[easy / small / environmental] A lovely day for a picnic

Ah, thanks. I'll try making that solid, instead. I hadn't heard of Bernie before but I'll definitely look into his games, thanks!

Juni at the foot of the mountain. She's so close, but so far!
I've been learning how to work with the editor and layers quite fast - the way I build the screens now is very different to how I made the first couple. I've also found confidence from knowing about Bernie, a colourblind game developer, and been using tiles and backgrounds based on what they look like to me, rather than my original plan of asking people what colours this tile, or that background, was. I /think/ it's going well.

May I give a tip about your newest screenie? It looks quite squary. If you can, try adding diagonal slopes in the back.

Alas, there aren't any diagonals on that tileset (Orange Grass). I'll look through and see if there's anything similar (I chose it for the tree models) but if I can't find anything better, I'm somewhat happy with it at the moment. (Edit:Maybe a change to 'Red Forest of Beauty')
One thing I'm having trouble with is a very small part of that screen - I've added a small series of jumps to blocks to reach the first ledge, but they're just floating blocks - nothing holding them up (see below). I might scrap that idea and put the climb powerup before the hill.

Update: I've redesigned the mountain area (and backgrounds preceding it) based on LPChip's advice to smooth the backgrounds out. It looks a lot better, in my opinion. Thanks for the tip, LPChip! I've also decided to place the climb powerup under the tree and scrap the 'jump from floating blocks' idea.

Yeah, this is much better.

You could do something on the right, like add a slope of what you see on the left ground. Even if unreachable, it will still look as decoration. Like the entire bottom right corner.

Thanks for the idea - I'm still experimenting with making it look good in terms of decorations like that.
Today I got the nature effects and ambient sounds in there, they may get some tweaking but hopefully tomorrow, once I've added music, I'll be able to release the level!

Almost ready to release - I just want to know, for the info screen, is all of the music included with the editor by Nifflas?

Almost ready to release - I just want to know, for the info screen, is all of the music included with the editor by Nifflas?

Yes.

Er...I don't think all of it is, LPChip. Unless he started calling himself "Nurykabe" or "Gopher"... That is, if you are talking about the Music in the "Data" folder.

EDIT: I should clarify slightly, if you play the file in something like XMPlay, all of the original KS Data folder music has an Author tag, and most of them aren't Nifflas.

Thanks BloxMaster, I hadn't thought of looking for ID3 tags.
Anyway, the level is released! http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=4739.0