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I'll think about that later as I'm still designing W1, it's a neat idea though.

Also, SMC is the abbreviation of zephyr's Super Mario Classic project.

The new water screens look great. They look like they are well designed and have interesting graphics. I especially like the yellow underwater screen. But a few things that I would recommend:

-The blue clouds in the sunset screens might look better if they were orange.
-The ceiling of the underwater area looks a bit empty. Maybe you could add some upside down trees or coral.
-I don't have the full right to judge this aspect because the screens are so small, but from what I see, it looks like some of those levels could use more coins.

Obviously those are just recommendations more than flaws so it is still great either way, and I would also like to be a tester for this since it looks like it will be a good project.

Thanks, glad you like the level. It took me some time to make it because of lack of originality, so I decided to take it to an underwater section.

- I thought about it, I shall consider doing so.
- You mean the underwater section am I right? If I get to add some more BGOs there it might look way too filled in my opinion and the underwater feel may get lost. I appreciate your suggestion though.
- The thing is that I took screens of those parts that there are not so many coins, just took screens of the parts that thought that would look good as a screenshot in general. I might look at the levels again and see if they need more though as I feel I may have rushed it a little bit.

I'd gladly accept you as Beta Tester. Darkonious already PMed me asking me to be one, I may make an exception and accept both though.

Update! Here goes some screens of W1's fortress!
Also, big news! As soon as my project's testers finishes testing my levels I'll be releasing the Demo (who would have thought about it?).

I think the two castle screens you just presented were poorly designed, candidly. You lacked tons of things; coins, slopes, pipes, barely any enemies, just general things that are necessary to an actual satisfactory Mario level, particularly with a fortress.

I'm fine with it - of course an artificial stone castle inside would lack slopes, and it's supposed to be big to be impenetrable to intruders.

@Kep: FanofSMBX seems to get why I decided to design it as it is. Also, like I said before, I do not get to take good screenshots, because I normally miss any of the things you have just pointed out. In this case, it seems I missed all of them. =P

Besides, the level doesn't need to be rushed out with all that to be great, you see? Try replaying SMSE's first castle and you'll see in some parts lacked some BGOs and other things, ONLY if you look at bad taken screenshots. Of course, Chad always managed to take great screenshots so probably many people didn't notice it at all.

Before any staff member comes here and tells me to not double post or such, I have a reason which is to post a screenshot I forgot to post, which is the World map's screenshot, or at least W1's map. Rejoice to this magnificence.
Surprised? No? Ok.

The paths look really long. It would be a chore to walk all that distance, especially if I wanted to go back to the start from the end.

FanofSMBX wrote:The paths look really long. It would be a chore to walk all that distance, especially if I wanted to go back to the start from the end.

That's why I placed a pipe for a Warp Zone right below level 2, sorry if the screenshot is way too small to notice it.

Even in just world 1 it's way too big IMO.

I never knew there was a size limit tbh. Besides, I prefer quality over size.

There's no technical size limit, but it's just not practical. Mario walks far too slowly on the world map.

Those paths aren't that long. But anyway, I'll see if I can shorter them.

I honestly agree at the castle looking a bit bland - there seems to be way too few enemies in the level, with only Thwomps and Roto-Discs being shown here. I recommend having some more enemy variety there, and trying to introduce some more complex obstacles. i'm judging from the screenshots though, so the actual level might be different.

Rust wrote:I honestly agree at the castle looking a bit bland - there seems to be way too few enemies in the level, with only Thwomps and Roto-Discs being shown here. i recommend having some more enemy variety there, and trying to introduce some more complex obstacles. i'm judging from the screenshots though, so the actual level might be different.

I'd say that's fine for world 1.

It seems a bit too simplistic, though, even for a W1 castle. There's pretty much no variation shown on the screenshots. At least Natsu could add some Dry Bones or more Thwomps. But as I said before, I'm just judging from the screenshots, so the level might be not as bland as it seems.

So yeah, like I said on my previous posts, I'm not that good at taking screenshots, so you guys might judge this project may have no "variety" or anything of the like. If anyone could provide better screenshots once the Demo is released I'd be really thankful tbh.

So yeah Rust, there are Drybones, Fishbones and such, not just Rotodiscs and Thwomps.

Since the level doesn't seem to get any positive feedback I took my time to take two screens and merge them on which hopefully you'll find it ... less bland ... I guess?

The new screen looks awesome! Nice combo of tiles, it looks like a really cool level. Looking forward to seeing more of this.