BlackWolfe's LittleBigIdeas

Wizard's Spire is as done as it's going to get. I reached a point last night where the thermo was so full, I couldn't add a single sticker. With the thermo at that level, I discovered that one of my wobble bolts had somehow migrated a few pixels, causing one of the enemies in the level to decapitate itself after a few seconds of normal animation.

I attempted to move the offending bolt back into the proper position, and the thermo wouldn't let me -- it acted as if the bolt were a ...

I've finally worked out a boss that fits in the space left, and the mechanics are in place. All that's left is the difficulty slider/health bar and the expository dialogue before the fight. I'm down to an eight of a thermometer left -- this is going to be CLOSE -- but it's looking like everything will fit!

AND THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE!

Actually, I don't think anybody said that. Still...

I'm working on a number of levels right now. First of all, Wizard's Spire is on hold. The area left for the final boss is half as tall as I wanted, but I've hit the level's ceiling, and I need some time to rethink the boss fight because of that.

What I'm going to talk about in this blog, however, are PSP Create mode glitches.

I have a hard and fast rule: Never use a glitch you don't understand. If you don't know why the glitch does what it does, then don't use it. ...

Thought I'd share some screenshots of Wizard's Spire as it was a day or so prior to my taking a break from Create mode. So here we go!

Note: Apparently, at some point in taking the pictures, I changed resolutions. The pics look better smaller, but oh well.


Meet Satchel the Sage. He's been living in the shadow of the Spire for quite some time, and you can teleport over to his cave ...

REMINDER: This is for PSP -- I don't have a PS3 yet. Sorry.

Stage Three: Wobble bolt problem solved, but I may need to tweak it some more.

Stage Four: Confirmed complete and stable. WOOT!

Stage Five: Complete, and people are going to hate me for it. Stickers marking location of the traps, but one of them is kind of hard to see.

Stage Six: Complete, but right now the doors open to reveal a big empty area.

Stage Seven: ...