So there won't be any Ghost Houses?

Judging by the description for World 5's theme, I think ghost houses will go there. I'm only guessing though.

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Nice, I'm in. I will either do a grassland level or an abstract level, depending on which one I get ideas first.
About that, is there a limit about how many levels are available per world?

PS: VLDC contest and MAGLX contest, this January will be busy.

I'm done with dat Map16. I'm on the pure vanilla, maaaaaaan.

Is there going to be a difficulty curve? If I pick a forest/grassland level, do I have to make it easy? And if I make a fortress/castle stage, does it have to be real hard?

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16 tiles by 8 tiles, yes. 128 tiles per person.



You may do that. However, please try to be consistent - something like a Thwimp Pokey would be fine because it is obvious that they will hurt the player, but don't replace the Pokey tiles with, say, Goombas, or it will lead players to think they can jump on them.



No, because this would involve editing the original graphics. You may twist and turn and chop up and stitch together the original graphics in any way you'd like, but you cannot redraw parts of them.



The only recolouring I would expect would be via the palette editor in LM. You can, however, merge things in YY-CHR just as long as you don't actually edit the original graphics in any way, shape, or form (that is, by redrawing them).



Yes.



There will be if people decide to make them. If they don't, then there won't be. How the worlds will look literally depends on the levels that are submitted.



Originally I was going to make it set at 8 levels per world and then assign themes, but at this point, I'm just going to put my faith in the userbase and hope that you guys can actually be creative with your levels and not just make the game 75% grasslands. If there is a slight imbalance in the worlds, then it is not a big deal.



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No, it isn't rocket science. Read the rules again. It's literally no different than previous VLDCs except you'll be assigned Map16/graphical/level/secondary exit slots. Beyond that and some basic guidelines, the rest of the info on the rules page is for administrative purposes.



All of the worlds and levels (except for the highest ranked in each world) will be open from the start, so there can be a world 6 level that is the same difficulty as a world 1 level.

So I wouldn't be allowed to do so in YY-CHR? I might need to rethink my plan.

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Unfortunately not. You can probably imagine the loopholes that people would come up with if I let that slide. I'd rather just allow things like rotations and merging in YY-CHR.

("well, you said we could recolour tiles, so I recoloured this whole tile into a different tile!")

Alright. Crud, well, I'll see if I can come up with an alternative.

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Why would it make a difference if I chose for you? All I'll be doing is forcing you to work on a theme you may not have wanted from the get go.

You have a few more days before the contest starts. Surely you can settle on something you'd like to design.

Well, I think I'm in. I've got some ideas for a desert cave...

But anyways, the themes are going to be a big problem. Maybe 75% will make a grassland level. But even if they don't do, there will surely be one world with maybe only 2 levels or something like that... I guess almost nobody will do a desert level, so I've got high chances to win the category ò.ó

No seriously, what are you going to do if I'm the only one who creates a desert level??

What's the situation on sublevels? Or was I just not looking close enough at the rules?

I can almost guarantee you won't be the only one who makes a desert level. If you are, I'll slot your level into a different-but-related world. The themes themselves may be subject to change - we'll see.



I didn't explicitly mention it, but you'll be given a maximum of 5 to 8. Haven't settled down on a number yet.