8 - bioluminescent by pineapple (me)
STORY IN DESCRIPTION :
Released on approx December 19th 2014 | GD update at the time : 1.9
I got inspired by creatorJR's (renamed to jerkrat) level lookup which looked really clean so I wanted to also make a clean level using a song from the same author of his level so geoplex.
and that's what we got.
I should have just copypasted structures and tried to make a playable level but such concepts were alien to me really.
None of the level is really consistent altho you kinda can see where I wanted to go with this as there's some kind of "light in the dark" theme because bioluminescence mostly happens in the dark but very poorly executed. I at least like the idea.
Oh and again there are mirror portals. No one likes mirror portals.
And that's not the worst part.
I didn't even know there was a worst part.
The last section looks innocent but in fact the way I placed slope outlines (which again miss corner pieces) is inverted so the hitbox are way bigger than they look which makes the final part a higher difficulty spike and will kill you most of the time making you get multiple unfair deaths and go through the whole level and its timings again and again (if you are insane enough not to give up that is)
For my defense we couldn't see hitboxes back then.
Truly my worst level if I had to pick one. It's so bad that although numerous people advised me to not touch my old levels and update them because they hold nostalgia value and stay true to the history of the game I heavily consider remaking the whole thing.
If not for the whole nc thing.
Many years later people came back on this level and started saying it was the first nc level because that's pretty close and again I'll say that effect was first made by skitten in their level all aboard (they had showed me the effect in a preview so way before the release) and I really liked that effect so I spammed it a lot (and I kept using it for a very long time)
Take home messages :
Avoid mirror portals + blind transition combo
Avoid timings
Be careful with stuff like inverted slope hitboxes make em fair for the player
It's good to add variation to the level but make sure you stay consistent and keep the level engaging ex if you're doing a theme brainstorm for ideas and concepts going that way and try to make it work inside the level etc
Level info :
Level name : bioluminescent by pineapple
ID: 3632533
Song: bioluminescent by geoplex
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