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Wake up, new jetpack map just dropped.

What's wrong?

Nothing, Nehr likes jetpack.

: )

i think u need remove that all will do skip.

Ok

i didnt sure but if u have a lot of speed u can miss some unfreeze like this. im testing on low speed but speedruners will say u thx if u fix it ig. just dont put freeze tile next to unfreeze

why this?

There used to be a finish line there, but it was forgotten.

i mark for u all possible "skip unfreeze" not sure but i tihnk better fix it

Okay thanks, I'll fix it now.

ok, waiting.

Checking this out later tonight :3

Oh, I thought it didn't go

i dont see any changes

ok, i see, u only remove this.

I changed everything there

Still have the same problems?

1 two is enough 2 u removed cp

u can join to my server if u wanna. we test before upload here

Want to

looks like u dont get what i mean here. flw me by my nickname

The server has not yet responded

i find it easier to play with more desaturated and higher contrast colors

i kept failing simple parts with the current design

I don't like dull colors and contrast

I'll be uploading a new version soon

for me map is redy. i think design is a little bit confusing, gameplay is fully redy for me. for me it's solo 1-star

Wanted to say that this name is already used by a unique map and I'd rename it to avoid confusion, but I am the one confused: https://uniqueclan.net/map/Skying%20in%20the%20Fly

fly into the sky skying in the fly

same?

They differ, I see no point in changing

They are the same picture

You wouldn't skip the unfreeze (unless u went straight into tele in the same tick). You will do like freeze jump and come out from unfreeze.

u will skip, jump just dosent work.

I remember unfreeze is not skippable with speed?

it is

There is flying in the sky tho

Thats why the other map was changed to skying in the fly

And the message states he „wanted to say… but got confused“. So he knows its not same name

I don't think it will cause confusion since we are in ddrace I think

There you can easily skip the speedcheck making it useless, I have nothing against small skips like this but the part as it should be played is bad game design anyway cause starting from the left gives you too much speed making the part HARDER than the skip I would either thicken the freeze on the right to force players to use the left area and making the skip impossible or delete the left area, both works ig it's up to you on how you want your map to be played

Same goes for that part you can easily skip but it's less of a problem cause the normal way doesn't punish you for doing it right, it's more an esthetic choice for me

Also it's a solo map, put totele on the ground & a single one is enough

And this feels a bit awkward too, you have to stop for no real reason and you don't need speed for the next part despite the big gap on the left, here's a suggestion on how you could make it more interesting while keeping the same kinda movements

overall pretty cool short jp map

I won't test the design cause I want to only focus on the gameplay now & idk shit about it but I agree with cammo that better coulours would serve the map, rn it's hard to see

I left this so that if you can quickly pick up speed again when falling

And I'll fix this

I'm sorry if I'm not writing well, I'm just using a translator

I don't know what else to add to make it look better, but I made darker sides of the frieze so that it was clearly visible

I'm not very good at map design

Thank you, it's nice

Is it better that way?

Please drop your tiles, they are beautiful

please do it

Ok

the audio source doesnt have to be this big, you can disable pan and increase falloff

plus the song itself can be looped better and compressed

this map still hurts my eyes

change your bio on this server or i'll have you removed. thanks.

Ready

Make it darker?

the background yes

and the freeze tile itself blends in with the background

Pls only keep thr audio at spawn

nobody wants to hear the loop the whole time they go thru the map, at spawn is enough

Btw i would just remove the checkpoint, whole map can be done in 1 try and having only two checkpoints feels a bit weird imo (unless u rly want it)

I did everything you asked

Why are you ignoring???

you shouldnt really ping testers to come test your map, you should be patient your map isnt the only map in testing

yoor1kk maybe

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1378888171424579605/1379647092695502848/bounce.gif

i think that many testers have jobs and families, and they don't have the time to constantly sit in discord and respond to

maybe maybe

Please stop pinging testers. We all do this in our free time and sometimes it's just a little slow.

gameplay is fine on ur map if u didnt change it, but like i said before ur design have problem for eyes.

u need fix that

I fixed it and sent it a long time ago, no one wants to watch

this platform doesnt have unfreeze marked, idk if its useful

also i did a run of this map

its qol unfreeze no need to mark it.

Yeah thats why i was unsure whether he should or not mark it

seems fun

yea

I would speedrun this

Last part is gay af

Thats why i lost time

Send ghost instead i need smth to race up with

I didnt save it

The map hasn't been released yet, and you're already speedrunning it

thats average

Yeah and already found a cut

just changethe design and itll be released

What is everything that they told me, I'm waiting for them to look

Where is

I would remove the 🟥 unfreeze and add 🟦

this is not needed

i say extend that part about 20 more tiles into kill

Literally the fact that you go into cp2 and get into tele

but dont change that

thats alr

You should add a small offset in y not to have the border repeating at the top (blue) You didn't consider every screen resolution (red) The colors are too bright, especially the center (green)

the color of the freeze in the final zone is not the same as the one in the map and there is no mark for the teleport

Please remove the animation in the background and add parallax instead, it makes us feel dizzy right now

it doesn't really matter but your time cp skip 5 ... -> 4 -> 6 ->...

Please use the grid with proper ratios and avoid masks when you have very few layers

be coherent, delete the freeze in the teleport in the final zone

You could have a single quad instead of 2

The images should be at 2^n format to fit the grid

Why use a color envelope when you can edit the quad corners?

This is much more comfortable to watch and play like that

You used too many groups for nothing, see my screenshot to see what you could be gathered. Also please move those 4 layers (blue) into another group, leave the game group for entities

Looks kind of bad

It's easier for me to use envelope than this

They're positioned like this, temporarily, when the map is ready, I'll move them to another group

It's easier for me this way

I don't translate this message well, I don't understand what it's about

They are the same

Yes mb, just need to mark the tele

That seems to be all

The colors may not be chosen very well

dude pings em 4 times and feels the need to include another ping

My discord doesn't work without VPN, but it lags with it and sometimes I don't see that I sent messages

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design bug at the start.

Use color picker and try to manually set the color for each quad, there arent all that many of them, then you should be able to remove most of the envelopes and that dark overlay

you didn't change what pipou said about colors, i don't know if color in envelop instead of quad rly matter,

after i changed everything manually and removed some quads i gained around 200-300 fps

tho envelopes imight not hit the performance that hard its mostly the overlay and some other stuff

you can also shrink some those sun bars and main background quad a bit

you could also try lowering the resolution of this quad as its kinda high for its size

and glow on this quad kinda cuts off at the image borders

resulting in it looking kinda rectangular

This quad on the other hand could use a highier resolution because it looks really blurry even with default zoom

corners at the end

I think the brightness and saturation of freeze outline and tele is too high making it kinda hard on the eyes

I also think that you could try using some different kind of generic_unhookables or a whole different tileset because the current one doesnt match the style of the map

And what Pipou said about making the city be parallax instead of moving might be worth a try

Since the brighter layer of the city is moving slower you could also make the quads themselves smaller to make the depth more convincing

could also be done by making the front city layer a bit bigger instead

this bottom quad is too small

a little trick i like to use for these scenarios is instead of making a new layer for this bottom quad i go to the layer where regular quads are and use the slice tool on it

then you can sclice some chunck of the original quad which is entirely filled and get a shape like this

now you can place it instead of that quad and have everything be in the same layer instead of having to manage a new one

Looks better?

Yep

Due to the fact that I made the logo resolution larger, it began to weigh more

yeah but you dont need to mke the resolution bigger

need a render the map i think

in files

I was told to enlarge it as it was too soapy

enlarge doesnt mean upping the resolution your logo will be just fine at lower resolutions

Map size breakdown :mag:

ye i guess reducing the res just a tiny bit wont hurt

but it looks way sharper in game now

i also like the new tiles and overall colors arent as hard on the eyes

I tried to find something that you would like : )

isnt "watermark" an unused image ?

one of the watermarks is unused

Forgot to remove

there is some line between quads

not sure if its caused by the image istself or because of tex u v change but you can fix it by changing the order of the bottom quad to 6

so its in front of the city quads

the back town quad has a para y set to -1 which makes it look really confusing in game

you can just set the para Y to 0 since its like that on the other layer too

shouldnt the tinier logo be ontop of the freeze instead of behind it

same with credits

but imo it would be even better to go with both para X and Y set to 1

since the map is small anyways it shouldnt cause much issues

then you could set both para X/Y on the other layer to something like 2 or 3 and the feeling of depth should feel better

then logo will show in front of the player, not sure if he wants that

tho i guess he could just make it in another layer

yeah

the animation of the front town doesnt loop perfectly

the start and and points should be in the same position

I can't fix it, when I was doing parallax to the city, it broke

😔😔😔

you can see this by enabling show info option here

or by pressing ctrl+i

then you can drag one of the green nodes

Thank you

and basically put it in the other green node

so they stack

tho since these arent on a grid it might be harder

i guess you can also just manually change the values in envelopes and view changes with show info option

I've already done everything

good map when rls

only have one totele here or else its random = bad for speedrun

id also make the first tele blue tele IMO so u can keep speed on start but up to u

I don't think it's going to speed up the speedrun very much, but I'll do it

Only I can't be at home right now

When will they look at my map😳

30/02

I actually tested it long time ago but forgot to say anything about it, found a few things

u could probably change cps to the smaller variants, so it's not gonna look messy(just looks kinda bad sometimes) wherever it's possible, if not - completly fine

also found this thing, when ur trying to speedrun skip this part u are bumping into this tps

something like that i guess and thats it

didn't tested it tho in long time, but I probably tested the last version of the map anyway, just found this screenshots

cool map, simple, fun to speedrun

u forgot to leave only 1 cto for each tele as well

• ^wee's notes

what is all this for? Its organized pretty messily

Oh, I threw the wrong version, I just removed it

(ignore this)

1 cto is enough for both of them

cuz it's solo

tested it again tho, can't really say anything, cool map, simple, fun, idk why it stays still

a long time last jetpack map was released so seeing this one is actually cool, small imo, but it's ok

the size might be also problem (file size)

ye just fix that cto stuff. i also mentioned it a long time ago

I changed the logo and the map increased in weight is it critical?

i fixed the weight of the map

how did u make your logo?

town, sun -> HD

My friend made it for me

idk if its matter but for me its redy too.

Tested it again, ain't found anything else, so ig gg

Optimized:

Does that mean shes coming out soon?

It's ready for release

can it be released this week then?

??

idk

will also be announced/released soon (1-2 weeks)

will come first

when release

today lol

chill map, 10/10

cool map

agreed, but wished there were more cps 😔

I really dont like that the gameplay is boring and practically disposable