Sackrificed - MM Picked! My First!

[Morgana25]

http://lbp.me/v/zwhry7

The actual level is here: http://lbp.me/v/zwhr7g



It's been a long time coming but I'm finally happy with it.








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Many thanks to: Yarudark, emoguy, dajdaj03, Bremnen, bagheadinc, inanmiacy, claptonfann, Jaeyden, comphermc & everyone who helped playtest. Thanks for sticking with me when I started speaking in tongues.

[Hoplyte]

looks splendid, Q'ing

[Laharl]

PFFFFFT!!!!

Morgana made a level!? I must make haste and try this! Seriously. Maybe you'll even inspire me to not play WKC and start making levels. (And so you wont delete me off your friends list X_X) But that's not important! Morgana made a level. I have to go play this.

[fullofwin]

Very funny...this is why I never go on vacation. The actual level has some great platforming and is just beautful...really nice lava falls. Between this and Wizard it has been a good/fun day for LBP.

[shawneboi]

Just finished playing this one, and I must say that you have done it again. Your expert use of lighting and material combination create one of the most visually breathtaking levels ive seen thus far. And the platforming and Egg searching is fun to top the whole thing off! I will be back for more...especially now that I have the impervious pass and can now get those bubble combos i noticed below...

Thank you for this one!
Shawn

btw...thanks for playing through my level with comph to make that vid...it is great!

[jnstin]

Looks great. I'll queue it up for later.

[midnight_heist]

Some fun platforming in here, thanks for that. Visuals were pretty like always.
I have it queued again to have a go at the fire run.
Those bubbles in the lava were so confusing on the first play! Have you considered only emitting them if the sticker switch is activated?
I got 13 eggs. Does the ending change if you don't grab any?
Revenge of the thick layer foreground strikes again, but that's the way you build I guess. Nothing I can do to change your mind on the subject?

EDIT:
Understandable.

[moonwire•]

I played it and it was amazing, though I am surprised you managed to finish it between all the food-talk Oh, and I have claimed the 1st position on top of the scoreboard as well for now Yay! Must mention though I realized I had switched off 'collect community prizes' a little too late so I had to play it again to get it... Eventually I will get an even better score

[comphermc]

Fun little level, Morgana. It's not without its little niggles, but I think another week with it would have driven you bonkers!

The opening movie is darn-near perfect, and the level badges are great. I've said everything else I needed to say in-game with my review.

[Morgana25]

Thanks everyone for the plays and the kind words.

Those bubbles in the lava were so confusing on the first play! Have you considered only emitting them if the sticker switch is activated?
I got 13 eggs. Does the ending change if you don't grab any?
Revenge of the thick layer foreground strikes again, but that's the way you build I guess. Nothing I can do to change your mind on the subject?

That's a good point about emitting the bubbles. I could. I think I went with them in plain sight as a teaser to play again in firepoof mode. So people would understand that there were places you could go in that mode you can't go in regular mode.

There are 15 total eggs. Each number has a unique line the Mama Phoenix says if you collect that number. If you collect no eggs the final cutscene is skipped and you don't get the sticker. I figured if you at least tried to find some I'd give out the sticker. I'm too easy about that sort of stuff lol.

I am aware of the frustration of front layer glitch in platforming levels. I tried to make it pretty obvious where you could and couldn't jump because that drives me nuts too. I don't think I'll stop using the glitch though, it just brings another level of depth I can't resist.

Fun little level, Morgana. It's not without its little niggles, but I think another week with it would have driven you bonkers!

The opening movie is darn-near perfect, and the level badges are great.

I think your're right - I had to get it out or go nuts. lol. The badge phoenix shape Bremnen did for me Many thanks to him. The font is from your level so thanks for that too. The opening movie was a lot of fun to put together and your fine tuning and cleanup on the more neglected areas really helped polish it up. Dajdaj03 had a lot of influence in there too (birds, music, posters & general artsy genius advice.)

Played it, loved it, yay'd it, hearted it. The whole thing was excellent, and I love the eggs as secrets being given a part to the story later. I also replayed the level using the fireproof option, and it makes the level tons of fun even though every possible way of dying pretty much disappears. Nothing to fault, and I like how you don't tell us how many eggs there are compared to how most levels state the number of secrets they have lately.

Thanks! The fireproof mode idea just hit me in the car on the way home from work one night. I spent weeks trying to get it to work using bots and it all was going ok then I discovered a problem with bubble collection that I couldn't solve. Jaeyden gave me the solution to how to do the level without using the bots and it worked great!


I'm so glad people seem to be enjoying it! Feels great to actually have a level under my belt in LBP2!

[OmegaSlayer]

Nice to see you back
Queued for the future

[Moonface]

Played it, loved it, yay'd it, hearted it. The whole thing was excellent, and I love the eggs as secrets being given a part to the story later. I also replayed the level using the fireproof option, and it makes the level tons of fun even though every possible way of dying pretty much disappears. Nothing to fault, and I like how you don't tell us how many eggs there are compared to how most levels state the number of secrets they have lately. Opening movie was really nice too.

[dajdaj03]

Hey, already told you that I love this level!

I love the volcano theme and you did a great job on all the lava effects and the scenery.
And with a funny intro movie (oh Barbara...), and good platforming, we can only enjoy it!

For me, we kinda lack of "classic" platforming levels on LBP2, so this level fills the void a little and in the best of ways!

Also thanks for mentioning me, even though I dont feel I did much...

[Maxi]

I WAS playing it, until I was dragged out of my room for a haircut.
I loved what I saw, especially the little birdies.

[talbot-trembler]

Loved it.

The atmosphere was brilliant as always, and the platforming exceptional. As if we'd expect anything else, well done!