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Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2014 1:01 pm**

Here's some storyline for ya'll.

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This'll be the worlds. They don't spell MASTER PLAN at all ;D

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Alright, now shit's getting serious. Here's what everyone's judging everything from: Screenies :O

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But wait! Something's missing! How do you know how far I am? Well, open this spoiler to know more about the progress of this project:

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The changelog will not be updated every week or month, so the safest thing to do is to go to my youtube channel and check if I posted the preview for a new level. http://youtube.com/LayerMM12P

Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2014 2:11 pm**

Sceptrum wrote:They don't spell MASTER PLAN at all ;D

HOLY SHIT.

Anyways, on topic, good to see this project is back. I was assumed it had ended after you left Knux. Sad, because it looked really awesome. I expect great things from this, Sceptrum/Emral.

Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2014 3:43 pm**

This is looking really great. The world map is flawless, just flawless. All the levels are equally awesome, but my favorite is probably the blue woodland level, it's looking pretty awesome and the bonus area-ish one has some really kickass graphics. All your screens seem to lack enemies though, but I guess it's fine since they all are from World 1. You know, I've always liked your levels but the screens tell me that you've become even better at this. The effort you put on each level can easily be seen. So I guess I finally found myself an episode to look forward to

Keep up the good work and best of the luck!

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:35 am**

Pseudo-dino wrote: Anyways, on topic, good to see this project is back. I was assumed it had ended after you left Knux. Sad, because it looked really awesome. I expect great things from this, Sceptrum/Emral.

Didn't work on this from July til December actually

MarioWorker12 wrote:This is looking really great. The world map is flawless, just flawless. All the levels are equally awesome, but my favorite is probably the blue woodland level, it's looking pretty awesome and the bonus area-ish one has some really kickass graphics. All your screens seem to lack enemies though, but I guess it's fine since they all are from World 1. You know, I've always liked your levels but the screens tell me that you've become even better at this. The effort you put on each level can easily be seen. So I guess I finally found myself an episode to look forward to Keep up the good work and best of the luck!

I know you!

Blue Block Way is marked as World 1 Theme 1 Level 1 btw so it won't take long to get to this level, considering you feel like playing it in the normal game rather than the level cheatitor.

Now, I don't think there's a lack of enemies in the levels, given that I take the screens at spots focusing more on the environment and the way it's built, but yes, some screens do have only 1 or 2 enemies which might not be much. I'm particularily against the "more enemies = greater difficulty" mentality and try to work my way around it to provide puzzling areas, branching paths, trying to make it difficult to find all 3 stars and proceed to the next world in the first place (although I might change the stars-for-world mechanic and replace it with something new and have the stars for more important things (you know, SM3DW style kinda)). To wrap this up: Most of the screens have been taken in inconvenient places for a review on enemy placement. Also, just wait until you play the water levels! People complained about my underwater enemy spam (while I find it easy to memorize the patterns and avoid getting hit)!!!
*cough*

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*cough*
Ignore the dragon coin. That's from the version i submitted to knux's 7 months ago. There won't be any dragon coins in this episode.

Also, whoever liked Fire Flower Valley will probably like the level I'm currently working at. It reuses the music and 2 self-made tilesets.

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:05 pm**

Wow look very good

good job!

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2014 4:20 pm**

It's a very original idea to have a world map look like the levels, like in NSMBWii. I'd add some scenery though. Good luck!

Posted: **Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:32 pm**

icemario12 wrote:It's a very original idea to have a world map look like the levels, like in NSMBWii. I'd add some scenery though. Good luck!

You've kinda destroyed your own argument in this sentence.
Making something like in NSMBW, which was not my intention in the first place, is as far away from original as it gets. It might be that it hasn't been seen in SMBX yet, but that doesn't make it original.

icemario12 wrote:

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Let's just pretend I tilted the screen 90° for this section

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Shipwreck Shore is finished!
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Here's Checkerboard Castle. I tried to make it look more like an actual castle and less like a scrambled mess of rooms.

Not a whole lot of time until I'll release a demo including World 1's contents! Stay tuned!

Posted: **Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:09 pm**

I like the look of some levels, fish upside down, and thousands of custom graphics, all I can say is that ue is quite original

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:21 am**

Gosh, Emral, stop telling them everything.
I'm currently mid-progress through the Bonus Level for World 1 and ready to present to you what it'll look like:

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So here's the thing: Bonus Levels require a secret exit in order to be found and contain 5 stars each. They don't have any exit other than the warp you entered it from and each star is guarded by a different type of enemy. Considering there are quite a few different enemy AI's in the game and I can mix something up (Shy Guys + Snifits, Koopas & Beach Koopas, etc), I can present 50 different challenges to you (5 stars * number of worlds). The World 1 ones will include some of the most basic enemies there are and some gimmicks found in other levels of the world. World 2's secret level will probably revolve more around the different environments I can use. Anyways, what do you think? This is also officially the second to last level before I'll modify the game to be properly designed for the demo 1. The last level'd be 1-B-4 - ??? (Submerged Castle Level if you know what I mean)

Anyways, that's it from me for today. Screens will be updated once the demo is out.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:35 am**

Speaking of enemy AI, that's something I'd like to warn you about. FotMK didn't have any introduction of enemy AI past the first two or three worlds - the last levels were just filled with the same AI that had been already used.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 12:08 pm**

FanofSMBX wrote:Speaking of enemy AI, that's something I'd like to warn you about. FotMK didn't have any introduction of enemy AI past the first two or three worlds - the last levels were just filled with the same AI that had been already used.

You do realize that I've made several Pre-W3-Cancelled projects since FotMK and learned from that? Just don't freak out. I know what I'm doing and I won't spam goombas all over the place in World 8. Or will I?

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:01 pm**

Bonus levels sound great. I like that idea a lot. Will stars actually be used for anything in the episode?

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:29 am**

Pseudo-dino wrote:Bonus levels sound great. I like that idea a lot. Will stars actually be used for anything in the episode?

Yes.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:58 am**

Lookin' forward this, will there be original bosses?

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:03 pm**

Darkonius Mavakar wrote:Lookin' forward this, will there be original bosses?

I'll try to impliment custom 3-HP Boss fights, yes.
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Finally got this bitch of a tileset finished.
1-B-4, the Water Temple (original name pending), will be the final level of World 1 and last level I have to build until I can hand out a demo version. The tileset is rather big, having 72 16x16 tiles, some of them merging into 32x32 ones (all calculated in 1x1 pixels), and a boss door.

This is the boss door in it's original size (200% for smbx) (mario for scale)

This level will impliment the change of the water level, kinda like the water temple from OoT.
Still thinking of the boss, but one of the tiles I made gave me an idea...

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:43 pm**

Ahoy thar'! Time to take a look at this! I shall give the negatives first, simply because I put it first, and don't feel like moving it. If you'd like to hear the good news, then open the other spoiler first, if you wish.

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Now this is a pretty negative statement of my opinions so far, but now for what I like about this!

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Another thing, and this might just be me: I absolutely HATE transparent water (ironic, seeing as I am a pirate)! Everything behind the water looks clashy because the transparent water warps the colors to a point where it's the first thing I notice in any observation. To me, it's as if you completely took out the mask! But this may just be me.

This feels like it took FOREVER to type.

Posted: **Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:35 am**

Thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it.

CaptainCalamity wrote:she would send Mario out to beat up Bowser just because everyone's scared

I think I didn't elaborate on this well enough. Bowser performed an airship strike on the kingdom and peach sent out mario to scout if bowser's up to do anything evil. I shall update the story spoiler soon enough.
Here's an updated storyline:

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CaptainCalamity wrote:SMW paths instead of the SMB3 paths

*cough* SMW-styled W2 world map planned *cough*
I might make some custom paths though which are basic enough to come in two styles. Keep in mind the world map is still beta. Considering there aren't that many tiles I can replace I might have to, sadly, rework the world map entirely.

CaptainCalamity wrote: The lamps have no outline at all, which looks strange considering the pipes, bricks, and even the overworld blocks have SOME outlining, and what is up with that water bubble on the ground?

Your image tags are broken. I can still view them though.
The water bubble is spilled water that came together in form of a bubble. You might know this from when a water drop hits your jacket and it just stays there. I know, in this size it's not very logical, but neither is flowers being the element of fire, amirite?
I think I didn't give the lamp an outline because the bricks, water and enemies don't have one either. Either that or I forgot about it. I'll have a look at how it'll look with an outline when preparing the episode for the demo and compare the two variants.

CaptainCalamity wrote: I think they are a background

Yes, they're not ripe yet, so you can't use their power. I made a similar level to this in full SMB3 style and with depressed theme back in early 2013.

CaptainCalamity wrote:but their shading is odd. Like, in the petals of the flowers, the lighter part of the shading seems sorta blocky, and I'd expect a flower to be shaded to look rounder. Especially a tulip-SMW style flower.

It's the original graphic by tulip. I might change the shading a bit, though, as it, indeed, looks kinda blocky.

CaptainCalamity wrote:there's a tile error in the level

Screen was taken before I extended the section to the top and worked on that part. Don't worry.

CaptainCalamity wrote: The ? coins look... bland

Might change them up a bit. Give them more shading and all. Considering this will most likely be a level far into the game, world 8 or something, I won't continue it for a long time, though. It's not even in the folder for the episode yet

(so is Screen 6, but that's world 2 so yeah.)

CaptainCalamity wrote: The parts in the tileset made to look like giant brick blocks also look spammed on the left side.

I've got multiple tilesets to work with. Mixing them up a bit. Sometimes the bonus tileset is spammed, sometimes the brick block one, but overall, I think it'll make for an interesting design.

CaptainCalamity wrote:I think the mushroom's "cap" is a little low.

I copied the mushroom sprite's outline 1:1

CaptainCalamity wrote: I did notice an error with the tiles...
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A lack of texture? I didn't notice that in the week I was designing this after I didn't continue this level for about half a year!!!!! HOW COULD I!!!SDFAGREG
I'll have a look at it.

CaptainCalamity wrote:absolutely HATE transparent water

You'll hate the Water Temple.

Still, thanks for all the feedback. I'm currently designing the boss for World 1's Water Temple. It's going to be HUGE, but that's all I'm gonna reveal about it.

Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:38 am**

I moved from making projects to making individual levels. I might release the levels I've done for this with time. Just letting the 5 people who care know. This can be locked if you want, staff.

Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:41 am**

Aw please no... This was a very high quality project with lots of good graphics!

Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:47 am**

You obviously have no idea how I work.
This project hasn't seen any kind of progress since almost a month.
Cry about graphics. I have half of them released and the other half will be available after ToB6.
Cry about levels. My individual releases are of higher quality than project levels.

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