Joshua Bone's level design feedback thread thingy

[Joshua Bone]

Thanks, Pulluxx.

The good news is I have access to CC2 again and have been working on the Walls project some more. The completionist in me would really LOVE to modify all 148 original levels, and maybe I will. But it's also been tough going lately and a huge time commitment, and some of the levels (e.g. the mazes and especially the thin wall mazes) just seem impossible to adapt sometimes. So I can only say it's an active project with no promises about the future. One of my design goals is to have (in general) a reverse difficulty curve so that the earlier levels contain most of the super-tough challenges, while the later levels turn into easier going. Then release two versions, one ordered in terms of difficulty and another in the original order.

I appreciate the feedback!

-DUNGEON QUEST is going to be significantly reworked in the future.
-MISBEHAVIOR and TELEBLAST are both puzzles that I built without an intended solution in mind, and thus got a pretty good feel for the player experience. They are definitely quite difficult! But I think they do a good job of testing the mostly uncharted waters of what yellow teleports are capable of.
-EVER PASSING MOMENT is one of those concepts that I would have made a lot shorter if I wasn't explicitly staying within the original level format. That being said, I don't think it's outrageous--there's room for reasonable error, and the safe way to play is just to follow the path all the way through.
-I might up the time limit on ROVER SWAPPER. I wish rovers were less annoying but I do feel like the speed boots help a lot.
-So, so gratifying to hear the feedback on DETECTIVE STORY! It's probably the level that I care most about in the set.