Contest Theme Suggestions

[Volkove]

Considering the approaching season, perhaps a traditional winter / holiday theme should be considered.

[Venexis]

I was really impressed by a level of nin10mode's, which required you to switch back and forth between two seasons in order to collect all 8 red coins. By switching seasons, all red coins would become blue, and vice versa. Not only would it be cool to see a level based on a general "Change" theme like this, but it would also have to be designed like a puzzle in order to prevent it from being too easy (water that is liquid during the summer could "freeze", and provide ice to jump off of in order to grab a particularly high coin or new area), something none of the previous LDCs have really focussed on.

It doesn't even have to be seasonal. Maybe a SM63 equivalent of the gravity walls in Galaxy 2, where you'd have to run along the floor, roof and walls of a building (or even an entire city! Epic). Things like windows could become bottomless pits when you pass through a warp pipe and rotate the map 90 degrees.

[Panik!]

I agree with Ven. We could have like...a dimensions theme...To complete the level, you must switch back and forth between the dimensions because they have different platforms or items.

[Killswitch]

How about a level with all of the items and blocks are used?

[MICrophone]

I too like your suggestion Ven…Volcove's is also good if the judges manage to finish the 10th LDC in time. As for !?!'s suggestion, I kind of feel like that would make for long and tedious levels, plus graphically numerous tileset changes often does not look good.

[destroyer1]

Uh, earth to Ven, Jello and Mic, we can't do that. How can we do something like that, it's impossible. If you wanna do something like that, go on EE.




Also, !?!, thats how i'm doing the collab... So, no >_>

It will be very long!






Maybe we can make a maze theme where you have to collect 12 red coins instead, but in a maze?

[Buff_]

Uh, earth to Ven, Jello and Mic, we can't do that. How can we do something like that, it's impossible. If you wanna do something like that, go on EE.

Check the game Banjo Kazooie. It works perfectly well.

[AlucardX60]

Uh, earth to Ven, Jello and Mic, we can't do that. How can we do something like that, it's impossible. If you wanna do something like that, go on EE.

[hint]warp pipes to another part of the level that is really just the other dimension[/hint]

Also, !?!, thats how i'm doing the collab... So, no >_>

It will be very long!

Yesh @ second part. But why are you doing that for a collab? It's kinda a bad Idea altogether. Very hard to make it look good.

Maybe we can make a maze theme where you have to collect 12 red coins instead, but in a maze?

Not bad. Mazes are very tedious though. Plus we'll end up with a lot of bad ones that are to simple or don't have anything special.

[nin10mode]

Just to clear up any confusion there might be, that level Ven was talking about was my 10th LDC entry, but I just submitted it to the portal after I posted it in the topic. I wanna do that again, so I go with Ven's idea. :>

[Avo]

Uh, earth to Ven, Jello and Mic, we can't do that. How can we do something like that, it's impossible. If you wanna do something like that, go on EE.

Actually, I made a level exactly like that suggestion of different seasons, it worked perfectly.