Level Design Contest #25 - Playing Phase (Discussion Topic)

[Apjjm]

Very nice find kaywhyn - I did wonder if it was possible when I saw how icho contained the left crowd but I couldn't spot the bit about grabbing the pickup skill.

[The Tomato Watcher]

@kaywhyn

R1

You actually made the beginning even harder for yourself than you thought you did. You can just have the Climber build on the right side and the Swimmer build on the left. No Basher manipulation required. Also, I just thought playing stepping stones on the snowmen's heads was fun.

R2

I thought about trying to definitively enforce the Blocker, but honestly it doesn't matter that much and I'm fine with allowing some flexibility in my levels.

R3

Nice job spotting that reference! Honestly, in its current state, there's quite a few ways to approach the level and I really don't think there's a "wrong" way to solve it, so good job!

[kaywhyn]

@The Tomato Watcher

R1: Yes, I'm well aware that I overcomplicated the start significantly! That's the thing when it comes to solving levels in the game: A lot of the time you cannot take into account every single thing a player might try, especially with very messy and fiddly methods with heavy timing elements. Most of the time, designers tend to keep intended solutions very efficient and clean and hence the messy stuff from the player is all self-inflicted. As for the repetitiveness at the end, again it's not you, it just happens to be something that I'm not a fan of when skills have to be assigned repeatedly in a very short amount of time

R3: Lol I'm probably the biggest Pixar/Disney fan you will come to know! "Toy Story" happens to be a favorite of mine, so yes the reference in the level title was quite obvious to me Especially if you've existed on this planet for as long as I have Yea, I'm an oldie and am nearly twice your age I've watched nearly all of them growing up, though there's still a handful I haven't seen. 

[DireKrow]

Regarding kaywhyn's solutions to my levels...

R1 and R2 are acceptable alternatives that have been seen before and are close to the originally intended solution. R3 is the intended solution.