have heard tales of your adventures and your resolve. I understand you have helped countless people in countless places. I find myself in desperate need of saving. I'm not sure how to explain the situation. If you could please come quickly to Muskrat Manor, you will understand. I don't know how long I will last.

Please come.
Jasorn Loal

Years ago I started making this level with a 3D perspective. I found it far too difficult to draw the scenes that matched my vision. Since then every year as Halloween approaches I desire to work on it. I had considered making it with a typical 2D look, but the complications of making a find-item, use-item style adventure game in KS was still daunting. Then Raicuparta released "Some Room" and that sparked an idea as to how an adventure game can be made simply on the KS engine. The tools of KS+ will make it even better. So, I've finally cracked. I'm making it with the ambitious due date of before-Halloween, 2015.

The screen below is incomplete. I'm using an approach where I make the majority of a screen and then move on. Each screen also gets it's own gradient and tileset. I'm hoping this method will prove faster than building screens from carefully crafted tilesets. Everything lies on the gradients and the tilesets hold only layer 3 for collision and layer 2 for overlayment. Note: I borrowed that car from Quincent Cartographer as a place holder.

I only have 2 screens (and a multitude of duplicates) so far, but it's going well. I made the majority of "Shipwrecked" in 10 days mind you. I will certainly welcome musician collaborators. Also, would anyone be interested in being a graphics assistant? The screen below needs more trees on the left, underbrush, grass, ivy, etc. All you'd have to do is draw on the gradients I start and I could extract layer 2 objects for the game.

I've noticed an increasingly common issue while running KS+ and original KS. Save points will activate rapidly instead of just once. Also, the bright flash that is supposed to accompany them never appears. Since KS used to work fine, I assume Windows has changed something. I've see it on Win XP and Win 8.1. I used to be able to remedy the issue on XP by restarting the computer, but that no longer works for me on 8.1.

In the source, a save can only be activated if there is no flash on screen. These flashes are destroyed by the same event that creates them. It takes some time for the program to create an object and then destroy it, so it used to work. I'm putting in safety measures in KS+ to insure saves work the way they were meant to, but I'm confused by Spring objects.

Spring object flashes work in a similar way to Save-point flashes, destroyed immediately upon creation. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. But, I found something unexpected! There is supposed to be a little puff of smoke similar to the double-jump. I can't recall ever seeing this. Does anyone remember seeing puffs of smoke with Spring objects? I need to know so I can make KS+ play like the original should.

I've been playing a community made rogue-like-like called Cataclysm lately. It's recently gained the option to have graphical tiles replace the default text based interface, but there are no complete tilesets yet. So, I have been contributing to my favorite set. I thought I might show my tiles off here.





It's a pretty random assortment, because I draw things as I come across them in the game. My style varies a bit because I'm trying to be compatible with the work of several artists.

I was discussing with Salmoneous on his upcoming level, when I got an idea to use KS+ coins to create a health system. It's pretty much a hack with limited use, but it's interesting. The custom skull-coin graphics are worth the download.

Health System by egomassive 165 KB

What public-use license do you think is best?

For a long time I've been making tilesets, ambiance, and other stuff for Knytt Stories levels. The majority of it I release for public KS use by writing "KS use/edit OK" or similar in the image or stating the fact in a level release thread. Some of this stuff is derivative. For examples, I've created animations of Juni waking up, I've made tilesets closely based on default tilesets. These things must only be used in free Knytt Stories levels. However, much of the stuff I've made is non-derivative and there is no reason I can't release it for all public use including for-profit use.

The point is, I want to release what I can under a Creative Commons license or similar. In some cases I'll have little choice over the form of the license, because much of the audio was created from field recordings which already carried non-commercial or share-alike stipulations. But where it is solely up to me, what form of license is best? I'm thinking CC-By, which only restricts the user to giving me credit if they use my material. I'm truly unsure about share-alike clauses which require derivative works to be shared in the same way. I think SA clauses on programming snippets and libraries really make them difficult to use, but SA may not be so bad for graphics.

Any thoughts?