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Title: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Talps on August 10, 2011, 13:47:07

A quick level I cooked up for SecretGlitch's KS competition, 'Claustrophobia'.
It's a short, retro-style level (kinda). Features two difficulty levels (neither of which is particularly easy), all custom music and three endings. And some COs I shamefully pinched from my previous competition level. I only had two weeks to make this! Gimme a break!

Download me. (http://knyttlevels.com/levels/Talps%20-%20The%20Greying%20Tower.knytt.bin)


Look at the pretty screenshots!

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: SecretGlitch on August 10, 2011, 17:21:08

Pretty good level, here. I played it on retro-hard, which really reaches Very Hard tier IMO. For being done in two weeks, this is a pretty solid level, good work!

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Raicuparta on August 10, 2011, 18:50:38

I am stuck at the second screenshot. What the hell am I supposed to do there?

Spoiler: (click to show/hide)

If I pull the lever, it becomes impossible to leave that space. If I don't, I can't continue, so I go back. But there is nothing I can change there, I thought maybe I was supposed to pull that lever first than the lever in the screenshot, but both of the levers just get me stuck in that area.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Talps on August 10, 2011, 19:00:51

Spoiler: (click to show/hide)

Note that you're shoving sand around. Once pushed, it can't get 'unpushed'. So once its in place, you can press the lever a second time to move the sliding blocks back, and the sand stays where you want it.

The thing with saying the words 'Super-Hard' is that everyone runs and hides when they hear it.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: ortoslon on August 11, 2011, 11:06:37

playthrough to the normal ending on normal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqeLu3NlWBQ)

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Talps on August 11, 2011, 18:48:20

Wow, that was impressive! Hard mode is the same but with only one save per zone. I imagine you'd be more than capable of that.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Ganoan on August 11, 2011, 22:00:51

Talps, I just want to say that all of your levels are awesome! Especially "Eurydice" was a masterpiece. One of the levels I began playing about one hour before I planned to go to bed... but then I was so fascinated and curious about how the story would go on - I slept much shorter as I should.  ;)

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: RichardJ on August 12, 2011, 17:14:37

I really enjoyed this level, but I never got a sense of claustrophobia - only of desolation. By the way, the music was amazing - which track was it that you used in the intro?

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Talps on August 12, 2011, 18:08:37

The reward for completing Hard Mode will tell you. (Or I could just say it's 'Wandering Souls' by PlaidShirts&BigSmiles (there's a link for them in the level's credits).)

Thanks for the comments, guys :D Gan, I'm working on another sleep-stealing level at the moment called 'I Dreamed of the Sky'; check the preview forum.

In other news, my sig is now 499 characters long (what with the URLs) out of the allowed 500; I've no idea what I'll do when I release my next level.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Raicuparta on August 12, 2011, 20:12:31

Make a thread with all your levels and a link to that thread on your sig :P

BTW, sorry about that, I ended up figuring it out, not sure why I didn't see it sooner :|

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: LemGambino on August 14, 2011, 18:38:39

Whew, finished it on normal. That was pretty tough! I liked it. I got two to the endings, do you have to play on hard to get the fifth?

As for the sig thing, let the sig point to a Pastebin page, where you can post all your levels you made so far. I think that's the easiest way to do it without making a new page (unless you want to make one).

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Talps on August 15, 2011, 19:23:26

The third ending is the reward for completing Hard Mode.

Is it 'socially acceptable' to create a thread on these forums just for that? Also, I have no idea what pastebin is but I shall wikipedia it at the first convenient moment.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Raicuparta on August 15, 2011, 23:48:39

Pastebin just lets you, well, paste stuff in a page and share it.
For your case, I thought it would be worth the trouble to have your levels with a small description and maybe a small picture for each of them, more like a gallery.
About being "acceptable", obviously not the one to answer that, but it would be a pretty stupid restriction, considering there is absolutely no harm in doing it.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: egomassive on September 12, 2011, 22:31:57

So, I finally played this level. I'm a little backlogged on playing levels. It was really good! This is definitely a level not to be missed. I was really surprised to recognize some of the music in it. I had been considering Wandering Souls by PlaidShirts_BigSmiles for one of my levels. At any rate, the music selections were superb. You must have spent a while finding them all.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Talps on September 13, 2011, 19:28:13

It may have been in your music thread that I discovered him (and subsequently the other two songs of his that I used). Did you play hard or retro-hard?

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: egomassive on September 14, 2011, 12:25:54

I only tried hard. I associate retro with frustration. I hope I didn't miss anything awesome.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: yohji on September 15, 2011, 11:30:50

A very consistent and nicely realized level. Also, it made me realize that KS needs more challenges that have room-chaning levers - those sand puzzle screens made my day. But unlike others, I thought the music wasn't always fitting, and particularly the last stage was very strange in that respect - the soundtrack was extremely irritating for me.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Salmoneous on September 26, 2011, 12:18:46

Quote from: Talps on August 12, 2011, 18:08:37

In other news, my sig is now 499 characters long (what with the URLs) out of the allowed 500; I've no idea what I'll do when I release my next level.

remove the http:// from each link, will still work just not clickable.

Great map.  Nice music.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: PeppyHare4000 on December 29, 2011, 01:53:53

Quote from: Talps on August 12, 2011, 18:08:37

The reward for completing Hard Mode will tell you. (Or I could just say it's 'Wandering Souls' by PlaidShirts&BigSmiles (there's a link for him/her in the levels credits).)

Thanks for the comments, guys :D Gan, I'm working on another sleep-stealing level at the moment called 'I Dreamed of the Sky'; check the preview forum.

In other news, my sig is now 499 characters long (what with the URLs) out of the allowed 500; I've no idea what I'll do when I release my next level.

Make a webpage for all your levels and put the link to that website on the signature!

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: mechamind on January 12, 2012, 01:39:26

I really enjoyed this level. An interesting reward for beating Retro-Hard mode. Note:

Spoiler: (click to show/hide)

At x1014y989 and similar panels (if there are other versions of The Greying Tower, referring to this one (http://knyttlevels.com/levels/Talps%20-%20The%20Greying%20Tower.knytt.bin)), I was able to jump to the right "chimney" before I had to, and I managed to climb my way to a void tile.

Overall, I enjoyed it.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Talps on March 31, 2016, 22:16:26

Bulbapuck and I got together to record another of my favourites of my levels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEMBzZM4fSY)! We discuss level design and human psychology, learn what happens when you don't play KS for eight months, and drop a few more hints about 'Dragon Myth'.

(Sorry my voice is so quiet. We'll figure this out eventually...)

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Ultigonio on April 01, 2016, 06:59:09

The part where Bulbapuck got so stuck that he had to skip it is amusing to me.  I actually didn't beat this level the first time I played it because I simply thought that jump wasn't possible!

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: ixMarcel on April 01, 2016, 10:18:55

Great video guys! You watching Bulbapuck play your levels is a really fun idea, especially with your commentary.

Title: Re: [Challenge/Short/Hard] The Greying Tower
Post by: Purple Ink on April 01, 2016, 20:52:11

Already left a comment on the video but I'll say it here too. It's really fun to watch and listen to you guys go over these levels. You guys have great chemistry.