LittleBigPlanet: Water! Kraken Infested Pirates of the Caribbean Levels, 12-22-09

Speed Racer

Egos wrote: »

If I had to go with one , it would probably be Speeds; just because I like the look of the characters that much. I really digged the look of the criminal, cop, general, and nerd (ranked in that order).

The rest of the level I could take or leave, but I am very proud of how my characters look.

Mogs since it tentatively looks like you're gonna be the winner you wanna go ahead and announce your theme now?

EDIT: Current tally, for what it's worth:

Mogs- 3
Speed- 1
David- 0

EdS25

Thought I'd chime in real quick - I already said I liked Mog's level. (Also mogs - fun playing with you today although the lag just sucked. I did hear that switching costumes around really doesn't help it).

Speed, I agree with the others that your character designs were fing great. Unfortunately I found the level to be pretty frustrating, with the blackouts, the fuzzbot's plasma, and by the time I got to the 6th light or whatever and then lost my last life to the black smoke I just quit.

DavidThrax I actually had a weird problem when I first started - I would jump into the creatures mouth and land on top of the room inside. That happened twice so I quit. But then I saw you were getting 4*s and some hearts so I was like whaaaat? And tried again. Glad I did. I really liked reorienting the ship and that multi-stage enemy.

I think my vote is still for Mogs tho - just a fun factor there.

As a side note, I don't think the level I published this week is an actual entry. But it is definitely sci-fi and I would love some feedback on it if y'all don't mind : Intergalactic Planetary 2 : Jupiter (my PSN is EdS25). Actually, since it has a rocket, and aliens, and a magrail, and civil war, and genetic mutations, and a giant fucking spider, it really couldn't be any more sci-fi if it tried.

Speed Racer

EdS25 wrote: »

Thought I'd chime in real quick - I already said I liked Mog's level. (Also mogs - fun playing with you today although the lag just sucked. I did hear that switching costumes around really doesn't help it).

Speed, I agree with the others that your character designs were fing great. Unfortunately I found the level to be pretty frustrating, with the blackouts, the fuzzbot's plasma, and by the time I got to the 6th light or whatever and then lost my last life to the black smoke I just quit.

DavidThrax I actually had a weird problem when I first started - I would jump into the creatures mouth and land on top of the room inside. That happened twice so I quit. But then I saw you were getting 4*s and some hearts so I was like whaaaat? And tried again. Glad I did. I really liked reorienting the ship and that multi-stage enemy.

I think my vote is still for Mogs tho - just a fun factor there.

As a side note, I don't think the level I published this week is an actual entry. But it is definitely sci-fi and I would love some feedback on it if y'all don't mind : Intergalactic Planetary 2 : Jupiter (my PSN is EdS25). Actually, since it has a rocket, and aliens, and a magrail, and civil war, and genetic mutations, and a giant fucking spider, it really couldn't be any more sci-fi if it tried.

As long as you started it at the start of this week, it can count as an entry.

EdS25

I think I had already built some of the puzzle doors but yeah the meat of it was done on Mon and Tue and it was published about 4 am on Wed. (Which I sort of remember but I also posted it here hehe). So sure why not?

Speed Racer

Very well then! I'm gonna go give it a crack. Maybe I'll change my vote!

Darth_Mogs

Ed- I went ahead and threw your level in the competition list, since, yeah, I remember playing it and man that Magrail thing was -EPIC-. I remember at one point, though, I think directly after the Magrail fight, the one alien on the part who talks about the hidden underground base caused me to have to restart the level. I think he might be attached to the ground or something, because I shot his brain, and the whole floor disintegrated. At first, I thought that's how you got into the underground base, but then I realized it wasn't. I don't know if I did that again on the second playthrough.

And yeah, it was fun playing with you and the others (Speed, your costume is aces), I just wish things had gone better, lag-wise. It was still fun, though.

EDIT: I'm going to go play so I can vote as well. I may not have won this yet!

If we wanna go ahead and announce me the victor, I will first stare in amazement for a few minutes.

...

M'kay. I'm actually debating on two themes; both I think we could do some pretty cool things with.

First- Historic or Semi-Historic battles.

Things that show up in my head would be battles from unification wars (China, Japan, USA, what have you), and I think with the Paintinator (for the levels based on modern or semi-modern wars) we'd be able to pull off a pretty good feel. Hu Lao Gate, Yi Ling, Chi Bi, for China War based levels all sound pretty epic to me on principle. Same with Sekigahara for Japan's Feudal Era.

Second- Heaven or Hell (Let's Rock! Couldn't help it >.>; )

We have ample resources to work with to make a level that looks like either place (Or both in one), and there's about a million ways you can do anything involving the two places, so it certainly does leave it open for a lot of creative things to go on.

I'm throwing both of these up here, because I can't honestly decide one or the other, since I already have some ideas for either theme. So since we'll all be making levels based on the theme, I figure we can go ahead and vote for which one we want to do.

EdS25

The alien that was glued to the floor was fixed today. But it's fun to know that for a little while I had a creature in my level that was actually HALF THE LEVEL with 2 brains that were like miles apart. Be careful with the glue, kids.

Egos

I would actually do one on hell

Speed Racer

Both of those ideas sound really great.

Also, after playing it, I'm changing my vote to Ed's. So now we're tied at one each, and Darth has 2. Voting will stay open until around tomorrow afternoon, but yeah tentatively Darth's the winner.

...Actually, in the event that Darth votes for either me or Ed, we'll have a tie. How about we break it based on what the overall rating is for the two tied levels? If that's a tie too we can come up with something else.

Ed, your level was fucking tops. There were only two small problems I had with it.

The first was that it was a little confusing initially to figure out which layer the minboss's three attacks were coming from. Maybe if you color coded the platforms or something that would make it a lot better.

The second was that on the boss, he's big and scary looking, but he isn't any threat whatsoever. I actually died a lot while fighting him, but that was just because of the the impact bombs being finnicky (I really wish you could tweak how sensitive they are). If he had some attacks or something, I think it would be a much more epic finale.

Really though man, way to show everyone up.

EdS25

Thanks speed - also should we be waiting for Metahybrid? I was looking forward to seeing his (last time he updated I believe he said the beginning was done but the rest he wasn't as happy with.)

Yeah I thought about color coding everything but decided that since they all had different attacks and it only takes a minute to orient yourself I decided against it. (Although it hasn't been getting many hearts and the main tag is frustrating so I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that I don't know much about it). Similar reasoning on the spider : I figured some plasma guns or something would just keep making you blow yourself up and be frustrating. But you're the 4th or 5th person to comment he's too easy.

Speed Racer

EdS25 wrote: »

Thanks speed - also should we be waiting for Metahybrid? I was looking forward to seeing his (last time he updated I believe he said the beginning was done but the rest he wasn't as happy with.)

I thought he said he wasn't going to be done in time.

Darth_Mogs

Alright. I just went and played the two that I hadn't done already.

Speed - Wow. That is a beautiful level. The designs were fantastic, and it was very well done. The start was great; every part of it; the pod, the introduction, the walking away from the introduction. I didn't manage to finish it, as I was just giving it the quick try and the Cop kicked my ass soundly. It was more or less the same experience I had with Robot Lincoln; I loved it even though I didn't manage to beat it. You make really good levels, and you make them really hard as well. I'll beat them someday! *Fist shake* You'll see!

DavidThrax - Your level was really well put together as well. At first, I just approached it like a level, and didn't even think about the sci-fi theme until I was about to jump into the creatures mouth. Then I went, "Buh?", did it, and saw where you were going. Nicely done. The ship turning was good, as was the boss, and the commentary. Your intercoms looked a -lot- better than mine. I enjoyed it immensely.

And I already expressed my opinions on Intergalactic Planetary 2, but for a little more in-depth on it:

I liked the text of it; the jokes weren't too corny and I enjoyed them a lot. Going through it, I don't remember having any problems, aside from that glitch part, and as I said, the MagRail fight was really really well done. It made me think the whole thing was actually moving, thought I realize how it was done now (more or less) so that was really impressive. and then the boss fight was Grade A as well.

For my vote, I'm going to give it to Ed for IP2, but Speed and David did fantastic as well. Personally, I think all three levels are leaps and bounds above mine, but I can't be mad if you guys liked them.

Edit: So it looks like we have a tie! >.>

Speed Racer

Man I guess you guys are lucky that I decided to make the cop easier! The energy balls he shot used to be larger and higher so you had to time your jumps perfectly to get to him.

Evidently my sense of what constitutes a difficult obstacle is skewed!

Also we now have a tie!

Out of curiosity Ed, what kinda level are we gonna be making if you win?

Darth_Mogs

Speed Racer wrote: »

Man I guess you guys are lucky that I decided to make the cop easier! The energy balls he shot used to be larger and higher so you had to time your jumps perfectly to get to him.

Evidently my sense of what constitutes a difficult obstacle is skewed!

Heh. Personally, the blackout is what makes that part of it difficult. It's so disorienting, because the off and on almost coincides with the time it needs to get from the safe point to where you can jump up and get him. I managed to run up to him in the dark on my last life, but that was a bad idea, as I think I got crushed, or just died. (Did he have a gas around the bottom of his body? I didn't pay attention to the death sound.)

Speed Racer

EdS25 wrote: »

Thanks speed - also should we be waiting for Metahybrid? I was looking forward to seeing his (last time he updated I believe he said the beginning was done but the rest he wasn't as happy with.)

Yeah I thought about color coding everything but decided that since they all had different attacks and it only takes a minute to orient yourself I decided against it. (Although it hasn't been getting many hearts and the main tag is frustrating so I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that I don't know much about it). Similar reasoning on the spider : I figured some plasma guns or something would just keep making you blow yourself up and be frustrating. But you're the 4th or 5th person to comment he's too easy.

What about instead of using impact explosives, use switch explosives rigged up to blow up when in contact with the leg? You could even encase them in black circles so they roughly looked like impact explosives. That way there's no accidental explosions and you can make the boss actually be threatening.

EdS25

That's a good idea . . I'll have to think about that. My other ideas were to turn him around and have his mandibles shoot at you, or to keep him ass up and have electrified webs in various patterns emit. Your idea about less lethal bombs makes that one more likely to actually work.

As far as the theme goes, I think I would concede to Darth. The heaven or hell sounds good to me although to be honest I'm not sure I'll be able to participate. I've spent a long time on IP so far because I'm unemployed, which I think needs to change here pretty soon before I go batshit crazy. When I'm wrapped up in level making, it's all I think about and I can barely sleep.

MetaHybrid

Wasn't able to complete my level. I wasn't even able to put the playing portion in my level level. I think Speed's idea of extending it two weeks is a good one, since the entries will be that much better. I played all the entries except Speeds, I'll do that right now, but so far my vote would go for EdS25's.

EDIT:

Just played Speed's, I echo how great his characters are, some of the best I've seen. The level was a bit difficult, the rotating light section comes to mind, it would have been easier if there was fewer of them. I also liked the long light elevator, that felt really Sci-Fi ish.

I still think I'll give my vote for EdS25. I enjoyed his level the most.

Crotchless Gorilla Suit

Hey guys, sorry I didn't participate this week. I did get to play a couple of the levels today, though.

Speed, your characters are awesome, all of them, and I think a bi-weekly competition may be a better idea.

To whoever wins, I look forward to hearing what the next theme is.

dookieagain

Yeah can I second the biweekly thing? My life is pretty busy at the moment. (Girlfriend just moved into town) and I keep trying to get a level together, but not having time to get things working to my satisfaction. I might publish my Sci-Fi level later this week though since it's kind of neat.

El Fantastico

Putting in my vote for EdS25's level. It was very well done. Just a couple of suggestions: I died at the magrail before hitting the gong and was warped back to ship. Trouble is, since I'd already released the nose of the ship, I had no way of returning to the planet. Perhaps a rez point in the nose would prevent that. The other issue, though it's harder to fix, is when you release the nose of the ship, if it doesn't fly high enough, it plummets back down to the ship and doesn't usually fit back into the socket to try again. Not sure how or if you want to address that because it's a rare issue that won't always come up.

Also, I'm putting in my vote for bi-weekly competitions, and my vote for Heaven and Hell. I promise I won't make a Guilty Gear level.

Raughn

I had a blast with every level. Everyone did an amazing job!

For my vote, it's extremely close between DavidThrax's Rise of the LittleBigMachines and Ed's Intergalactic Planetary sequel.

I vote for Ed's.

EdS25

Thanks to everyone that's voted for my level! Assuming I have the most votes now, and sensing that everyone is already excited about it, the heaven and hell theme is definitely my choice (but Darth_Mogs idea).

El Fantastico - there should have been at least 2 more gongs before you got to the magrail so I'm not sure how you managed to avoid both. But if you managed it others might so I guess maybe I need an "unmissable" one. Also, during extensive testing it seemed to me that whether you tapped R1 or held it the nose cone always went high enough. . . i wonder if you dislodged it a little bit prior to launch and hit the side on your way out. I need to stop putting devices like that in my levels because they are simply too difficult to ensure 100% (even when you do it "right" the landing is always a little bit different too - you're actually supposed to land right by the house, not the nasty looking emitted platform I added for emergencies).

unintentional

so for heaven and hell is it "Heaven AND hell" or "Heaven Or Hell" (or maybe Heaven XOR Hell )

Speed Racer

I imagine any combination of Heaven, Hell, or Heaven and Hell will be fine.

unintentional

Someone should make one that CHANGES depending on what switches you press :P
"Heaven version"
"Hell version"
"Heaven and Hell version"

And its like they have similar elements but they're very different because of how it plays out
(I'm definitely not creative enough to pull that off)

Raughn

I might get in on Heaven and Hell. Two weeks is more my speed, but there's a good chance I will be moving soon, so we'll see.

Can I just say again that everyone totally kicked ass with the sci-fi theme? I hearted every single entry.

Egos

dumb question, is there a way to view your hearted?

edit:thanks speed and ed

Speed Racer

Go to the left planet, click "Me," click "My Levels," click your picture.

EdS25

Actually click Me, My Levels. The first page is YOUR published levels. Then hit R1 for the next page which is your hearted levels. R1 again for your hearted creators.

unintentional

For me I have to get to pg 4 for hearted creators because I heart4hearted so much shit :P

MetaHybrid

unintentional wrote: »

For me I have to get to pg 4 for hearted creators because I heart4hearted so much shit :P

Same here, but for me it's because I heart every PA level posted.

unintentional

Ok thats a better reason.
I don't think I have you friended actually, let's get on that

Darth_Mogs

Speed Racer wrote: »

I imagine any combination of Heaven, Hell, or Heaven and Hell will be fine.

When I picked the theme, that's what I had in mind. As in levels about going to both, or centering around just one or anything of the like would be perfectly acceptable. It's Ed's call, really, but that's what I would imagine as well.

EdS25

Yes, any combination. And are we agreed it's 2 weeks - so Saturday Jan 31st? I was maybe gonna bow out but I got the "creator bug" while I was trying to enjoy real life today and already have more ideas than I can probably use.

EDIT - Also, my level is pretty much going to be what unintentional was talking about. I'm gonna do some testing tomorrow to see if my main concept to switch them works.

Speed Racer

Battle on the Ice seems perfect for a war between the two.

Egos

Anyone else need Co-Op for
Mines- 2x
Great Magician's Palace- 2x
Frozen Tundra- 4x
or
Collector's Lair -4x
?

Speed Racer

Yes for all of them!

unintentional

So this one is due on my birthday! (31st)

I have all the coop stuff on account of being really whiny when I play with random people
I'd be happy to go get some with you guys though seeing as how I know the puzzles and LBP is fucking FUN.

Egos

i think alot of us still need to get the big 4x ones. so we could arrange some time.

Speed Racer

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the only 4x I've got is The Bunker.

I'm free tomorrow after 3:30 CST if we want to set something up.