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The Art of Vanilla

Hello. This is a tutorial of mine designed to teach people how to create good and creative vanilla hacks. If you know me well, you'll know that vanilla is my forte. I wish to

This tutorial will sort of... mix a lot of stuff, but the primary focus is on aesthetics and themes.

This tutorial is hosted on tumblr:

http://theartofvanilla.tumblr.com/

Table of Contents
Part 0: Introduction
Part 1: Themes and Palettes
Part 1b: Colored Outlines or Black Outlines?
Part 2: Outlining the Level

More to come!

A few things I will be covering:

*Creative use of Map16
*How the use of sprites can enhance the theme of the level, and mixing spritesets
*Mixing tilesets
*Naming your levels
*How to make vanilla rain
*Choice of music (this will go beyond the usual 'don't pick fire music for an ice level' thing)
*Using a sentence to come up with the theme of your level
*Vanilla backgrounds: how to make them
*Vertical levels
*Difficulty: curve it

And more.
Wow, this is very helpful! I'm looking forward to the finished version.
I wanna know about vanilla rain. #mlp{rd}