Knytt Stories still makes me happy.

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This is one of three screens I built today.

(Which brings the screencount total up to somewhere around 170.)

Comments

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

That screen puts me in mind (and please don't be offended - I mean it in a good way!) of Lemmings. Like there's something familiar and friendly about it. Also it's very pleasing to look at.

Also you are putting my somewhat-limited game building skills to shame (I should probably just download Knytt Stories and have a mess with it, huh?)

Would you believe I never even played Lemmings?

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I grew up video/computer game deprived. (Possibly my age has something to do with it - in my, hehe, long-ago youth, there were actually only a few guys in my class who even had a computer.)

I got my first computer at age 21, in 1999. *g* I did play a few games before that, though, because I had a friend with whom I would meet to play, occasionally. (I was a geek waiting to be born...) But obviously, my knowledge of early computer and video games is pretty limited. We played maybe two games a year, all of them adventures.

>Also you are putting my somewhat-limited game building skills to shame (I should probably just download Knytt Stories and have a mess with it, huh?)

Yes you should! In fact, I was thinking of you today when I was wondering who I might 'infect' with the level building virus... KS is so very focused on the aesthetic side of game building, and I get such an aesthetic kick out of it... it seemed natural to want to spread it to you! *g*

The KS editor is awesome (or AWESMOE, as they put it on the KS forums...) because it's basically fool-proof. I don't know the first thing about game building, yet even I can handle it with this editor. Of course, the only thing you can build with it is platformers, but hey, since I found that I actually *like* exploration-based platformers, that's okay. :-)

It's free, too. All of KS is free, that is. The editor comes bundled with the game.

The editor comes with 255 different tilesets and a reasonable number of animated objects that you can use, as well as some music and ambient sounds, but you can get nearly endless amounts of custom tilesets made by users at the forums. 90% of the seeming greatness of my work here is really due to these ready-made tilesets, none of which were made by me. I'm just combining them in ways that I find aesthetically pleasing. (You can also raid the 'world' folders of the levels you've played for new tilesets, but that's not recommended as you won't be able to tell which tilesets have been released for public use by their creators and which haven't. It's better to find a forum post that includes that information. I could also just put all the public tilesets I have collected into a big zip file and put them on my webspace for a while for you to download, to save you a few hours of searching. :-))

Oh, and should you want level recommendations, just ask me. *g*

(Dammit, I still haven't installed Yume Nikki. Are you around tonight?)

Oh, I updated the Falling Water preview page, btw.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Two new images.

The KS download link is on there, too. (http://www.allabouthmpf.com/falling water.htm)

Re: Would you believe I never even played Lemmings?

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised, to be honest. I only ever played it at school on special occasions and then on my brother's computer (an Amiga, I think). Also I can believe that about not having your own computer till 1999 - I mean, PCs didn't boom until around that time anyway, and then everyone started getting one.

I do want to try it, I do! And seeing all your posts about it just makes me more and more curious about it. It sounds a lot easier to use than the game editor I had been using (which isn't difficult, but really you need more resources than what comes with it).

If you did put up the public tilesets, that would be lovely (and maybe I could have a play with Knytt Stories on Sunday and call that an Art Day *g*).

Also your Falling Water level reminds me a bit of another game I've had a mess with called Neftelia - the Lower City part in particular reminds me of one of the parts you can reach early on in Neftelia (but it's hard to describe, so remind me when we catch each other online again).

I'm not really around tonight, but I should be on tomorrow or Friday night for help installing Yume Nikki :) (I remembered what it is you need to run it so all I have to do is find a download link, and whee! Unless, of course, it's not just that).

Re: Would you believe I never even played Lemmings?

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about a download link, I've already downloaded it. It's just that it's a folder full of Japanese-named files, and two of them are .exe files, so I don't know what to do.

Right click for tilesets (http://www.allabouthmpf.com/knytt stories tilesets.zip)

Re: Would you believe I never even played Lemmings?

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK, that shouldn't be too bad then. And thank you thank you thank you for the tilesets! (I've been looking forward to this, you know. In fact, I had the computer on earlier and was a bit put out that I didn't have it to play with, lol).