Dust Bunnies Mansion [SMBX2]

[PurpleDuc]

The Dust Bunnies own a mansion?!

DISCLAIMER: This level is difficult, but is definitely possible (only with Mario I think).


Images:

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Download:

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https://mega.nz/file/iqYTDZaY#KQVf3hDNI ... cdjQJR6Kqo

Credits:

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MrDoubleA - warpTransition.lua, Accurate SMW Costumes, rooms.lua, Dust Bunnies

Witchking666 - Ghost House Tileset + Background

Hatsune Blake - Minimalist HUD

FNF Funkadela Catalogue - Think (Instrumental)

[deice]

hello, i've played through your level and i enjoyed it a lot!

but first, a few minor technical gripes:
- music, scripts, and other custom assets should go inside the level folder together with the custom graphics. this is so that people can place the level in any world folder they want without any files conflicting. also, you can use gifs2png (located in the "data/pge" folder) to convert old graphics into pngs.
- please zip your level before uploading it. mega having to zip the folder by itself absolutely tanks the download speed.
- sometimes dying in this section (pic below) causes a huge amount of lag that doesn't go away until you close the program (this gif is the actual game speed):

i'm assuming that this is a bug relating to how rooms.lua interacts with the dust bunnies because it's an incredibly buggy script in general, but it's strange given that it was scripted by the same person. perhaps in the future you should attempt to use different sections instead.
- another thing that i'm not quite sure if you can fix is that the dust bunnies don't reset when you die. this sometimes leads to the player getting cheated out of a run even though they did the exact same thing as on a successful attempt but just happened to get a bad cycle that time.
- this last one is less of a criticism and more just advice: if you're making a level with rooms.lua, try to learn how to make the music loop seamlessly, hearing the music fade out and loop abruptly might be annoying especially if it takes long for somebody to beat the level.

but in any case, i always love to see a kaizo level with vanilla physics. especially one so well thought-out and with decent pacing. progressing feels incredibly intuitive and the way you've approached obstacle design is brilliant, committing to never having an obstacle be difficult to sightread or a setup having timing that's difficult to internalize (not that a different approach can't be well executed, it's just that it's often hard to accomplish these things when it comes to fast-paced levels - while still maintaining what still makes the level challenging in the first place)
using the line-guided platforms as fast falling platforms is not only creative in and of itself but it's so nicely woven in with the rest of the falling platform setups that i didn't even realize that that's what they were (thought it was just a custom npc that falls fast haha) until i died a couple of times.
my only complaint with the level's design is the lopsided checkpoints. i'm not the type to complain and request extra checkpoints, it's just that having one long section followed by three back-to-back checkpoints and then the level just ends is a bit jarring. not a crime or anything but if it were up to me i'd remove the second and third checkpoints.

overall it's great to have more skilled and focused creators, i hope to see more from you in the future ^^

[PurpleDuc]

hello, i've played through your level and i enjoyed it a lot!

but first, a few minor technical gripes:
- music, scripts, and other custom assets should go inside the level folder together with the custom graphics. this is so that people can place the level in any world folder they want without any files conflicting. also, you can use gifs2png (located in the "data/pge" folder) to convert old graphics into pngs.
- please zip your level before uploading it. mega having to zip the folder by itself absolutely tanks the download speed.
- sometimes dying in this section (pic below) causes a huge amount of lag that doesn't go away until you close the program (this gif is the actual game speed):

i'm assuming that this is a bug relating to how rooms.lua interacts with the dust bunnies because it's an incredibly buggy script in general, but it's strange given that it was scripted by the same person. perhaps in the future you should attempt to use different sections instead.
- another thing that i'm not quite sure if you can fix is that the dust bunnies don't reset when you die. this sometimes leads to the player getting cheated out of a run even though they did the exact same thing as on a successful attempt but just happened to get a bad cycle that time.
- this last one is less of a criticism and more just advice: if you're making a level with rooms.lua, try to learn how to make the music loop seamlessly, hearing the music fade out and loop abruptly might be annoying especially if it takes long for somebody to beat the level.

but in any case, i always love to see a kaizo level with vanilla physics. especially one so well thought-out and with decent pacing. progressing feels incredibly intuitive and the way you've approached obstacle design is brilliant, committing to never having an obstacle be difficult to sightread or a setup having timing that's difficult to internalize (not that a different approach can't be well executed, it's just that it's often hard to accomplish these things when it comes to fast-paced levels - while still maintaining what still makes the level challenging in the first place)
using the line-guided platforms as fast falling platforms is not only creative in and of itself but it's so nicely woven in with the rest of the falling platform setups that i didn't even realize that that's what they were (thought it was just a custom npc that falls fast haha) until i died a couple of times.
my only complaint with the level's design is the lopsided checkpoints. i'm not the type to complain and request extra checkpoints, it's just that having one long section followed by three back-to-back checkpoints and then the level just ends is a bit jarring. not a crime or anything but if it were up to me i'd remove the second and third checkpoints.

overall it's great to have more skilled and focused creators, i hope to see more from you in the future ^^

Thanks for playing the level!

I'm new to posting on this forum so the feedback is appreciated.

I did realize that the rooms.lua was a bit buggy and I'm not much of a coder so I didn't want to touch anything, and I still wanted the cool smooth camera movement to the next section so I just decided to keep it (maybe a bit lazy but I wasn't finding any game breaking bugs until you replied with the gif), and the thing with the checkpoints is definitely a thing I will keep in mind for the future. I will also keep the minor stuff (zipping, putting the files in the level folder) in mind as well.

Sorry if this reply was sloppy but as I said, I'm new to posting on this forum.

[LooKiCH]

The Dust Bunnies own a mansion?!

DISCLAIMER: This level is difficult, but is definitely possible (only with Mario I think).


Images:

Spoiler: show

Download:

Spoiler: show

https://mega.nz/file/iqYTDZaY#KQVf3hDNI ... cdjQJR6Kqo

Credits:

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MrDoubleA - warpTransition.lua, Accurate SMW Costumes, rooms.lua, Dust Bunnies

Witchking666 - Ghost House Tileset + Background

Hatsune Blake - Minimalist HUD

FNF Funkadela Catalogue - Think (Instrumental)

I advise you to reduce the distance between the platforms by at least half a block, as it is very difficult to jump there, playing as Mario/Luigi

[deice]

I advise you to reduce the distance between the platforms by at least half a block, as it is very difficult to jump there, playing as Mario/Luigi

you can actually get a better running start than that (spoilered in case people wanna figure it out themselves):

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[LooKiCH]

I advise you to reduce the distance between the platforms by at least half a block, as it is very difficult to jump there, playing as Mario/Luigi

you can actually get a better running start than that (spoilered in case people wanna figure it out themselves):

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(gif won't load outside the thumbnail for me but it should still be visible)

I only succeeded 1-2 times out of 20 attempts