[Challenge/Hard] {KS+} Envious of Extravagance in Errors

Envious of Extravagance in Errors

Once upon a time, a young girl, a collect- oh, sorry. I'll save that for later. For now gaze upon this very interesting screenshot:


The level's going to contain a lot of firsts for me, and unlike pretty much every other level I've ever started (a lot), I have a plan. A big plan. And it's been planned for a long time now.

Here's a breakdown of what I'm trying to work with here:

- Will use KS+ to the fullest extent.
- Contain (as per my usual) mostly if not all my own tilesets and gradients.
- Intention to release most assets for community use after completion.
- Has a story. A good story.
- Medium to longer length.
- "Looks decent and plays decent" goal. (or better, hopefully)
- Actual sound/non-default stuff.
- Non-confusing level design, but plenty of places to explore.

I'm working on the basis that if there's something to improve upon in my level making, it'll be in this level.

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- Will use KS+ to the fullest extent.
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First screen and already I see a collectible and an OCO in use. I want to play it!

This is already sounding great

It seems like the release of KS+ v0.9 really got people inspired.

Excited for KS+ playing!

This looks really good. I wish you luck!

Tileset and water look great. Looking forward to it

It looks fine. Looking forward to it. 

Looks just great. Can't wait to see more.

As much as I liked the simplicity of the tileset I made...



Also, I might retract my statement about using only my own stuff- there's some very good tilesets that haven't been used a lot that I want to work with. Plus, it'll speed up designing the level for some areas.

Looking beautiful.  Will the sky stay plain though?

Technically speaking the sky isn't plain, but I think it's lacking contrast. I think I'll work on that. As for clouds or something, I'd like to, but I fail at making clouds look nice.

I just didn't see any kind of gradation and thought it would look quite a bit more beautiful with it.  Doesn't have to be clouds, just a value or color shift.

I decided to modify it anyway- it was fine before, but it just wasn't sticking out enough. This version should add some 'pop' to it, I hope.

Cool.  I do like that better.  Now it is more of a misty sky which works well.