Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

I won’t lie on your levelmaking crutches, no offense but it’s a pretty lazy excuse to say “Oh it’s my first level so I can skip on things”. I don’t want to shove some kind of self-importance here, but the first level I ever made did have some kind of EC in it. If I can, you should be able to as well (I was once really bad at using jcs but still insisted to make it look like a level). If you want to learn the ropes of levelmaking properly, you have to take everything in mind, and that includes making EC that looks like someone actually knows what they’re doing with the tileset, at least. It’s like skipping drawing eyes on a person because you’ve decided to start becoming an artist, and you want everyone else to focus on the other aspects of what you drew, despite something feels missing about it overall. That asides, this is a test level and no one really seems to care about EC in those, so whatever. So lets move on to gameplay…

This is hard? I personally found this rather easy. I’m underwhelmed by the lack of gameplay here. As for the originality factor, well, it’s typical of what you see in most tests, although more open. Yes, I used Spaz. Maybe because I’m fairly decent at tests already (although not pro) which made this easy. But it’s still far too short for the difficulty it is, and that’s the main problem. Add more levels.

Also, there’s a bug in the bottom left corner of the level where if you fall down, you can’t get back up. You should put a warp there, or put an MCE event in the bottom right corner, which activates pits. Or since that area is unused, just have the floor on the same level at the entry.

Another bug, although minor, is that in MP, you can start at either of the Jazz and Spaz start pos, regaurdless of character. While these are fine for SP, you made this with MP in mind, so you should only put a MP start pos in the Spaz filter zone. Not complete top left though, because any event that is placed on the complete left corner of levels does not work.

Download recommended? No, not really, unless you love tests so much that you’d even want to play something worth 30 seconds of gameplay. Also, somewhat bugged.

EDIT: I don’t know where you’ve been, but there’s a lot of Spaz tests out there, more than any other kind of tests. I managed to complete this level with Lori, when I didn’t know I was supposed to play as Spaz because of where I started.

Alright, I admit, after playing it for a while, I started to think “Why did I upload it?”
So I think I should delete the file. Shame, really. I wanted to see some tests exploring Spaz’s doublejump a little more. But I guess that idea is gonna be left to wither and die :(

P.S. Now you can see why I never make levels. All the ones I make are terrible.
P.P.S. Also, very much aware of the bugs, will either fix the file or delete it.

@Myles,

With practice comes perfection.

Look at my early levels. Heck, look at ANYBODY’S early levels. Nobody starts out with Featured Download material. They have to work at it in order to improve.

Don’t give up. Just keep hackin’ at it.