[Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art

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[Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« on: July 26, 2010, 21:34:41 »
Great Art is a community-created level. Each person who contributed made an exhibit; some made multiple ones. See the first post of the Great Art thread for more information.

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Posting screenshots wouldn't help you know what the level is like, since every part of it came from a different person. It would only spoil the exhibits.

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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2010, 22:18:47 »
Yay C)p *Downloading*

I was actually hoping to contribute again some time in the future, but I suppose I'll have to make my own enviromental levels :P
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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2010, 23:10:48 »
This was pretty great! I think the city exhibit was my favorite.

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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2010, 03:38:39 »
I'm kind of sad to see this project end.

Maybe their should be a Nurykabe community art level.  His tilesets are the most challenging and create the most interesting effects. 

Oh crap!  I didn't attrib the music I used!  Blackbird Cathedral! 

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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2010, 04:26:32 »
I didn't bother crediting the music. Some of it was put in by people who are no longer active in the forum. :/

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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2010, 05:19:07 »
OMGYEY! *downloads* I know I didn't post in the thread, but I was really looking forward to this! I even thought of contributing a few times, but was always too lazy. x3
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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2010, 20:33:05 »
Curses, I would've loved to have a contribution from you. Ah well. XD

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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2010, 14:26:46 »
Bumping this as it deserves to be bumped. It's an excellent and very different level :)

Is there any possibility of a "Great Art 2.0" or something with more contributions attached?
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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2010, 18:14:23 »
If I get a bunch of people who want another thing like this to happen/want to add to what's already there, I may do a second one or expand this one, bulbapuck. :)

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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2010, 18:30:43 »
I'd totally do this again.  I would suggest it be a 2nd version, not an add on, and I'd like to see it have more of a level feel to it.  In other words, acknowledge that each area or screen has an independent author, but assemble them in a way that feels like your in a normal level rather than an "art display".  I guess that would make it a little like the Round Robbin, but with each authors area distinct and complete with specific and limited areas in and out. 

My mind is thinking through this as I type, so what if the limitations are a cube of any size up to, say 10x10, just so where not dealing with huge areas, with a minimum of 4 entrances/exits.  Each entrance should have a "bridge" screen like we did for the 1st great art level which each author gets to 1/2 complete.  There can also be 1 screen rooms... but I would think you would still want to make a bridge for them. 

So the squares can be assembled in any way the authors want to create a level like area.  And perhaps ever 20 screens or so should have a warp room that lets you warp backwards to previous areas. 

Ok, brain is done rambling, and I gotta go.  What are the thoughts on this?

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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2010, 19:28:29 »
First, let me say that I think the "The Mountain" scene by Dynamite is spectacular. Pretty much flawless in its execution and color design (really, just superb usage of that purple "after the machine turns off" tileset with a great looking vivid sunset background), although I think the trees don't really mesh quite as well. That's the kind of usage of an old tileset that I really feel like I should've come up with, and am sad I didn't.


Second, I downloaded this level specifically for HeadGrinder's section, and here's a few comments for him, as a kind of reciprocity for what he did for me:

The black lines around most of the objects in the tileset are rather jarring (maybe make them less noticeable?) As are the textures in the stones (the light-colored ones, especially, though the purple ones might could use a bit of work, too, in order to give them the professional looking texture of Nifflas' tiles). And while I found the stones to be quite appealing when big and rounded, the white ones again look a bit odd to me when squeezed into tight, angular forms. That might be personal preference. Also, of course, the stones are not easy to traverse in a game built for very geometric ground formations. Completely understandable, of course; a design decision one has to make, likely. I'm also wondering if a differently-colored and or shaded background might look better against the purple stones.

Other than that, though, I say very nice effort which pays off pretty darn well. I think the fuzzy, cloud-like, largely-border-less organic formations (with the flowers on top) are very cool and do look great. As a main contrasting element to the purple stones, they work fantastically. They might look greater in conjunction with some slightly altered purple tiles, as I said.

P.S. I know the bulk of the criticism reflects badly, but don't let that make you think I don't like the tileset.

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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2010, 01:32:39 »
@Headgrinder: I think it's a great idea, and I would definately join C)p

But 10x10 seems huge! I know it's a maximum, but still.
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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2010, 13:27:48 »
Yeah, probably.  Somehow I pictured people complaining if it was too small.  :)  What would you suggest?  the last great art was limited to something like 4x4 which I found too constricting.  And keep in mind, you can have half of that cube be sky, just as long as you make the cube, thus you could conceivably simply have a stripe of 10 screens with tons of sky, or even half being ground with one or two tunnels going straight down to one of the other exits.

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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2010, 15:06:02 »
As you've got a limited time, I can't imagine anyone needing more than 6x6. Although it does depend on the time given for the project. If it's 3 days to a week I think 6x6 is good.
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Re: [Environmental/Misc][Easy] Great Art
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2010, 17:01:31 »
The limits used for this project were, for any who didn't know or forgot, 3 days and up to 12 screens.