Updated Level v2: http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/11614/Entry.zip
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5giD-DJFwI






Feedback, please?
P.S If my entry breaks any rules, please let me know.

Not a bad level, however I think there's lot of things you can improve.

First of all, the palettes are a bit weird. The yellow sky doesn't make any sense for me at all. What is it, the sun light? Yellow lamps? -- I'm assuming the latter because it gets darker on top. I'm not very good at explaining palette but the background gradient can be much better, try decreasing the luminosity instead of saturation if you want to the top part look better. And additionally, if the intention is to make a slight night level in the first place, it would be good to add a bit of blue in the top of the gradient too.

The night one however is slight better. But I'd suggest you making a new background, since that one looks like original SMW.

As for the level itself, I think it's a little too hard and can be frustrating for some players. I see lot of hard sprite <-> spin jumps for progressing in the level and some sections looks like trial and error. It's important to make your level fairly difficulty balanced for a pleasant gameplay experience.

I think that's all. I'm far from the best feedback adviser but I think you can improve it a lot! Good luck.

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so this is something that bugs me a lot, so I'm gonna say it bluntly and honestly:
These desert aesthetics, the monty mole dirt patches and chuck rocks* and all that, the ones that ruled the deserts of VLDC9,
look awful. I don't know what it is with underground tilesets and people adding these everywhere, but it just doesn't look very good. I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like, but they look like crumpled paper or just a pile of garbage. idk how the judges feel about them but I think you'd be better off if you just got rid of them altogether. The monty mole hills on top of the fg look better, but still pretty bad.
*i know your level doesn't show any chuck rocks, but im making a general statement here.

speaking of crumpled pieces of paper, what the heck is that floating white layer 3 in the top right corner??


It's really hard to keep the sparkies against the background as it is. I like the use of glass blocks for blocks enemies can stand on. you have some neat set-ups with it, though the reliance of thwomp jumping is a bit silly. I think a lot of it seems a bit too precises, if the player doesn't know what they're doing they're going to die and feel like it isn't there fault. So I think you could afford to make some of the spin-jumping segments a little better.

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Probably it's the sun. Notice the sun position when the level is bright and darker. That should mean something, I guess?

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Is this what you meant?






Changes - Added more platforms for giving players more time to react, fixed the weird line guides, removed the third section, lowered the height of blocks near ninjis and thwomps, bonus room for 1-ups and fixed the dissapearing platforms.
Video v2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCrgsdhWo44
Anything else, I need to change and improve?

Looks better now. Although I'd question the difficulty again, I think it's challenging enough to don't get frustrating.

While some people might complain about the background very too hot / bright, I think it's good as it is, considering the sun appears in the level and therefore lot of brightness is generated.

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Will there be something that looks like the mars rovers