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Temporary => Knytt Stories Level Releases => Topic started by: Wibi on October 10, 2017, 02:14:13

Title: [Small] [Easy/Normal] [Scenic/Experimental] Get focus
Post by: Wibi on October 10, 2017, 02:14:13: (https://i.frogbox.es/ki5)

A small level, hopefully with more depth than my last one. Contains fourteen rooms, one toast fact and two endings. Works with normal KS.

Spoiler: Standard screenshots (click to show/hide)
(https://i.frogbox.es/ki3)
(https://i.frogbox.es/ki4)

Download here. (http://knyttlevels.com/levels/canteven%20-%20Get%20focus%20v2.knytt.bin)

Spoiler: Changelog (click to show/hide)
v2:
* Reworked the yellow key room. Now it has an actual strategy (thanks, Vegetal Gibber!)
* Screenie1.png has been taken back to its hometown. It was trying to hitch a free ride (thanks, sergiocornaga!)
* Fixed a SGE which may or may not have already been fixed.
* Very minor: the greeter no longer waits for the shift to function before saying their final line.
* Fixed two voidscreens (thanks, Purple Ink!)
* Text in "Stay" ending is no longer obscured by the cutscene controls (thanks, Purple Ink!)

v1:
Initial release. Download here. (http://knyttlevels.com/levels/canteven%20-%20Get%20focus.knytt.bin)

All tilesets, gradients, and music - Fire Nuclear Crocodile Killer\Impossible.ogg - are property of Nifflas. Feedback is much wanted!
Title: Re: [Small] [Easy/Normal] [Scenic/Experimental] Get focus
Post by: Purple Ink on October 10, 2017, 09:44:26: Good level! A couple things, though. There are void screens on either side of x1000y997. And...

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The "save" ending has text that is partially obscured by the arrow buttons to move the scene forward. I suggest repositioning the text.
Title: Re: [Small] [Easy/Normal] [Scenic/Experimental] Get focus
Post by: sergiocornaga on October 10, 2017, 13:15:42: Thought provoking! In addition to Purple Ink's suggestions, there's a file called screenie1.png in the level folder that you could delete.
Title: Re: [Small] [Easy/Normal] [Scenic/Experimental] Get focus
Post by: Vegetal Gibber on October 10, 2017, 14:03:06: I agree with Sergio. Quite intriguing, and even a bit unsettling at times, especially...
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...the "Stay" ending :S

Nice use of the default tilesets! I also liked the choice of background music and...
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...the combination of screen looping and flying enemies in x1004y998 and x1003y1008.

Spoiler: Some minor criticism (click to show/hide)
Screen x1000y998 (and possibly x1000y997) looked a bit too bare compared to the others, since it only features a simple gradient and no background elements. Also, I'm not sure if there's any real strategy to get past the goo shooter at x1004y999 other than simply trying again and again until the projectiles just happen to leave an empty space big enough for you to slip through, which seemed to happen quite rarely for me (about 1/10 tries).
Title: Re: [Small] [Easy/Normal] [Scenic/Experimental] Get focus
Post by: Wibi on October 10, 2017, 16:03:14: Thanks for the feedback!
Quote from: Vegetal Gibber on October 10, 2017, 14:03:06
Spoiler: Some minor criticism (click to show/hide)
Screen x1000y998 (and possibly x1000y997) looked a bit too bare compared to the others, since it only features a simple gradient and no background elements. Also, I'm not sure if there's any real strategy to get past the goo shooter at x1004y999 other than simply trying again and again until the projectiles just happen to leave an empty space big enough for you to slip through, which seemed to happen quite rarely for me (about 1/10 tries).
In y998-997 I thought the gradient and the objects in the room would be enough, it was kind of "bare" on purpose since you're climbing to an exposed night sky.
My strategy for x1004y999 was "stay in the entry and jump over the bullets," but it turns out the bullets can still hit you there on some attempts. It's now been reworked as of the latest update, thanks!

Voidscreens, the stay cutscene and screenie1.png have all been fixed. (day 1 patch woot!)
Title: Re: [Small] [Easy/Normal] [Scenic/Experimental] Get focus
Post by: sergiocornaga on October 10, 2017, 16:16:55: Here's my technique for the original version of x1004y999. Looking forward to trying to updated version, though!

(https://i.imgur.com/XQ6RRTZ.gif)