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if you think you're going to get away with copying a picture then you're wrong

at least make something that involves you're own creativity

Sunset wrote:

Kirby wrote:

some man wrote:

AmdS wrote:

Yes, you lost your mind.

A level doesn't need to have very colors to be fun, just simple things that make you enjoy the level. And I enjoyed the level.

the point was that for some reason i remember the post having a "Screenshots" spoiler and one of the minis looked like this
http://i.imgur.com/8VocciP.png
i don't have any grudges against plain gray beta block minis and don't understand what just happened

It was like that at some point, but the minis weren't nearly as bad as you thought they were. I guess pictures can be misleading. Maybe why he removed them?

Removed them because they were taking up waaayyy too much space in my puush account. Also changed worlds because a friend needed to use the massive one.
Actually just kidding, this is a social experiment and you failed miserably

ok thanks for pointlessly bashing on the concept of making logical decisions based on screenshots in an attempt to frame me as a picky a-hole and get yourself more woots

I'll give you some actual feedback.

First, I did not try any of the rooms other than the first room, so keep that in mind for the rest of my critique.

The first room is not good, and I don't like the looks of the fourth one either.  The second and third minis look substantially better, although I'd have to actually test them to say that with certainty.

There are two main issues with the first room:

1.  The very first "arrow jump".

In my experience, most people who have been playing the game for a while despise these, along with the similar "one dot jump".  The issue is that they are basically the same no matter where you encounter them, so if you'd beaten one, you've beaten them all.  Playing something you've beaten before isn't a bad thing in and of itself, but the types of things people like to play again tend to be things that are relatively free flowing and can be "mastered".  As an example, a series of jumps on decent sized platforms can be accomplished without a single error by a skilled player.  I've yet to see anybody who can do an arrow jump consistently and without fail, even though they are one of the simplest challenge types.

Think of it like "precision" vs "quick adjustments".  An example of a mini based on quick adjustments is one that would require the player to run fast and jump up into dots then hold down to land on a three-block wide platform, and will be forgiving as long as the player gets the general sequence right.  A mini based on precision, however, requires pixel-perfect actions, and are almost always a lot less fun.  Just from eyeballing them, the second and third minis look to have a bit more of a focus on multiple adjustments than on pixel-perfect actions.

2.  The general "cramped tight jumping and fall down" style.

Its claustrophobic, especially when combined with pixel-perfect gameplay and the knowledge that if you make a single error you will have to do an annoying challenge again (the arrow jump).  When it comes to fun, big and fast almost always trumps small and precise.  The fourth mini looks like it has these problems as well.

Here is a general rule of thumb you can rely on: if you have a single dot on its own, a single arrow on its own, or more than one single block, its probably not fun.  If you have lots of arrows, lots of dots, and big wide platforms, it might still not be fun, but its a lot more likely to be fun than the tight cramped minigame.