[KS+][challenge/scenic][hard][small] May The Wind Carry Me Away

Hello!
I havent been making knytt levels or tilesets for years but a few days ago i came back here and found that my old tilesets have been used to quite some extent over the years. This inspired me to pixel up a new tileset and a little demo level for it

Features one new tileset, my brothers old "thin forest" tileset and 3 old songs of mine.
All custom content in it is up for grabs and remixes.

EDIT:
Level is updated:
  

• It now only supports KS+
• More screens and a new progression.
• More custom objects.
• Fiddled with the tileset so some rock tile combinations look better.
• Hand drawn intro and ending scenes  

  
  


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Cheers!

Lovely new tilesets. I particularly like the fading of the pattern on the earth tiles, and the way the rocks look almost water-colored. I'm a fan of you and your brother's old tilesets, and I've developed some of my own skill by studying them. Glad to see new stuff.

Good job! A level is always a cool way to showcase a tileset. I liked the owl CO, may use it in my current project.

There's one big problem though. The level is environmental except for 2 screens which are way too hard! The level would be better off without those screens, but that's just my opinion .

(Also, aren't the categories Environmental and Challenge never supposed to mix? I think this matter stirred some discussions on the forum before...).

Thanks!

Of course you may use the owl! Im a bit unpleased though that I did not give it black outlines like KS original objects, didn't strike me until after i animated it 

Heh i know they are hard . The double jumps requires nearly perfect timing. Did it feel impossible or could you make it?

Uh-oh! Maybe i should change categories then. Dont want to stir up old conflicts 

Cool!  I've very excited to play this.  Wow, seems like as soon as I come back so do a lot of other people!  Must be the "year of the Knytt!" 

Cool!  I've very excited to play this.  Wow, seems like as soon as I come back so do a lot of other people!  Must be the "year of the Knytt!" 

I could say the same thing. Seems we chose the best possible moment to come back

@BanderAnder: It was a short but charming new level. I enjoyed the custom graphics and music   They give this small level a lovely atmosphere. The new tileset is very nice, and I especially like the trees.

I have to agree with ixMarcel, though: the two challenge screens feel very out of place in what would have been an Environmental level otherwise (if those two screens were removed/replaced). Personally, I think the level would work best as a pure Environmental, or as a hard Scenic level if the difficulty curve was smoother (if there were other, easier challenges before those two hard screens).

Like sergiocornaga said once, I'm not opposed to use Environmental/Challenge to designate levels that are mostly environmental but include some easy challenges, although I think the sudden spike in difficulty here makes the Scenic label more appropriate for this particular case.

I actually found the challenge screens to be nice and refreshing. I just dashed through them adjusting my initial jump/entry in small ways and it took me maybe 5 or 6 tries at most for each.

I really liked how the huge chunky blocks coalesce into a beautiful, coherent landscape. It's a bit amazing to me because when I first saw the screenshot I didn't think the effect could be that impressive when travelling around the level.

Also, terrific secret boulder screen!

Great tilesets! Pleasant little level!

This is pretty nice level! Thanks for returning, BanderAnder. If I wanted to use Song255 in a future level, what title would I refer to it with? And would I just credit it to 'BanderAnder'?

Spoiler: (click to show/hide)

In your latest version, though, I was able to hit a void by climbing that rock in the secret area.

Hey, it's not like you weren't warned! Anyway, this is because the KS+ no-climb object is used rather than the standard KS one, so it's only not climbable in KS+. I've seen this mistake many times, so I wonder if the KS+ editor should maybe make it more obvious that object is a KS+ exclusive, since it's easily confused for the vanilla version...

Short, but sweet. I was a little taken aback by the sudden spike of difficulty (aka that room to the right of the double-jump) at first, and I was stumped by the tough first mountain jump for a while, but then I got it and managed to beat the level. Welcome back, my dude!!

... I've seen this mistake many times, so I wonder if the KS+ editor should maybe make it more obvious that object is a KS+ exclusive, since it's easily confused for the vanilla version...

I didn't realize this was becoming a problem. I should look for a solution then.

Nice level!

Thanks all!  
@Headgrinder "year of the Knytt!" Nice!  

@Sergicornaga Glad you liked it! "BanderAnder - The Abandoned Garden" will do fine.

The no climb issue is easily fixed of course. Will upload new version and miiiight add another secret screen  

A very nice and cute level
The tilesets are very well made 
I loved how did you display the signs in the first screens, it really brings something to the level 

The level is updated!

see edit in main post!