Grant Atlus

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Find The Stars and Open the Warps.
Using a SMW world map, designed to be laid back with a fun amount of power-ups but there are still many challanges, not bad in 2-Player mode.

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[PixelPest]

Please don't take screenshots in fullscreen. It distorts them.

[HenryRichard]

The graphics you've chosen to use don't fit together that well, and even though it's possible for them to work together it's entirely destroyed by the massive amounts of cutoff.

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Pixel Pest thanks for the advice, I will update my screen shots shortly.

[Mable]

Well, if you're to do it like that not many people will enjoy this episode tbh.

[stageleft]

I made sure that the game looks good and flows together. Uniform can be really boring
HenryRichard, I was expecting someone would say the graphics don't fit well together. This is because I'm trying something new for the graphical look, getting away from being too traditional.
In game the graphics do work quite well together, except that piece on the overhead map that I think you are talking about.

[Emral]

IMO a LOT of creativity is needed for the player to even remotely understand what's happening in the screens. This is atari-era of subtility in design. For example, I guess the black lines which suddenly stop on the world map are supposed to be a split in the rocks or something, but to most people it'll just look like you arbitrarily placed world map tiles you could find in the editor, which, to me, doesn't look very appealing.

I don't think you need to make the game "uniform" at all, just polishing the look you're going for might be a good idea. Some areas, like the 8-Bit castle inside another castle, look really sluggishly made, and while I get it if you wanted to use mostly vanilla assets, to me, that's no excuse to place a decapitated hydra head next to a snowy tree, without at least providing some backstory as to how that happened.

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I should have clarified that this game is a purely dreamscape-like atmosphere in which the stages are easy to navigate but some areas will definately make you wonder what is going on. There is no story-line yet and may not be at all other than to explore. The idea is that you won't be experiencing any stages which are similar. However I do get your point about the world map, yes those are supposed to be cracks in the mountain walls. I will polish those up when I have time to nit pick. All of the stages were made to be interesting and of a large variety. As for the castle within the castle setting, that is a theatrical play of the rubble from a mario stage being left behind and built over. It'll all make sense in the graphical regard if you try it out.