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witchking666 wrote:

bossedit8 wrote:

Nice ice tower! I assume the grey blocks still move?

I would say they do, but why not say [n]ice castle instead? It it one of those unique situations you can say it out of winter.

Just testing the Wario character.

Lukas wrote:

So trees upside down that look like they're attached to a tree?
I don't see the problem with that, nor I'd see why people would complain about this.
As long as it's not 34 trees in one screen I'm fine with it.

Ness-Wednesday wrote:

Lukas wrote:

So trees upside down that look like they're attached to a tree?
I don't see the problem with that, nor I'd see why people would complain about this.
As long as it's not 34 trees in one screen I'm fine with it.

Have you ever seen upside down trees in real life? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity

Lukas wrote:

Ness-Wednesday wrote:

Lukas wrote:

So trees upside down that look like they're attached to a tree?
I don't see the problem with that, nor I'd see why people would complain about this.
As long as it's not 34 trees in one screen I'm fine with it.

Have you ever seen upside down trees in real life?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity

Do you guys seriously complain about upside down trees in A FRIGGIN' MARIO GAME! Mario doesn't follow all laws of logic, ya' know!

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It's literally a game with turtles that walk on two legs and another giant one that controls them. I really don't think upside-down trees is an issue at all

As long as the physics in your established world are consistent and transmitted to the player in a non-disruptive way, anything you pull that deviates from reality is fair game.
By themselves, upside down trees are off-putting and break the immersion. In many scenarios I've seen in this game they're needless clutter for the sake of it.
Since reality inspires games and a lot of games take hints from reality (even mario games), being put off by something that doesn't make sense is perfectly legitimate. I can't say anything about upside down trees here in this regard but I can throw in a comment about the bush atop the sizrable platforms:
Nintendo's developers know that breaking the logic of what players are used to can easily disrupt the entire experience with a game. Take a look at these examples:
Grass atop the brick structure.
Nothing crazy in terms of cave scenery. The background, in fact, has a similar structure to the cave bg found in SMB3.
More believable cave settings.

On the topic of circumventing this...
an easy approach is by making the environment seem more alien as a whole. If the tree structrues are abstract, the setting of a seperate environment with its own rules is conveyed more easily. Making giving the trees a strange colour and texture can go a long way.

Yes, turtles walking on two legs which can be kicked out of their shells don't make sense in real life. However, wouldn't it be offputting if instead of having their own sprite with its own characteristics they'd be generic turtles? The abstraction through body shape, proportions, colour and shoes makes Koopas make sense in the context of their universe.

Two Kaizo levels--Bullet Bill Hill and Identity Crisis:


They will both be part of this episode here: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=16959

I was gonna post this earlier, but the forums went down, which made me very sad But hey, at least it's up now!

That looks quite good. Great job so far. I'd recommend using only max. 5 coins/block and using the vanilla hill sizables. I don't think the ones that you are using fit

PixelPest wrote:That looks quite good. Great job so far. I'd recommend using only max. 5 coins/block and using the vanilla hill sizables. I don't think the ones that you are using fit

Thanks for the nice feedback! What vanilla hill sizeables do you mean? And what do you mean with only using max. 5 coins/block?

You have up to 8 coins in the brick blocks which just takes so long to hit and you do it multiple times. Also I meant the hill BGOs

Snessy the duck wrote:

I was gonna post this earlier, but the forums went down, which made me very sad But hey, at least it's up now!

That shit looks pretty neat! you should really tone down the coin usage though, its a bit much.

PixelPest wrote:You have up to 8 coins in the brick blocks which just takes so long to hit and you do it multiple times. Also I meant the hill BGOs

The actual games go up to ten though.

Kuribo wrote:

PixelPest wrote:You have up to 8 coins in the brick blocks which just takes so long to hit and you do it multiple times. Also I meant the hill BGOs

The actual games go up to ten though.

My multi coin blocks all have five or ten coins in them, never anything else.

witchking666 wrote:

Snessy the duck wrote:

I was gonna post this earlier, but the forums went down, which made me very sad But hey, at least it's up now!

That shit looks pretty neat! you should really tone down the coin usage though, its a bit much.

I'll try to remove some coins, I also think I overdid it a little!

PixelPest wrote:You have up to 8 coins in the brick blocks which just takes so long to hit and you do it multiple times. Also I meant the hill BGOs

That's one of the reasons why I almost always play as Luigi. He's also the better scorer with coin blocks (if multiple coins are scattered on the same neighboring block)