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Ice-cream Factory

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Ice-cream FactoryMick-Leopard
A place where many ice-creams are made. Yet one of them is really odd...
The evil ice-cream maker "İgnatious Scream (or just I. Scream)" has a variety of ice-creams produced in his factory. Sounds harmless right? Making ice-cream out of everything sweet... That was before he started to make "sack creams" - Sackperson flavoured ice-cream. Who will stop this madness?You!

The level starts with the player, unwrapping a sack-cream and hopping out. The rest of the level includes many platforms; mostly ice-cream cones you must hop on, hold on tight and use them as moving platforms. You know... A factory, so those cones keep moving while hanging from those... things... in a factory that keep moving... Don't know it's english definition.

Anyway; some parts are too hard, I tested it with a group of players and they decided to quit before it was half way through! Problem is; the moving cones sometimes swing around too much, and the parts you must jump from one "cones line" to another usually end up touching the "electrofied" wires. There is a final boss part that im satisfied with... almost. You can fall down to unintended parts from certain points (but c'mon; that happens even in amazing levels like the peanut mines from lbpcTheGame. Yeah, in the fancy pants part there is an open gap that is hard to notice).

Well, i hope i can improve my skills. Not this level maybe, but the sequel will include coming back to the factory to save other sackfolks trapped in sack-creams. I might use LBP2 though, sackbots are more useful for trapped sackfolks to rescue.

That's it. Comments are appriciated (blast! i can never spell it right...)
2010-10-03 15:25:00

Author:
Mick'o'Mania
Posts: 83


I just played your level and heres my feedback:

Positives:
+Platforming was okay
+Ice Cream designs looked good

Negatives:
-The cones in the beginning were hitting each other and it looked kind of sloppy at the beginning
-Fire in the factory? threw me off a little bit

Overall the level was worth playing just the beginning gave off a wrong feel to the level, then as you progress on it starts to look more like a ice cream factory.:star::star::star:

F4F-My level SSBB- Battleship Harlberd Interior
2010-10-03 17:59:00

Author:
Sabre_
Posts: 653


Thank you for the feed back .
Well the fire supposed to be explained as "fire-creams" but after i mis-saved the level and had to do some of the parts again i forgot to add that information.

Also, those cones ARE really annoying! I tried fixing it," remodel, capture, edit the emitter, remodel, capture, edit the emitter..." then the whole routine got really annoying, and decided ; "well they work... that should do it" and did the mistake of leaving the like that.
If i make one; the sequel will have much more proper cones

Thanks again; i will play your level as soon as im online
2010-10-03 18:24:00

Author:
Mick'o'Mania
Posts: 83



ICECREAM!!! Ill play it soon!
2010-10-03 19:42:00

Author:
grayspence
Posts: 1990


Thank you for the feed back .
Well the fire supposed to be explained as "fire-creams" but after i mis-saved the level and had to do some of the parts again i forgot to add that information.

Also, those cones ARE really annoying! I tried fixing it," remodel, capture, edit the emitter, remodel, capture, edit the emitter..." then the whole routine got really annoying, and decided ; "well they work... that should do it" and did the mistake of leaving the like that.
If i make one; the sequel will have much more proper cones

Thanks again; i will play your level as soon as im online

Thats okay I would of done same thing also lol just left it...long as it works
2010-10-04 05:50:00

Author:
Sabre_
Posts: 653


I love ice cream. I haven't had ice cream in a really long time

But fun level! It's cute and the music is cute and fits in well, some clever game mechanics and all made better with the dessert motif. Really good ideas in here. The ice cream pooping machine is delightfully messy to pose a challenge. Also insane penguin with a flamethrower = win.

A couple funky things - right at the beginning it's hard to land on the ice cream properly, I kept landing on the thingie behind it which you can't grab on and then ending up falling to my death. I managed to grab on with my last life :O

When you're being taken to the sack cream room, the magic mouth text taunting you disappears too quickly, I couldn't read it!

Visuals were alright, simple but I like it.
2010-10-05 03:37:00

Author:
Foofles
Posts: 2278


Thank you

I think i should slow the cage down. I noticed it was a little fast, but since i've red it many times before, i never payed attention if there was enough time to read it. I should fix that.
I placed a light at the beginning which flashed when it is time to jump down. I guess i will have to recreate those cones, i did them while i wasn'T experienced enough and it's unnecessarily complex and that "thingie" error happens to me too.

I think if i turn the "wire like electrofied thing" into a thin layer and simply re-organise the beginning, it should work fine

thanks again!
2010-10-05 10:31:00

Author:
Mick'o'Mania
Posts: 83


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