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Originally posted by Q-bee
Water theme WIP: SPC

Ignore after 0:22. I'll do something better.


Is it just me, or do I hear heavy influences from DKC Aquatic Ambiance? Anyway, nice work (funny how it sounds like the remote opposite of mine, that's the thing about team hacks). I haven't done any work on my level, though Sandy is about to hit my area, so I'll have plenty of time to work.
Originally posted by Egadd
Is it just me, or do I hear heavy influences from DKC Aquatic Ambiance?


I'm getting more influences from DKC3 - Water World and Chrono Trigger - Undersea Palace. Not really any from Aquatic Ambiance, but yep, the other water theme from DKC series. It's likely I'll get some music influence from DKC forever, every time when composing on SMW.

Has been a while since my last unsampled composition (Desert Stage), and I'm impressed with myself. You guys may know that I don't have headphones at home anymore, but when I heard it in my friend's house last Sunday, with his headset, whoa. The stereo is outrageous - it enhances the ambient a lot.

When composing like this, all that I do is to play with panning values. I don't really know how it will sound, but I've managed to put the right values on them.
HereI fix some things
Originally posted by Buried Alive
HereI fix some things


You didn't really change anything except for the berries.

Also, I'm the only core member of this without a name change. #ab{:(}
I've inserted his level into the latest Base ROM I've submitted a few days ago, with some edits. @Buried Alive, no need to make another version (unless you really want to make something major).

In truth, I've modified some sprite placements, inserted Yoshi Coins, modified places that were blocked with Turn Blocks, so
the player won't get stuck anymore if using a shell to turn the block while being small then throw the shell away and stay stuck forever inside the room...

Yes, that, and I've removed a few berries and fixed small bushes' cutoff.

Originally posted by Egadd
I'm the only core member of this without a name change. #ab{:(}


Eh. Seems like we're covering ourselves under a different username. Will you change your name to Alcy?

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I'm here to bring some news. Read my custom title.

The good thing is that I'll still be able to update things frequently here.

The bad: I'll never rest. I have this project and my band, and they use every day of my weeks. I don't have whole free days to sleep. And I was really expecting to sleep tomorrow for like 25 hours.

yeah yeah life's awesome
Originally posted by Q-bee
I'm here to bring some news. Read my custom title.

The good thing is that I'll still be able to update things frequently here.

The bad: I'll never rest. I have this project and my band, and they use every day of my weeks. I don't have whole free days to sleep. And I was really expecting to sleep tomorrow for like 25 hours.

yeah yeah life's awesome


Well, at least you're still getting paid!

I'm thinking my creative binge is over, so I'll probably drag my current level on for a while.
Originally posted by Q-bee
no need to make another version (unless you really want to make something major).


Ok Then level 002 is done now I will calm level 119. I will be working on some Hell Valley's levels.
@Buried Alive: It's yours, my friend! Added.

Originally posted by Egadd
I'm thinking my creative binge is over, so I'll probably drag my current level on for a while.


Same thing for my Water composition. It's not really lack of ideas, it's for being tired and really really busy.

I think that after finishing my Water theme I'll stop claiming things for a while. It's that I need to priorize time to other things in the moment. I'll still be actively messing up with the Base ROM, though.


Maybe we could use them in the background for some of our levels or
one just for a easters egg.(
They are called Hell valley's sky trees and they apper in mario Galaxy 2 in the background.But for some reason they have eyes
)
If somebody does it in a fitting SMW style, I don't see why not.

If nobody does it, make your level normally and I'll see later what I can do.


We could put the Hell valley sky trees in a background like this.

(This background apprears in SMW.)
Agreed. They can blend well with the background.

Since the sky trees are quite simple (and this SMW BG as well), I could make use of Layer 3 in the definitive version (read: after the level is inserted into Base).
Sorry for the slow progess and no updates.I was thinking.I am thinking about updateing after we get done with three worlds.


I was also thinking about changeing the SMW feel to this hack to a new
fell maybe to a dark feel.maybe we should have a poll with diffent feels that would fit the hack.I don't think the SMW feel would fit this hack with 94 levels.It could make users interested in this if
we chage the feel.
Originally posted by Buried Alive
I was also thinking about changeing the SMW feel to this hack to a new
fell maybe to a dark feel.maybe we should have a poll with diffent feels that would fit the hack.I don't think the SMW feel would fit this hack with 94 levels.It could make users interested in this if
we chage the feel.


I think you're thinking too much about change. While change can be good for a hack, we are already set with some rather nice gimmicks which will go a long way. We just need to keep doing what we're doing.
We are not dead. Definitely not.

We are going to progress.

Despite the lack of getting new contributors to this project, and the previous post by Buried Alive (deleted), this shall stay strong. I'm putting the best of my efforts to make this hack grow stronger, and seriously guys - we need your help. A team hack won't grow without your contributions.

Buried Alive is not the only leader here. I am, as well, and I hereby declare: we are going to work.

Let's keep going on with what we have now. It's going well. But please, come on and join us!
Little progess on castle 1:




My Youtube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SMWKing2000
@SMW King 2000: Looks good and challenging (in a good way for the first castle). The only nitpick I have is about the rock wall edges. But no problem, because later I may implement this tileset for usage, and I'll draw some other details for it, like candles and something else. I was about to send you a PM today, to remind about your claim, but my plan was changed, heh. Keep up the nice work!

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Done with the Water theme. SPC is here. I wanted to make it simple and not so long. Gave a bigger emphasis on the feeling. I'm wanting some opinions of what could be improved (probably the last section feels empty and I do already plan on adding some more vibraphones there later).

Also, finally an update of the Base. The Water song was already inserted and being used in level 17. I'm keeping the ZIP filename with 'Theonesuperx' despite the name change. It's just I don't need to change links to download when updating things over again.

And now I'm claiming Heaven and Hell Valleys submap.

EDIT:

@Egadd: Forgot to mention and ask you tu update the Sublevel List.

I've moved Level CB to 2B on the Base. It'd be cool if you updated it in your list, too.
Wow, this hack looks amazing from what I've seen so far. I would like to claim:

015** W3 (Regular/Forest) -unclaimed-


By the way, because this is the first level in the honey forest world, I'm going to theme it a bit on "honey", so it's going to be green/orange mix coloured. Hope I can claim it like this :D
@mrdeppelman: Welcome to the team! Added to the list.

Feel free to make your level according to your idea. I'm looking forward to see it. Good luck!
On the topic of the music, I think that it was overall just fine. I thought the outro right before the repeat was a little too wobbly. For the honey levels, I think it would be cool if we could remix the song to more of a jazzy beat, just to fit the atmosphere a little better. Also, it feels weird to go from Dinosaur Jr. and the Melvins to SMW #ab{o_O}.

Nice to see more people joining on! And I updated the sublevel list.

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