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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #60 on: May 20, 2010, 11:13:08 pm »
I'd love to help on creating puzzles for this mod, it looks awesome and I must say I'm really curious about it.
Though I don't know what kind of story you have and what sorts of puzzles would fit in it. I don't know if you would be able to either post it here, or pm me with some of the information to be able to make puzzles fitting in either the storyline or the overall setting of the game. At least, I think you'd want puzzles which fit in with either of those, to make it more complete.

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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #61 on: May 20, 2010, 11:15:28 pm »
I want to help too, but I'm too stupid to do anything. T_T

I tend to make group efforts fail with my incompetence. >_<
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #62 on: May 21, 2010, 12:24:15 am »
The puzzles we are looking for don't really have a lot to do with our story, which starts where Aquaria left off and veers wildly about, taking Naija onto the ground walking and climbing and running, and probably into space. It will be more spiritual than Aquaria, but not obnoxiously so. The puzzles we want are basically for getting from one place to another; through doors or secret entrances that are blocked... with a difficulty level somewhere in between having Naija stand on her head and having her do Simons Says for 12 notes. Yogoda came up with a good one for the door in the waterfall map that leads to the tunnel to the forest maps. I have a good idea for one that leads from the home cave to the Sunset map (the entire Beauty of Aquaria map redecorated). Other than that we have no other puzzles; all ideas are welcome.
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #63 on: May 21, 2010, 12:33:29 am »
Yay! A game designer who actually cares without giving you ways to completley bypass major obstacles! =^.^=
Nice kick in the balls for Alec and Derek there, Succubus.
The original game also has save crystals before (and after) every boss.

Also about the puzzles, I'm not sure how far you are going with all the spirituality but I've always wanted a more advanced jumping level, I once started a game myself, but once I wanted platforms that move hence and forth I gave up cause I fail at scripting.
What I'm getting at is, a level/puzzle/part with a lot of floating and moving rocks, big birds flying amongst a path where you have to jump to some big floating island.
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #64 on: May 21, 2010, 02:26:51 am »
The original game also has save crystals before (and after) every boss.
Oh, yes, I especially remember the ones that took me 2 minutes to get back to the boss, and would sometimes get me killed before I could make it back to the save point. =^.^= Remember the jellyfish?

How about a puzzle that requires using objects in unusual ways? :3
Maybe getting a miniboss to the surface of water so you can launch up to a ledge that's just past the beast form's jump, or something like that? ^.^
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #65 on: May 21, 2010, 02:39:56 am »
A surface boss, I hope that's in there already. =D
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #66 on: May 21, 2010, 02:42:45 am »
Maybe you need the miniboss to get onto the ledge, and the MOMENT you land on it the ground shakes and out pops a save crystal, and after you save, a boss lands on you? =^.^=
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #67 on: May 21, 2010, 03:12:41 am »
Maybe you need the miniboss to get onto the ledge, and the MOMENT you land on it the ground shakes and out pops a save crystal, and after you save, a boss lands on you? =^.^=

We already have something like this ;)

I like your comment about using objects in unusual ways, I have to think about it :)
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #68 on: May 21, 2010, 03:17:22 am »
A puzzle that requires you to die (or almost die) to solve it. ^.^

Maybe a door that requires them to have between 20 and 25% health, or something like that? =^.^=
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #69 on: May 21, 2010, 03:19:40 am »
Or a big pitfall with invincible enemies and spiked walls.
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #70 on: May 21, 2010, 03:24:54 am »
NONO. A GAUNTLET with invincible enemies and spiked walls.

That'll teach those super-violent guys to stop killing everything in sight and just run like a sensible person does. =^.^=
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #71 on: May 21, 2010, 04:17:21 am »
Alpha, it sounds as if you are looking for Pandora-type floating islands or rocks sort of thing. Actually, Yogoda already made a map with clouds and floating rocks where Naija can fly; the only glitch is that she has a tendency to do a tuck-and-roll unexpectedly, and she can smack her head into a rock right now... maybe we need something more like floating mountains. Also talked about putting some kind of dragons in there, maybe have Naija fly on a dragon (both of us want to have a banshee to fly, in spite of what the neighbors would say,  and I wonder if we all have flying dreams because we have some racial memory of remembering that we once knew how to fly, as in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.  I wanted to do a dragon boss before I heard that DangerMouse was doing one. This would be with the dragon in the air and Naija on the ground. We haven't drawn it yet, though. We want Naija to climb up the trees and especially the higher trees in the Secret Garden (Pandora type) map, to find a little creature like a pet only a small fairy-like entity of light, like the sacred seeds in Avatar only a little person. I would love to have flying dragon-type, banshee-type creatures in there, different enough to not get sued by James Cameron. Our game will not be as spiritual as Avatar in some ways, and there will be plenty of action. We don't want to do a platform game like Super Mario Brothers though. Done to death. We have more ideas than time to work on them....can't promise anything right now; need to finish what we have first. If Yogoda would just quit his software engineer job and move here we would have the time, but for some reason (duh) he wants to stay in Geneva and make a great salary and look for a job making indie games. I hope we finish this mod before he finds one!
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #72 on: May 21, 2010, 03:57:01 pm »
NONO. A GAUNTLET with invincible enemies and spiked walls.

That'll teach those super-violent guys to stop killing everything in sight and just run like a sensible person does. =^.^=
The "super-violent guy" solution to that setup would be run around in circles while shooting all the enemies, taking ages but ultimately clearing out the entire area...

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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #73 on: May 21, 2010, 08:31:25 pm »
If they're invincible, they'll never get anywhere with that idea.

Unless they enjoy hearing that metallic noise. Then no one can help them.
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Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics May 19
« Reply #74 on: May 21, 2010, 10:31:19 pm »
Freedom of choice is a great factor in Aquaria's succes. Forcing people to do a level or gauntlet in a forced certain way would take most fun out.