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tak4n

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Zathura (Sci Fi)

Hey peeps, this is a world that I made for the competition. I am looking for feedback so I can improve the level before I submit it. Link:

http://everybodyedits.com/games/PWsqb9O3mha0I
http://beta.everybodyedits.com/games/PWsqb9O3mha0I

Story:
(For full experience I suggest watching the movie "Zathura" which is what my level is based on.)
You find a simple board game in your house and you find yourself highly intrigued by it so you decide to play it. As you make your first move a card pops out with instructions. You shortly realise that whatever the game says happens to you and your house! You find out that your house is now in outer space and you need to finish the game to try to get back to Earth. However finishing the game is not easy as the game creates more and more obstacles on the way, try to finish the game to go back to your normal life.
What I changed from the movie:
In the movie it is a 2 players game, however for better experience of the player I made it a 1 player game.
In the movie you could roll anywhere between 1-9, I wanted to keep the same concept but rolling a 9 would make you complete the whole game in 2 turns so I made it that you could get anywhere between 1-2. So you might finish the world twice as fast if you keep getting 2's.
I also changed the order of some events in the level in comparison to the movie. It shouldn't harm the experience of the player though.
*cough* my world uses all 99 portal ID's *cough* If only the 999 ID's came out sooner :/
Please tell me if you find any exploits, errors in the level, or general areas that you didn't like. Hope you peeps enjoy my level.

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ThisIsTheEnd

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

I love that movie...

I couldn't play through because I was getting awful sign lag.

Creature

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

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This is a false statement.

nlmdejonge

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

I did not like the minis and stopped playing.
I did watch the full movie though, just before I started playing the level.
And I like how you implemented the film's game and events into the level.
(By the way, the left portal of the 4th choice doesn't work.)

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EE is an entertaining game and I enjoyed playing it...
...but it's time for me to move on.

skullz17

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

Oh, Zathura. I don't remember the movie being anything special to be honest.

Cool concept, but minis could be a lot better. For example, the one when a robot tries to kill you or something, that one is really annoying.

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thx for sig bobithan

tak4n

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

Thanks for all the feedback guys, due to small space for minis it was hard to make good ones. However the ones I made seemed really smooth and easy to play which is why I left them as they were and why I needed testers. Thanks to people coming in and out and giving me feedback, I made a lot of my minis smoother and improved a lot of them overall.

I fixed the portal for the 4th choice, it should now be fully functional.
I changed the robot mini making it a lot more reliable and easy to play. The problem was with the first jump not being reliable, it should now be a lot smoother now.

Huge thanks to you guys as well as OrangeCrix, Honeybuckles and Stagecrew for playing through my level and giving me feedback. There are still a few minis I'd like to change but I am planning to send my world for the competition today. Thanks again.

EDIT: There is also a very common issue with signs in my world, if I move them out of the way people might miss them but if I keep them it would likely lag people causing a worse experience. Any feedback with what I can do about this issue?

Last edited by tak4n (Nov 21 2014 6:07:52 pm)

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Onjit

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

First of all, Zathura is a cheap knock off of the far superior film Jumanji.

However, I like the concept, but the minis are kinda.. meh.

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tak4n

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

I understand that I need to improve my minis, however it would be helpful to know which ones specifically. Original version of my minis no one even wanted to play, at least people are starting to finish playing my world which means I have   successfully improved a lot of the minis. Ty for feedback everyone.

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Noctis

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

I definitely think the Zorgons challenge needs a re-do. (I quit there)

Last edited by Noctis (Nov 21 2014 8:43:15 pm)

Buzzerbee

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

Sign lag isn't just in your world. It happens in any world for me.

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skullz17

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

I don't get what people mean by sign lag. Signs never give me lag, they have no effect at all for me.

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thx for sig bobithan

Kangxp

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Re: Zathura (Sci Fi)

Nice world, just that somehow I managed to roll all 2's... I finished the game with 5 rolls of the dice + 2 blue coins from shooting star.

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