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Added about 6-7 seconds of gameplay

Thoughts on changing the laser tile color blue? It might make things look more complicated but I think it might be easier to spot in the moment

fixed transparency bug, moved BG to HD

changed color of laser parts

It's very hard to see in entities and in design

Make the design less transparent

Would you mind coming later today to play the map, or send a video of the gameplay here or in private

Maybe try adding details to the environment to help locate yourself when not playing completely zoomed out

Here's a playthrough video (sorry for the bad quality)

nice .mov

😄

looks cool

Here's some updated "colors" (transparency fix)

If you have any ideas/examples that would be helpful and much appreciated

To make comfortable game w/o zoom you can add path markers.

What do you think of something like that ?

That looks amazing!

Ok, I'll keep doing it later then 😄

I pushed it a little further, do you like it or should I stop ?

LOL its awesome

Alright 😄

I have to move everything so I can add teleports around the "clock"

LOL THIS IS REALLY FUNNY

😂

Mad graphic skills

Little update on the result

We need a last test before release

from the gameplay in the video above i wish the map wasnt so plain

moved spawn tile to the middle

and i prefer simplicity, this map seems to use lots of special tiles to achieve the movements

while the tiles may be relatively underused, I think the actual gameplay and concept of the map is rather simple to be honest, though I understand your point about the map being plain

Cireme believes that the circled area should be moved 1 tile to the right, as well as having bigger unfreeze zones

I will upload the map, if the changes aren't ok, we can always reupload the former version

$waiting

Those changes are fine with me 👍👍

Changed my mind, reverted the moved shotgun teleport to the original, as the new trajectory and momentum caused variation in the rest of the map. I tested both ways numerous times but still found the original placement to be the most optimal. My theory is that Cireme was holding d (right) as well as shooting down throughout that section, which is slightly different than the intended method. I left the new bigger unfreeze boxes as they do not effect the gameplay significantly.

After testing again, I noticed that the former version was better too

ill just give my final opinion that gameplaywise i dont like it since it kinda abuses weapon teles and the such but w/e i mean it will probably get rls anyways

I guess we just don't see eye to eye on this one. Still I appreciate you giving your input, it gave me a different view on the map

What would you suggest ?

i just dont rly like the style of mapping

if it was me i might do multiple types of 'pendulum', each with a different weapon or idea and just put them one checkpoint after another

instead of having all in one swing thing

and i generally dont like weapon tele

That's a good idea

It's not released yet

Ooh i like the concept of single weapon stages

I just don't want to ruin your design now

It's not that hard to move, if you need help I'm here

Don't pay attention to the design, focus on the gameplay 😌

Ok il see what I can come up with 👍

You can do it on another map and I could put it all together

Or whatever it's fine😌

Il do it on a fresh map 😄

Make sure to use the same circle size

So should I try to fit all of the "pendulums" into the original circle

or make all of them the same size as the original

how about something like this? and then the teleport will take you to the next pendulum with shotgun or something

i mean if u want, it snot a requirement but i would probably enjoy it better

I'm kind of split between the ideas. I like the idea of having a map that's one cohesive whole with no stopping, but I also can see why you might prefer a segmented map with clear divided sections. I'll wait for Pipou's thoughts

Shotgun Pendulum (revised)

Idk if I like this one or not, but thinking of the map as a progressive easy to hard style map, this would be the first stage, then shotgun, then laser

I have no idea, I think louis meant a map where you would use walls to laser yourself or sg and so on instead of using weapon teleports

Always keep in mind to make it easy to read

yeah i guess the laser one is hard to read

I'm not very fond of teleport tiles but some people enjoy it while others don't

the idea with the weapon teleports is that it makes the aiming and movement more interesting imo

or at least that was what i was going for

Yes I see ^^

but i thought louis sounded like he wanted a checkpoint oriented map

instead of a "one part" thing for the whole map

Swings are always a pain 😄

Hard to get them to work properly

yeah

I think no matter what the hook teleport will have to stay just because of the concept of the map

but I can try to work with the weapon tele

Sure, that could be good

I even thought of the possibility of making a hub where you pick your part, a pendulum with sg, one with jetpack, one with the hook only, etc

ooh

sounds like an interesting idea

like how they did it in just every fly?

Let me check

Yes, sort of

So should I work more with the original or with the new parts?

I'm fine with either

Tough question

I would like to know the opinion of others

Ok 👍

Might be hard to judge just based off of the videos though

Il work on both for now

The main problem with using "blocks" is that there is no tile that you can both shoot (with collision) and pass through except hook/weapon teleport. That means that the majority of the moves I have in all versions where the tee has to go through a place where they shoot are not possible to switch without completely altering the part. Laser seems to be the most flexible weapon in terms of getting around this. Here's a small workaround on one of the parts, though I kept the weapon teleport on the right side.

The more I think about it, the more I think sticking with hook and weapon teleport is a good idea, simply because it works better with swings and momentum boosting. While I like the laser clip in the previous comment, I don't see many more possible parts that aren't in a completely different difficulty that can fit with the style of the map

That's fine, but you don't need to have to pass through them as well

You can have a wall for example

Where you can unfreeze yourself with a bounce, then swing with that same wall, catch another swing, or swing and walk off that wall to have a bigger swing

That's much more complex than what I had originally intended

Maybe we could stick with the original version (maybe some slight tweaks), and experiment with something different like louis said for another map? Like a sequel or something. I know it's simple and short but I think it has a charm to it.

Still open for opinions of course 👍

I don't think we would want multiple maps of the kind, 1 is good enough

We would need more than 2 opinions on the matter

If it should either be short with 1 giant swing and multiple weapons or multiple swings with 1 weapon each

Until this weekend, I'm moving your map to waiting

Hoping to get more points of view by then

$waiting

Don't work on it any longer

$ready 2

ok 👍

so the original will be the one?

Yep, the last version uploaded

^

Sounds good

Thanks again so much for the design and help :)))

You are welcome

Congratulation with release and cool collab

Thanks

$released

How is this releasable ?

Have you ever made graphics ?

don't disrespect the design, it's literally god tier

It's a common problem when you have a transparent background with a coloured image

Doubling the size of the image would have reduced that a bit, but it's not worth the extra kb

need dilate

Auto dilated

dilate again

It's not a dilate problem

You can't dilate twice

idk, i fixed errors like that b4 with dilate

also yea potatoco dont talk lol

It often happened to me with circles and shades of grey

I could have made it whiter as well

But it's not very important

Making it white almost always fixes the problem

Thats a very complex problem, the stake of whole Tee's World is in your hand. I think we need to take this very professionally and fix it no matter the cost.

Solution : delete the map.

$delete

Most funny is that’s Potato said it not seriously

$optimize

what a cliffhanger, I'm waiting for next season =]

Somebody just remove this channel already 💀

Was trying something, but it seems like the bot already closed the map edits 😁

just triple dilate 👍