Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands

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Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« on: February 11, 2012, 15:06:34 »
Hi, I am new at this forum although I am playing KS for several years. I decided to release one of my levels (finally). It is not done yet. It is going to be a enviromental level, but there will be some challenge pieces, too. It has very simple story: Juni visited her friend, who is living very far from her village and now she is going home. She travels across many different small islands and meets some people. However, there are several caves and ancient temples with keys and power-ups (and also with traps and monsters. When she gets home, she realizes there is one really ugly surprise.
I wanted to create something nice and simple like Hmpf Mac Slow's Jumping  in the rain, but it became much bigger than I expected (I was working on it during my exam period and anything was better than learning).
I tried to use here all my favourite tilesets. There are not any custom objects or tilesets made by me, just several modifications of Nifflas's tilesets.
Here  are some screenshots:
« Last Edit: February 11, 2012, 15:08:59 by Polana »

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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2012, 15:19:48 »
Beatiful! Just beautiful! However, some custom objects wouldn't hurt. :)
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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2012, 15:38:26 »
Oh man, tons of small islands is a great idea! Now I want to make a level with the same theme...

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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2012, 15:46:36 »
Polana, I would recomend you to check out Egomassive's Mod for Knytt stories. It may help you a lot.
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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2012, 20:47:51 »
Thank you. :-)
Well I'm not good at pixel art, so I don't have anything I can put into this level.
There are still many things to do on this level - cutscenes, ending, some tilesets...
I hope I will finish it soon, because I won't have much time in spring (garden, school, etc.).
Here are some of recoloured Nifflas tilesets I am using:

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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2012, 12:29:56 »
I've come up with egyptian blocks tileset. Use it if you want to. Sory for the look of the unused tiles :oops:
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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2012, 15:49:38 »
Than you!
It looks great! I would add some pillars or sphinx.
I think I'll use them in the evil witch's castle.

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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2012, 03:53:16 »
really beautiful screens up there

a level of ilands hmm godd idea. makes me want to play wind waker again :P
Sorry for my lame English (French, Canada).

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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2012, 18:09:00 »
Also some custom objects.
By the way, about the spinx statues, I've got no skill to draw such complicated decorations.
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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2012, 19:50:36 »
Also some custom objects.
By the way, about the spinx statues, I've got no skill to draw such complicated decorations.
Try getting a picture of a sphinx with the angle you want (probably on the side), resize it to fit the desired dimensions, and draw over it. Won't give you the precision that pixel artists can achieve, but it's a good workaround that I have used before.

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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2012, 11:36:10 »
Thanks. And check out another tileset I made specialy for Polana
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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2012, 03:56:29 »
Your tileset is called useful things. I always dreamed of a tileset with onlt useful things that are not nececearly connected to each other. If you fill up that tileset completely it would become very practical for a lots of screen to put decoration on or other thing.
Sorry for my lame English (French, Canada).

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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2012, 20:19:02 »
I am not dead !
I wanted to make small and simple level, but it is getting bigger and bigger.
I will include some screens I originally put out. Here are some new screen shots:

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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2012, 21:39:49 »
Jeez, that's good! Plants, however, are somewhat unnatural on the first screenshot.
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Re: Enviromental and challenge level Many Islands
« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2012, 02:49:44 »
So, how's this level been progressing? Are you still working on it?