Anyone up for doing a community weird demo themed levelpack?

Stealthy71088 · Post by **Stealthy71088** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 18:13

The idea would be as follows
Some people record 5 min long demos of keen running around, jumping, shooting, w/e. They then submit these demos.

Level designers then have to try to make levels that allow demo keen to successfully navigate that level, with the demo finishing at the exit itself, plus minus a few seconds. Feel free to make the level as complex as you like, with as many death traps as you like, so long as demo keen is able to find some way through it.

This includes adding bonus areas that demo keen doesn't access, if you like....

End Result: We get a levelpack made by the community for a galaxy game with some of the most random and crazy levels known to man.

If you wanted, you could even say- run well of wishes, or some other level as a demo, and try to use that demo in for the level design.

Needless to say, actually making swimming levels for this is considered cheating, because its way too easy.

Anyone up for it?

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 18:29

sounds too hard to design.

Stealthy71088 · Post by **Stealthy71088** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 19:40

If you like, make a demo for me, send me the file, and I'll try to do it to see if its too difficult. I really don't think it will be.... 5 mins tops on that demo though.

Paramultart · Post by **Paramultart** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 20:41

@Stealthy: This idea is awesome, I must say... but honestly, I wish you would have waited a couple days until the Kwanzaa level pack was over before making this thread.

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 20:46

I like the idea! I saw a Doom map designed for the exact same purpose once, and it's certainly bizarre. Not sure I'd have time to submit anything but I still think it'd be cool.

Stealthy71088 · Post by **Stealthy71088** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 21:58

@Paramultart- Sorry, I had no idea about the Kwanzaa level pack until just now!

GARGapplesauce · Post by **GARGapplesauce** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 22:44

THis sounds cool!

Paramultart · Post by **Paramultart** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:41

Stealthy71088 wrote:@Paramultart- Sorry, I had no idea about the Kwanzaa level pack until just now!

That's okay. No one else is paying any attention to it.

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:44

Paramultart wrote:
Stealthy71088 wrote:@Paramultart- Sorry, I had no idea about the Kwanzaa level pack until just now!
That's okay. No one else is paying any attention to it.

I just finished making my map tonight

Post by **Levellass** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:26

I've done this before, with Keen 4.

Stealthy71088 · Post by **Stealthy71088** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 0:33

Really? How did it come out?

Post by **Levellass** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:24

It was for my Zoltan mod, before I realized you could import demos into the game, it wasn't actually that tricky, you build in a stepwise manner, say first making a slope and platform for Keen to walk over and fall down, then, seeing he changes direction a x, have him fall until then, then put a passage in, if he jumps put a hazard there, if done right it can look like real elite Keening, especially since you can add enemies and they behave the same *every time*

Stealthy71088 · Post by **Stealthy71088** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 16:58

That's what I was going for.

How do you import demos? I did some searching, and I think you do it somehow with modkeen???

Post by **Levellass** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:57

Modkeen or Keengraph will do it. First you record the demo using the demo cheat, then place it in your graphics folder and import the graphics.

ckguy · Post by **ckguy** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:10

This sounds like a fascinating idea but way too hard/time-consuming for me. I think I'll just wait and see what interesting things come out of it. :lazy