24th Level Designer Contest

[MessengerOfDreams]

This post by Ayrayen was thumbed up by: 5

blue (July 20th, 2013, 4:59 pm) • Dtroid (July 20th, 2013, 10:30 pm) • KABOOM (July 21st, 2013, 3:34 am) • Killswitch (July 20th, 2013, 4:55 pm) • MessengerOfDreams (July 21st, 2013, 1:46 pm)

[Killswitch]

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KABOOM (July 21st, 2013, 3:34 am)

[blue]

I think he died because he collapsed. He did work very hard.

[GMDragon11]

As for the 25th LDC, will it be special? And can we have it in August please so people can enter in Summer?

Lol, then the results will probably be in be Late September or Early October, which is not summer.

[MICrophone]

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Killswitch (July 20th, 2013, 5:34 pm)

[KevinOC]

Good night, gay boy.

[WindMasterArceus]

Okay, well, my criticisms primarily had to do with the lack of creativity in your level, both in terms of the player challenges and the visual feel. Did you play through the top three levels (Ayrayen, Amp, and Killswitch)? If you haven't, I'd recommend doing so, paying attention both to the types of inventive challenges that they all employ as well as the unique visual design. I think the best way to improve one's own levels is to draw inspiration from others, so that's where I'd start.

That is, if I can improve at all, which the chances are very slim if someone that I've never seen before can win first try...
EDIT: And my computer sucks enough that it won't play the level..

[MICrophone]

If you're playing Ayrayen's, be sure to give it a while to load…it can take a minute or more depending on the part and click "no" if it asks you if you want to stop due to flash not responding. If not, try Amp's…it's a relatively small level so it may work more easily. Also Ayrayen is not new and this is not his first contest, he just vanished for a few years and recently returned to the forums. He entered the 4th LDC and has made many, many levels in the past (see his Bongo level series if you don't believe me). So believe me, you don't get that good on your first go. Like all of us, he had to work at it. So don't feel discouraged…if you're committed to becoming a better designer and continue to put out levels while also playing others to help develop your own style, you can become very good too.

[WindMasterArceus]

I'm not getting better, I'm getting worse

[MICrophone]

Not having played your previous levels I can't say for sure, but I tend to doubt that you're seriously getting worse. It's possible you've had stronger levels in the past, but that doesn't mean you're worsening as a designer. You just may have been temporarily short on inspiration, something which I again think playing other levels may help remedy. I certainly made levels while a designer that I felt were not as good as past efforts, but then would try to use the lackings of my most recent effort to help me figure out how to improve. And as cliché as this sounds…if you don't think you can improve then you probably won't.