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[Winterous]

The top platform should be jump-through, so it can't be the spike platform.

You could have the spikes pop out when it's about to fall.

[mokesmoe]

I prefer the cloud moving up and down. The spike platform could lift people up, but it would not be as convenient as the cloud. Also I hoped we could incorporate moving platforms in some way, because there are tons of them in IWBTG, and the cloud does this better.

Also it couldn't lift people off screen, but thats not that major.

[Zelonod the evil pudding]

maby 5 seconds?

[Apoz]

The stage looks pretty good for now, but there's just one thing that bugs me : how are we going to do the music ? I think the game's soundtrack is composed only of copyrighted musics from old 8-bit games...

[-Frikman-]

the cloud and spikes are lookin good but i don't like the new ground tiles. they're too new for being iwbtg style. when i saw the firts draw it reminded me IWBTG instanly but the new one....

how are we going to do the music ? I think the game's soundtrack is composed only of copyrighted musics from old 8-bit games...

maybe the firts stage theme or a remix of that one.

[thewojnartist]

Are they cherries or apples? I wanna know so I can draw them.

BTW, I got dibs on drawing the Kid and the portrait of the stage.

Edit: As for the new tiles, I think that it's great, just the wrong colors. The old one had colors that reminded me of the game. Plus, it needs some diagonal lines too.

[-Frikman-]

cherries. and why are you asking if you can draw the kid and other stuff? just do it

As for the new tiles, I think that it's great, just the wrong colors. The old one had colors that reminded me of the game.

i think the same way. i can change the colors and the other platforms to look well too.

[-Frikman-]

"done". i still don't like the grass and the platforms look crappy but i think it's better than my last edit ^^U

[increpare]

I like how the requirement is that the cloud floats softly.  This looks reasonably neat (though the spikes look a little chunky?)

[Karuvitomsk]

The thing is, compared to mokesmoe's mockup, the ground/grass and platforms are actually way, way less saturated than what they are in IWBTG proper. I tried to go for a happy medium -- colors that are a little more true to the game without actually going that far and looking like ass.

Increpare, I tried to make the spikes larger than normal to kind of illustrate that relative to a character, say, The Kid, they're actually supposed to be taller. Though if I went that far it wouldn't've worked out anyway.

[-Frikman-]

you don't have to make them that taller. the kid is actually pretty small and i think he's going to be even tinier than lyle  .

(though the spikes look a little chunky?)

did nothing about it so yeah, they are.

[mokesmoe]

The spikes are completely over-sized in game, and this shows that.

Goodbye:
Most people consider them apples, however, a quote from Kayin says "They're more like giant cherries". Really they are a completely different type of fruit made up for the game called Delicious Fruit.
From TVtropes: (because I couldn't find the original)
"People eat Delicious Fruit. According to Kayin, they have to get them out of trees with sticks, in order to keep from getting gibbed, and then they have to boil them three times to remove all the poison."

[Karuvitomsk]

Spike tips come out of ground/ceiling for a second or two maybe before jutting out quickly and staying for about 5 seconds, then retracting. This happens randomly on either side, one side at a time.

Cherry/Apple/Delicious Fruit falls randomly every once in a while ala Death Worm, independently from the spikes but in correspondence to the lightning bolts on the other side. I.E.: neither the two spike sets nor the tree/lightning bolts can occur with each other -- it's one or the other. But a spike set can occur at the same time as either the tree or the bolts.

When I say the cloud floats "softly", I mean that it should float slowly and gradually slow to a stop at its lowest and highest points.

Blue squigglies on the bottom are either clouds or water, though I can't remember the instances of water in the game itself. Green in background is just a big old forest, with maybe The Guy's castle in the B/G? Blue on top are clouds.

[falsion]

Those spikes are too round. They don't look pointy or threatening enough. They don't invoke the same kind of fear in me as the pointy triangular ones in IWBTG.

I mean, just look at these things. There's something very unsettling about seeing perfectly triangular shaped spikes of death. You just know that they are going to mess you up bad.

[Karuvitomsk]

Heh, I'll fix that up in a second.

[falsion]

Also I'm aware that previous post was overly long winded but people must fear the spike.

Just the spike alone should strike fear into anyone who sees it. Anyone who plays this stage should have nightmares for weeks.

It's not IWBTG otherwise.

[Karuvitomsk]

[mokesmoe]

The outline one the spikes is not quite black.

Rolling spikes:

The wheels should be a darker grey, forgot to change it.

A warning would appear on one side, then spikes would pop out of only the bottom. The rolling spikes would rotate up out of the ground (with dirt particles flying) and pause for a second before rolling across the screen and falling off. (Or just rolling in midair off the side of the screen. That's what it did in-game, but falling would look better in Indie Brawl's more realistic style)

EDIT:
Only water in the game. The area above where you start has clouds on both the top and the bottom, so that would work fine.

One layer of the background should be a grassy and perfectly flat with trees, with the kids village on the left and the castle on the right.
(From the credits sequence)

[-Frikman-]

awesome but i still don't liking the floor colour. use the same of the platforms for god sake

[thewojnartist]

Since I now have a LOT more spare time as of today, I'm going to work on those sprites I promised. Expect to see them soon.