Level Creation Ideas

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Offline Saml

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Level Creation Ideas
« on: December 12, 2009, 05:47:33 »
Weeeeell, for a start, after examining the demo's file structure, it appears that the game is completely expandable! And the endings to the current level are quite weird/creepy.

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Re: Level Creation Ideas
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2009, 13:44:19 »
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I'm really looking forward to see what happens when the editor comes out.

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Re: Level Creation Ideas
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2009, 14:05:11 »
Yes, go create!
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Re: Level Creation Ideas
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2009, 21:34:57 »
I'm hoping level editing won't be quite as hard as Nifflas has made it out to be if I just want to make environmental levels without puzzles.  I would LOVE to make environmental levels for this game.  (I haven't even finished what's in the demo yet, but I already love the game.)

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Re: Level Creation Ideas
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2009, 21:38:52 »
^ If you take a look at the files in the directory of the main level, you'll have an idea of what to expect already; as Nifflas said, the level editor is quite easy to use (you'll probably use it to make the map structure, place tiles and objects and little else), but there's a lot of work to be done with text files.
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Re: Level Creation Ideas
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2009, 21:52:17 »
The one thing I think I'll find most intimidating about level editing in Saira is the 11 independently scrolling layers.  I can't imagine how there could possibly be an easy way to manage that, because not only is 11 layers a lot, but they're probably all different sizes, too (otherwise they couldn't scroll at different speeds).
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Re: Level Creation Ideas
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2009, 22:26:32 »
Well, the editor is up!

Check it out here!

Re: Level Creation Ideas
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2009, 23:00:15 »
Thanks for mentioning that here, Nifflas.  I don't always check all those other forums up there, and would have completely missed that it was released!