It amazes me that people don't want you to evolve as a game designer, and that seemingly everything you do has to be compared to Knytt, even when they're trying to do different things. I can see why calling it Knytt Underground causes direct comparison, but throwing WaDF, Night Sky, or Saira under the bus of "not enough like Knytt" is just extremely biased in my opinion. I get why people enjoy Knytt, although I don't care for it too much, but by this point it's a simple freeware game that was made years ago and shouldn't be the only game that you made that ever matters. Knytt Underground is doing something different, and it lasts a heck of a lot longer than Knytt which forces it to be a more diverse game. Even if I don't ultimately care for it, I still appreciate what it does and the effort put into it, and I don't compare it to Knytt Stories and moan about why you don't make games more like that. I enjoyed Saira and Night Sky and FiNCK, and I hope you continue to evolve and make games as radically different to Knytt as you want them to be.

I almost had the same thought about needing markers but the color designations are a powerful enough guide, IMO.

Also you forgot to update the download link on your website to KS+102.zip, egomassive.

A question and suggestion:

Exactly how does a map square map calculate what color it should be for a certain screen? It's giving me some colors I outright don't expect. I imagined it would be the average color of the gradient but some things don't seem to turn out that way and it's hard to predict when you have a very dynamic gradient.

And my suggestion is to allow the player on a screen to override the default color for the map square and pick their own color to use. It'd help make sure the map screens are the right color if they seem to not be what you want and allow the map to segregate areas that may be similarly colored. If there is already a way to get a map tile to be a certain color already, though, I'd like to hear it.

Number three, that's for me.

Good job everybody. For me, a lot of the levels weren't my thing, but the ranking the levels seems very fair. An extra round of applause to all of those who got through my level but only played it because of this contest.

I might throw in a selectable Medium difficulty for those who really can't play my levels but want to experience this one. It'll be way more doable to have in this level than it would have been in Dark Sea 2.

Don't know if this was covered or not, or if it's a problem or just something that has to be like this, but spawn blocks only work for the highest value spawn placed on the screen. As in, if you had the A, B, and C triggers on the same screen and the A, B, and C spawn on the same screen, only the C spawn block would work. And if only A and B are on the same screen, only the B spawn block would work. Otherwise, the sprites spawn at the designated spot in the script.

For my own levels, I agree that Dark Sea 1 is a good start. Amidst the Clouds too, perhaps. Industrial Trap is really close in difficulty, as its obstacles are generally long and complicated, so it's probably not a good jumping off point. And the rest of my levels aren't worth suggesting.

As for other levels, you can just search for Very Hard levels on the forum that get a lot of attention.  Generally those will be worth the time.

I must also note that you just have to do the best of your own abilities, and don't stress out if you can't legitimately beat my level as a whole before the end of the voting period. It's very long and very challenging and it takes a quite some time to beat for almost anybody.