{"author_name":"recursive frog","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324239300,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"60682","p_author":"recursive frog","p_authorkey":"504529","p_urlkey":"96435","p_title":"(-o^_^)-o <3 Level Design!!!","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324239300","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"504529","us_name":"recursive frog","us_username":"recursive frog","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"

I’ll be honest, the level design for the early levels is pretty simple and was mainly built to teach players the rules of the game world. Only after I started making level 5 did I start to get truly imaginitive with what I could do in the game. I’m particularly happy with the proof of concept that level 7 represents, in which you must use the Hug Monster to complete the level, but it made me look back at other levels and feel like they were lacking… especially level 4!<\/i><\/p>\n

Level 4 was just a straight copy of level 3 but with the ability to knock the home platform out of reach. I like the floating platform idea, but I felt like I should have been more imaginitive with the rest of the design… so I revamped it completely. It’s not as tricky or complex as levels 5, 6, or 7, but it’s finally worthy of being its own distinct level.<\/p>\n

I also had to spend some time working out the kinks in my smooth camera following algorithm… in that there *is* one now. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

(-o^_^)-o PLAY THE HUGMONSTER DEMO – with a newly imagined Level 4<\/a> o-(^_^o-)<\/p>\n

Additionally I took care of a couple of stages in which falling out of bounds didn’t actually kill you when it should have. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 18th, 2011 3:15 pm","title":"(-o^_^)-o <3 Level Design!!!"}