An homage to a movie franchise I loved as a kid
Hey there,
I'm slowly but steadily making progress on my new level, and I feel I might share some thoughts about it, so I've decided to make a post here. I'm also currently doing 2 things i'm not really good at, so I thought I might ask for some help.
But before I cry for help, let me talk a bit about the level first :).
I've tried something different from what I usually do : I've focused more on visuals and less on gameplay.
The idea was to make a short level whith a few platforming sections and a few puzzles, as an homage to a movie franchise I loved as a kid.
I'm not really happy with the current result, I can see flaws everywhere in what I've done currently. It seems that everything I had in mind is not as good as I thought it would be.
I hope I'll still manage to publish the level, as I went into a lot of troubles with this one (including losing my saved game data and 30 hours of work with it :) ).
So, I said I need help. In fact I'd like to have some help on 2 things. First, this level will contains some text, more than my usual levels do, and I'd like to have it written in proper english. As you may have noticed, it's not my native language, and I think I make a lots of mistakes.
There will not be a lot of text, but the introduction, and some clues will be in english, and I could use some help writing them. I don't have all the details I need in mind yet as the level is only 60/70% finished, but I have a good idea of what i want.
The second thing is drawing. I'm not really good at drawing, and it would be great to have some drawings in the level. I've already made some tests and they seems drawn by a 6 years old kid. I might need something like 8 drawings in the end, but only a few of them are already clear in my mind.
You may have noticed I'm avoiding talking about the subject and giving specific informations about the level right know. This is to give you the oppurtunity to leave this without spoiling the level if you don't want to.
If you think you can provide some help, or just want to see what I've done yet well, you just have to open the spoiler below.
Details! I guess you're not afraid to spoil the level if you read this. I'm working on an homage level to the Indiana Jones franchise. The level will consist in the exploration of a lava temple, with a few jumps here and a few puzzles there.
http://tof.canardpc.com/preview/72e9...6a2167d2f8.jpg
http://tof.canardpc.com/preview/5abb...b8ab412df3.jpg
There will be text in the introduction, and in clues found in the archeologists book. The drawings will be in the heroes book too, as clues. I've already written an intro and some clues, but they are more test than the real thing. You can see below one of the two intro pages and one clue :
http://tof.canardpc.com/preview/6068...f25dd49642.jpg
http://tof.canardpc.com/preview/fbaf...8eeafed2cf.jpg
Here is a picture of what I had in mind first while creating this book :
http://tof.canardpc.com/preview/8995...ab7fce662b.jpg
As I said, I've made 60/70% of the level, I still have to make the Good/Bad endings. If you want to try what is done yet, you can use my lockbox. To play the level, just play my lockbox (
http://vita.lbp.me/v/b2tbd ) and reproduce the following code
http://tof.canardpc.com/preview2/026...848dd2e961.jpg.
If you're online you should be redirected to the level. Everything is rough and you might have bugs, and the level is not finished. So try at your own risks. If you try it I'd love to have a feedback on what you saw/played.
If you think you can help in english/drawings, please leave a short message here (not in mp as I do not us them and read them often). For the text it will maybe be easier to discuss here, for the drawings as everything is not clear in my mind but if you think you can make someting that looks like the book from the movie I'd like to use them.
Thanks for reading :)