Trouble in the Canyons! *Spotlighted*

Trouble in the Canyons! **Spotlighted** by booXely
Somewhere deep within the mines, trouble brews...What could it be?

Trouble in the Canyons!

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My new, and first published level! I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did creating it, it was a blast to make! The level itself was inspired by Comph's All Mine, which is probably my favorite level. There's even a little reference to All Mine in the level (Don't worry, I asked for permission!) There are some secrets in the level, some of them are pretty well hidden. There are a couple Prize Bubbles you might not see and run into, so you might want to turn "Collect Prizes" to off, for those of you with the full Goody Bags. I can probably do about 5 F4F'S, first come first served. Thanks! :)

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Updates

-Reduced penalty for "Don't Miss" section to 5 shots
-Streamlined boss battle
-Re-did pipes
-Added more sound effects
-Slowed down red bars
-Made bottom of crate thock
-Fixed some visible switches
-Moved speech sequencer to avoid noise
-Synced electic bar in boss battle
-Finally fixed the race, huge thanks to damaz for figuring it all out!

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Pictures!

(Some of the lighting doesn't show in the pictures, they look better in the level!)

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NOTE:

This level has not been tested for multiple players, so until I get it fixed, expect to see logic, level boundaries, etc, while plaing with 2+ players.

NOTE 2:

As I believe most of the bugs have been exterminated from this level, I've stopped using F4F on this level, so if I left feedback on your level, you don't have to play mine unless you would like to. :)

Wow! Looks awesome! Ill play definately :D

Played this last night with you ;) I loved the whole design of the level, it was a good pace and it never seemed weird, if that makes sense :p The "All Mine" reference was hilariously funny, as I instantly reconized it righ away being a comphermc admirer myself. The part where you get sucked into the pipe was a great treat. Lighting and platforming was fun and a moderate difficulty. I loved the boss with the cyborg beaver. I was having fun the entire time he was trying to kill me :D Great level and this could make the spotlight very easily :boo:

Excellent level (although I didn't manage to complete it). The visuals are great, the choice of music is spot on, and the puzzles are really interesting. I did find the "Don't Miss" part rather challenging. Character design is also well done.

Good job.

F4F: Please play and place feedback on my level Time Bandits of the Holy Land. Thanx.

@Damaz

Thanks very much! I fixed most of the things that were wrong yesterday. (actually put the 2x player challenge stickers down :rolleyes:) Glad you enjoyed it!

@MicGorBachev

Thanks for the kind words! Yeah, the "Don't Miss" portion was a bit iffy for me, I didn't want people to just spam paintballs. If I get enough complaints I'll remove the penalty. By the way, why weren't you able to complete it? Was it a level bug, or just frustration of the difficulty?

Hey you have a nice level there. Played it on 2p and really enjoyed it. Love the MM like scenery and the joke about All Mine!. We suggest that the penalty for the dont miss part should come into effect every 5 missed shots. The one shot becomes annoying after awhile. Also you can hear the speech sequencer working during your character's cutscene. The elevator boss is kinda iffy on the left side. You really cant get a clear shot of bouncing off that jumpad because the electric bar comes out at about the same time as the pad. Also after its dead some of the bars still comes out and it killed us. Seemed like a cheap kill. Other than that, you have a real blast of a level. Will reccoment it to my friends for sure. 4 stars and a heart for now. :)

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Originally Posted by L1GhTmArE

Hey you have a nice level there. Played it on 2p and really enjoyed it. Love the MM like scenery and the joke about All Mine!. We suggest that the penalty for the dont miss part should come into effect every 5 missed shots. The one shot becomes annoying after awhile.

Good idea! That part of the level has been the source of the most complaints.

Also you can hear the speech sequencer working during your character's cutscene.

Hmm, I'll fix that, should be pretty simple.

The elevator boss is kinda iffy on the left side. You really cant get a clear shot of bouncing off that jumpad because the electric bar comes out at about the same time as the pad.

I'll see if I can sync it up so that doesn't happen.

Also after its dead some of the bars still comes out and it killed us. Seemed like a cheap kill.

I could have sworn I put a creatue brain on it... I'll do that.

Other than that, you have a real blast of a level. Will reccoment it to my friends for sure. 4 stars and a heart for now. :)

Thanks very much, means a lot coming from you! :)

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Did you happen to run into any problems playing with two people? I haven't been able to thoroughly test it with two people yet.

Nope no problems with 2 players. Nice 2p section btw. When you make some changes ill play it again. :)

@L1GhTmArE

I did fix the problems you pointed out, it should work alot better now. My only problem now is the audio cues in the "Don't Miss" section. The paint switches are still set to one paint ball, (Don't worry, I did make the penalty after 5 shots) so there's nothing telling you how many times you've missed... What type of display do you think would work best?

Great looking, challenging level with a lot of funny details. I loved the little bugs hidden in the crannies in the walls.

Here are a few things that bothered me slightly:

1. I don't have all the DLC that you used in the level and that popped a warning for me. Not entirely sure, but apparently this pops me up in the broken car scene, while the animation and dialog still is going on in the working car scene. Camera is switching back and forth between me and the previous scene until that scene is finished.

2. It is a bit tough to get out of the hole with the jetpack. I had to do it under the right angle to be able to land on the edge as the jetpack was auto-discarded.

3. The top layer of tallest platform to the right of the first paintinator is not glued to the platform.

4. The red rotating bars underground were kind of annoying, perhaps too hard. Because there is gas attached to the edges, it is difficult to spot the workings of this obstacle and it requires a very precise timing or a lot of luck to get across the fire and the bars combined. Perhaps the fires are a tad too much here. Also, the box that you can drag back under the bars to get to the beaver sticker, it gets stuck between the bars; I could not get it lose again, nor could I get upstairs anymore.

5. When a second player joins, mid-game, all the dialogs up till the point of where the first player is get triggered again. Also, the global light gets reset to the outdoors setting because of that. I cannot determine why that is. Just an observation.

6. I enjoyed the boss fight. The jumping is a great dynamic. However, I could only beat the machine gun platforms by dying a lot and hoping to in between get a few paintinator shots off. I might have missed the tactic here, though.

All and all a great level. Hearted! And thanks for reviewing mine. :)

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Originally Posted by Antikris

Great looking, challenging level with a lot of funny details. I loved the little bugs hidden in the crannies in the walls.

Here are a few things that bothered me slightly:

1. I don't have all the DLC that you used in the level and that popped a warning for me. Not entirely sure, but apparently this pops me up in the broken car scene, while the animation and dialog still is going on in the working car scene. Camera is switching back and forth between me and the previous scene until that scene is finished.

I'm not sure how to fix that without taking out all the prizes with DLC... Sorry

2. It is a bit tough to get out of the hole with the jetpack. I had to do it under the right angle to be able to land on the edge as the jetpack was auto-discarded.

No one else has complained about this, but I'll see what I can do.
3. The top layer of tallest platform to the right of the first paintinator is not glued to the platform.

Oops, someone else told me about that but I forgot to fix it... thanks!

4. The red rotating bars underground were kind of annoying, perhaps too hard. Because there is gas attached to the edges, it is difficult to spot the workings of this obstacle and it requires a very precise timing or a lot of luck to get across the fire and the bars combined.

I suppose I could slow them down a bit, I wanted the level to be slightly difficult though.

Also, the box that you can drag back under the bars to get to the beaver sticker, it gets stuck between the bars; I could not get it lose again, nor could I get upstairs anymore.

Ooh, I see what happened there. I forgot to change the glass bottom thock to avoid being hit by the bars.

5. When a second player joins, mid-game, all the dialogs up till the point of where the first player is get triggered again. Also, the global light gets reset to the outdoors setting because of that. I cannot determine why that is. Just an observation.

I think it's because the speech is set to perm switches... I'll see what I can do, should be an easy fix.

6. I enjoyed the boss fight. The jumping is a great dynamic. However, I could only beat the machine gun platforms by dying a lot and hoping to in between get a few paintinator shots off. I might have missed the tactic here, though.

You were mainly supposed to jump out and shoot it while it was not firing, but I'll slow down the sequence a little.

All and all a great level. Hearted! And thanks for reviewing mine. :)

Thanks very much!

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My responses are in bold Your level was great too, by the way!

I forgot to mention that I found the "Don't miss" shooting range very innovative. I can understand the dilemma for you, the creator, though; if the player would have a limited number of lives, he could turn frustrated at this obstacle. However, right now with unlimited lives, there is no risk either. (This goes for every level that has lethal obstacles for which the player has unlimited attempts, including my own levels)

I'd like to suggest an idea I was having. How about unlimited lives, but the reward of completing the challenge is greater the less lives are lost. For instance, every time the red gas pops up, a heavy object is lowered down a bit further, slowly crushing and destroying a pile of coins. When the player completes the shooting range, the remaining coins are released onto the player. This would create an incentive to make a great performance, while avoiding the frustration of limited attempts.

@antikris

I think I could implement some sort of system like this. I'll try to put something like this, thanks for the idea!

It's always nice to see a level of a longer length. It seemed like the level was very well thought out as everything seemed to flow together nicely. The platforming was great and it never got boring. There were quite a few fresh ideas in there which helped keep me interested throughout the entire thing. The simple yet stylized visuals looked fantastic and fit the level great; it really created a personality for itself. I honestly don't have anything critical to say about your level (and I usually do). Great job 5 stars and a heart.

Thanks very much! This level almost was a shorter one, I had to choose between big boss battle or longer level, and I thought I would be able to fit a decent boss battle in with my remaining thermo.

Interesting level. I liked the intro. The level had some good humor in it. Made me laugh a few times.

Like:
-That character was cool
-I liked how you tweaked some aspects of MM stuff (like the shooting the pink dots and mgs feel when the beaver's minions attacked)
-Beaver minions (on there own)
-The whole feel felt good and fit the level.

Improvements:
-Both of these are preferences but I would have liked to tap R1 once instead of hold it all the way on some parts. And 2nd the boss was kinda on the easy side. Maybe I got lucky timing or something I don't know

Overall was good level had gameplay scene before with a twist to match the level.:star::star::star::star:

@bmoney

Thanks for the kind words! On the elevators though, you don't actually have to hold, just up until you wouldn't be able to jump out anymore. I guess I could try to make it so you just tap it.

And on the boss, I had an epic boss planned out, but the thermo wouldn't let me. I'll be sure to leave room on my next level for a cool boss battle.

This level was very good, loved the visual style.

I got stuck at the very beginning, at the bomb puzzle and couldn't get any further. I'll play it again today and see if I can give you better feedback.

=)

@ Was it you just couldn't figure out what to do? A couple people had trouble witht hat part, I'm thinking about adding some hints.

Yea, got confused. Hints would be good.