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Less than four days, guys! Don't let your work turn into ruins!

Also Kary applied to the judging panel because he's an amazing person and a great role model. I want more judges, though, the more the merrier.

EDIT: Rai and Shroom did too, thanks to them

Ayy lmao

Hopefully the next LDC will have a few more participants. Considering LL was practically made for this theme I'm surprised more people didn't enter.

About that.

Me and OJ were having a discussion (or at least some of it) and he said that he didn't use the month completely to finish his level. I don't blame him for that; at least he got something done. I haven't even gotten my project off the paper anyways.

I was expecting something more, though. Seeing that 6 people voted Yes and 14 voted Maybe, I was ready to receive a lot of entries in the Vault, mostly unfinished ones. But even that didn't happen. Even with a good theme and an certain time I assumed everyone would be comfortable with.

But I simply can't see stuff happening in LL. Haven't seen past LDCs grow bigger than 5 or 6 entries. So I guess I was expecting that to happen once again deep down. There's always the minority that manages to finish a level completely or at least a huge part of it before the deadline, and the people that doesn't even touch the designer until there's a few days left, no matter how long the deadline is.

LL's LDer forces you to be ambitious; it requires so much work and detail into something, making it so easy to get carried away. I myself haven't accomplished any big project in LL, because I get bored before I get the hang of it. That always limits me to short and forced entries, or no entry at all. And I can imagine it does the same for a huge part of you, too.

With that said, I think the key when designing in LL is to keep your levels as simple and straight as possible. Way too much ambition is never good, specially with so many features and possible concepts at your hand. It's a considerable shock, since it's kind of the opposite in SM63; people try to detail their stuff as much as they can. And I congratulate the four or five guys who could accomplish that in this LDC.

he said that he didn't use the month completely to finish his level.

I think what I said was more that I tried to commit more time than I had available to me to finishing my level (due to school, life, etc), not that I neglected to work on it or anything like that

It mostly just irks me that there were only 6 people who even made an effort to participate in this, despite 6 people saying "yes" and at least one of those people not even ending up trying to enter

unless we're gonna get a flood of last-minute entries which seems kinda unlikely but I mean I did that with RO



...Now, with that said, I could still try to pull through in the last day or two, though it'd take a pretty colossal amount of motivation and speed on my part. :p

To be fair even fooling around with the level designer once a day helps you get more comfortable with it, just like SM63.

And also to be fair FF, bowser and Ven tried for a while, so there is a slight chance that all six Yes-voters have at least tried a bit. It's a pity not to have firmly established pro's like Niicola, BY, JJJ etc. around, though.

I've tried to make a classic Mario-inspired level, yet I felt tempted to add at least a few aesthetics and unorthodox gameplay (thwomps etc). And btw I'll hit the 1000-x-size landmark.

An entire scripted boss fight, a roughly 300 tile long cave section to decorate and finish, bug-testing, platform testing, and coming up with creative dialogue.

Eight hours left, technically 4-5 because I have to leave for symphony for the night.

LET'S DO IT

Wonderful. Just when I thought I had enough time my time gets cut by several hours due to internet maintenance/crashing on me when I needed it the most.

Screw it, I can't finish it.

Judges, you have access to the LDC judgings channel now.