but, but but but but...

Some of the ribbon decor in 9" fireballs looks like it might contribute to fake difficulty due to enemies being able to hide behind them and unfairly hurt Mario. I liked it better without.

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That's not the point I'm trying to make, as some of the critic I've received (bits and pieces) go in one ear and out the other. The magikoopa segments are hard, and I actually expected people to not like that section as it actually involved waiting.

It was in the original game, but in a more tame sense.

Next off, the whole lack of compensation for blind players may be true to an extent. How am I suppose to compensate for an enemy barely obscured?

Nine times out of ten there is some form of visual hint (such as curtains being cut out to show a thwomp is behind them, or a football being kicked to make the player quickly locate the source).

When you refer to hazards that attack mario midjump, I can only think of one feasible instance, which is usually avoided unless the situation is done in a very uncommon way.

Obviously you didn't do a good enough job.

Explain to me how a blind player is suppose to make it past the Thwomp trio at the beginning of the level that borders on Big Mario Discrimination, then. Or the one at the end without landing on the spike in an attempt at faking the Thwomp out.

Adding to this, palettes also help here. A super dark palette that clashes severely with the status bar (oh man did it) takes the player's attention away from the top of the screen due to the fact that everything up there that pops out at them is the status bar. This caused enemies, walls, and even spikes to vanish behind the status bar, even though some of the level required the player to stand or jump near it when things were behind the status bar. If the level had more contrast, perhaps these obstacles could be avoided better. However, this wouldn't fix poor placement.

As an aside, bright and dark are not complementary all the time. Please examine this. It is supposed to apply to web pages, but it is basic color science that was used in many things. It would work wonders with a proper application in SMW. Rainbow palettes that are dark don't work when everything is coated in the same colors.

I realized my misake in the appeal of the level: I spammed the same decoration instead of varying it.

The third thwomp becomes visible while you're doing whatever to get past the first thwomp. Enough time is given for whatever method you are doing. If you're ballsy and run and jump under them, you should have no problem continuing your sprint for another few blocks. If you're being patient and spin jumping on each of them, you will have time to think of how to get through. The more ballsy you are, the quicker you have to and can react.

The whole reason I actually didn't use bright colors was because I didn't want to give the player a seizure (Examples of such can be found in my first attempt, which is level 105 in the rom.)

You say nothing about the second one, which is the one that gets Mario the most.

Then you should not have went through making the level the way you did.

Well maybe I wanted to make it that way? If there was a problem with every idea, we would be nowhere in life.

Then that's user error. Not much is going on, you have time to observe what is ahead, and you can actually plan around it.


Well maybe I wanted to make it that way? If there was a problem with every idea, we would be nowhere in life.

I changed mind: actually i wanna know some opinions about my level, but from those streamers, though, not from the judges: i want to know the opinion of the judges after the results. What did people say in the stream chat about my level?

They were amazed at the graphics. Then they were trying to identify which tiles each thing was composed of. They put it in the "5 - I can't beleive it's not buttery" folder.

Yes, but i want a more detailed thing, and i really would like to know that from who really was there.

I've been watching the stream for the past couple nights, mostly to see what they thought of my level. While waiting, I saw a couple interesting ones, such as Ludus's limit-pushing level with the transparent background and vanilla implementation of NPCs and cutscenes. Others looked really nice, but employed some cheap hazards. One example of this was the level with the deadly grape soda water. There was a section where you had to jump from rope to rope in cramped quarters while avoiding Volcano Lotus fireballs. Another level, quite honestly, looked like something that was just slapped together in Lunar Magic. All the while, I was commenting on the ups and downs of the levels in the chat, such as mentally awarding "style points" for creative use of vanilla graphics. Unfortunately, most of the levels that would earn style points would not fare so well in the overall design department.