Patgangers what LegendaryMMAT said really is true and important, but in a different way.
sym and you commented on the usage of a death block that actually is empty space, using that in a hack is horrible and disgusting. But adding mushrooms, flowers, capes, items and the like to the hack while they are not necessary or not necessary YET is a must! If you give the players exactly what they will need and no less, in the order they need it, the level is easy.
Now you shouldn't insert something that will break your level, but e.g. at the key section you could start with only one key and hide the second two (not using YY-CHR or Map16, but just by placing it a bit out of the road. Or, even better, forcing a player to go back just after hitting a Pow to get to a new section. That way the level becomes a lot more puzzly, fun and harder).
Also about the new section: isn't the sprite lagg alone enough to imitate slowdown? That's gonna make it easy...
Of course you should fight fire with fire, you should fight everything with fire.
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sym and you commented on the usage of a death block that actually is empty space, using that in a hack is horrible and disgusting. But adding mushrooms, flowers, capes, items and the like to the hack while they are not necessary or not necessary YET is a must! If you give the players exactly what they will need and no less, in the order they need it, the level is easy.
Now you shouldn't insert something that will break your level, but e.g. at the key section you could start with only one key and hide the second two (not using YY-CHR or Map16, but just by placing it a bit out of the road. Or, even better, forcing a player to go back just after hitting a Pow to get to a new section. That way the level becomes a lot more puzzly, fun and harder).
Also about the new section: isn't the sprite lagg alone enough to imitate slowdown? That's gonna make it easy...
Of course you should fight fire with fire, you should fight everything with fire.
Oooh look at my userbar!
Sadistic Designer - testing Pit without tools.