The Twilight Park
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A JJ2 tileset by Blade
Release notes:
This is The Twilight Park, the 12th Blade tileset. It's a combination of
two
themes, park and backyard. There is a great amount of essential tiles and
eyecandy tiles to work with. Dirt ground, rocks, paving for more smooth
surface, fences of two types, posters and advertisements for the first
one, trees and bushes, street lights, pipes, toys, flowers, grass and most
importantly, lots of tiles to make swimming pools. The buttstomp and
destruct
scenery blocks are all new. There are several possibilities to make
animations:
Flickering street lights and small birds wondering the surroundings.
You can build your levels very imaginatively and this time more
easily (I hope). I paid attention to the tile arrangement and this Twilight
Park version you see here is the fourth. Major tile replacements were made
between those versions. The tileset palette is somewhat better than in my
previous tilesets. The palette events work now correctly, but I am afraid
that the water level event doesn't create completely correct looking water
in the 8-bit mode due to an unknown problem in The Twilight Park palette.
The Twilight Park was in production for about nine months. Starting from
20th of March to 28th of December 2005. For once again, I did not develop
the tileset all that time. There was two very quiet seasons in Twilight
Park's development one in the summer 2005 and other in the fall. It took
approximately five effective months to finish this set.
I am pleased with this Twilight Park. The antialiasing is in use again
and I like it a lot. I introduced water in my tileset for the first time
ever and I think the pool parts are the nicest in the whole set. The
pipes are wonderful too. They are somewhat hard to use I admit, but
let me say that there are several invisible tiles to correct the mask
problems you might encounter when making pipes. Look at the example level
I have provided in this zip package and you'll be just fine.
The Twilight Park owes a lot to the TSF tileset City and Agama's Heaven.
I'd like to emphasize the greatness of these tilesets.
.zip contents:
Twilight Park.j2lSingle player example level
Twilight Park.j2tThe tileset
organic.xm"Organic" by Icicle
About my future: It is very uncertain if there will be a 13th tileset. I
am not the fastest in tileset making, and in seven months I will begin
my service in the Defence forces of Finland. That will take a year of
my time. Trust me when I say that Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is for me something
really special and there is nothing more fun than designing tilesets and
making levels with them. Even then when I might appear dead to the JJ2
community, I just might surprise you all :) Thank you for supporting my
tilesets during these six years!
I'd like to greet JelZe GoldRabbit for once again listening to my tileset
making mumbo jumbo. Greets also go to the Whole JJ2 community. You are a
bunch of great people!
The Twilight Park, by Sampo "Blade" Vesanen. Developed between
March 2005 and December 2005. Contact me at (sampo.vesanen@kolumbus.fi).
Also
the old address (svesanen@hotmail.com) still works, but I'd like you to
send
any comments to my Kolumbus address. My web pages
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/theblade/) are still online, but don't expect many
updates there. I read the guestbook quite often, though. Drop your message
there if you have something to ask.
