Advice Please : Level Design
 

Hi there,

As you can see from the title of the topic I’m new to making levels and I’m looking for some help. What I don’t want is a score out of 10, which quite a few level topics have. The reason I don’t want a score is because I know that it’s not good enough or as good as I can make it (hopefully) and so there would be no point in having it scored.

As you can see below is a screen shot of the level I made. I know many of you could quite easily pick it apart, but I would rather you didn’t. Comments are welcome, preferably constructive.

Now when I look at that, I know there is stuff missing, it is too empty as a whole I feel. Too much plain grass, or something and I need to know what you would, or think I should put in it.

Those of you feeling more creative, the level is there for you to download and modify/edit to how you would do it, take a screen shot and post it up.

If this on going tutorial goes well, then if you guys don’t mind we’ll try things like houses etc. as well, but most people seem to go for the ‘Rate My Level’ type thing, so I don’t know how well this will go.

Like I said, constructive comments please, although on the other hand I do need to know what you think. Just break it to me easily heh.

Thanks in advance,

Phil

P.S - No i'm not sure what is going on with the top right heart, must be paint :rolleyes:

clump detail together, like those grass blades. Connect trees, be random. :D

Ok, i'll give it a go.

I was thinking of 'Sticking' trees together, but I kind of thought that that was more for 'edge' levels to fill up space. No offence to anyone who does that, it does look quite good, but well, ya heh..

Do people think that the 'no bush' thing works well next to the path or not?

Phil

bushes should be around trees, same with mushrooms and possibly swamps O_o

Swamps and bushes go together nicely. Grass and those silly single-tile things go nice together.

Trees should be grouped, but never "squared" off; hope you understand that.

Also, that path you used should be changed to a dirt path, along with some puddles around the level.

There are many tutorials in this section, look em up. :)

It's too empty as you though. Add some level decorations such as some of the swamp grass etc. together, a pack of trees wouldn't be bad, some puddles, etc.

Alright, so I decided to give it a shot. Note that my level sucks but it is a crappy how-to add some filling to your level. Up to you to do that without the 500+ tile errors.

I added some tree cluster thingies, and put together some clusters of the grass tile thingies. And I added a dirt and water puddle. Those are the main fillers [and cliffs].

i see no problem with that level.

You must be blind or very sarcastic

:confused: ohhhhhh. oh. yeah wait now i see it, yeah that level has tile errors.. :\

Nifty ,I recomend you looking through the pics1.png located in graal2001 main folder. Just to get to know where **** is.

Both levels posted are bad tiling, it doesnt look creative... add some cliffing maybe? more trees? etc etc..

I gave it a go, forgive me for being to lazy to fix the tile errors and fixing the cliff shades zzZzzZz..

Some times you just feel that your eyes are bleeding.


Well something like this... I could make it better if you want me too? Im just really tired right now and needs to get off the level making zzZzz

haha jaffer you're getting your 1337 skillz back

holy leet :o