Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

The Chasm
By: Blackraptor
   of OLC
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This level was started in July 2005 and aimed to be finished for Christmas
'05 and released alongside FS's coral coves. Unfortunately after I made the

left chasm part of it stuff happend that deterred me from working on it for
a while and then I lost interest. I worked very slowly on this from time to

time until recently, and only made a bit of the bottom over the last few 
months. However, I thought this would be the perfect level to release on 
6/6/6 so on June 5th and June 6th I had worked heavily on the level and 
finished the remaining 80% or so of it in those two days. Unfortunately, 
even in the level's unpolished state I barely missed the deadline (midnight
6/6/6) so I couldnt release it then. I thought the level was heavily rushed
and unpolished, and I sent it to FS and Blur to check over. FS didn't
really
get to it, but Blur hosted it a few times and pointed out a lot of stuff 
that I can do to fix or improve the level and gave a lot of suggestions 
and criticism so kudos to him. 
Few things I'd like to mention. I am aware there are eyecandy bugs
and maybe even masking problems; that's because Damn was a very limiting
set to work with and I had to make a lot of improvisations and use a lot
of tiles in ways that they probably weren't meant to be used in. I also
found that despite the set's potential, it lacks a larger variety of 
eyecandy tiles and such; I've had to reuse the same bone skeletons a
number of times and it got a bit boring (I hope it wont be boring when
you play it though =\). Aside from that, I'm relatively pleased with a
lot of stuff I managed to do with this set, and I liked some of the
eyecandy the tileset made possible to do. 
Another thing that might be slightly amusing or so to some
people was that this level was intended to be treasure mode at first
(it was named BlackyTRS all the way through until right before I put
it into the zip), until I changed my mind because not enough people
play treasure really. I thought about making it CTF since it was
planned to be fairly symmetrical, but then quickly changed my mind to 
battle mode. After that, I had another mind change and thought the pits 
would make an interesting LRS level, so here it is. Enjoy, I guess. Happy
coming of satan and National Slayer Day, I guess.

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Credits and Stuff:

Level: Blackraptor (OLC)
Tileset: Epic
Music: Nightrealm (I love this guy's stuff)
-Note on music: I edited a few samples very slightly, and lowered the 
volume on some notes because jj2 played some instruments wrong and they
were too loud and otherwise displeasing to the ears. Toning them down a bit
is the only change I made to the song.
Betatester: BlurredD (FS gets some kind of mention here for at least
getting
a copy of the level before it was released ;P)



Yeah. Stay tune for future releases, which probably wont be coming anytime
soon, 
but whatever. 
~Blacky.