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• added time cp

• some minor part adjustments

• forgot to hit save before uploading the map^^

really creative map, i like the idea. enjoyed playing it. didnt find any cheats or bugs

• minor gameplay change at cp21
• small design change for hookable tiles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58nhCMBz5XY&t=206s&ab_channel=Destoros

corners

• fixed corners thank you mysterious person who clearly does not wanna be identified

didn't even see this until after I did the filter. Instead of entities off maybe just use a speeder tile as an arrow, but even then you dont need to do the start the intended way.

The yellow and pink colors for the signs looks pretty bad, especially the pink. Maybe stick to white or a shade of the background color to make things look a bit better.

whenever you can I might cut down on the symbol spam as well, it can gett overwhelming in certain parts. Maybe try using the transparent blocks behind like you did for the dj refill tiles.

here's an example

Gameplay is extremely good, refreshing parts and very well mapped. Nice stuff 👍

• marked the hint with a speeder in game layer
• changed colors for hints and stopper tiles
• some minor gameplay changes (mostly going from cp8 to cp9)

I didnt change the appearance of stoppers, since some parts look rather strange when I use your suggested design style

Id rather have it spammy but consistent over the entire map

Thank you for testing 🙂

The second half of the map feels very different, it clashes with the other half

It's like another map

I'm not sure it's wise to put a time cp there where both tees are separated

I don't get the use of most of the switches

You could just save your mate by hooking him from the ht placed below

You didn't mark the unfreeze with a sun next to the speeders

I think you could remove the suns, them don't seem necessary and they are pretty much redundant

The exclamation marks don't seem to be needed as well

You have those corners everywhere, as well as multiple hidden layers

Are you using all the tiles in both tilesets ?

$waiting

added a separate time cp for each and every path

that one is mostly for convenience

kept the suns (I like them), removed exclamation marks

that is intended and part of the design

removed that tileset and placed similar marks from already embedded tilesets

• minor design change

👍 Will look at the changes tomorrow

Arrow marked in entities and not in design, either show it in design as well or remove it from the entities

Why using checkpoint tele everywhere when it's not needed

also, cp 5 could simply be 2 tiles high on the left

instead of the way you designed it

Resize your images with a decent format (16,32,64,128,256,512...)

Tilesets have a size of 1024*1024

$waiting

• marked arrow in design
• replaced cp5
• resized tilesets to 1024x1024 and others to some power of 2

because in the case of a lag and your tee running uncontrollable into the tele of the part before, you dont loose any progress

Hm

I would understand if the map was hard

What do you think of all those checkpoint teleporters ?

for some people a map will always be hard and they may take dozen of minutes to finish a part

and loosing 10 minutes of progress because of a lag just feels terrible

what about them? 99% of the time you don't wanna use regular tele

By you, you mean me or in general ?

You would use cp tp if that's necessary

And it's fine if there are only a few of them

Otherwise it spams very hard

Look at all those cps

that's a little spammy but better than regular tele I think

it's like almost always necessary xD

unless you love walking into a part that you already did and losing progress

Not in such a linear map

Tell me it's not better like that

It doesn't even affect the gameplay

it does affect gameplay

if you fail at tp4 and let him fall to tp2 you have to do the part over again

the bottom part

There is always a way around to avoid spamming entities

It shouldn't be hard to do something so you don't fall back

tele 1 and 3 could even be the same tele

but thats less convenient

gameplay wise its way better to start right where you failed and dont have to run a few tiles back and forth every time you failed

• new cp and hook stopper design thanks to Pipou

$ready 2

thanks for testing!

pipou best tester

+1

I don't remember if the 1st tele in freeze in on the ground or not, if yes, move it 1 tile up

What do you mean?

I think TO telecp 2 was on the ground

oh it is

• fixed TO telecp 2

$ready 2

Twice ready :chad:

$released