I think it is easy to wrongly judge the interest in a level based on how many replies you get. Perhaps I'm arrogant, but I never feel like I get the response I want, but I keep making because I've at least had a few people respond.
I'm interested. I did think that to do what you are wanting to do successfully, you need a slightly modified tileset. The trees need to look like they grow out of the wall, not flout. The rocks in the background need to not have a black outline around them, or at least to be a little transparent. Another trick would just be to have a few screens of transparent grey you can slap over them.
You might also consider doing what I've decided to do for my next project, which is to make it episodic. For some thoughts on that:
http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=3244.0And I noticed this:
I guess you're right about the KS community disappearing, which I also find, very sad. Or maybe people just aint that interested in this map.
I don't know how big this community has been in the past, but I know people are still here, and people are still coming. Me and bulbapuck for instance are both newbies. So don't let that stop you either.
Here, I decided to take the time to show you what I mean about the trees. They just looked cut off, and thus floating. Here is a very quick edit: