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I really enjoyed working with the pretty tileset Tyty came up with. Honestly half the time I feel like that's what I should stick to, lol. And yeah, with how we do contests today both of our names would've been on it. The design process was something like I made the level, sent it to FP, and then h...

Personally I'm of the opinion that, at least with regards to a contest where you enter a single level, secret exits don't really have a place. Often times people will either just slap them on the end, or use it as an excuse to enter multiple levels. I think kinda the middle, towards the front half o...

But I've never actually seen the Dreamcast version, so it's interesting to see where certain things differ in cutscenes and elsewhere. For example, the red lighting overlay in parts of Iron Gate are completely missing in the Gamecube version, so I was surprised to see those. The HD has even more......

I actually ended up running into a lot of problems with the brown platforms. Despite using SA1, they still eat up a -ton- of sprite slots, so I was constantly running into issues with them or other sprites disappearing, especially in the latter half. I ended up making a lot of the setups simpler to ...

I really didn't have a problem with the contest, but I ended up using an easy box. That said, the one thing that bothered me was that we were told we would potentially lose points for not using the whole box.... but then I don't think anyone actually did, so some levels that ditched the shitty sprit...

Honestly, I noticed the big level but Mode 0 was way cooler to me. So many moving parts is really cool, and Mario works really well with the 8-bit colors.

I didn't like the boss much though.

how people feel about this level is usually how i feel about levels like miraclewater's entry - really interesting stuff, but just too much of it. it's interesting to see how this is where other people cross the line on that, i suppose i get burnt out on a level a lot quicker. I agree with you here...

I had a problem with the growy boys like the first dragon coin throughout the whole level, they just kept shrinking too fast for me to use them right. Level was cute and I didn't notice Mario's face because I never got hit. It was pretty flat with mostly just ground-crawling enemies though. Maybe th...

I think it's funny that this has become the JUMP-style cause that is certainly not how most of the people who contributed to the first Jump make levels, or how most of the first hack even plays. You'll find that the levels that *do* feel like super long gauntlet levels are not very methodical at al...

I think, at least for me, I started calling "JUMP-style" levels Gauntlet levels, because that's what it feels like. A similar design ethos to Kaizo without any of the implied difficulty or tricks. A series of challenges in a row to be beaten, usually focusing on a singular gimmick (and som...

Yeah, out of all the levels I played Moldy Moonscape ended up being my absolute favorite. It was really well constructed and I really liked the parts where you had to bounce on enemies because it felt like an added layer on top of the VVVVV mechanics.

Because it allows you to have a full-screen layer 3 bg and honestly looks kinda slick. I agree the item indicator could be better (or it could pop out of Mario ala nsmb) there's also SMB3 styled ones. The alternative is a sprite status bar. I'm not sure if that has any implications with the amount o...

I can't wait for VLDC11 to be entirely dolphin themed because of that spinjump trick. Sure will be fun to play.

Maybe I should've finished my backup judging. Then I could've been a controversy scapegoat.

I really really didn't like the math level playing it, it took me like an hour to beat and I kept game-overing lol. Lots of one-attempt or die obstacles and I had severe issues with the wall jump blocks.

Completely disagree. Vanilla SMW looks much better than Redrawn I say that because it was consistent (unlike SMW), and it's "all we had" because original gfx were kinda a mess at the time (Many slots, lots of map16, all different styles). Actually messing with ripped graphics and mixing s...

I'm not a super huge fan of the TSRP series or TSRPR, so I never really messed with TSRPR2 before. The OW being all speckly looks kinda weird. Oh no, why is this using that terrible, ugly, overused sprite set. Redrawn was the best we had for a while, it's weird to see them in a hack even from 3 year...

So why was everyone non-sarcastically telling me this was a good hack again? I think the super mixed messages during development were the problem here. "Supposed to be bad" "supposed to make people angry" and "janky and ugly but fun" are all VERY different ideas and it'...

I'm glad I can watch someone else play this because quite honestly after a glance amidst the C3 hype I really didn't want to go any further. Like I get that it's a joke but, honestly, I just didn't want to keep going. I mean, I have a really low tolerance for difficulty and even kaizo-lite stuff so ...

I may be wrong about digging chuck. I always get the random pause confused between digging and punting and can't remember which one has it.

Re:Criticism This is an LP of a contest. Even without rankings being visible you're going to have people throwing their opinions into the ring about the level. It's going to happen, you can't really prevent it. I thought the level was bad, but I already have a low tolerance for difficulty and really...

What I meant by that is more... creativity doesn't always mean fun. Sure we haven't hit a wall in weird exploits but I've never found levels that use variable scroll interactive layer 2 very fun to play personally. I don't think cranking up the weird interactions and things that, honestly actually d...

Could I get an invite? Tyty#5537

Thanks!

I think I mentioned it in the voting but I'm not sure on the difficulty option, it feels to me like everyone is just going to take hard. Why would you ever take the normal option if you're trying to win? I'm kinda iffy on the forced NPC as well, but that's more because I'm still not used to SMBX and...

The music port on the MMBN stage could've been better (I -think- that's the MMBN3 version but it's very honky trumpets), but it was at least a cute idea. One of my favorite series and a shame it's dead. I like Bowser's wallpaper. LUDWIG.EXE is a neat boss but I think the stage's powerups are a bit s...

But of an odd question. Is there a way to draw something behind the player without putting it on their sprite sheet? Basically I'd like to imitate how the cape animates in SMW on a custom character, so it can animate independently and be drawn regardless of powerup state.