Originally posted by pikaguy900

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Here's my opinions:

1: EWW!!! That screen makes you lose automatically! Take those vines away and try to get them sticking out from behind those bushes!!! You don't know how many n00bs do that to SMW! They don't care that it looks terrible, and makes a level way too easy!
2: Now how will the player get past that? Oh right, they pick up the spring. My bad. It's so-so.
3: ...Boring.
4: Interesting... I did something like that once, where each level is "connected", like when you exit, say, Level 1, you see a pipe, which tells you that Level 2 is underground, and when you enter it, you come out of a pipe.
5: That caption of yours confuses me.
6: You lose AGAIN. At least make the background look like you're underwater!
7: My gosh.
8: That doesn't look like an air duct to me.

I'll play it later, but looking at the very first screen, I don't think I want to. O_o

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Originally posted by ibz10g

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That really isn't too bad.

@Pikaguy900: I think you need to work on your constructive criticism.

But with the 1st screenshot, It would be better if you had like undergrowth on the foreground. Also, change the background. Otherwise I think it's just fine.

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Originally posted by pikaguy900

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Originally posted by ibz10g

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That really isn't too bad.

@Pikaguy900: I think you need to work on your constructive criticism.

But with the 1st screenshot, It would be better if you had like undergrowth on the foreground. Also, change the background. Otherwise I think it's just fine.

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Hmm? You're right. Sorry about that, FirePhoenix. I couldn't help myself...

Now, let me try again:

1: You really need to work on this more. Let's see... Too many vines, some just hang in midair, and some cut off at the bushes. Here are some suggestions:
A: Make ExGFX to make it look like the vines are going into the background and coming back into the foreground, and make the vines above the bushes go behind the bushes (or come out of them, whichever).
B: Get rid of the Switch Palace-ish background. Put some vines in the background, too. That'd make it look better.
C: Change the Black Piranha Plants into something more plant-ish, like Venus Fly Traps (Not Venus FIRE Traps).
2: I just played this level, it's great, but did you know that sprites can go through the corner edges? Try to fix that, please.
3: There's really nothing wrong here.
4: Same as before, but in the very next level, those same platforms on the right are red. I don't exactly like that, so try to use custom palettes to make them "dark". Red just seems... creepy.
5: This was a funny level. ...Yes, that's it. There's nothing wrong here, except the thought that maybe those pipes change Mario's size... Creepy. So technically, nothing's wrong there.
6: Now that you've mentioned what goes on in that level, it's alright, but it'd look better if you could find a way to change the background when the level "floods". Or, you could use Layer 3 tides, but when you scroll the screen up and down, the water level changes with it, so... I'd try not to use that...
7: Again, nothing wrong here.
8: Now, let me explain what I meant last time: When I think of air ducts, I think "hollow metal things", not hollow stone things. You could leave it as it is (it's fine the way it is, it just doesn't look like an air duct that much. It looks more like a hidden passageway), or try and make some ExGFX of metal. That'd look better.

I hope that's better.

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Originally posted by FirePhoenix0

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Don't worry too much, criticism helps make things better.

I know about the corners in the switch palace levels. That's because they are only rotations and not actually new objects. I haven't figured out how to change that yet so it'll stay like that for some time.

Which ones are the fly traps? I don't know them by name.

I could try for more BG editing on the river level. I did a little, trying to use cloud corners as bubbles but I don't know if that cuts it.

I understand what you mean by air duct. I'm not even sure that's what I was thinking of when I created the level. I'll change it to secret passage because that's really what it is.

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Originally posted by pikaguy900

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Originally posted by FirePhoenix0

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Don't worry too much, criticism helps make things better.

I know about the corners in the switch palace levels. That's because they are only rotations and not actually new objects. I haven't figured out how to change that yet so it'll stay like that for some time.

Which ones are the fly traps? I don't know them by name.

I could try for more BG editing on the river level. I did a little, trying to use cloud corners as bubbles but I don't know if that cuts it.

I understand what you mean by air duct. I'm not even sure that's what I was thinking of when I created the level. I'll change it to secret passage because that's really what it is.

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Are you seriously saying you've never seen any venus fly traps in stores? I mean the real-life ones, not Mario enemies. The closest thing to a venus fly trap in Mario's world is the Venus Fire Trap. Also, I just finished the demo. It's great. Especially the special secret you hid...

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Originally posted by ZTaimat

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And there's still a magical force called "Gravity" in all the good hacks.

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Originally posted by KPhoenix

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...and majorly to add some ExGFX to your hack.

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Originally posted by FirePhoenix0

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My goal for this game is to show that you don't need ExGFX or fancy graphics edits to have a great game.

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Originally posted by pikaguy900

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Look, if you're not going to use ExGFX to put vines in the background (what you'd do is take a tile of the BG and overlap a vine tile ontop of it in a tile editor, then take away some of that vine and round out the ends), then don't use them at all. Seriously, it doesn't look right with them just hanging like that. Or, do something else: Change what the vines look like. Make them thinner, and make them all hang from the ceiling, so it looks like vines are coming out of the floor/ceiling. Though, you'd have to find a way to make those vines appear on the floors, walls, and ceilings, so it's really a plant-infested house.

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