Icarus Type Alpha

[pirmaut]

Hi Dear Friends!
After two months of hard work I am proud to present my first LBP2 level!
My level is not just another platform, but something different and original:
I like to call it "Organic Side scroller Shoteer".

If you play it you will find original creatures and aliens and huge bosses to defeat.
Bonus and Power to pick up,Charge Plasma,Laser,Charge Health,Smart bombs and an original "Paralaxx zone and Normal zone"

I think you'll like.

http://lbp.me/v/zdzzm4

[pirmaut]

No one has yet tried my level?
I'd like to know your opinion.
I absolutely do not want to brag, but I think if you do not play it you're missing something special.
Of its kind I do not think there's anything similar so well done.
I await your own opinion.

[nachthai]

Queued. Really looking forward to playing this tonight. Will get back to you

[Behonkiss]

Queued. Looks amazing from the screenshots.

[Kanada Ten]

Brilliant work. You've got to get pictures here, people really need to see how amazing this looks. It plays great, too: fine tuned controls, good hints, quirky voice-over.

[Loius]

I have a really itchy trigger finger. At least half of the times I tried to fire a charged shot, I instantly destroyed it with the normal shot I fired right after.

I don't like that I can only fire X shots at once, and that the old ones disappear half a screen away from me, while if I stop shooting they fly all the way across.

It's also weird (though not bad) that I can fling my shots up and down by moving (since the emitter isn't set to ignore parent velocity).

Other than that it was a really awesome experience which I yay'd and hearted.

[nachthai]

A truely awesome level, I had great fun playing it! I didn't get all that far but I find it well balanced and great fun. I also liked the changes between normal and danger zones!
This is staying in my queue because it has alot of replay value. Well done!

[pirmaut]

Thanks for the compliments!
To create a level of this kind I can assure you that it was not at all easy!
Especially to manage the cameras and the scrolling of the screen.
For the great shot I could match it with another button on the controller
That would not be a big problem.
For small laser gun that moves when you move icarus was something decided by me.
Regarding the laser shot, if fired fast at half screen disappearing,I should remove the option "delete the old shot",but after I should have breaks in shooting and I should increase the number of shots,but I do not know why, perhaps for lags,collisions with the monsters are no longer accurate.
I think I have claimed both the game engine and i think can not do better.
however where possible I will try to fix those things.
For the extravagant voices,cause I'm Italian and my English is not perfect.....eheheheheheh
anyway thanks to everyone for having played and for the compliments.

Sorry for my bad english.

[shropshirelass•]

This is a brilliant level. Side scrolling shooters are not usually my kind of thing but this one is just amazing. The visuals are stunning and the gameplay (what little I saw of it - I'm terrible at this type of level!) was varied and interesting enough to keep even a casual player like me hooked. This deserves a lot more attention.

[Bloo_boy]

I agree with above post^, Just saw the pics on lbp.me and wow, the organic theme reminds me so much of Contra (Amazing game) I definatly will check this out, a must play for me

Amazing pics, anxious to try this out next time on lbp2

[pirmaut]

I agree with above post^, Just saw the pics on lbp.me and wow, the organic theme reminds me so much of Contra (Amazing game) I definatly will check this out, a must play for me

Amazing pics, anxious to try this out next time on lbp2

Thank you.
You now can see it in my youtube channel....

This is the video.

[mistervista]

Great level Pirmaut. It's really well designed and everything works pretty much as well as is possible considering all the bugs in the game in general. To even get something this advanced to work at all is a major accomplishment.

I like how you did the different stages and the various enemies. I must admit I let a lot of them get away but that's just me not being very good! There aren't many levels I actually replay but this one will be one of them. It's great fun and good to look at. An excellent start to your LBP2 portfolio and I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

[Unexpecter]

Looks pretty cool...will try it tonight and leave some feedback ingame...

[Flatbadger]

The screenshots look very cool! I have this queued up for later......
on first thoughts it reminds me of the old R-Type scroller, but I'm sure its way better!
cheers.

[Siljin]

Very cool level. I'm not a big shooter fan but I can compliment you on the hard work you put in for this level.

I had a couple of suggestions.

- It would be nice if the charged shoot didn't stop after hiting one enemy. Maybe it could take out a few enemies before disapearing. You might have it disapear after one hit so that it wont desimate bosses though. It made me not use the charged shot untill the bosses.

-Maybe some custom music would be cool

Heres a couple of my levels if your interested:
http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/sho...tor-intro-Film
http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/sho...php?48580-Run!