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The Thwomp Kingdom: ON A LONGER DELAY
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:13 pm
by The Thwomp King
Hey so maybe a few of you heard of this episode a good few years back, and it's been slow progression considering I've taken some long breaks from smbx, but I want to still try to get the job done, and I would appreciate any help I can get to make this a successful episode. If anyone is willing to help me out I'd greatly appreciate it. I have a lot of great ideas for this huge episode and I probably won't be able to complete it alone. Thank you so much!
UPDATE: Considering I began this project nearly four or five years ago when I was much more inexperienced at all of this (not that I'm too much better still :p) and haven't made too much progress due to me being on and off with activity (considering I was a member during the time the Knux forums were the dominate forums and right when redigit had to shut down SMBX because of Nintendo, and I've seen much has changed here and there), I'm highly considering restarting my episode with only my quality levels I produced from The Thwomp Kingdom episode returning to jumpstart progress
on it with a better story, use of stars, world map (which I went overkill on XD hahaha), etc.
If I were to do this, would anyone be of assistance there?
Current Designers:
The Thwomp King
Ghostly_Guy
Other Contributors:
Ludwig von Koopa (Production of a castle)
Dollarluigi (sent levels)
Beta Testers:
Suckerman7 GM
Screenshots:
Progress:
World 1 (Plains): 75% (Going through an editing process)
World 2 (Lava): 75% (Editing)
World 3 (Desert): 8%
World 4 (Tropical Islands): 0%
World 5 (Sky): 1%
World 6 (Forest and Swamp): 1%
World 7 (Mountains): 2%
World 8 (Factory): 1%
World 9 (Ice): 0%
World 10 (Cave): 0%
Bonus World: 0%
Short Cut World: SCRAPPED
Star Road Hub: 95% (Editing needed)
World Map: Completed But Needs Some Editing
For those interested in the themed levels I'd like to make, or have made for this episode:
Standard World Themes:
Plains
Volcano/Lava
Desert
Underwater
Sky/Athletic
Forest and or Swamp
Mountain
Factory
Ice
Cave/Darkness
Additional Standard Themes to Involve with the Main Worlds
Jungle
Boardwalk
Bridge
Haunted
Ghost House
Scary
Sewers
Brambles
Ruins
Frigate
Pyramids
Fortress
Castle
Tower
Palace
Tanks
Ships (Navy)
Airships
Sunken Ships
Random
Bonus
Theme Park
Mansion
Town
Additional Themes to Add to Standard Themes (Special Effects or Layers Required):
Autoscroll
Fog/Smog/Smoke/Blurriness (Makes it slightly difficult to see characters/enemies in the levels)
Black and white levels (characters are generally generally all black or all white)
Grayscale/Old Timey (may have retro or old-styled graphics)
Weather Effects (lightning, tornado, flooding, hurricane, earthquake, rain, meteor showers, etc)
Windy levels (goes with the tornado theme, or could just be heavy wind that can push the play left, right, up, or down)
Mazes
Multi-themed levels (two or more themes combined)
Minecart/Rollercoaster (shell-riding is the standard graphics set on smbx)
Vertical Levels
Escape Scenarios
Boss-Rush
Racing
LoZ Themed Levels
Invasion
Stealth/Hiding
Potentially more ideas will be puked onto here in the future. PM if you're able to help in producing Special Effects
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom (NEED LEVEL DESIGNERS AND EDITORS!!!)
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:21 pm
by Marina
You need to post screenshots of your project when you make a thread about it. Please contact a staff member with screenshots if you want this topic unlocked.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom (NEED LEVEL DESIGNERS AND EDITORS!!!)
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:47 pm
by bossedit8
Screenshots provided via request. Topic unlocked.
So far, it looks very nice and I do like the project so far... even know that there are some graphics missing and background objects that are lacky but oh well. It is on a work in progress kind of deal so yeah. Hope to see more of this.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom (NEED LEVEL DESIGNERS AND EDITORS!!!)
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:14 pm
by Erik
I can help you level designing, I'm quite good at castles.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom (NEED LEVEL DESIGNERS AND EDITORS!!!)
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:24 pm
by JupiHornet
Some advice...
Screenshot 1: The wood tileset doesn't work with that background
Screenshot 2: This looks really bad, don't mix so many tilesets like that
Screenshot 3: That tileset and that background don't work together.
Screenshot 4: This one looks pretty good, no complaints.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom (NEED LEVEL DESIGNERS AND EDITORS!!!)
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 7:45 pm
by The Thwomp King
Thank you guys for the advice, and yes I'm not the best with working with graphics so I could use help with finding things that look best with others. I'll take as much help as possible.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom (NEED LEVEL DESIGNERS AND EDITORS!!!)
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:03 pm
by Black Mamba
You should also use Paint.Net when making GFX because if you use MSpaint and save the file as a .gif, the picture gets grainy. 1x1 pixels are not desirable in any way. They make the rest of us look bad.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Potential Story and Title Cha
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 3:29 pm
by The Thwomp King
Yeah those are old graphics before I knew about Paint.net, I've just never changed them within the past couple years XP Haven't had the chance to really. Thanks though!
I'll add some new screenshots too with some newer levels I've been working on. Hopefully I can rework my older material to make it more enjoyable in the first two worlds.
And I have posted a few newer screenshots, of course I'm still working on reworking some stuff while enjoying making new levels for the episode.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 9:15 pm
by Alagirez
There is a cutoff in the 1st screenshot.
Now your level design has been increased. Good Job!
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 11:24 pm
by The Thwomp King
andialifbatara wrote:There is a cutoff in the 1st screenshot.
Now your level design has been increased. Good Job!
Yep I forgot to get rid of that screenshot since it's mad old. And thank you! If I can motivate myself to at least redo a couple more world 1 levels and world 2 for that matter too, then I can focus more on the new stuff I have yet to start in my project.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 2:05 am
by Witchking666
What are isalnds?
I should fix that...
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 4:09 pm
by The Thwomp King
That's just the typical tropical/water theme. What should you fix?
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 3:20 am
by Witchking666
Uhhhm
Maybe the spelling...
Im pretty sure we are supposed to say islands
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 1:43 am
by The Thwomp King
witchking666 wrote:Maybe the spelling...
Im pretty sure its islands
Sorry I misread what you typed. Sorry about that. XP hahaha
Yep I fixed it, so it should be good now. XD haha
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:47 am
by Suckerman7 GM
I can be a beta-tester.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:48 am
by The Thwomp King
Suckerman7 GM wrote:I can be a beta-tester.
You're hired! I'll pm you more about specifics later!
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 7:14 pm
by mariofan 64
I missed your vertical contest. Oh well...
To make up for it, I would like to help do a few levels. I'm good design, and I can show a pm to help show what I can do. I can't do much, but any levels I can do for you, I can have for me in my super-project. Only thing I have is a request.
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom UPDATE: Some New Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:51 am
by The Thwomp King
Yeah just pm me, and we can discuss things from there!!!
Re: The Thwomp Kingdom: ON A LARGE DELAY
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:36 pm
by The Thwomp King
Okay so I have decided that it will be best to hold this back as something special I'd like to do in the future as my kinda final episode instead. The project won't be given up on, but I will be more effective working on smaller projects first before this one comes. I appreciate everyone's support and I'll see you guys very soon with a future episode idea I have in mind.
