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World: 8
Exits: 1
Theme: Ice
Music Options: 1, 2, or compose your own.
Briefing: An ice themed level. Consider creative ice gimmicks to use in this level - frozen blocks? Chilly water? There are plenty of ideas at your disposal.
So for this level, I was thinking of having multi-colored ice. So it would be like the regular ice FG, but I would have it in different colors. I also plan to include some icy concept as well.
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Multi-colored ice doesn't sound like an very cool gimmick, but I am pretty optimistic to what the concept part of the gimmick will be.
Maybe standing on different color ice blocks will do different things? IE standing on dark blue will make it turn into water, or standing on red ice will make it turn redder until it hurts mario?
Just don't use the fire block too much, as this is not a fire/ice level. Also you can request someone code the blocks for you in the resource request thread.
Actually, fire blocks shouldn't be used at all in an ice level, but that doesn't mean you can't use hurt blocks. Instead of having a red block that will turn redder you could have a frozen muncher or a spike that will unfreeze if Mario's standing on the block for too long.
I'm happy to see you got your own level for this TomPhanto.
Okay, so far I've finished half the level. The next area uses the custom ice blocks. Of course, they'll be divided into different colors for effects.
I had an idea for 5 different types of blocks.
I was thinking:
1.) That one ice block from Chill Man's stage. When Mario or a sprite jump on it twice, it will break.
2.) Disappearing block. Which I mean the block disappears after standing on it for a while.
3.) Sinking block. You stand on it and it slowly sinks but rises back to its original position once Mario is off.
4.) Repel block. Slightly pushes Mario away from all directions.
5.) Gravity block. Mario would be hugging the block until you jump off.
Preview of the level coming soon.
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Alright. I think this level is pretty good so far. Other than being hurt by the spikes if you touch their side it is pretty well designed.
Visual-wise I would suggest to use the background seen in Jimmy's stage (the one with the mountain side in the background). also some of the ice blocks might be put into a normal snow fg that was also used as a FG in Jimmy's outside area. Thus it would not only feel but also look like an ice stage.
Other than that I'm pretty excited how you will continue your stage.
Liking this a lot so far. I have to say, your usage of the spin jump blocks is quite nice for the most part, and my only real complaints are the lack of danger in certain areas (approaching the end of world 7, so a tiny bit more difficulty may be in order). I'll point out some specific spots:
a* frozen desert.
You actually can't see the lower row of blocks there if you're falling from above, meaning that myself (and other players) will try to steer to the right when it is unnecessary. I'd make it so you can see all of the blocks.
This is one of those areas where I felt you could have used more obstacles, especially since it's the path to an SMWC coin. Perhaps a few blue Parakoopas, or even a pendulum or two would work.
Disable LM's global palette animation for this level to prevent the ? blocks from glowing.
Just a small suggestion as well: I don't know if it would be too distracting, but I almost think I'd like to see the colors smoothly animate between one another (i.e. blue goes to violet, violet goes to red, etc). Might be worth giving it a shot, at least. Shrug.
Aside from that, I enjoyed your level quite a bit. I'm interesting in seeing what you'll do for the second half given your earlier block requests.
All right. All I need right now is for someone to code two custom blocks.
1st would be the disappearing block that you stand on for a while and then it disappears.
The other one is that ice cube from Chill Man's stage, where any enemy or Mario would stand on it once but it would break the second time it was jumped on.
Other than that, I'm doing fine. Right now, I'm setting up a rough draft for the second half of the level. I might need some different GFX, but that can wait for now. I need to get those custom blocks first.
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The other one is that ice cube from Chill Man's stage, where any enemy or Mario would stand on it once but it would break the second time it was jumped on.
I actually made something similar to that for the ice level I made for SMWCP2. It's 32x32 and it breaks when Mario stands on it from the top, only difference is it breaks the first time it's jumped on, and it's not affected by enemies. Would those do? They're in level 2B in the base rom by the way.
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7: This 1-up was a bit easy for me to get... might be me though.
7/8: It's pretty unfair when you spinjump when you are inside those blocks, you get killed. Also, when you're running at a on/off block and spin jump, nothing happens.
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1: Those red and blue blocks are unneeded since you can just jump over the spike via the pipe.
3: The left platform is a bit cutoff.
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Thus it would not only feel but also look like an ice stage. 
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