[Hard/Challenge/Epic Length] I Dreamed of the Sky

Started playing KS again (Even got KS+) and wow this level amazed me. I'm looking forward to the sequel.

wow THAT LONG of development time. that's just insane.

Indeed.

A fantastic level. Just wanted to drop by and say I finally played through this and loved it. I wonder if a sequel is in the works with the ending that was given. A fantastic level all around.

Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it. The sequel to this is one of three projects I'm considering working on when I finish 'Dragon Myth'.

Just wanted to say that I completed this level recently and it was, indeed, awesome. Lots of custom stuff, interesting mechanics, very polished level design, animated cutscenes, a very good plot and a well balanced challenge (not easy, but not too hard, just enough to keep you coming back to retry after a failure). I don't think you can ask for much more in a KS level

@Vegetal Gibber, I pointed the same thing out during the betatest, except that I actually got stuck there due to a solid pixel, so I naturally assumed I couldn't go up there and was wandering around for a long time too. That mistake got fixed and Talps told me he didn't want it to be that obvious.

Actually when I was designing that area I deliberately put the lift at the bottom of the level and put in all the screens above it where you could see the lift shaft, in the hope that this would show the player where the exit was; unfortunately I think a lot of people didn't notice it, even though it runs up one side of the screen taking up a lot of space - human psychology working against me, perhaps. My idea was good but the execution not so much; I couldn't think of a way to make it more eye-grabbing.

Also, in an ideal world the lift at the bottom would have been a wreck, leaving the bottom of the shaft more open and again, making more of a distinction from the norm to draw the player's eye, but I couldn't draw a ruined lift to my satisfaction.

Glad you enjoyed the level anyway!

I was making a very short list of essential levels for a newcomer to KS. I included this level, obviously. Then, I noticed it wasn't on the knyttlevels archive. Sometimes, when a level I really enjoy isn't there, I upload the best version of it I can find. But since Talps is still somewhat active in the community, I thought I should request its upload with a post here. Just in case he felt any small changes were needed before posterity.

Thanks for including me!

I wasn't able to upload IDotS to the archive when I finished it; for some reason whenever I tried it would stop working just before the upload completed; my best guess was that my laptop couldn't handle it. I don't mind it being uploaded there now. My bid to update Eurydice turned into a project for an entire remake that I never completed; I think something similar would happen if I tried to work on this again.

Okay, it's up. Thanks, Talps. I still have hope for that Eurydice remake someday.

I've actually turned the Eurydice remake's plot into a novella. It's not quite finished yet but if I ever publish it I'll make sure to announce as much here if the forum is still active. You guys certainly deserve thanks for its existence.

Really late reply, but wow, this is fantastic, Talps!

I recently began feeling nostalgic and started looking around the old forums here. Glad I did! Loved the story and atmosphere, even with (mostly) standard KS music.

Kinda makes me want to get back into making KS levels, but...ah, this place seems pretty dead unfortunately. I might, I might not, I dunno.

Still, glad to see stuff like this.

Hey, I'm really glad you enjoyed!

I was feeling like the forum was nearly dead a short while ago but a few recent releases have brought people out of hiding, so there's a little hope!

Maybe a KS revival will be one of the positive outcomes of covid-19.