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Enjl wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 04, 2018 3:07 pm

Might wanna read this. Regarding screenshots and the such. http://www.smbxgame.com/forums/v ... c9bd94d521

Suckerman7 GM wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 04, 2018 3:16 pm

Enjl wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 04, 2018 3:07 pm

Might wanna read this. Regarding screenshots and the such. http://www.smbxgame.com/forums/v ... c9bd94d521

Thanks. Anyways, I'll change the signature too then.

You must have at least the same amount of screenshots as the amount of worlds you say your project is going to have. If you want your episode to have 10 worlds, you should have at least 10 screenshots. If you're making a hub episode, you must have at least 20% of the levels you say your project will have in screenshots. This means if you have a 50-level hub episode, you need at least 10 screenshots.

You can post multiple screenshots that are clearly from the same area of the same level, but only one of these will count toward the amount of screenshots you need. This doesn't always look good from a thread presentation standpoint, so you may just want to stay away from doing this entirely.

Enjl wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 09, 2018 9:02 am

Suckerman7 GM wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 04, 2018 3:16 pm

Enjl wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 04, 2018 3:07 pm

Might wanna read this. Regarding screenshots and the such. http://www.smbxgame.com/forums/v ... c9bd94d521

Thanks. Anyways, I'll change the signature too then.

Rule 3 is why I made my last post btw, but you seem to have skipped that one when reading it.

You must have at least the same amount of screenshots as the amount of worlds you say your project is going to have. If you want your episode to have 10 worlds, you should have at least 10 screenshots. If you're making a hub episode, you must have at least 20% of the levels you say your project will have in screenshots. This means if you have a 50-level hub episode, you need at least 10 screenshots.

As well as Rule 4:

You can post multiple screenshots that are clearly from the same area of the same level, but only one of these will count toward the amount of screenshots you need. This doesn't always look good from a thread presentation standpoint, so you may just want to stay away from doing this entirely.

They're put in place to ensure that a sizeable amount of effort was put into a project before it is posted, to lessen the chances of people posting projects and getting tired of them shortly after.

PopYoshi wrote: I'd like to be a beta tester, firstly because I want to help in the project and I'm interested (I could be a designer but I'm busy with my project ) and because I want to see how good are your level designing skills (I'm not going to count the level you sent me a week ago)

Ludwig_von Koopa wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:01 pm

You need more screenshots or an admin or a mod will lock your topic.That one you gave us looks pretty good,even though i think a SMB3 Recolour would be a little bit better (The SMW one works,a SMB3 one would be even better).

Cedur wrote: With only 2 levels complete, you should have wait a bit more before announcing your project?

Suckerman7 GM wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:28 pm

Well, this project has a special place in my heart. I want to finish this until May 2019, and I can't do it alone. By making the thread and releasing the unclaimed levels, I can interest you guys for designing nice levels. I want this project to be a great one. If you're interested with level designing, I can hire you.

Enjl wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 10, 2018 4:37 pm

Suckerman7 GM wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:28 pm

Well, this project has a special place in my heart. I want to finish this until May 2019, and I can't do it alone. By making the thread and releasing the unclaimed levels, I can interest you guys for designing nice levels. I want this project to be a great one. If you're interested with level designing, I can hire you.

You can PM people or DM them on discord and form a team with them. Whether or not your project has a special place in your heart doesn't change the fact that certain requirements have to be met for a project thread, which are set in place to ensure that some amount of time and effort already went into the project.
Besides, project threads are horrendous stress-machines. I wouldn't be surprised if you'll soon find yourself under a lot of pressure trying to maintain consistent progress updates. It can be really demotivating from my experience. I think by not having a thread until your project is mostly complete, you'd be doing yourself a favour.

I have some questions though which you REALLY need to answer for yourself at the start of development though:
How planned out is the project? I doubt a rough outline for a story that only creeps up once per world and a handful of world themes are capable of securing a special place in one's heart, so it's got to be more, however...
Do you have plans for every level in the game? This'd be the next step. I suggest getting a spreadsheet of what levels you want, where you want them and what you intend to happen in them. It'll let you and your team keep an overview over how far you are, where you can cut content if necessary and who currently has what claimed.
Do you know how many levels you can realistically complete in a given amount of time? This is particularly important when working with deadlines. What me and my team have done for our current project (no thread, sorry) is start out with only the levels which ABSOLUTELY NEEDED to be in the game in order for the structure to work, and then we gradually added more and more as more ideas came to us, while keeping our abilities and speed in mind. Figure out what's important, work on the important levels first, work on the rest later. That way you can cut all the fat you haven't gotten to yet if you run behind schedule.
Do you have plans for what happens if a team member is slower than you thought they would be or delivers a product not up to the project's quality standards? Teams that aren't well-established tend to run into this a lot. Especially during collabs and projects with a lot of levels, this can hit hard. Not just because someone might be designing something apart from the initial vision of the project, alienating you from your creation, but also because everyone's abilities are steadily improving and what one might've considered a good level 6 months ago is now the worst level in the episode and might aswell be cut.
How do you plan on communicating with your team? My advice: Get a discord server for communication, get a github repository so everyone is always up to date and can play each other's levels, get a google sheets spreadsheet where the entire project is documented. Don't have any secrets in front of your team and develop ideas together.

Suckerman7 GM wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:55 am

I have read that thread. But right now, only 2 levels are completed and I simply can't post 4 screenshots of each one. I can post 2 screenshots per level, but it will take some time. Please don't think I ignored your post.