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[Tokinsom]

Toriko that is smexy but dont you think youre using too many door/hatches?

Yep. I didn't know how to make a level editor when I built this monstrosity, so hidden paths / destructible tiles were pretty much out of the question. I think there are like 10.

Tokinsom, make it so that you have to complete this level in a single run with one hit death and no continues or save-points.

[Alec S.]

One of the levels from Venusian Vengeance with descriptions of the areas.  When designing the levels, I worked them out on paper first, which forced me to be able to describe each section of the level, leading me to make each section unique in some way.  There are some areas I didn't label here to save time, but they are generally playing around with some of the other elements I've introduced earlier in the level/game.

[SpaceFish]

I made a pack of levels for super meat boy called Remnants before the official level editor was out. Check them out in the link below!

  http://supermeatboy.com/forum/index.php/topic,687.0.html

This chapter was actually featured for the xbox version of super meat boy.

[ChevyRay]

This topic is awesome, I didn't know it existed.



Just got the basic layout/form of an island to visit in a little exploration game I've been dickin' around with lately. It's a mechanic's house on a floating island, so there will be lots of propellers, shops, a stack of wood, a chimney, and other things added to take up the empty blocks of space and detail it out more.

[Alec S.]

Posted a video where I do a running commentary on the first level of Venusian Vengeance:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHtCL4LriBo

[baconman]

Some level outputs of my basic level chunker prototype, with secret passage generation being the colored lines in the maps. These will cross alternate with flipped concepts (3 entries on the left, one exit/boss on the right) in the final outcome.

What all kind of game(s) can you envision these being?











...which will actually "play out" like this:

[sublinimal]

Does that thing output images where I think it outputs them?

[baconman]

?? They're just PrintScreens, resized. The outputs are the level layouts themselves. Each screen-chunk is really 720x480, I just didn't enable views, so as to see what the entire level layouts would turn out like.

It's not as absolutely refined as the one I'd like (which takes this kind of fundamental design, but combines it with some more elaborate stuff like curves and inclines, by creating a custom tilegrid), but it'll get something barebonesy going at least. One could even consider it simplifying some design variables, even.

[Lynx]

It's clearly a water flow schematic and you're a daring plumber who has to dive in, fix the pipes and redirect water to critical chambers, while fighting oversized sewer-dwelling crocs and zombie goldfish that got flushed down the drain and are out for revenge!

 

[esselfortium]

A Doom deathmatch level I handled the visual design for, from SpaceDM9. The layout heavily emphasizes kinetic vertical movement, trick-jumping, and three-dimensional paths. I came up with the holographic cyberpunk theme for the visuals initially as a way of working around limitations of the Doom engine, but it quickly grew into something more than that.

[7Soul]

This topic needs more love /)('3')(\

Procedurally generated tower climb:



The character always run, and only turn around when he hits something. I had a similar project a while ago and it only had solid platforms, and it was really hard and I couldn't think of a way to generate levels in a way it wouldn't create impossible levels

This time I thought of 3 things that solved the problem, and also made the game challanging instead of hard.

First are the brown platforms which are 1 way passages (only up) so you always have space above you to jump.
Second, you can hold the jump button for a while to extend your air time, adding a lot more control and precision to your jumps
Third, you have a power meter divided in 3 parts, when at least one is filled you can perform a flight move, which makes you go straight up for a while, going through any obstacle. The bar fills over time and when you collect potions.

Now I've playtested the game tons of times and I noticed I never died from bad platform placement. Most times I could look back and see where I made a mistake, or what I could do to have avoided that death

[Udderdude]

There really should be another thread for procedural levels, as dumping a bunch of images of levels your generator pumped out isn't nearly as impressive or interesting as a well designed level that was created from scratch and by hand.  Especially if the level is for a puzzle game and has a thought out solution which a proc. generator could never create.

Anyway, here's some levels from my upcoming game Mastery.

[todd]

Not a very complicated design but it gets the player familiar with the screen wrap.

[Del_Duio]

Hi guys, Udderdude pointed me here and I would love to show you my Metroidvania map design for the first Hasslevania game. This .png is very big so probably the best way to view it would be to save as / to your desktop and do it that way.

And if you want to try the game out, it's free and here: http://dxfgames.com/

Thank you!

[Friend]

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