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Part Alpha: Mario's Meditation/Mario's Meditation: Part Alpha

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First part of a 2-part hack i've been working on.
Mario has become old and doesn't really have it in him anymore, so he visits "Dr." Toadley from the M&L series to learn how to meditate. He learns how to do it and in this hack you will travel through mario's mind when it ascends to the highest level possible/gets manipulated by Toadley with some 'medicine'.


60 exits per part.
5 worlds per part.
1 secret per part.
10 exits per world per part.

Part Alpha will come out first and then i'll start working on Part Omega: Mental Mario when Part Alpha is done. Screenshots, gifs and more info in the rest of the thread.

Title screen:

Title animation [Title level is stil WIP]:

https://gfycat.com/BraveCheerfulAkitainu
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In my honest opinion the OW isn't that great he main issue is the palettes, The colors of the map just aren't that great, the green and brown of the left island clash a lot and the weird black stuff on the right map doesn't look good.
There's also quite a bit of perspective issues which I get the map is suppose to be abstract which is fine but you can make something abstract that still looks visual appealing.
Again I get the abstract vibe but the upside hills on the left island look out of place, if there was more of them for the larger ones with the eyes or for the smaller ones they were all upside down it would make them look nicer.
As for the random black lines and blobs on the map they just look super out of place and don't look the serve any purpose except just to be there and take up space.
Making something abstract is fine and all but making something that looks visually appealing should be something to strive for, fixing just the palettes would be a huge step forward and make the map as a whole just look so much better.
I disagree, I think it's very distinct and memorable because it's so bizarre. None of the things Ninja Boy said about it read as flaws to me in any way.

It is kind of hard to tell where any paths would be, so I would hope in-game it used that arrow thing that shows you where you can walk to.
Very very very shortly, this drab, workaday world and everything in it will be changed forever! Follow us into the golden country, into the empire of the senseless!
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Originally posted by Meirdent
You might want to reupload that image. It seems the URL has expired.

It still works fine for me so ???
Very very very shortly, this drab, workaday world and everything in it will be changed forever! Follow us into the golden country, into the empire of the senseless!
You probably have the image cached. It just leads to a 404 for me.
For people curious about the OW

The overworld looks really weird but it's clearly intended to be weird to it's perfectly fine.

BTW this is your hack thread now.
It looks sooo weird i quite like it, but i don't like the palette on the right Island.
World 3, Broken Heaven, My foray into ExGFX wankery. Gonna learn ExAnimation and animate the electric thingy on the bottom for the level "Thunderwall".

https://gfycat.com/UnfinishedThreadbareAsiandamselfly

Also, unlike the first 2 worlds, any perspective errors in this one are not intentional, so if you see one, tell me. The only intentionally weird looking things here are the level on the wall and the bit next to the ghost house that floats off into nowhere.
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Oh boy, this sure is a weird looking overworld, this World 3 clearly reminds me of that Weir world that JUMP had.
MARIO WAS ATTACKED BY ME, THE KOOPA WIZARD!
Title screen:

Title animation [Title level is stil WIP]:
https://gfycat.com/BraveCheerfulAkitainu

Also, if you're wondering who "doublecomma" is, it's me. As you can probably see i made this account in 2012 and have been visiting smwcentral since 2010. I've had like 1 billion aliases since then, and for this hack i'm using doublecomma as my name. I know you can change your name on here, which i'll attempt when i finish the demo for this thing.

Speaking of my name, if any of you fellow germans know the guy who named Helioptile "Elezard" in the german version of pokemon x&y, tell him i came up with it first #smw{x_x}
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