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May be a bit too short, but might as well try

fixed stopper

https://youtu.be/Tmry8Mr7Ji0

cool 1 star dummy 👍

Maps alright but I’m not a fan of the design

no one play map with design

we still need to account for the people that do play with design !

I’m not good at design I know

I am proud of the jetpack tho so B)

It’s not great but at the same time it’a an 8x16 pixel thing and I feel like the message gets accross

tbh i think the main problem is just the color contrast

try having a consistent scheme that doesnt hurt the eyes

heres an example

or something like this fits your original color scheme more (but I will say I think the blue works much better)

💛 👍

I do like the blue

This map feels pretty repetitive, moving dummy to a location to hook later, hooking dummy through a simple drag, pretty basic jetpack solo at the end (also unmarked to let go of dummy there)

Marked

Maybe I should move it up tho

And hm

I'm not personally a fan of it, it's certainly a good map for beginner dummy players but I think much of the map can be reworked to have more unique parts/interesting gameplay

Some of the drags are nice, some of the parts are maybe cheatable

it should be where they are moving to

also there is a hookable where you fall after throwing dummy

no player is going to know that hookable is there before specing first

personally like this color more

we have enough "blue only" maps

2:50 is the part I'm talking about

they probably know to go down, but maybe not the hookable

maybe not a big deal, not sure

I’ll try adding some like, tells for ppl to know what to do

and I’ll also try skme other colors

my biggest concern is with repeated moves, or replacing the edge hooks with something better

Hm

Creative mind gotta work

I think that's more worth your time

I can’t really think of an alternative off the top of my head rn

this map is fine but I'm just saying it may get declined on a more subjective basis

if testers see it as uninteresting or uncreative

Tbf I think that would still make it my best map tk date

Have you looked at Stellar much?

I actually don't know if it's 1* or not

or ofc the dummy chamber maps

Stellar is 1*

changed the way it looks and nerfed a few parts, as well as tried adding labelling. labelling might be a bit cringe so give me opinions on it plez

not sure how I feel about the labeling

i think it might look cleaner if you could portray what you want through symbols instead of text

the "hook" text is definitely not necessary

for the "dummy" text, I might just put a little tee icon

and arrow spam looks bad imo

once again the contrast of the white walls with the bg just hurts the eyes. might an off-red to match would be better. the hookables work well though

I agree with lynn that the map that getting creative is to your benefit. as it stands, the map is really 3 drag parts with filler in between, and a jetpack solo at the end. If your map is going to be that short, the creativity needs to balance that fact. Don't get me wrong, I think some of the ideas are good, I just think because there aren't many, they should be expanded upon.

only did the off-color red here

will do the other parts

later

corners and tried to fix the labelling

replaced one edge with (while still pretty generic) a put under the block and run right for increased height. Not that much more creative yet but it flows a lot better, still have to work on it tho

WAIT No

I forgot the entities

fixed

yea and i think this point is made more difficult when you consider the difficulty, so i can understand why the map is like this, but other 1* dummy have some solutions

Any changes you make removing the parts where you're just sticking the dummy on a hookable would help a lot

the spawn?

Big oopsie

gimme a sec lmao

ahi ta

ya

essentially added a part, so as to avoid so much putting the tee on hookable blocks, still room for improvement in that part but it is a bit better. New backdrop courtesy of

also changed the colors so as to fit in better with said quads. Fixed a very tiny skip too

added time checkpoints whihc might be abhorrent, and fixed a skip

also I think I misspelled abhorrent

welshi

lynn

ello

did I do a dumb

changed one of the hooks into hookthroughs to avoid repetition

also tested to make sure it's possible and fluid and I think it is

but I also don't wanna overuse hookthroughs, so future changes will probably be different in some way

that line of deep should be on the back of the tee imo

down this like 2 tiles lower

u can skip the whole part by just putting the dummy on the freeze and take some speed of him.. the rest speak for himself

not necessary

both can fall here, its a lil bit hard but for a pro might be not haha

im talking something like this

srry if it looks laggy the editor from windows its bad

wall)

oh right xd, well i like to complicate my life for free

the switch and the lock must not be that far from the dummy due the speed that might get those can be skipped

In general the map is not that creative is really simple actually, and has some lack of content will be hard to get released

Try to fix this things above and make it more creative in some way

$waiting