There’s a definite logic here, an internal vocabulary, even if it’s not the one we’re used to seeing in JJ2 levels. The massive supply of RFs at the start sets us up to run through the level at high speeds, blasting missiles in front of us to take out the unknown enemies waiting ahead. It’s not a challenge, but it is fun, and I think that’s worth celebrating. It does mean that the morph monitors get destroyed by accident, unfortunately. The two platforming segments and the dungeon also show good instincts to change up the gameplay at intervals, especially as two of them are preceded by steep drops which serve as good signals that the player is entering a new area. Graphics are largely rudimentary, despite the clever use of the foreground to cover gem rings, but get their job done. The level is over very quickly but I can see this kind of design philosophy being put to good use.
Fortress
Single player, by SpyrotheDragon2022,
requires at least version 1.23, with JJ2+
Description
3rd level
Credits & Acknowledgements
Contains 2 Files
 Spyro's fortress.j2l |
Fortress | 4.58 kB |
 WSF01.j2t |
Windstorm Fortress I | 127.23 kB |
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Violet CLM 17 Mar 2023, 18:57
abgrenv 7 Dec 2022, 11:54
Pretty decent level overall. Has some platforming challanges added in, which was a nice addition. There’s 1 secret, and a detour to break a crate to be able to progress.
Issues are mostly the same, a bit too much ammo packed right at the start of the level, while the level isn’t really difficult enough to warrant that much ammo, and especially that many health carrots.
All things considered, I had a decent time.
Rysice 7 Dec 2022, 16:25 (edited 7 Dec 22, 16:26)
Its not bad for third lvl !
I like that you are trying to use background layers and adding some eyecandy into the map. As abdgrenv said, ammo and enemies placement feels kinda random, and unbalanced, also i dont see the point of putting free powerups and carrots right in your way, it feels like you got it for free and its not really challenging.
It kinda looks like you are just testing on this map what you can do in jcs and thats totaly alright, but i would reccomend you to upload those maps into discord jcs chat than here. We can tell you there advices and opinions there so you can improve. In my opinion on j2o you should upload single player pack with more than one map. I think ppl would enjoy it more that downloading sp map one by one. But as I said, for 3nd maps its very good visualy and i think you can make big things in the future! (sorry for the low rating but 6,5 is too high imo, i just want to average it)